By Andy@Musicademy | February 28, 2014
Rev Graham Hunter from London asks: “When leading worship on acoustic guitar, I sometimes want to adjust the tone to reflect the change between strumming with a plectrum, and then finger-picking. Should I get an EQ pedal, or a compression pedal, or both? And what do you recommend – both in terms of make / […]
By admin | February 20, 2014
Here’s a fantastic lesson from our Advanced Bass DVDs and downloads. When you download the full course, as well as each individual lesson you get two backing tracks for each song. These have the song with and without the bass part so that you can easily hear the bass in one mix and then use […]
By admin | February 18, 2014
Post by Musicademy. Click through to the Facebook discussion above to read the original question and the advice people have offered so far. This is an excellent question outlining a problem faced by so many worship teams. What do you do when one of your musicians is simply not very able but doesn’t […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 17, 2014
Have you an 11th Commandment to add? Flash sale: 50% off our Worship Bass Courses All our worship bass DVDs on half price sale. Offer ends Wednesday 26 October 2016. See also: The Ten Commandments of Electric Guitar. Musicademy’s training DVDs and online lessons for Bass Guitar (Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced). Free bass guitar […]
By admin | February 13, 2014
Interview with Michael Gungor by the London School of Theology student magazine, Illuminate.
By Marie@Musicademy | February 7, 2014
Google Research has created a fascinating music timeline reflecting the evolution of music by genre over recent decades. We’ve screen grabbed the Christian/Gospel data here but you can go and explore other genres (and discover all the big releases) yourself: http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/#CHRISTIAN_GOSPEL
By admin | February 6, 2014
The Power of The Cross – Stuart Townend and Keith Getty This monster of a lesson shows you how to approach playing hymns with quick chord changes on guitar, and because the song changes key for the final chorus you’ll learn these quick change chord shapes in both the C and D based shapes. Not […]
By admin | February 1, 2014
Here’s a real treat for you. We’ve discovered that our friend Dan Wilt from The Vineyard in the USA is giving away his book Worship White Noise. Dan’s book brings up much wisdom within the ongoing conversation about the good, bad and ugly of contemporary worship. We’d highly recommend it both as food for thought […]
By admin |
We have provided a free backing track of the month every month since about the time our original Worship Backing Band player was launched in 2011. We’ve generally selected either a less well known song in order to give it wider exposure, or alternately chosen an old classic that could do with a bit of […]
By Guest Blogger | January 30, 2014
Graham Kendrick shares some thoughts as a worship leader about the doctrine of the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Sometimes we can lose the wonder and the awe of the fact that we can worship God at all – that we are welcomed into His presence. We must understand that our only access […]
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