By Andy@Musicademy | October 6, 2011
We’ve been endeavouring to make our upcoming Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs the best educational tool we can… So with that in mind the last area we’ve been working on is a really comprehensive set of tests and questions so guys gets the most learning out of the course. There’ll be 20 audio […]
By Marie@Musicademy |
Ayush Jain writes: “I am looking forward to buy a new bass, I am searching for a pretty durable and hard solid bass. I mostly play on low tuning (Standard C) so gonna buy a 5 string bass.Can you suggest me some companies and models.I generally play progressive metal and I need a good […]
By Marie@Musicademy | July 5, 2011
Lesson taken from our Advanced Bass Course. When you buy the course you also get backing tracks with and without bass parts for you to practice to. This lesson is a feast for worship bass players! Matt Weeks (bass player of choice for Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Graham Kendrick, Brenton Brown, Paul Baloche, Vicky Beeching, […]
By Guest Blogger | April 5, 2011
The Nashville Number System has a number of advantages, particularly in a church setting. Or at least in my experience. One of the great advantages is that it’s not key specific. If the Worship Leader decides at the 11th hour to transpose the song from A down to Ab, the numbers don’t change, just the […]
By Guest Blogger | March 10, 2011
I’ve seen posts on various websites, including this venerable one, discussing innumerable cunning ways of writing charts. Why, I ask? What’s wrong with the existing systems? Music notation has been painstakingly refined over centuries and does the job perfectly well. People have been recording music since long before Edison invented the phonograph, Bill Lear and […]
By Marie@Musicademy | March 6, 2011
This lesson is taken from about the mid point of our Intermediate Worship Bass course. You’ll learn some invaluable damping and ghost note techniques built around the song ‘Your Love is Amazing’ that will add a real sense of groove to your bass playing. The course itself is the equivalent to about a year of […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 20, 2011
Learning bass guitar with Musicademy We’ve had a lengthy email conversation with a customer recently about our Bass Song Learner lessons. Andy goes into a lot of detail to address the questions and we thought it would be helpful to post it here as he covers a number of learning ideas for bass guitarists (and […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 11, 2011
Last week we asked you to submit product reviews to our webstore (and in return receive 66 Advanced Vocals Workout exercises). We were blown away not only by the volume of the response but also the detailed feedback you gave in the reviews. You can still submit a review and receive a coupon – we’re […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 10, 2011
How to learn a song the way it was originally played Chris from New Zealand emailed an interesting question: “Do you ever do any stuff like showing how ‘Facedown’ guitar is played – pretty well got that one worked out, but it’s a good example” We thought that this was as good a cue as […]
By Marie@Musicademy | September 16, 2010
Darryl Bryant, writing in this month’s Worship Leader Magazine has reviewed our new Advanced Bass DVDs. Here is what he had to say: As a keyboard and synthesizer player, understanding how other instruments fit into the mix is vital to providing inspirational and high quality worship that is engaging and Christ focused. And as a […]
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