Ask the Expert – DVDs for lead guitar?

By Andy@Musicademy | June 4, 2009

James from Canada asks: Does any of your worship guitar series, have lessons on lead guitar? Andy replies: Yes, our intermediate worship guitar course covers lots of techniques to learn lead guitar. 5 pentatonic scale shapes so you can solo using the right notes to any song in any key CAGED chords so you can […]

People that frustrate worship leaders (part 2)

By Guest Blogger | May 30, 2009

Part two from Chico Woo’s blog. Part one is here. Its provoked a lot of interesting discussion. I am not a worship leader. I did have a secret ambitions of being one but those dreams were crushed many years ago when I led worship in our Bible College chapel. But if I were a worship […]

Creating a website and social network for your worship team

By Andy@Musicademy | May 27, 2009

I’ve just written an article for my Musical Chops column in Worship Leader Magazine all to do with using the power of web 2.0 in worship. One of the tools I recommended was creating a website or social network to encourage interaction and participation by your team. I wrote: “For many teams with volunteer members […]

Creative ideas on song writing – Ink Brethren

By Marie@Musicademy | May 26, 2009

Todd Fadel from Portland Oregan has developed a really interesting and creative approach to communal song writing. The game is an exercise in consciously putting yourself at a disadvantage to reach unexpected results. Here’s how it works: INK BRETHREN All you need is a tape recorder, paper, pencil, all the instruments you own,three friends and […]

Communion as an act of protest – Not in My Name

By Jonny Baker | May 23, 2009

This is the final of three guest posts from Jonny Baker on creative ways to share communion. A mix of a highlight and scary challenge was organising the communion service for sunday morning at Greenbelt 2003 (Greenbelt is a UK based Christian arts festival). Greenbelt was very involved in profiling the brilliant trade justice campaign so it […]

People that frustrate worship leaders (part 1)

By Guest Blogger | May 21, 2009

I found this great post at Chico Woo’s blog. He’s kindly agreed to let us post it here too. I am not a worship leader, but if I were, these are some of the pet peeves that I would have. If you are worship leader please add yours to the list. Paraphernalia Worshippers. There are […]

Broken table and wounded eucharistic prayer – worship ideas

By Jonny Baker | May 16, 2009

  This is another guest post from Jonny Baker, part of a series he calls “Worship Tricks”. This describes a ritual his community Grace created at new year. Wounded in all the right places was the theme inspired by a track of that title by 1giantleap. There were a couple of ideas that worked wonderfully. […]