Christmas gift ideas for guitarists

By [email protected] | December 10, 2012

It’s that time of year again when rehearsals for Christmas services are ramping up and everyone is working on their best O Come All Ye Faithful chops for Christmas morning. On top of which everyone is shopping like mad for presents for friends and family. But have you thought about getting presents for your worship […]

Caring for your voice during the winter months

By Guest Blogger |

With the cold weather upon us, the voice can take a real bashing so it’s important to look at how we can best look after it in the winter months. Going from one temperature into another – i.e from a warm room inside to the freezing cold outdoors, can really affect your singing voice – […]

Christmas Carol Nightmare

By Marie@Musicademy | December 6, 2012

A seasonal worship trainwreck which we dig out for your listening pleasure each December – it gets better the longer you listen! We’ve enjoyed reading your comments too. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I know we’ve posted this before but at over 1,000 Facebook “likes” in previous years it’s one of our most […]

Christmas gift ideas from Musicademy

By Marie@Musicademy | December 5, 2012

Whether you are looking for low cost stocking fillers or something rather special for your significant other Musicademy has a great range of music-related gift ideas: Stocking Fillers Musicademy Vocals Warm-up and Work-out CDs Vocals Workouts for Guys and Girls Hand drumming (djembe, bongo, congas) and percussion Drums Work-Out CD Bass and Guitar Song Learner […]

Free Christmas worship resources

By Marie@Musicademy | December 4, 2012

Here’s a summary of the most popular Christmas resources we posted last year. We’ll be adding a few more things throughout December. And please, if you find something great online, either share it here or email us a link so we can spread the word. Free Christmas songs – MP3s, videos and sheet music for contemporary […]

The Musician’s “Cut Out & Keep” Guide to Transposing

By Andy@Musicademy | November 28, 2012

Transposing for guitar, keyboards and bass For lots of players the real world way of transposing involves keyboard transpose buttons or capos to put a song that’s in a complicated key into an easy-to-play key. But how many semitones up or down do you go with that keyboard button or, for guitarists, which fret do […]

Musicademy launches its new Beginning Worship Guitar DVDs

By admin |

Beginning Worship Guitar What if one guitar program could take you from beginner to competent musician with a years’ worth of lessons, tests and backing tracks? Musicademy’s new Beginning Worship Guitar Course is suitable for complete beginners and uses contemporary worship songs. The course is available now on DVD, downloads and via our subscription website […]