By Marie@Musicademy | February 10, 2011
Here is a list of all Musicademy’s articles on Tech resources to date. If you have any questions for our resident experts, please post them in the comment box below. Or if you are something of an expert yourself and would like to write anything for our website then please do get in touch. General […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 8, 2011
This pattern is taken from the UK Vineyard original album ‘Come Now is the Time’. This is a very common syncopated rhythm that comes up a lot in worship songs. If it seems complicated on the page, break it down and count it through very slowly. Keep your hand moving as you strum and only […]
By Bob Kilpatrick | February 5, 2011
We first posted this back in 2009 but we’ve had some more recent requests for it and thought we’d upload it again ahead of a new series of posts on church sound. Bob Kilpatrick has allowed us to make his church sound e-book available to our subscribers free of charge. Click to download the ChurchSoundbook. Bob […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 4, 2011
I took this pattern from the rhythm of the hi hats on the original Chris Tomlin recording but because it’s a straight groove there’s a lot of license to build your own pattern. So lots of patterns could work. Just be careful not to add to many up strum pushes so to upset the straight […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 1, 2011
There are so many version of Shout to the Lord out there so I’ve given it a very straight treatment with a very few pushes just to add a little movement. This pattern works very well for many hymn like songs where you want it to sound solid without to much ‘groove’. We have Shout […]
By Guest Blogger | January 29, 2011
Which wireless mic is best? Mark Watson emails: “I really appreciate your website and helps, this is a great resource with which you bless the church, thank you so much. I was wondering whether you had any guidelines or suggestions about wireless microphones for use by vocals. I have looked around at some expensive ones […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 28, 2011
This is taken from the original Chris Tomlin recording. Because we miss out a strum on beat 3 of the bar it feels like the groove is being pushed along. We have Holy is the Lord as one of our Worship Backing Band DVD tracks. You can remove the guitar from the mix and play along […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 27, 2011
John Morris emailed Andy asking him about the guitar he uses in our Intermediate Electric Guitar DVDs. He says: “I noticed you playing a beautifully worn Squier Telecaster. Please tell me about it, I have an affinity toward guitars that don’t cost a tremendious amount of money yet still play really nice. My Squier Jagmaster […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 25, 2011
Similarly to Your Grace is Enough the main groove accents all fall exactly on the beat. The up strums add a little movement and allude to the rhythm in the melody. For the chorus you could get rid of the upstrums altogether and add them back in for the verse. Basically more down strums adds […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 21, 2011
This pattern is taken from the original Tomlin version which is pretty open as far as patterns go because the main accents all fall exactly on the beats and the upstrums just beforehand only serve to move the track along. If you don’t have a copy of the track handy then try finding it on […]
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