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The biggest single reason why people don’t sing in church any more

By Andy@Musicademy | June 19, 2015

There’s lots of talk on the blogosphere about why people don’t sing in church like they used to. There are articles on every idea from song key and range to style, to music volume to congregational spiritual lethargy. But I think there’s one, large glaring elephant in the room for why people really don’t sing […]

Interview with Matt Redman. Guest post from CCLI’s Worship Fuel

By Guest Blogger | June 17, 2015

Matt Redman: Unbroken Praise Our very own Andy Chamberlain was Matt Redman’s guitarist for several years and we have used so many of his songs on our DVDs and as backing tracks. Matt’s new album, Unbroken Praise releases this week and we were pleased that our friend, CCLI’s Rich Burrough, was able to grab an […]

The Worship Collection: 48 worship songs to download in three albums

By admin | June 9, 2015

Our most recent backing tracks are now available in a downloadable album. Volume 3 track listing You Say – Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram, Paul Maybury Resurrecting (Elevation) – Chris Brown, Mack Brock, Steven Furtick, Wade Joye, Matthews Thabo Ntele Your Love Awakens Me – Phil Wickham, Chris Quilala His Mercy is More – Matt Papa, […]

Who killed the contemporary Christian music industry?

By admin | June 8, 2015

This article has resulted a lot of discussion on our Facebook Page. It was originally shared by our friend, the producer Paul Burton, who said: “We have this discussion on a weekly basis in our studio. Basically there was an explosion of worship music in the mid nineties which was new, fresh and successful, then suddenly […]

10 traits of top CCLI songs. Guest post by Marty Nystrom (writer of As the Deer)

By CCLI | June 3, 2015

We’re delighted to announce a new partnership with CCLI who have agreed to share a number of articles with our subscribers from their Worship Fuel blog over the coming weeks. CCLI (Christian Copyright Licensing International, Inc.) releases a semi-annual list of the top worship songs sung by churches throughout America. A similar list is also published in Europe, […]

10 new MultiTrack backing tracks and EveryKey chord charts

By admin | April 29, 2015

We have released 10 more MultiTrack backing tracks suitable for our Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player as well as Ableton or any other DAW. Click through to listen to an audio sample and to buy: New songs (MultiTracks and EveryKey Chord Charts) Cannons – Phil Wickham Freedom (Bethel) – Christa Black Gifford, Matthew Sparks, William […]

Is church more a place of entertainment or edification?

By admin | April 28, 2015

This article has certainly resulted in a lot of responses. Even in the 1960s Tozer was writing that Church members “want to be entertained while they are edified”. Is this… Posted by Musicademy on Thursday, April 23, 2015

(Re)writing a modern hymn

By Marie@Musicademy | April 20, 2015

We ran a session at a recent training day called “Modern hymns: how are they different? How to (re)write one”. Here are a few snippets from the session together with some of the new verses composed by our delegates for the hymn “Breathe on me, breath of God”. 4 categories of modern hymn Modern […]

Modern hymns: what are they and how to (re)write one

By Tim Martin | April 18, 2015

Last week we ran a training day featuring a number of new seminars. This seminar, presented by Tim Martin looked at the concept of the modern hymn and explored how to re(write) one. Click below to view the slide share presentation of the session.

30 tips to make your rehearsals more effective

By Andy@Musicademy | April 2, 2015

We recently asked our Musicademy Facebook page members the question “What advice would you give to a worship team wanting to make rehearsals as effective as possible?” It had a huge response and we’ve compiled some of the best ideas into these 30 tips. “Rules” for worship rehearsals Don’t noodle/text/call/Facebook/SnapChat between songs Separate rehearsals from the […]