3 Intermediate Guitar DVD sets – which is right for me?

By Andy@Musicademy | November 17, 2010

We’ve now got three intermediate guitar DVD sets. Our original Intermediate Worship Guitar course, the Intermediate Acoustic Guitar course and now the brand new Intermediate Electric Guitar course. So I guess the questions that many people want to know are what is the difference between the courses and how much does the learning overlap? Or […]

The Intermediate Electric Worship Guitar DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | November 11, 2010

Learn to play electric guitar in church Musicademy’s latest release and definately one of the best, our new 4-DVD, 10-hour box set is packed with a year’s worth of lessons for today’s electric worship guitarist. A comprehensive course that will teach you the techniques, licks and styles the pro’s use to create electric guitar parts in […]

Ask the expert – playing sound from a laptop

By Guest Blogger | November 3, 2010

John Birbeck from Rawmarsh asks for some technical advice: “We want to play backing tracks from our laptop computer through the PA system.  So we want to go from usb on the laptop to an XLR microphone socket on the mixer.  We are using Windows Vista on the laptop but will probably play the tracks […]

Top ten do’s and don’ts – drummers

By Tim Bowdler | October 28, 2010

Tips for church drummers You make a huge racket and as a result there are people in the church who have little sympathy for what you do. If you are stuck behind a screen and your volume levels are low a lot of people will be happy with that and will leave you alone. If […]

Best of the Best award for Musicademy’s vocal harmony DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | October 7, 2010

Musicademy has won an Editor’s Pick award by Worship Leader Magazine for the third year running; this time for our Harmony & Backing Vocals DVDs. They review the DVDs saying: Skilled worship leaders will continually ask the question, “How can I keep the platform clear of distraction?” One way to do this is achieve a […]

Travis Picking demonstration

By Andy@Musicademy | September 27, 2010

One of the highlights of the third disk in our Intermediate Acoustic Guitar DVD set is the section on Travis picking. Here is a little video clip of Andy explaining the concept and then demonstrating the picking technique:

Ask the expert – synthesizer recommendations

By Tim Martin | September 25, 2010

Troy Friesen, Pastor of Worship at Faith Bible Church in Nebraska asks: “I’m looking for some advice on synthesizer purchases. We are primarily piano and band driven in our worship leading so our synthesizer serves as a secondary keyboard (after piano).  I use it mostly for string sounds, synth pad sounds and organ sounds (pipe, […]

Ask the Expert – guitar extension cabinets

By Andy@Musicademy | September 20, 2010

David Norris emails: “Loving the discussion on Valve Amps. Having recently upgraded from a 60 Watt solid state amp to a 15 Watt Fender Blues Junior, the improvement in tone is amazing – people ask me what effects I have on when often its just the amp! It is definitely loud enough for practice, and […]

Independent review of our Advanced Bass DVDs in Worship Leader Magazine

By Marie@Musicademy | September 16, 2010

Darryl Bryant, writing in this month’s Worship Leader Magazine has reviewed our new Advanced Bass DVDs. Here is what he had to say: As a keyboard and synthesizer player, understanding how other instruments fit into the mix is vital to providing inspirational and high quality worship that is engaging and Christ focused. And as a […]