Part of our Video Shorts series, Musicademy’s Andy Chamberlain gives some ideas on rehearsing.

We’ve not done a chord of the month recently due to the plethora of substitute chords in recent posts. Here’s a “E” Chord with major 7th and a 9th – very John Mayer!   Normally E9 would have a b7 You can take this down 4 frets for a CM79 The open 1st string is […]

WORSHIP FOUNDATIONS FOR TODAY’S CHURCH Musicademy will be running guitar, bass and vocals seminars at Kingsway’s annual conference in Eastbourne in the UK this November. There is a £10 early booking discount if you book before 15th September.

Our Dad (Steve’s covers band) are doing a wedding tonight and I had to do a chart for a simple Van Morrison song. I attach it as an example that could be used for worship song notation. The “problem” (at least for me!!) is to combine several objectives in one format: include all the words! show the […]

Mark Ecclestone from Canada asks: “Can you please recommend any websites/teaching resources on learning how to develop musical improvisation and arranging skills (like on how to play a piece of music for piano building around playing arpeggios with passing notes) that are easy to understand for piano playing?  A lot of the material out there […]

Chris Murray, an Anglican clergyman emailed us to say: “I found Jonny Baker’s article most stimulating. I love words, write poetry, have had some published, but want to use it far more widely. I have  J.B.et al’s book “Alternative Worship,” and love it – have used parts. I’d be very interested in the Eucharistic Prayers he […]

  We’ve created a brand new vocals work-out CD to really test and stretch your singing ability. Whilst the tracks contain some elements of breathing and warm-ups, the content is really designed to push your singing to another level. The exercises should take you well beyond your existing range as well as help you develop […]

This is the first in a series of three posts written by Andy on electric guitar pedals for worship. Actually you don’t need a huge amount of pedals to get going. I’d say that with a good Tube Screamer overdrive type pedal and a decent delay you should be able to reproduce most of what’s […]

On 17 June Louie Giglio (Passion Ministries) will be in Oxford in the UK for one day only speaking at a conference at Wycliffe Hall. This event is seeking to celebrate the unity and diversity of theology & music. Other contributors include Tim Hughes & Al Gordon (Worship Central, HTB & Alpha).   Musicademy will have a […]

This is a powerpoint from engageworship.org that can be used in a large congregation, but also in small groups or individually. It aids us in giving our burdens to God, and uses actions to help us focus our prayers. The powerpoint could work in the beginning of a service, as a means of ‘entering in’, […]