By admin | January 24, 2015
Today we have launched 10 new MultiTrack backing tracks. Each also has an EveryKey Chord Chart where you get 12 pdf charts per song, one in all 12 keys plus a Nashville Number Chart too! The new MultiTrack backing tracks Alive – Aodhan King, Alexander Pappas (Hillsong) Build Your Kingdom Here – (Rend Collective) […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 22, 2015
Worship Leader Magazine has reviewed a couple of our more recent releases. This is what they have to say about the Musicademy Sound Tech and PA Training DVDs: “An affordable, user-friendly means to train your tech team. This comprehensive package of over nine hours of video instruction is a value-added, cost-effective way to train your […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 21, 2015
This is a great little hearing test for your musicians and especially your sound techs. The Philips Golden Ears online challenge was designed to develop the listening skills of audio engineers and helps you, through a series of tests, to learn to pick out changes in Timbre, Detail, Spatial Impression, Bass and Perceived Loudness. Perfect […]
By admin | January 19, 2015
This is a great question from Sonya Witmer. She’s a singer, but we hear this all the time from other musicians, especially keyboard players and guitarists. In her longer email, Sonya says: “I’ve been singing background vocals on my church’s worship team for nearly 2 years and have recently been doing more of the lead […]
By Guest Blogger | January 15, 2015
Have you ever gotten to that place in a worship song where you just wanted to linger for a moment? It might be as a song ends, or during an interlude within the song, but the arrangement you’re using doesn’t seem to give you that. That’s because many of the worship songs we use in our service […]
By Tim Martin | January 14, 2015
Flying solo – keys players Previously we began to consider what differences there are in leading worship either on your own or with one instrument. As well as considering the importance of rehearsal and real practice (even if only one person is involved), we considered some of the techniques that guitarists might want to use […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 9, 2015
We shared a while back how Andy had devised a new system for teaching beginners guitar ditching the more usual chords of Em, G, C, D, A, Am for chords with more complex names but that make more sense in the context of modern worship songs and enabling quicker chord changes. In this first short video lesson, […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 8, 2015
We’ve had great feedback on our initial set of new EveryKey Chord Charts so have added another set. Your Love Never Fails – Chris McLarney, Anthony Skinner (Bethel) This is My Desire – Reuben Morgan (Hillsong) Sing Sing Sing – Chris Tomlin, Daniel Carson, Jesse Reeves, Matt Gilder, Travis Nunn Say So – Michael Gungor […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 7, 2015
Is it me? Or is the long list of jobs, rota spaces and volunteering opportunities that some churches put in their weekly news off putting? I’m not saying that there’s no need to find people to do things but I think there’s a point where the volume of requests seems to give mixed messages. […]
By Tim Martin | December 30, 2014
Recently I’ve been in a number of situations where I have either had to lead worship on my own or with only one other instrumentalist. I’ve also been a part of gatherings where others were leading on their own. Most of the time we focus on developing our playing within a band but how should […]
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