Discussion with customer about our Bass Song Learner lessons

By Andy@Musicademy | January 20, 2011

Learning bass guitar with Musicademy We’ve had a lengthy email conversation with a customer recently about our Bass Song Learner lessons. Andy goes into a lot of detail to address the questions and we thought it would be helpful to post it here as he covers a number of learning ideas for bass guitarists (and […]

Making the most of your voice

By Tim Martin | January 18, 2011

Some of us will never have the voice to star on the latest worship CD but that doesn’t mean that we can’t be effective in leading worship. I have never been one of those people who can simply open their mouth and produce a beautiful sound. In truth, I have a love/hate relationship with my […]

Strumming pattern – Open the Eyes of My Heart

By Andy@Musicademy | January 17, 2011

Continuing our series of strumming patterns to popular worship songs, here is Paul Baloche’s Open the Eyes of My Heart (which I’ve taken from the original Paul Baloche recording). This syncopated pattern form the bedrock of so many worship songs. If it seems difficult to work out on paper, slow it down, try clapping out […]

Strumming Pattern to Mighty to Save

By Andy@Musicademy | January 13, 2011

Last month we had a really interesting request asking if we would post up the strumming patterns to some well known worship songs. So I’ve chosen 20 popular songs s at random that I hope people will find helpful. Some of these are covered in our Guitar SongLearner series (available on DVD or as individual […]

300 new product reviews – thank you so much

By Marie@Musicademy | January 11, 2011

Last week we asked you to submit product reviews to our webstore (and in return receive 66 Advanced Vocals Workout exercises). We were blown away not only by the volume of the response but also the detailed feedback you gave in the reviews. You can still submit a review and receive a coupon – we’re […]

Chocolate Christmas – wonderful kids nativity talk script

By Guest Blogger | December 20, 2010

David Keen  writes the St Aidan to Abbey Manor blog and posted this rather wonderful script for a Christmas kids talk or mini sermon. It uses 19 bars of chocolate to tell the nativity story. The chocolate brands mentioned are mainly from the UK so you might need to adapt to brands for your country […]

Ask the expert – Mic recommendations for a choir

By Guest Blogger | December 9, 2010

We tackled a question on mic recommendations for groups of singers a while back. This question is particularly pertinent in the run up to Christmas with festive choirs. Sara Chambers from Alaska emails with a supplementary question: “Hello!  Thank you for your good work!  I appreciated the article “Ask the Expert – mic recommendations for […]

Visual worship case study – carols by candlelight

By Guest Blogger | December 6, 2010

We first published this post last Christmas, but its helpful for a number of churches planning their festive services so here it is again. The carol service at St Silas is always a big event and has had a variety of implications for visuals in past years. I thought it would be worth making a […]

Orchestral Instruments DVD on half price sale

By Marie@Musicademy | November 25, 2010

Do you play an orchestral instrument in a worship setting? Are you frustrated by needing to have the musical score and wish you could play by ear and improvise? Or perhaps you know of others on your worship team in that situation? We’re really pleased with the DVD we created especially for musicians that play […]