Buyers Guide – Good Quality Acoustic Guitars

By Andy@Musicademy | October 6, 2008

I want to buy my first decent acoustic guitar. What would you recommend? These days with Far East production methods getting better and better, you can buy a quality instrument far more cheaply than ever before. However, two rules of thumb still apply – 1) You get what you pay for and 2) Buy the […]

Guitar Know How – money saving & some quick tips

By Andy@Musicademy |

Free strap locks – A perfect alternative to buying strap locks is to use the rubber bottle washersused on theold style wire flip top opening of some drinks bottles. Place the washer over the strap buttons of your guitar for instant strap locks! Cheap Guitar Strings – Great low cost guitar strings with a money […]

The failsafe method of working out which chords fit a key

By Andy@Musicademy |

You know the scenario, you’re either trying to remember the chords for a song that you don’t have music for, or you’re trying to find some chords to accompany a new melody, so you stab at all sorts – G F, C Em, A, Bb – some seem to work but some don’t. There is, […]

Quality sheet music for worship songs

By Marie@Musicademy |

We’ve just found a great online resource for proper sheet music and guitar tab. Click the link to go to Musicnotes. As well as almost every rock and pop song you might want to play, the site has plenty of music for worship songs by Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin and more.

17 common worship leading mistakes and how to avoid them

By Marie@Musicademy |

Worship leader mistakes Including too many new songs in the set – your congregation is there to worship – most will find it difficult to do so if they spend most of the time learning your latest masterpieces Vary your set list to include a variety of older, recently introduced and brand new songs and […]

Worship Drummer on Fire

By Tim Bowdler |

The sound man had a benign tone about his delivery, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve done this before – it’ll be really cool. The first part of that sentence is a moot point – I am stymied by a burden of proof – but the second proved to be woefully incorrect and as such I have learned […]

Playing In Tenths

By Andy@Musicademy |

Andy Chamberlain gives a guitar lesson teaching how to play in tenths on guitar. Here you play two notes in the same key that are ten intervals apart. Great for finding new chord voicings in D. This is the technique that the Delirious song Majesty was written using. This technique is also taught in depth […]

Vocals Warm-up Exercises – Simple Humming

By Marie@Musicademy |

This clip is taken from a live vocals seminar Musicademy ran with Nicki Rogers. Its part of our “Rough and Ready” series of clips. If you would like to see a more polished edit of vocals warm-ups either check out our worship vocals DVDs or our online singing lessons.