The failsafe method of working out which chords fit a key

By Andy@Musicademy | October 6, 2008

You know the scenario, you’re either trying to remember the chords for a song that you don’t have music for, or you’re trying to find some chords to accompany a new melody, so you stab at all sorts – G F, C Em, A, Bb – some seem to work but some don’t. There is, […]

Quality sheet music for worship songs

By Marie@Musicademy |

We’ve just found a great online resource for proper sheet music and guitar tab. Click the link to go to Musicnotes. As well as almost every rock and pop song you might want to play, the site has plenty of music for worship songs by Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin and more.

17 common worship leading mistakes and how to avoid them

By Marie@Musicademy |

Worship leader mistakes Including too many new songs in the set – your congregation is there to worship – most will find it difficult to do so if they spend most of the time learning your latest masterpieces Vary your set list to include a variety of older, recently introduced and brand new songs and […]

Playing In Tenths

By Andy@Musicademy |

Andy Chamberlain gives a guitar lesson teaching how to play in tenths on guitar. Here you play two notes in the same key that are ten intervals apart. Great for finding new chord voicings in D. This is the technique that the Delirious song Majesty was written using. This technique is also taught in depth […]

Leading Worship From Keys

By Marie@Musicademy |

Florence Benton from Alaska emailed to ask for advice on leading worship from keyboards for the first time. It’s a big jump to go from playing keys as part of a band to leading (and singing) as well. Not only are you leading the congregation in their worship, but you will be needing to lead […]

Guitar Trick – Playing in 10ths James Taylor style

By Andy@Musicademy |

I’ve just come back from doing some seminars at the National Worship Leader Conference in Texas. One of the teaching sessions that was really popular was “Cheats, Licks & Tips for Acoustic Guitarists”. So as part of our contemporary guitar styles series, here is this James Taylor style trick. “I was quite surprised that one […]

Hendrix-Style Double Stops

By Andy@Musicademy |

This month we’re going to look at probably my favourite playing style, which is called double stops. Double stops means playing two notes at the same time and was employed to great effect by a certain Mr James Hendrix. Hendrix is known by non musicians for his wailing solos but this style used on gentler […]