Ask the Expert – Tips on shifting keys

By Andy@Musicademy | February 10, 2010

Sonia Symes from Kent in the UK emails: “Thanks for the worship keyboard DVD course. It has truly been a great blessing!  My skills at the keyboard have been improved greatly.  One question – how do you shift between keys between songs.  For example, if I play one song in C major and the next one […]

Video guitar lesson – using CAGED chords

By Andy@Musicademy | February 4, 2010

One of the main questions I get asked when doing seminars is how to find guitar chords further up the neck. When constructing electric guitar chord parts I tend to use a system called CAGED chords. Many classic electric guitar parts have been built using the CAGED system and by learning CAGED you should be […]

Learn to play double stops on guitar in worship

By Andy@Musicademy | January 22, 2010

Double stops means playing two notes at the same time and was employed to great effect by a certain Mr James Hendrix. Hendrix is known by non musicians for his wailing solos but this style, used on gentler songs like Little Wing and Castles Made of Sand, is perfect for playing in worship settings. The […]

12 Tips for Electric Guitarists (from our 50+ Tips series)

By Andy@Musicademy | December 8, 2009

Somebody recently pointed out that we’ve missed electric guitar out of our 50 tips series! How could we?! Particularly since I’m predominantly an electric player and its clearly God’s chosen instrument too… So here goes.   Different approach to acoustic When acoustic players pick up an electric they tend go one of two ways. They […]

Guitar lick of the month

By Andy@Musicademy | November 6, 2009

Normally we put together a chord of the month type feature but in the light of a question from Jonathan below, ladies and gentlemen for November I give you… ‘Lick of the Month’! “Some of my favorite clips on the Intermediate Acoustic Guitar  DVDs were the “Tricks in the Key of …” sections. My question relates […]

50 tips – Acoustic Guitar

By Andy@Musicademy | October 26, 2009

  Consistent locked in strumming patterns are everything. A lot of acoustic players either just have one or two patterns they try to shoehorn into everything or if they do pick up on the groove their pattern changes randomly. Acoustic guitar is a rhythm instrument so the strumming pattern has to be rhythmically consistent otherwise […]

Best of the Best award for Musicademy’s Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | October 7, 2009

  Our Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar DVDs have been awarded a Best of the Best Award by Worship Leader Magazine.  Worship Leader Magazine said: “For better or worse, the acoustic guitar is the place most aspiring worship musicians go first. So the Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar DVD is a welcome addition in the Musicademy suite […]

Worship Keyboard Chord of the Month – E7#9

By Tim Martin | September 23, 2009

  E7#9 – Use in place of a dominant 7th. It’s effectively got both the major and minor 3rds so it goes crunch! Hendrix fans will recognise the sound of this. Click through for the guitar version of Hendrix’s E7#9 Other posts you might like: Keyboard Chord – A7#5 Guitar Chords of the Month – […]