5 practical ideas for working with your youth band

By Andy@Musicademy | September 12, 2012

How to work with a youth praise band Even if you aren’t a musician yourself there are numerous ways to help your youth band play better together. Here are five practical tips to try. 1. Keep it simple Any band can vastly improve purely by playing the simple things well and avoiding songs or styles […]

The best of 2012’s new worship songs from the summer festivals

By Guest Blogger | September 7, 2012

The tent’s all packed up, the wristband you vowed you’d keep on all year just fell off in the shower, the holey airbed’s in the bin, and you’ve hit the festival comedown. You long nostalgically for sweaty circus tents full of thousands of people, many of whom haven’t showered in three days, singing their hearts […]

Musicademy’s practical worship training day (including PA training stream) in Tonbridge on 10 November. Early bird discount.

By Marie@Musicademy | September 5, 2012

Practical worship training in Kent – plus get your early bird discount today Musicademy has teamed up with PA experts SFL and the RSCM (Royal School of Church Music) for a worship training day focused on the practical skills of playing, singing and leading worship together as a team. The event will be held in […]

Is modern worship sort of like a cocaine rush?

By Guest Blogger | August 21, 2012

We found this article over on the Beliefs of the Heart blog and it provoked quite a big reaction on our Facebook page so we thought we’d share it more widely with you here. What do you think about the issues raised in the article? I once met with a man—let’s call him Adam—who described himself […]

10 practical song writing tips

By Marie@Musicademy | July 31, 2012

As a guitar teacher, students sometimes ask me to help them write a song. Some want to write worship songs, others pop songs. Most have a few ideas that on their own sound really catchy but no way of threading the ideas together. Some have a few words, some have a chord progression, some have […]

Learning to Play by Ear Part 2

By Andy@Musicademy |

Previously we looked at how to work out all the chords available in the key of G and then use them to write a song.  I suggested you took an existing song and worked out which chords came where by listening to see which ones sounded major, which ones sounded minor and by the process […]

Worship Band Function Band

By Andy@Musicademy |

Sometimes I encourage musicians who have only ever played on worship teams to go and join a function or covers band and play venues outside the church. This kind of approach invariably pushes them out of their comfort zones and can be quite challenging on all sorts of levels but can be highly beneficial. They […]