Free worship training resources for Christian musicians

Musicianship – is it right to try to hone our craft as worship musicians?

By admin | November 1, 2012

A few days ago we published a “Cut Out and Keep” Guide to helping musicians work out what chords to expect in any given key. It proved pretty popular on the blog getting lots of Likes, Shares and Comments. However, we noticed a number of detractors. Here are some of the comments: We thought it […]

Tips to pass onto your drummers

By Andy@Musicademy | October 31, 2012

Helping drummers in church worship I often get asked by worship leaders if there are any tips they can pass onto their drummers. A drummer can make or break a worship time, and like any musician there are so many things we can work on to make us more effective. These can range from skill/practice, […]

Learn an innovative sound check method that makes musicians happy at 7am!

By Andy@Musicademy | October 30, 2012

Efficient sound check method A while ago I played at a festival where the most eventful memory of the whole day was the sound check! Not that the event wasn’t good, its just the sound check was the best organised, well thought out and most efficient one I’ve ever been to despite taking place at […]

The Musicademy Cut Out and Keep Guide to Chords in a Key

By admin | October 29, 2012

Useful guide showing you which chords to expect in any key If you find this useful (or it’s shown you how little you know), take a look at our Playing By Ear in Worship course. This covers all the necessary music theory to make you a far more proficient player. If you need a […]

Preparing spontaneity in worship – part 1

By Sam Hargreaves | October 27, 2012

I think a lot of us would like more moments of spontaneity in our worship. Moments when we go with the sense of what the Spirit is doing in the room, or respond to issues in the congregation, or allow the flow of the music and words to lead us into unexpected places. But it […]

What chord comes next in a song?

By Andy@Musicademy | October 25, 2012

One of the members of the Musicademy website sent me what you can see in figure 1 below. He struggles with playing by ear and remembering the chords in common keys so he came up with this little chart that he sticks to his keyboard or guitar when he leads worship. The basic idea is […]

Vocal skills seminar for singers- breathing, posture and warm-ups

By admin | October 23, 2012

Here is a live vocals session from a Musicademy training day with Nicki Rogers. If you’d like further help with your singing, check out our worship vocals DVD course and Harmony & Backing vocals DVDs. And if you like the warm-up exercises Nicki is teaching here, take a look at our range of CDs and […]

A guide to guitar effects pedals for beginners

By Andy@Musicademy | October 22, 2012

Whether you are an acoustic or electric guitar player one of the simplest ways you can add some dynamic or sonic change to your worship set is by stepping on an effects pedal at appropriate moments. However, if you are new to the world of pedals there seems to be endless choice of single or […]

Tips for using Worship Backing Band MultiTrack live plus some customer feedback on the new player

By Andy@Musicademy | October 20, 2012

We are delighted to have had such positive feedback on the new 1.5 version of our MultiTrack player. Over on the Worship Backing Band Facebook Page Eric Simpson said “Had a play around and is FANTASTIC! The ability to change key & speed hits the mark” He also said that the speed is “Massively improved“. […]

Transferring from guitar to bass

By Andy@Musicademy | October 16, 2012

If there’s one instrumentalist that church worship bands seem to have a shortage of its bass players. There are often loads of guitarists but very few who make the transition over to bass. Part of the problem is that whilst the two instruments share the same notes and tuning, the way you approach each is […]