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Transitioning worship (Part 2) Technology improvement

By Kenny Lamm | February 11, 2013

Here we have another warmly welcomed guess post from our friend Kenny Lamb who works with the Baptist State Convention in North Carolina, USA. Just to say from the outset – just because this talks about transitioning to a contemporary style of sung worship it doesn’t necessarily mean you HAVE to have this level of […]

Top 10 signs it’s time to cut a song

By Guest Blogger | February 8, 2013

Let’s face it. Every song has a shelf life. Very few tunes are going to endure through the ages. And that’s OK. We just need to know when to remove songs from our active rotations. Here are the top 10 ways to know it’s time to cut a song. If you hear audible […]

How to write a worship song (in 5 minutes or less) (funny video clip)

By admin | February 6, 2013

What’s the difference between our new Beginning Guitar and old Beginners Guitar DVDs?

By Andy@Musicademy | February 5, 2013

Our original Beginner’s Guitar DVDs were filmed back in 2004. That product still stands on its own as a great value way of learning to play guitar from scratch but as you can imagine we’ve developed a lot since then. So our new Beginning Guitar 4 DVD set is very much a culmination of everything […]

Lenny Kravitz encounters the Voice of Praise Choir

By Marie@Musicademy |

Lenny Kravitz is in downtown New Orleans when he hears The Voice of Praise Choir from the First Baptist Church performing his song ‘Fly Away’. Watch what happens next.

Free video split track worship backing track

By admin | February 4, 2013

Free backing track for February – Video Split Track/Lyric Track To mark some fantastic new price deals for our Video Split Track backing tracks, this month our free backing track is a Video Split Track rather than a MultiTrack. Don’t know the difference? Well a Video Split Track is a stereo backing track with fully mixable […]

What would Jesus really be like if he was a member of your congregation? Would you (and your pastor) recognise him?

By Marie@Musicademy | February 1, 2013

Excerpt from Gerard Hughes – God of Surprises My small group read a chapter from Gerard Hughes’ book God of Surprises recently as a discussion starter on the topic “If Jesus appeared in the flesh today, how would the church receive him?” The chapter paints a possible contemporary scenario. Jesus certainly upsets more than a […]

Survey results – what you told us about our newsletter, blog and Facebook page

By Marie@Musicademy | January 31, 2013

Thanks so much for taking part in our recent communications survey. We’ve done a lot of analysis on the results which we share with you below. The Findings We had over 300 people take part in the survey which was split into questions for people who access our content via the newsletter and website […]

New super low prices for our Split Track video backing tracks

By Marie@Musicademy | January 30, 2013

For churches not needing the full functionality of our MultiTrack Backing Track Player, we have a great low-tech backing track option which we call “Split Track Video Downloads”. These even include on-screen words that change in time to the music. You can see a sample in the video clip below: Easy-to-use, low cost backing tracks […]

Transitioning Your Church’s Corporate Worship – Part One

By Kenny Lamm | January 28, 2013

Many churches today realize there is a need to transform their times of corporate worship from a traditional style to a unified (some would say “blended”) or more contemporary style of worship. My Worship Wars series will help you think through some of these issues. Once a church decides to make a change, your next […]