By admin | April 18, 2013
Here is the footage of a live Band Skills seminar taught by Andy Chamberlain and Tim Martin. In it they discuss how to build groove and also how to incorporate more emotion into your playing. Other posts you might like: Band Skills Seminar 1 – the session prior to the one above. Understanding how everyone’s […]
By Marie@Musicademy | April 15, 2013
ll new songs. Mixable vocals. Create your own play lists. The lowest cost option for worship backing tracks. Does your church want to have great times of worship together but you don’t have any musicians? Worship Backing Band Volume 2 is a single DVD featuring backing tracks for 35 contemporary worship songs with on-screen lyrics […]
By Kenny Lamm | April 8, 2013
As East City Church transitions its worship service to a unified style of worship, they will need to equip their musician resources to handle contemporary styles of music in addition to the traditional styles that they do so well. Fortunately, ECC already has a worship band that leads worship in the contemporary early service. This […]
By Guest Blogger | April 5, 2013
Why Do We Need a System to Manage Our Songs? The Monster List Imagine that you take a large envelope of cash to your bank. You explain to the smiling teller that you’d like to deposit this cash into your checking account. She says she’d be happy to do that. She takes your envelope, turns […]
By Marie@Musicademy | April 4, 2013
That’s the question we were emailed recently and my heart went out to the person who had sent the email. I certainly don’t think there is a straight forward answer to this and my hunch was that our Musicademy community would have a lot more experience on the topic between them than I. So with […]
By Kenny Lamm | March 31, 2013
In our last post on the challenges for a church moving from traditional to contemporary worship styles, East City Church continued its journey to worship renewal by producing a song list of known songs for the congregation and identifying new songs that will be introduced to the congregation. To fast track the worship transition, East […]
By Marie@Musicademy | March 25, 2013
We recently asked you all (via our Facebook Page) what hymns you would recommend we record for our Worship Backing Band backing tracks and also for teaching guitar, bass and keys lessons. Thanks to those of you who responded. We’ve listed the suggestions below in alphabetical order They represent both well known traditional and contemporary […]
By Guest Blogger | March 21, 2013
This prayer was written as a response to a TED talk by Brene Brown about vulnerability which you can watch below. The image of the dandelion clock speaks of a simply natural form that is innately beautiful but is often not thought of as an object to be gazed at, just walked past in the […]
By Guest Blogger | March 20, 2013
Many church musicians also play in gigging bands – performing in pubs & clubs or function bands etc. I play keyboards for the band Phatfish, and we’ve had to develop skills in the area of concert performance for paying audiences as well as worship music ministry. So what distinctive qualities does being a worship musician […]
By Marie@Musicademy | March 19, 2013
A few years ago we were asked to suggest some songs for a funeral. What followed was a really interesting “crowd sourced” list. Over the intervening years, that article has consistently been one of the most popular on the website and has attracted comments such as “This has been the biggest help of all looking […]
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