By Marie@Musicademy | September 15, 2014
Is live learning really better? We daily get emails at the office asking for recommendations on instrument teachers. Now, as Musicademy started off as a live local music school and Andy had worked extensively as a peripatetic teacher in schools, we are pretty sympathetic with the perception that a real live tutor is the best […]
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YouTube is full of obscure clips from musicians, often amateur, uploading their work but rarely seen beyond a handful of views. This is what happens when Israeli musician and composer, Kutiman, splices together 23 different YouTube videos. It’s quite beautiful.
By admin | September 4, 2014
I’ve noticed most church worship teams go one of two ways: Either they sing songs dripping with sugar, rainbows, and unicorns, or they’re somber and sorrowful. And if the church is into Christian Top 40 music, it’s usually the first option. You know what I’m talking about. They sing songs like “Everything is Perfect” or […]
By Andy@Musicademy | September 2, 2014
We had a request for help in dealing with the “awkward silence” between songs in a worship set. Very simply, if you want to make songs ‘flow’ together (i.e. constant audio sound joining the two songs) the most obvious thing is to get your keyboard player (if you have one) to play a ‘pad’ sound. […]
By Guest Blogger | August 28, 2014
Russell King asks: “Our projector screen will be 50ft away from the back row. Given that we are a small congregation, but we want maximum picture clarity and visibility, what size screen should we purchase?” Tim Horton from SFL Group answers: As well as the size of the screen you need to be thinking about the […]
By Marie@Musicademy | August 21, 2014
We’ve found a fantastic new tool which let’s us see who our most friendly fans are (who has liked and commented the most) but also that let’s us search all our posts. We often have emails from people asking for the location of a post from way back and to date it’s been very time […]
By Andy@Musicademy | August 20, 2014
We’ve had a few customers asking about the song section abbreviations in the timeline of the Worship Backing Band player. We’ve tried to make them as self explanatory as possible but of course there are one or two that might mean different things to different folks. So below is a list of all the abbreviations […]
By Marie@Musicademy | August 18, 2014
This lesson is taken from the Musicademy Intermediate Worship Drums Course and teaches the techniques for improving limb independence. Save up to 50% off the Beginner and Intermediate Drum Courses – Time limited offer! For a limited period we are offering 50% off the beginner downloads and the intermediate downloads of both our Drum Courses and 45% off […]
By admin | August 14, 2014
Miranda Cunningham asks: “Is it OK to record the choir singing copyrighted songs in order to improve without putting on your CCLI Copyreport? For example recording Sunday service, rehearsal, individual practice. Is there a difference between recording for public distribution, church distribution and just for improving the choir in terms of copyright permission?” Chris […]
By Guest Blogger | August 13, 2014
As the church worldwide responds to the terrible crises in the Middle East, we were sent this set of re-worked lyrics for the bridge in the song Oceans which you may want to use in your own churches in the coming weeks. Writer, Jeff Ling, encourages us to “Turn that personal statement of faith into […]
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