Beginners or Intermediate DVDs?

By Marie@Musicademy | November 9, 2008

Here’s a question from Dale in the US which I’ve posted as it comes up all the time. “I am a self-taught guitar player for the last ten years. i don’t know anything about music theory or some of the more technical terms i hear about and read on your guitar courses. I have led […]

Music Stand Rant

By Marie@Musicademy | November 6, 2008

OK. I know that we don’t all play by ear and even if we do we like to have the security of the words in front of us when we lead worship (and not all churches have that great system where words are shown on floor based monitors). But why do so many people insist […]

FAQ – Song Learner Downloads vs the DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | November 3, 2008

“Hi, i’m a bassist that plays in a church band and I wanted to know what’s the difference from getting the song learner seperately as a single download and getting the discs. I’d like to keep the songs (video) on my computer…Do you all show different fills, riffs, and slides into chords, etc. on your […]

Ask an FAQ / Ask the Expert

By Marie@Musicademy |

We get emailed all the time from people asking questions about our DVDs, worship, playing and instruments. We’ve created two places on our blog to answer these questions in public so if you have a question please email [email protected]. Look at the Ask The Expert and Ask An FAQ categories on the Blog to see […]

Worship Gaffe #1

By Marie@Musicademy | October 29, 2008

An all too familiar scenario in this audio clip – enjoy! [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

A seasonal review of our spiritual lives

By Guest Blogger | October 20, 2008

Autumn is here. The leaves are falling from the trees. Winter will soon be upon us. With the dying of some of the visible things, new life is growing in the invisible places; bulbs are beginning to stir underground, ready to send their new hopeful, bright shoots and flowers into the air once the winter […]

Creating ‘pad’ sounds on guitar to add space

By Steve Weeks | October 16, 2008

This week I completed my New FX board and took it to church for a first outing on Sunday morning. The most exciting pedal is the Digitech EX-7. One setting allows me to fade in a slow swell of violin sounding stuff. This gave me the opportunity to do the “Pad-Thing” that the keyboard player […]