Free worship training resources for Christian musicians

Improving your online experience on the Worship Backing Band website

By admin | April 9, 2013

Quickly add multiple products to your cart Thanks to customer feedback we’ve commissioned a change to the Worship Backing Band website which will speed up and simplify the purchase process for customers buying multiple items in one go. Previously you had to laboriously click through to each product and select whether you wanted a single […]

Pulling together the worship team in a church moving from traditional to contemporary worship – Transitioning Part 6

By Kenny Lamm | April 8, 2013

As East City Church transitions its worship service to a unified style of worship, they will need to equip their musician resources to handle contemporary styles of music in addition to the traditional styles that they do so well. Fortunately, ECC already has a worship band that leads worship in the contemporary early service. This […]

Why your song list might be getting in the way of your worship

By Guest Blogger | April 5, 2013

Why Do We Need a System to Manage Our Songs? The Monster List Imagine that you take a large envelope of cash to your bank. You explain to the smiling teller that you’d like to deposit this cash into your checking account. She says she’d be happy to do that. She takes your envelope, turns […]

Genuine terrible Christian demo tapes #1

By Marie@Musicademy | April 4, 2013

Here’s the first in a series of “interesting” Christian demos. These were genuinely sent to a record company A and R. It’s not the greatest of auditions but the lyrics get really interesting about 60 seconds in. Hit the arrow to start listening. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Do you think that people going through a divorce should be allowed on a worship team?

By Marie@Musicademy |

That’s the question we were emailed recently and my heart went out to the person who had sent the email. I certainly don’t think there is a straight forward answer to this and my hunch was that our Musicademy community would have a lot more experience on the topic between them than I. So with […]

Helping the congregation learn new songs – Transitioning – Part 5

By Kenny Lamm | March 31, 2013

In our last post on the challenges for a church moving from traditional to contemporary worship styles, East City Church continued its journey to worship renewal by producing a song list of known songs for the congregation and identifying new songs that will be introduced to the congregation. To fast track the worship transition, East […]

Free guitar lesson – Subsitute chords and tricks in C

By Andy@Musicademy | March 28, 2013

Here’s a lesson taken from our Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course. The course is available on DVD or as individual downloads – see trailer below. We’ve created cheat sheets like the one below for each of the keys where we teach substitute chords on the course.

Recommendations for mics with a large area pick up pattern

By Guest Blogger | March 27, 2013

We had an email from Terry who works for the U.S. Federal Courts in South Carolina. He asks: Do you have a recommendation for the best microphone for large area pick up pattern? I need to mic the gallery of a courtroom without having the individuals leave their seat to walk to a microphone. The […]

NEW! The Musicademy Worship Keyboard Collection.

By admin | March 26, 2013

Are you looking to inject some creativity and fresh ideas into your piano and keyboard playing? Discover the techniques, tips and ideas in contemporary worship keyboard playing by learning pro keyboard parts to 18 well known worship songs. This new 4-DVD set contains a years’ worth of keyboard lessons teaching you the chord shapes, voicings, rhythms, […]

What hymns (ancient and modern) should we be using?

By Marie@Musicademy | March 25, 2013

We recently asked you all (via our Facebook Page) what hymns you would recommend we record for our Worship Backing Band backing tracks and also for teaching guitar, bass and keys lessons. Thanks to those of you who responded. We’ve listed the suggestions below in alphabetical order They represent both well known traditional and contemporary […]