By Marie@Musicademy | November 25, 2010
Do you play an orchestral instrument in a worship setting? Are you frustrated by needing to have the musical score and wish you could play by ear and improvise? Or perhaps you know of others on your worship team in that situation? We’re really pleased with the DVD we created especially for musicians that play […]
By Andy@Musicademy | July 21, 2010
Learning how to play by ear Previously we looked at how to work out all the chords available in the key of G. I suggested you took a song and worked out which chords came where by listening to see which ones sounded major, which ones sounded minor and by the process of elimination work […]
By Andy@Musicademy | July 14, 2010
How to play by ear 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 an impossible task. It’s often considered a ‘God given’ gift rather than a skill that can be learned and constantly improved on. […]
By Kim Gentes | May 27, 2010
What do all the strange names and symbols mean in guitar chords? First, understand that chord nomenclature is a colloquialism of modern music, and there are occasional variances on how people use the symbols. I used the common forms below, which are a mixture of common pop music (such as the half-diminished) and jazz influenced […]
By Marie@Musicademy | May 3, 2010
We have a triple DVD box set of instruction for people that play orchestral instruments including strings, brass, woodwind etc. The idea of the DVDs is to take your existing skills and know-how and show you how to improvise and play by ear in a worship setting. Here are all our articles to date on […]
By Marie@Musicademy | March 11, 2010
Those nice people at Worship Leader Magazine have reviewed a number of our recent DVD releases. We thought you might be interested in what they had to say. Feel free to add your own review in the comments at the bottom. HARMONY AND BACKING VOCAL Volume 1 of the Harmony and Backing Vocal DVD is […]
By Marie@Musicademy | February 18, 2010
Here’s a clip from a Musicademy training day where Andy and Matt demonstrate some ideas for using orchestral instruments in worship. If you would like to know more we’ve a whole 3-DVD set suitable for strings, brass and woodwind players. Other posts you may find helpful: Using orchestral instruments in your worship team Video clip […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 21, 2010
Your key role is not the melody! If you’ve grown up playing classical music then you are probably used to reading the melody but in congregational music where the lead instrument is the vocal that role becomes redundant so you have to find something else to do. Here are 5 ideas – very useful […]
By Marie@Musicademy | November 25, 2009
Following on the theme in recent posts about sponteneity in worship, here’s Andy Chamberlain and Matt Hay with some ideas for improvisation using orchestral instruments in worship. The clip is taken from a recent training day. Sorry its a bit slow at the beginning as they get set up! If you find this helpful we would […]
By Marie@Musicademy | September 17, 2009
We are pleased to announce the release today of our latest DVD – Improvisation Skills For Orchestral Instruments in Worship. Its the perfect instructional resource for single melody musicians (violin, cello, brass, woodwind, sax etc) teaching you how to play WITHOUT THE MUSIC! This 3-DVD course is designed for any single melody instrument wanting to play […]
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