Is the heart all that matters? Re-connecting our worship

By Sam Hargreaves | June 28, 2011

“Don’t worry about the music, the theology, the pastoral issues… as long as your heart is right before God, then your worship is okay.” How often have you heard that? Is it entirely true?  It’s quite easy to say, and it is right that God, in his grace and through what Christ has done for […]

Getting out of song selection ruts

By Guest Blogger | June 24, 2011

It’s hard to stay fresh when you’re picking song lists week after week. You fall into predictable patterns and get stuck in ruts, resulting in a certain level of despair when you’re looking at a blank screen and have to, yet again, figure out a theme and a flow and transitions and what’s familiar and […]

Dynamics – it’s a lot more than just loud or soft

By Andy@Musicademy | June 23, 2011

From time to time people ask something along the lines of…what’s the one thing I could work on to get my worship band to sound better? Of course that’s one of those piece of string answers but once a band gets beyond the basics of playing in time and even in tune together, which sometimes […]

How to run a worship jam session

By Guest Blogger | June 17, 2011

Jason Chollar wrote us a great post last week on the idea of jam sessions for worship teams. The photo shows one at his church (the drummers are out of sight in the biggest drum booth ever). One of the questions that came in as a result of this is “Sounds great – but what […]

Jammin’ your way to a better worship band

By Guest Blogger | June 10, 2011

Jammin’ your way to a better worship band – Open Jam Sessions are the best recruiting, training, auditioning tool for small/medium size churches.  At least that’s what I think. Big churches have a completely different set of problems when it comes to worship musicians than your average small/medium sized church.  In a church of thousands, […]

True worship – and its nothing to do with music

By Marie@Musicademy | May 27, 2011

I want to kick off this blog post with some scripture. You will, no doubt, be very familiar with these passages: Is not this the kind of activity I have chosen … to provide the poor wanderer with shelter. Isaiah 58 The disciples shared everything they had … [so that] there was no needy person […]

The worship rota – how to organize musicians

By Guest Blogger | May 16, 2011

Last week we posed the following Friday Facebook Question: Should you mix up your worship teams in terms of ability or is it unfair that the better musicians end up always having to work with out of time drummers and flat backing vocalists? I decided today to write about a few different ways that I […]