Free worship training resources for Christian musicians

Can we change or make a new arrangement of someone else’s song? Guest post from CCLI

By Guest Blogger | January 10, 2017

Copyright is an intellectual property right given to the creators of original musical, literary and dramatic works. In the UK the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is the current legislation and provides the creator with both an economic and a moral right. This moral right means that only the copyright owner of a […]

Five huge new MultiTracks

By [email protected] | November 26, 2016

We’ve just launched another batch of five new MultiTracks. As ever these are big, well known songs with familiar arrangements but in the usual Worship Backing Band style we’ve slightly (or sometimes hugely) modified each song to make it as congregationally singable and playable as we can. So here’s a brief rundown of how […]

Re-written narrations of the Christmas story [free Christmas presentation download]

By Guest Blogger | November 17, 2016

Pulling together an order of service that also includes a creative element to both refresh the usual content and appeal to visitors can be pretty daunting. We were discussing ideas for Christmas service planning in the Musicademy Worship Community (it’s a Group on Facebook – you are welcome to join too) when one of our regular community […]

Worship Backing Band’s carol repertoire: backing tracks and chord charts

By admin | November 16, 2016

We have a huge 22 carols in our backing tracks library now. Click through below to listen to audio samples and to buy:

Do’s and Don’ts for Christmas service planning

By Guest Blogger | November 8, 2016

Do’s and Don’ts: Christmas service planning We asked the Musicademy Worship Community (our new Facebook Group) for their tips on Christmas planning and were blown away by a response from Christopher Phillimore that listed some super useful Do’s and Don’ts. We couldn’t agree more with his suggestions. Here is Christopher’s list: DO plan in advance […]

Worship training day livestream videos

By admin | November 7, 2016

We were able to record a number of the masterclasses at our recent worship training day in Peterborough. These were doing using Facebook Live so are a single camera and on-board audio feed. Worship Team Essentials Part 1 If you like the concepts covered in Worship Team Essentials we would definitely recommend our Band Skills […]

Flare Audio’s Isolate ear defenders [Review]

By admin | November 2, 2016

I go to a lot of live music. Festivals, gigs and conferences. At the majority, sound levels are perfectly acceptable and I leave at the end of the evening without feeling that my ears are bleeding. But sometimes it’s loud. Too loud. At a pub gig a couple of years ago the music was so […]

Developing a sense of timing in your worship team

By [email protected] | October 17, 2016

Someone once told me that music with dodgy tuning is folk and music with dodgy timing is jazz… So does that mean lots of worship bands are actually playing sophisticated jazz-folk? All jokes aside, so many worship teams could improve their sound immensely if they just focused on improving their sense of timing. Most musicians […]

What are the biggest issues facing worship teams right now?

By [email protected] | October 11, 2016

We did a little ice breaker in a recent worship training day where we asked the delegates to identify the biggest issue facing their worship team. Cue the grand opening of a can of worms. And an awful lot of the same issues coming up again and again. So I thought I’d run with this […]

Same old chords new shapes

By [email protected] | October 5, 2016

Recently a guitar student asked me to teach them a cover version of Katy Perry’s California Gurls by YouTube boywonder Alex Goot. This kid is one of the many internet viral sensations building a readymade fan base poised for when they come to release their own music by covering other people’s songs and filming themselves […]