Top 10 signs it’s time to cut a song

By Guest Blogger | February 8, 2013

  Let’s face it. Every song has a shelf life. Very few tunes are going to endure through the ages. And that’s OK. We just need to know when to remove songs from our active rotations. Here are the top 10 ways to know it’s time to cut a song.   If you hear audible […]

Free video split track worship backing track

By admin | February 4, 2013

Free backing track for February – Video Split Track/Lyric Track To mark some fantastic new price deals for our Video Split Track backing tracks, this month our free backing track is a Video Split Track rather than a MultiTrack. Don’t know the difference? Well a Video Split Track is a stereo backing track with fully mixable […]

New super low prices for our Split Track video backing tracks

By Marie@Musicademy | January 30, 2013

For churches not needing the full functionality of our MultiTrack Backing Track Player, we have a great low-tech backing track option which we call “Split Track Video Downloads”. These even include on-screen words that change in time to the music. You can see a sample in the video clip below: Easy-to-use, low cost backing tracks […]

Transitioning Your Church’s Corporate Worship – Part One

By Kenny Lamm | January 28, 2013

Many churches today realize there is a need to transform their times of corporate worship from a traditional style to a unified (some would say “blended”) or more contemporary style of worship. My Worship Wars series will help you think through some of these issues. Once a church decides to make a change, your next […]

NEW! MultiTrack Pro Ableton wav stems

By Andy@Musicademy | January 22, 2013

Ask and you shall receive… Hello everyone. Since we launched our original Worship Backing Band Multitrack player we’ve had lots of our more technical users ask if the instrument stems can used in their favourite DAW software (Pro Tools, Ableton, Logic, Garageband etc). We made our own Multitrack player extremely easy to use and because […]

Band Skills Seminar

By Marie@Musicademy |

Video of a Musicademy worship band skills seminar run by Andy Chamberlain and Tim Martin. Understanding how everyone’s instrument should work together within the whole band sound is a core skill for building solid arrangements. This top tips style seminar works through some practical do’s don’ts, hint’s and cheat’s for each instrument in the worship […]

Worship for small groups – hints, tips and ideas

By Marie@Musicademy | January 18, 2013

We ran a seminar recently on the topic of worship in small groups. The Powerpoint slides are below but it is also worth listening to the audio as it was quite an interactive session and you’ll miss quite a lot of the content by only reading the slides. The audio recording is below (be patient, […]

Lots more “super” chord charts released

By Marie@Musicademy | January 17, 2013

  We’ve had some great feedback on our “super” chord charts and lots of requests for more so today we have released another batch. They are listed on both the Musicademy and Worship Backing Band websites. You’ll find them (in alphabetical order on Musicademy here) or if you have an account with our sister site, […]

5 tips for transitioning and flowing between songs

By Guest Blogger | January 15, 2013

Transitioning and flowing between songs In formal church traditions, where the service is often of the ‘hymn sandwich’ variety, there is obviously no need to consider how to transition between songs. However, with the rise of less formal, contemporary worship (due in large part to the charismatic renewal of the 1960’s and 70’s), there has […]