Gear Confessional – Guitars

By Andy@Musicademy | March 23, 2010

I’ve been looking over some of the worship websites in recent weeks and surprisingly some of the stuff that gets the most comments is the ‘what guitar do you use’ type of post. Now whilst I love going round the guitar shops one of the things I didn’t want to get into with the Musicademy […]

Ask the Expert – How to expand a singer’s vocal range

By Catherine Nicole | March 19, 2010

  Here’s Cat White’s third post giving advice on vocalists (the first, on weak and thready voices and the second on singers that run out of puff).  This time Cat deals with advice for working with singers that have a very limited vocal range. (One can only do middle C to about D, the other is much higher, […]

Homegroup Worship – a lifeless fire about to go out?

By Marie@Musicademy | March 18, 2010

I’ve just finished a book by Steve & Mandy Briars called Homegroups: The Authentic Guide. The chapter on worship is worth summarising here. It starts: “The topic of worship is one of the most contentious and fervently debated issues in church life. Should we only be singing the latest songs or raising the rafters with […]

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts – Percussionists

By Tim Bowdler | March 15, 2010

Picture the scene. The worship leader wants to create a bit of a different vibe to the Sunday worship time. So in a moment of intense clarity he thinks, “I know, I’ll get the drummer to play percussion instead this week. It’ll be  great. After all drums and percussion are really the same instrument right?” […]

DVD reviews in Worship Leader Magazine

By Marie@Musicademy | March 11, 2010

Those nice people at Worship Leader Magazine have reviewed a number of our recent DVD releases. We thought you might be interested in what they had to say. Feel free to add your own review in the comments at the bottom. HARMONY AND BACKING VOCAL Volume 1 of the Harmony and Backing Vocal DVD is […]

Ask the Expert – Singers that run out of puff

By Catherine Nicole | March 10, 2010

Here’s Cat White’s second post giving advice to vocalists (the first, on weak and thready voices is here). The subscriber was asking for advice for singers that run out of puff quickly especially with up-tempo songs: One possible problem here could be that your singers are finding it difficult to find the right places to breathe in songs. […]

New Advanced Keyboards DVDs launched today

By Marie@Musicademy | March 9, 2010

As a keyboard player do you ever feel frustrated that you don’t really venture beyond standard piano and pad sounds on your instrument? Our new Advanced Keyboard DVDs will guide you step-by-step to unlocking more creative potential in your playing. Taking 10 popular worship songs, Tim Martin unpacks all the keyboard parts from a professional […]

Free worship rota planning tool

By Steve Weeks | March 2, 2010

We first published this post a couple of years ago but we’ve a lot more subscribers now so worth a second posting. I’ve been using this application for all sorts of rotas and scheduling meetings and its saved loads of time so have a read through to see how it can take some of your […]

Free webinar with Dan Wilt – The Fire of Easter

By Marie@Musicademy | March 1, 2010

  You are invited to join Dan Wilt fom worshiptraining.com in a free live, interactive training webinar this Wednesday. Easter, the Day of Resurrection, is at the very heart of the cosmic Story that is Christianity. Join Dan in exploring Easter in a fresh, exciting and surprising way. For those who are planning Easter/Holy Week gatherings, this […]