Learn Facebook marketing with Marie Page’s new Smarter Marketing Guide

By admin | January 24, 2013

New Facebook marketing guide Musicademy resident social media expert, Marie Page, was commissioned to write an extensive practical guide to Faceboook marketing by leading digital marketing website SmartInsights. Here it is made exclusively available (without the need for SmartInsights membership) to friends of Musicademy. You’ll find lots of insight into how Marie uses Facebook to […]

NEW! MultiTrack Pro Ableton wav stems

By Andy@Musicademy | January 22, 2013

Ask and you shall receive… Hello everyone. Since we launched our original Worship Backing Band Multitrack player we’ve had lots of our more technical users ask if the instrument stems can used in their favourite DAW software (Pro Tools, Ableton, Logic, Garageband etc). We made our own Multitrack player extremely easy to use and because […]

Band Skills Seminar

By Marie@Musicademy |

Video of a Musicademy worship band skills seminar run by Andy Chamberlain and Tim Martin. Understanding how everyone’s instrument should work together within the whole band sound is a core skill for building solid arrangements. This top tips style seminar works through some practical do’s don’ts, hint’s and cheat’s for each instrument in the worship […]

Worship for small groups – hints, tips and ideas

By Marie@Musicademy | January 18, 2013

We ran a seminar recently on the topic of worship in small groups. The Powerpoint slides are below but it is also worth listening to the audio as it was quite an interactive session and you’ll miss quite a lot of the content by only reading the slides. The audio recording is below (be patient, […]

Lots more “super” chord charts released

By Marie@Musicademy | January 17, 2013

  We’ve had some great feedback on our “super” chord charts and lots of requests for more so today we have released another batch. They are listed on both the Musicademy and Worship Backing Band websites. You’ll find them (in alphabetical order on Musicademy here) or if you have an account with our sister site, […]

Understanding extended chords – Girl, Put Your Records On

By Andy@Musicademy | January 16, 2013

If your playing experience has mainly been with worship bands, approaching something that looks like a jazz or extended chord can seem pretty daunting. One way around this is to find some kind of pop/jazz crossover song with just one or two new chord shapes that can be drip fed into your technique kit bag […]

5 tips for transitioning and flowing between songs

By Guest Blogger | January 15, 2013

Transitioning and flowing between songs In formal church traditions, where the service is often of the ‘hymn sandwich’ variety, there is obviously no need to consider how to transition between songs. However, with the rise of less formal, contemporary worship (due in large part to the charismatic renewal of the 1960’s and 70’s), there has […]

Wonderful national newspaper coverage for Christian project

By Marie@Musicademy |

  You may remember an article we wrote 18 months ago True worship – and its nothing to do with music. We are still involved with this wonderful project which houses destitute women (asylum seekers on appeal who have no government benefits). Back then we were helping fundraise for a home for women and babies.  […]