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Musicians Practice Tracks DVD now HALF PRICE

By admin | November 19, 2012

Half price offer on 54 practice tracks Our Musicians Practice Tracks DVD is now HALF PRICE. What you get are 54 worship songs on one DVD with on-screen chords and words. Perfect for guitarists, keyboard players, bass, drums and even vocalists. Click through to read why it’s got 5-star reviews by other customers. (Click […]

Guitar and Bass Song Learner DVDs now half price

By admin | November 2, 2012

The Musicademy “Song Learner” DVDs are now HALF PRICE. There are three DVDs for Guitar and three for Bass. On reflection, we’re not sure that Song Learner was really the best brand name for them as they are really about “How to Play a Worship Song Properly“. In a nutshell, each Song Learner DVD features 5-7 […]

What chord comes next in a song?

By Andy@Musicademy | October 25, 2012

One of the members of the Musicademy website sent me what you can see in figure 1 below. He struggles with playing by ear and remembering the chords in common keys so he came up with this little chart that he sticks to his keyboard or guitar when he leads worship. The basic idea is […]

Transferring from guitar to bass

By Andy@Musicademy | October 16, 2012

If there’s one instrumentalist that church worship bands seem to have a shortage of its bass players. There are often loads of guitarists but very few who make the transition over to bass. Part of the problem is that whilst the two instruments share the same notes and tuning, the way you approach each is […]

Ask the Expert – Tips for getting the best sound for a bass guitar on stage

By Marie@Musicademy | May 23, 2012

Great bass guitar sounds At our live Ask the Expert session Daniel Fiott asked: “What’s the best sound you can get from bass on stage?” Geoff Boswell, Audioplan: I can only add this from being a bass player as well as earning my living from sound …. so here we go. At first getting the […]

Two things you can work on to improve your worship team’s sound

By Marie@Musicademy | April 19, 2012

A video clip from the archives that we’ve not actually shared before. Here are some tips from Andy Chamberlain on ways to improve the musicality of your worship team via working on your timing.

Worship Leader review of Playing By Ear DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | March 15, 2012

Delighted that Worship Leader have described this as “An excellent training tool for anyone in your worship team”. We definitely agree with them but it’s nice to have an objective third party come to the same conclusion! You can see a full video trailer for the Playing By Ear DVDs on our webstore as well […]

Ask the Expert – What size bass rig for a small to medium size church?

By Marie@Musicademy | December 20, 2011

Keith Dulley asked a question in our recent live Ask the Expert seminar: “On the subject of Bass playing in a worship band, What would the panel of experts recommend for the following question:- what size (watts) bass combo or bass rig would be sufficient for a small/medium size church? I am playing an […]

At last. The DVDs that will transform the musicality of your entire worship team!

By Marie@Musicademy | November 23, 2011

Play by ear, improvise and understand chords in worship – New DVDs from Musicademy Would you like to be able to hear a song and spontaneously find the chords without sheet music? Would you like to be able to understand chords more deeply so you could transpose, rearrange and even find new chords for song […]

Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs

By Andy@Musicademy | November 7, 2011

Learn to play worship music by ear Previously we told you a little about our new Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs which are now available. Click through to buy from the webstore. We thought you might like to see a break down of the chapters and lessons – You’ll learn about: Keys, […]