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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 10, 2011
How to learn a song the way it was originally played Chris from New Zealand emailed an interesting question: “Do you ever do any stuff like showing how ‘Facedown’ guitar is played – pretty well got that one worked out, but it’s a good example” We thought that this was as good a cue as […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Andy@Musicademy | October 11, 2010
You know the scenario, you’re either trying to remember the chords for a song that you don’t have music for, or you’re trying to find some chords to accompany a new melody, so you stab at all sorts – G F, C Em, A, Bb – some seem to work but some don’t. There is, […]
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:
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 […]
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