Free worship training resources for Christian musicians

Why do we have to pay to play songs in worship? Guest post from CCLI

By admin | April 5, 2016

We always find that articles we publish on licensing generate lots of interest so we have asked CCLI to write a series of guest posts for us on commonly asked questions about licensing. Here is question number 1. One of the questions CCLI is asked most often is: “Why should churches pay to use songs […]

The evolution of Christian worship music from the 1950s to now

By Marie@Musicademy | April 3, 2016

New MultiTracks and EveryKey Chord Charts

By Andy@Musicademy | March 31, 2016

We’ve just launched 6 fantastic new MultiTracks. The first we wanted to do was Wake by Hillsong Young and Free. it’s one of those songs that has a great vibe but is really difficult to do without running tracks in the background. So we’ve given you all the instrument sections of the original album version that […]

Small Group Worship Seminar

By admin | March 28, 2016

Worship for small groups from Musicademy Above are the notes from a seminar on small group worship that we presented while back. It’s packed with ideas for worship in a home group setting and there is plenty of interaction from the audience who share their issues and best practice. We particularly liked this quote […]

Worship software evaluation. We compare some of the great but less well known options.

By admin | March 16, 2016

Worship software evaluation: SongSelect, OnSong, ZionWorx and Power Music – what do they do and which is best? Names like SongSelect, OnSong, ZionWorx and Power Music may mean nothing to you at all….but if you’re the person in charge of song projection or leading worship in your church you may have heard about them. You may even be wondering if […]

New MultiTracks and EveryKey Chord Charts released

By admin | March 7, 2016

We are delighted to release another set of MultiTracks along with EveryKey Chord Charts. Click the links to download. All the Poor and Powerless – David Leonard, Leslie Jordan Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) – Joel Houston, Jonas Myrin (Hillsong) Come As You Are – David Crowder, Matt Maher, Ben Glover He is Faithful – Bryan […]

Bars, counting and chord charts – free beginner music theory lesson

By Andy@Musicademy | March 2, 2016

Here’s a quick beginner theory lesson on the topic of bars, counting and chord charts. The lesson is taken from Musicademy’s Beginning Worship Guitar Course but has learning suitable for any musician. The course is available on DVD, as downloads and also via our streaming subscription service. All our guitar courses are detailed here. If you’d prefer […]

Musicademy worship training days: being a host church

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Each year Musicademy runs a small number of worship training days in churches across England (we’d love to go further but travel time and costs make that quite tricky). Of course this can’t happen without a venue so we are very grateful for host churches willing to let us use their lovely buildings on a […]

Ask the Tech Expert: How to stop our old speakers picking up the signal from our hearing loop?

By admin | February 29, 2016

Hearing loop problem Neil Coode from Cranleigh in the UK asked us for help with a T-Loop problem. He says: “We have a rather nice hearing loop installed in our church. We also use one or two (depending on band) older wedge speakers for foldback. Unfortunately the wedges pick up signal from the hearing loop […]

[Article] Is it time to boycott the worship industry?

By admin | February 25, 2016

We found this article on the Patheos blog. It’s generated a huge number of comments on our Facebook page with very diverse opinions shared. What do you think? Note that this is a link to Facebook so can take a few moments to load. These articles critiquing contemporary worship seem to be emerging with increasing […]