By Guest Blogger | March 3, 2011
Daniel S. Fick emails: “I’ve downloaded Bob Kilpatrick’s “Church Soundbook“, and in there it talks about using a multi-channel headphone amp along with basic headphone cables and ear buds to make an affordable “in-ear monitoring system”. I’ve now purchased the parts, and my question is: what kind of cable I need to connect the headphone […]
By Tim Martin | March 1, 2011
Continuing our series showcasing our various DVD products by giving away a free lesson, here is a lesson from disk 4 of our Beginners Worship Keyboard Course. Its quite a complex lesson given that its on the Beginners set (showing some embellishments for added interest), so even if you’ve been playing a number of years, […]
By Guest Blogger | February 28, 2011
A quick word about slash chords. Well, a word about slash chords. Or two. Having spent a dozen years in the musical wilderness, the thought of “Slash” chords filled me with rock ‘n’ roll anticipation: Yeehah! There was I expecting free Les Paul gold-tops, a “marlie” tech who’d rush on in between songs stuffing Marlborough […]
By Guest Blogger | February 26, 2011
Steve Edwards writes: I’m running two (large) 300w speakers from a 600w stereo amp (300w per channel). If I downgrade to (physically smaller) 250w speakers am I right in thinking that it’ll take less drive from the amp to get my current sound levels from the 250w speakers? Also, will the bass response be lower […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 24, 2011
This pattern purposely misses out the down strum on beat 3, which gives it a pushed feel. Its similar to Oasis’s Wonderwall and this kind pattern works well for giving a slower song an ‘up’ feel. Its taken from the Third Day album, Live in Philadelphia. We have God of Wonders as one of our […]
By Marie@Musicademy | February 22, 2011
We’re going to start showcasing our range of DVD products on the blog by giving you a free lessons from the DVDs every couple of weeks. This week is a clip from the Harmony & Backing Vocals DVDs. These DVD’s are a bit of a departure for us in as much as these are more about […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 19, 2011
This pattern is quite similar to Come Now is the Time to Worship. The pattern can sound all over the place if you speed up or slow down even a little. So once you’ve got this pattern down, practice it with a metronome until the timing is rock solid. This is taken from the Paul […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 17, 2011
Rusty emailed us with a really tricky problem: “I have been a live sound engineer for 22 years, I toured for 14 and owned my own sound company for 9 years. With that said I have been going to the same church for about 5 years, in that time I have helped bring the sound […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 15, 2011
We have a large archive of online lessons teaching individual songs. Worship songs are covered for guitar, keyboard and bass but we’ve also got some 70 lessons teaching classic rock & pop songs for guitar. These are presented on the website in order of difficulty – stage 1 is for complete beginners and suitable for […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 14, 2011
This is taken from Kari Jobe’s album version of the song. As this is quite a slow song the pattern can be quite full to keep it moving along. There is a lot of room to change this pattern around and keep to the groove but the key is to be consistent. I.e. whatever pattern […]
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