By Guest Blogger | March 11, 2014
Ben Mizen works for the Diocese of Portsmouth by day but by night is somewhat of a gear kleptomaniac. Ben was responsible for helping us put on the recent training day in Portsmouth and here he shares his list of all the guitars he’s owned since back in the day: 1 – 1988 – 1992 […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 28, 2014
Rev Graham Hunter from London asks: “When leading worship on acoustic guitar, I sometimes want to adjust the tone to reflect the change between strumming with a plectrum, and then finger-picking. Should I get an EQ pedal, or a compression pedal, or both? And what do you recommend – both in terms of make / […]
By admin | February 6, 2014
The Power of The Cross – Stuart Townend and Keith Getty This monster of a lesson shows you how to approach playing hymns with quick chord changes on guitar, and because the song changes key for the final chorus you’ll learn these quick change chord shapes in both the C and D based shapes. Not […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 30, 2014
Here’s our take on the 10 commandments for electric guitar players. Do you have any more commandments to add? Do check out the 10 Commandments of Bass too. Have you seen the Musicademy worship training DVDs and downloads for guitar – beginning to advanced levels on acoustic and electric guitar. Worship guitar DVDs Worship […]
By Marie@Musicademy | November 12, 2013
Digital downloads instead of DVDs We’ve spent the past few months digitising almost all our portfolio of DVDs so that you can now buy them as online downloads. You’ll enjoy a 20% discount when you buy a full course at the same time (which will include ALL the content from the DVD set) as well as […]
By Andy@Musicademy | October 15, 2013
Here at Musicademy we ran a training day recently and one of the most popular topics in the guitar seminar was about transposing using a capo. We’ve had some emails asking us to go over the technique again (it’s covered in detail on our Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course and our new Capo Positioning & Transposing for Guitar […]
By admin | August 14, 2013
We are pleased to announce a new set of instructional lessons for worship guitarists The Worship Guitar Collection is a download-only set of 20 worship guitar lessons suitable for existing players. Each individual lesson teaches you a well known worship song. Even if you know how to play the song already you’ll pick up […]
By Marie@Musicademy | June 11, 2013
We recently came across a couple of videos of one of Andy’s old guitar tutors, the genius but but sadly passed away and much loved Eric Roche. Eric was an incredible player who was not only able to make an acoustic guitar sound like a full band, but one of a number of modern players […]
By Marie@Musicademy | May 20, 2013
40% off flash sale. Learn to play by ear, without sheet music or chord charts We are offering our Play By Ear DVD set at a huge 40% off until the end of May. The course teaches you how to play by ear as well as gain a deeper understanding of what you can do with […]
By Andy@Musicademy | May 3, 2013
Here’s a handy guide to help you understand the notes the most common basic and extended chords. If you’ve not done much chord theory its really worth absorbing. Chords – the knowledge… that must be obeyed at all times!! 1. Basic Chords Basic chords are known as triads as they only contain 3 notes. Even […]
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