By Marie@Musicademy | January 18, 2010
I’m a huge fan of marketing blogger Seth Godin. The way he makes you think about business, life and marketing kind of turns your brain upside down. He’s recently released a free e-book of single page compilations from 70 influential writers and thinkers called “What Matters Now“. Now this isn’t a Christian book as […]
By Tim Martin | January 14, 2010
E alt – I know this as a 1/2 diminished chord. It’s two minor 3rds and then a major 3rd stacked on top of each other. You can often use them in place of minor (or diminished) chords.
By Marie@Musicademy | January 13, 2010
We had lots of requests for more of the worship backgrounds that Richard Lyall produced at Christmas. Here are a few more, this time without words so that you can drop them into Powerpoint (or other software) yourself and add your own words. Click to download the free Worship Backgrounds zip file. If you […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 12, 2010
I came across a new Christian broadsheet newspaper recently – The Christian Times and was very impressed with the content. It’s a UK based and interdenominational newspaper and is appealing to Churches across the country to help bring wholesome, Christian-related news back in to our communities. They contacted us with an offer which I think […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 11, 2010
We’ve been looking recently at ideas for spontaneous worship, inspired almost entirely by a seminar I attended by Graham Kendrick. In the last post I described how Graham uses a basic groove and perhaps a chord sequence to provide a foundation for singing in an improvised style from the Psalms. I’ve done a bit […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 7, 2010
Blend One of the keys to good Backing vocals is learning to blend so however many vocalists your have it sounds like one voice. So watch the lips of the worship leader or lead singer and try to match their starts, stops, phrasing, volume tone and vibrato. Only sing melody to emphasise phrases or […]
By Guest Blogger | December 27, 2009
Here’s a free video lesson from our friend Stu Roberts at heyfunkydrummer.com Other posts you may like: Ask the expert – learning cajon drum Musicademy’s worship drum DVDs Ask the expert – drum groove for the Happy Song Downloadable drum grooves for worship songs and practice 50 tips – Drums
By Andy@Musicademy | December 23, 2009
We featured a recent email from Julie Meyer asking about how to wean her background vocalists off of sheet music. Andy wrote a lengthy reply on the assumption that they were all glued to lyrics rather than words. Julie has now clarifed that in fact her vocalists are not only reliant upon the music for the […]
By Guest Blogger | December 16, 2009
Here is an explanation for creating “fractal images” like the Christmas ones we published yesterday. Richard created the Christmas fractals using a freeware fractal generating program called Apophysis. To read more about fractals, visit here. Apophysis generates random images using fractal mathematics. But the maths is completely hidden behind a friendly interface, so don’t be put […]
By Guest Blogger | December 15, 2009
Our friends at Engage Worship have come up with some more wonderful free worship resources. These are a set of 10 “fractal” images suitable for adding some visual creativity to Christmas services. Click through to Engage Worship, create an account and you can download all 10 images for free. They are created under a Creative Commons License […]
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