Worship songs are a bit rubbish at serving the local church

By Andy@Musicademy | June 16, 2014

Our worship songs don’t work Many of our congregational worship songs simply aren’t congregational. There, I’ve said it! But if you’ll forgive my hyperbole I’ll defend myself. Recently I was recording tracks for our Worship Backing Band Multitrack project at Musicademy. These tracks are designed for churches with missing musicians that want a full band […]

An insight into the Regional Music Adviser role at the Royal School of Church Music

By Guest Blogger | June 11, 2014

We spent some time this morning with the delightful Frances Novillo, Regional Music Adviser for the Royal School of Church Music and were humbled by the breadth of musical knowledge, application and versatility required of her role. I wish I had recorded the conversation, but we’ll get some video interviews in the future. Whilst Musicademy is more […]

Free Bass Guitar lesson – Here I Am To Worship

By Andy@Musicademy |

Which musicians are you missing in your worship team? We did an impromptu survey during our seminars at The Worship Conversation/The Big Church Day Out recently and found that churches were more likely to be missing bass  and electric guitar players than any other instrument. Given how straight forward it is for existing guitar players […]

Not the first generation to be addicted to bass

By admin | May 29, 2014

Does organ music ‘instil religious feelings’? According to an experiment people who experience a sense of spirituality in church may be reacting to the extreme bass sound produced by some organ pipes. Many churches and cathedrals have organ pipes that are so long they emit infrasound which at a frequency lower than 20 Hertz is […]

Free Bass Guitar video lesson – Playing in 10ths

By Andy@Musicademy | May 28, 2014

This lesson is taken from Musicademy’s Intermediate Worship Bass Course available as DVDs and online downloads Since that DVD set we have recently completed the Worship Bass Collection with a more recent range of worship songs. Check out all our Bass courses We have a big repertoire of worship bass courses available on DVD, download […]

NEW DVD! Sound Tech and PA Training for Churches

By Andy@Musicademy | May 21, 2014

A comprehensive guide, on 4 DVDs, to live audio in church. The course covers mixing, systems, set up and acoustics. Order now. Musicademy has worked together with audio visual production company SFL Group to create this comprehensive course on sound engineering and PA training for churches. Perfect for training newcomers to sound engineering and also […]

Why Worship Backing Band MultiTrack is mono/mono rather than stereo

By Andy@Musicademy | May 19, 2014

We’ve had a number of queries recently on the topic of mono vs stereo outputs on the Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player. Here’s why we decided to go the mono/mono route: Mono/mono mixes The stems in the player are actually mixed mono/mono (not just mono) with identical left/right mixes but crucially with completely independent left […]