New Free Worship Resource – Names of God

By Sam Hargreaves | March 9, 2009

This is another post giving you free worship resources courtesy of Sam Hargreaves and EngageWorship.org This presentation of various Names of God was made for Youthwork the Conference.  It is designed to help people reflect on the varied sides of God’s attributes and character.  It could be used with live or recorded music underneath as […]

Substitute guitar chords in D

By Andy@Musicademy | March 7, 2009

Substitute Chords – part 3 In the last two posts we looked at alternative chord voicings in the keys of G and C. Now let’s look at my favourite set of shapes which is for the key of D. I’m a big James Taylor fan and many of his songs use these exact voicings so if […]

Ask the Expert – Singing Whilst Playing

By Tim Martin | March 6, 2009

Lindsay Hiratzka sent us this question: I am the bassist and I play mostly by ear.  As a result, my approach to playing bass is similar to my approach to singing, hearing in my mind what I want to play, then playing it.  I also love to sing, but I can’t seem to marry the […]

Substitute chords for the key of C

By Andy@Musicademy | March 4, 2009

Substitute Chords – part 2 Previously we looked at a whole range of chords you can get nice alternative voicings with in the key of G. For many players once they start using these G based chords they simply put on a capo for other keys and never learn any other shapes again! This is a […]

Ask the Expert – Copyright and Licensing Songs

By Andy@Musicademy | March 3, 2009

Sharon Tedford, a Musicademy student, asked for some advice on copyright and licensing. She says: “I’ve written some songs and have been reading up on the CCLI website about copyright and they say: CCLI does not ‘copyright’ songs as such, nor do we provide any form of copyright ‘protection’. It is our understanding that copyright […]

What does coming to a meeting prepared look like?

By Marie@Musicademy | March 1, 2009

More from our series on church and worship. Some musings on what it really means to come to a service “prepared”. (A) Arrive early We encourage our team to come early to our Sunday gatherings to pray together for the gathering, to ask the Holy Spirit for a corporate infilling, and to get a feel […]

Worship Blogs – a round up of recent posts we liked

By Marie@Musicademy | February 28, 2009

There are several great worship blogs out there in cyberspace that can take a bit of tracking down. We’ve been connecting with a few via our Twitter feed. Here’s a selection of recent posts on the worship blogosphere. If you find this post helpful and would like to see a regular round up then let […]

Breathing for singers – video clip from Musicademy seminar

By Marie@Musicademy | February 27, 2009

Nicki Rogers presents a live seminar demonstrating how to breath properly when singing. Learn about breathing in and expanding your stomach and sssssss exercises for control and diaphragm development. There are also some simple warm up exercises as well as a description of forward placement technique. Breathing technique is also covered extensively on the Musicademy Worship […]