How to move seamlessly between songs

By Andy@Musicademy | September 2, 2014

We had a request for help in dealing with the “awkward silence” between songs in a worship set. Very simply, if you want to make songs ‘flow’ together (i.e. constant audio sound joining the two songs) the most obvious thing is to get your keyboard player (if you have one) to play a ‘pad’ sound. […]

Oceans: lyrics for the persecuted church

By Guest Blogger | August 13, 2014

As the church worldwide responds to the terrible crises in the Middle East, we were sent this set of re-worked lyrics for the bridge in the song Oceans which you may want to use in your own churches in the coming weeks. Writer, Jeff Ling, encourages us to “Turn that personal statement of faith into […]

Does your worship prepare people to die? Guest post

By Guest Blogger | August 6, 2014

Augustine told us that the “law of prayer is the law of belief.”  In other words, what touches the heart is what tends to be remembered and treasured. In our day we could easily say that the law of song is the law of belief. I have many volumes of systematic theology on my shelves. […]

Anatomy of songs: a contemporary worship version

By Guest Blogger |

So this little graphic has been doing the rounds the last few days. It’s originally from The Wrong Hands website and is a cartoon by John Atkinson. Our friend Ben Mizen decided to do a “back of an envelope” take on it for worship songs:   What other arrangements would you suggest?  

A practical how-to guide to arranging a song

By Andy@Musicademy | July 19, 2014

How to arrange a worship song We had an email recently from Mark Proctor: “As a church we are currently in transition from an organ only church to having a music group.  Unfortunately none of us have any experience of arranging songs and every article/website appears to assume that it’s a full ‘rock’ band format […]

Smile: you’re in a “sound portrait”

By Marie@Musicademy | July 11, 2014

I took a day out to the Hampton Court Flower Show recently and stumbled across a group called Epiphany up in a “Quiet” Treehouse. The installation was exploring the availability of high-performance, low-noise technology including domestic appliances such as quiet kettles, fans and hair dryers. Part of the exhibit featured the band playing improvised music […]