Worship Blog Round-Up

By Marie@Musicademy | February 5, 2010

I haven’t done a worship blog round-up for a while so here are some blogs that caught my eye over recent months. Really detailed blog site on using guitar in worship Thoughts on how the Jews worshipped differently, singing in response to what they heard about God. What would happen if instead of starting our […]

Video guitar lesson – using CAGED chords

By Andy@Musicademy | February 4, 2010

One of the main questions I get asked when doing seminars is how to find guitar chords further up the neck. When constructing electric guitar chord parts I tend to use a system called CAGED chords. Many classic electric guitar parts have been built using the CAGED system and by learning CAGED you should be […]

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts – Worship Leaders

By Tim Bowdler | January 31, 2010

The life of a worship leader is a happy one. These people get all the fame, the royalties, the best-looking girls (or boys), they get to travel around the world and sing their carefully crafted compositions to lots of loyal followers. They are perfect in every way… No. The truth is they get irritable, they […]

Hey Man Slow Down – A Creative Journey With Worship

By Jonny Baker | January 28, 2010

Welcome to a ‘Grace’ worship service simply entitled slow. The worship space is divided into two halves by back to back projection screens. On one side a VJ (like a DJ but mixing visual images rather than music) mixes slow images and the other fast images. People sit whichever side they relate to most. We […]

Worship Team Hero – the rules of play

By Marie@Musicademy | January 25, 2010

We found this hysterically funny piece in a Facebook Group. It nicely turns on its head lots of our advice.   This group is intended to promote the development of the new video game Worship Team Hero. You play a worship leader of a big time Church in downtown Calgary. As with all worship teams, you […]

Learn to play double stops on guitar in worship

By Andy@Musicademy | January 22, 2010

Double stops means playing two notes at the same time and was employed to great effect by a certain Mr James Hendrix. Hendrix is known by non musicians for his wailing solos but this style, used on gentler songs like Little Wing and Castles Made of Sand, is perfect for playing in worship settings. The […]

50 tips – Orchestral Instruments in Worship

By Andy@Musicademy | January 21, 2010

  Your key role is not the melody! If you’ve grown up playing classical music then you are probably used to reading the melody but in congregational music where the lead instrument is the vocal that role becomes redundant so you have to find something else to do. Here are 5 ideas – very useful […]

Drum screens – cage free or free range?

By Guest Blogger | January 20, 2010

Cage Free or Free Range? Have you ever wondered the difference is between Free Range Chickens and Cage Free Chickens? If you’ve been confused at your local grocer over this quandry, let me help you. “Free Range”, according to the USDA, means that the chicken has had access to the outside, but is not necessarily […]