Everyone loves a bargain – new Musicademy discounts

By Marie@Musicademy | September 12, 2009

  Everyone loves a bargain so we’ve decided to find you more ways of saving money with Musicademy. We’ve reworked our discount structure to reward you with lots more price reductions when you buy a selection of products from us. Buy all our Worship Guitar DVDs for a 20% discount Both the Vocals warm up […]

Ask the Expert – Guitar pick advice (yes really!)

By Andy@Musicademy | September 8, 2009

  The other day I got an email asking for advice on what guitar picks I recommend. Now when I started Musicademy I vowed never to get into the “What picks/strings do you use” debate as it seems dangerously close to a sort of train spotting competition usually hotly contested by slightly strange bearded men […]

Guitar Chord of the Month – Eadd9

By Steve Weeks | July 28, 2009

The “Eadd9 ” Chord works to enrich a softly played E Major, with a surprising easy-on-the-ear cluster dischord of three notes in a row (E, F# and G#). This first fingering is fairly well-known – and is a good start because it is easy to see how the basic E shape is modified to lift […]

Downloadable drum grooves for worship songs and practice

By Marie@Musicademy | July 16, 2009

We’ve had so many requests for copies of our drum groove “backing tracks” on MP3 tht we’ve made them available on our webstore. There are 19 tracks (click to the bottom of the page that this link takes you to) in total representing a wide range of grooves and tempos. Originally constructed by Matt Weeks as […]

Ask the Expert – Choosing strumming patterns

By Andy@Musicademy | July 14, 2009

  David from London asks: “How do I know which strumming pattern to use with each song? Is it a matter of taste or are there certain strumming patterns for certain songs. If the latter, how do I work these out?” Andy replies: Yes, many worship songs do share similiar strumming patterns, but to really […]

Keyboard Chord of the Month – A7#5

By Tim Martin | July 7, 2009

  Tim Martin, presented of our Worship Keyboard DVDs, will be bringing us a new interesting keyboard chord each month. We start with A7#5. A7#5 – sometimes known as an augmented chord. Basically the 5th is a semitone higher than in a normal 7th chord. This can sometimes be used in place of a dominant […]

Pedals for Acoustic Guitars

By Andy@Musicademy | June 22, 2009

I’ve done a few articles about recommended pedals to get started with on electric guitar in a contemporary worship band setting and in response a number of people have asked for something similar for acoustic guitar and bass, so here are some thoughts. Similar principles apply to both instruments so I’ll list the acoustic pedal […]

Guitar Chord of the Month – D7sus4

By Steve Weeks | June 11, 2009

|— |— |-O- |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— G (sus4) |-O- |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— C (7th) |— |-O- |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— A (5th) |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— D (1st) |— |— |— […]

Ask the Expert – DVDs for lead guitar?

By Andy@Musicademy | June 4, 2009

James from Canada asks: Does any of your worship guitar series, have lessons on lead guitar? Andy replies: Yes, our intermediate worship guitar course covers lots of techniques to learn lead guitar. 5 pentatonic scale shapes so you can solo using the right notes to any song in any key CAGED chords so you can […]