Top 30 backing tracks

By Marie@Musicademy | September 14, 2011

With the launch of our MultiTrack player, we’ve had an insight into which songs are most popular right now. Of course, that’s also CCLI’s job and our top downloads chart closely reflects the CCLI top 100.   CLICK HERE  to access our Song List where these and all our tracks are available. Here are our […]

New! Video backing tracks, onscreen words & split track vocals

By Marie@Musicademy | September 10, 2011

With all the information about our new Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player, you might have missed an additional product range to our repertoire – our new SplitTrack Video Downloads for PC, Mac, IPad, IPod or Smart Phone. Our original Worship Backing Band DVDs (basically “karaoke” style backing tracks with onscreen words) have been hugely popular but, […]

Secret of the Pop Song part 2 – The Breakthrough Single

By Marie@Musicademy | August 31, 2011

Secret of the Pop Song – part 2 The Breakthrough Single Mark Ronson – super producer. Music’s Man of the Moment. The Prince of Cool. The Phil Spector of his generation. Amy Winehouse, Adele. Secret to a pop single Lamont Dozier – its what you feel A diary of contemporary culture – Neil Tennant – […]

Practical help for band rehearsals – part 5

By Guest Blogger | August 30, 2011

Practice is personal. Rehearsal is relational. We’ve been focusing on the practice side of the coin, so let’s  flip it and talk about rehearsals. Unfortunately the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to making rehearsals “relational” is the dreaded team devotional. OK, maybe yours are great. But for the rest of us, […]

Mosques, Churches and Sacred Places

By Marie@Musicademy | August 26, 2011

We had an interesting discussion come out of a recent blog post that was all about the use of images behind song words. Someone wrote that they had been really disturbed by hearing the song ‘Sacred Place’ being sung with a picture of a mosque shown at the same time – it was from a […]

Worship Wars 4: It might be time to move away from tradition

By Kenny Lamm | August 17, 2011

Worship is not all about style.  The style of music is merely a tool that we use to craft a worship experience that is conducive to true worship, much like a painter uses a palette of different colors to create a masterpiece. I have attended traditional and contemporary churches that really worship.  I have also attended […]

Tongue-tied Worship Leaders

By Guest Blogger | August 12, 2011

Tongue-tied Worship Leaders -Guest post by Micah Chollar (Jason’s brother) If there were two words I could delete from today’s worship leader vocabulary it would be “just” and “continue”. Have you noticed there seems to be a growing trend of worship leaders who are quite gifted musically yet lack the ability to communicate any coherent […]

Worship Wars 3: Ending the Worship War without a truce

By Kenny Lamm | July 25, 2011

Ed Stetzer of LifeWay Research, has written an excellent article on worship wars. There’s some great material here for our consideration as we dive into the issues surrounding the worship wars. The reason worship wars exist is because the church thinks it is fighting for something permanent when it is actually temporary. Musical styles and […]