By admin | November 11, 2014
How to identify the chords in a key Free lesson from our Playing By Ear DVDs teaching one of the basic foundations of ear playing – the ability to identify the chords in the key. The full series is available on DVD and also as online downloads. Currently all are on SALE PRICE in the webstore!
By Marie@Musicademy | October 16, 2014
Ear training for song writers (and any other worship musician) For many people, the thought of playing “by ear” or being able to anticipate the chords, notes and musical charges in a song you’ve never heard before seems like an impossible task. It’s often considered a gift rather than a skill that can be learned […]
By admin | September 23, 2014
One of our most recent guitar releases, the Worship Guitar Collection, is a download-only product and to date has only been available in a bundle pack of x20 lessons. We’ve now broken the set up into individual lessons so if you simply want to learn one song, you can do so without having to buy […]
By Andy@Musicademy | August 4, 2014
We need your help in deciding whether to produce a new product for electric and acoustic guitarists. Picture the scenario, you’re doing a new song and the worship leader sends you a reference track mp3 but its really hard to decipher how many layers of guitar parts there are, let alone what each guitar part […]
By Andy@Musicademy | July 4, 2014
This is a free lesson taken from Musicademy’s Intermediate Electric Guitar Course DVDs. It’s part of the lesson in Part 17 (downloads) teaching the concept of CAGED chords. If you’ve not already seen it do check out the lesson on the concept of CAGED chords before you watch this lesson on how to use CAGED chords […]
By Andy@Musicademy | June 24, 2014
This is a free lesson taken from Musicademy’s Intermediate Electric Guitar Course DVDs. It’s part of the lesson in Part 17 (downloads) teaching the concept of CAGED chords. The first segment here teaches about CAGED chords and the second (coming next week) shows how to use CAGED chords to play Blessed Be Your Name. Save 25% on the […]
By Andy@Musicademy | May 19, 2014
You’ve got a budget of up to $3K. What do you spent it on? We had a request to make a recommendation for a young guitarist wanting to invest in his gear. Here are Andy’s thoughts. Its always fun to go fantasy guitar shopping on someone else’s cash. Big thing to remember though, all responses […]
By Andy@Musicademy | May 14, 2014
Following on from our recent series on guitar pedals “Which pedals do I need to start playing in a worship band? Part 1, part 2 & part 3″ we were asked to go a little deeper and describe in detail the guitar effects that we used on the professional recordings of some of our backing tracks. You don’t need to “know” […]
By Guest Blogger | May 13, 2014
At the Musicademy office we often find that the same customer names pop up again and again on orders as well as comments to the blog and Facebook Page. One of our most regular customers is someone we’ve only known as “Chris Bracken” with a US military address. Over the years we reckon he’s purchased […]
By Andy@Musicademy | April 8, 2014
This lesson, taken from Musicademy’s Intermediate Acoustic Worship Course DVDs starts to get into the real meat of the course as we take the chords further and look at cheats and substitutes in the key of C. As with other lessons we take it deeper with some licks and tricks that work well with ‘C’ shapes and […]
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