Join us on Facebook

By Marie@Musicademy | December 22, 2009

We’ve added a Musicademy “fan” page to Facebook. You can join it here. If you’d like to start keeping up with updates to our website via your Facebook newsfeed then that’s the place to go. There are also a few Facebook only features including a photo album featuring the many haircuts of Andy Chamberlain and the ever […]

Reflecting on what love really means at Christmas

By Guest Blogger | December 17, 2009

If I decorate my house perfectly with bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny baubles, but do not show love to my family, I’m just another decorator. If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas biscuits, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtimes, but do not show love […]

Creating fractal images for visual worship

By Guest Blogger | December 16, 2009

Here is an explanation for creating “fractal images” like the Christmas ones we published yesterday. Richard created the Christmas fractals using a freeware fractal generating program called Apophysis.  To read more about fractals, visit here. Apophysis generates random images using fractal mathematics. But the maths is completely hidden behind a friendly interface, so don’t be put […]

Beautiful Christmas Images – free for use

By Guest Blogger | December 15, 2009

Our friends at Engage Worship have come up with some more wonderful free worship resources. These are a set of 10 “fractal” images suitable for adding some visual creativity to Christmas services. Click through to Engage Worship, create an account and you can download all 10 images for free. They are created under a Creative Commons License […]

Inward looking or inside out?

By Guest Blogger | December 10, 2009

I just got off the phone with a friend, who is a passionate worship leader and yet at the same time has been struggling lately because she finds areas of what we call ‘worship’ so inward looking.  She said “At my most cynical moments I have felt like I am just there to make church […]

12 Tips for Electric Guitarists (from our 50+ Tips series)

By Andy@Musicademy | December 8, 2009

Somebody recently pointed out that we’ve missed electric guitar out of our 50 tips series! How could we?! Particularly since I’m predominantly an electric player and its clearly God’s chosen instrument too… So here goes.   Different approach to acoustic When acoustic players pick up an electric they tend go one of two ways. They […]

Ask the Expert – How do I get my backing vocalists away from the sheet music?

By Marie@Musicademy | December 7, 2009

Julie Meyer from Kansas emails: “I’m having trouble weaning my background vocals off of sheet music.  Any suggestions?  The problem is they stare at the music (sometimes 5 pages per song) the whole time and don’t really participate in worshiping (their most important role on the team).” Andy replies: You didn’t mention what they are […]

Advent Liturgy

By Guest Blogger | December 2, 2009

This is an alternative take on an Advent liturgy – reminding people the true reasons why we should look forward to the Christmas season.  You can also download the Powerpoint slides at EngageWorship.

Learn to sing harmonies in church worship

By Marie@Musicademy | December 1, 2009

How to sing harmonies in church Have you ever wanted to learn to sing harmony in worship songs but just don’t seem to manage it as effortlessly as some singers do? With this new 2-DVD course (or online download) we have unlocked the secrets of harmony and backing vocals by teaching you easy-to-remember harmony lines […]