Five Confessions: Annoyed by Worship

By Guest Blogger | November 4, 2009

I found this post at Jason Boyett’s blog and thought we would share it with you. I know its controversial but he does have a point! 1. I play the drums in the worship band at my church. One reason is because I love to play the drums. It makes me happy. The other reason is […]

Developing creative worship – just how interactive are we?

By Sam Hargreaves | October 29, 2009

All around us media providers are scrambling to make their products interactive.  You don’t just watch the News – you email your opinions and photos.  You don’t just listen to the radio – you text what you are up to, and what you thought of that song.  You don’t just view TV talent shows – […]

Sound Man. Church hero.

By Bob Kilpatrick | October 28, 2009

  SoundMan needs love. The church sound person is almost always a volunteer. This is not his full-time gig. During the week he’s repairing cars, selling insurance, cub reporting, peddling groceries, and on Sunday he becomes something other than a car repairer, insurance seller, cub reporter or grocer. He becomes -voila!- SoundMan! No one on […]

50 tips – Acoustic Guitar

By Andy@Musicademy | October 26, 2009

  Consistent locked in strumming patterns are everything. A lot of acoustic players either just have one or two patterns they try to shoehorn into everything or if they do pick up on the groove their pattern changes randomly. Acoustic guitar is a rhythm instrument so the strumming pattern has to be rhythmically consistent otherwise […]

Mic technique – video clip from live sound training seminar

By Marie@Musicademy | October 20, 2009

Here’s a brief clip from one of our recent Sound & Worship Training Days. In this clip Brian Hillson of B&H Sound demonstrates basic mic technique and talks about what happens when it all goes wrong. You can see more of Brian, and the Musicademy team this Saturday in Southwell, Nottingham. There are tickets still […]

Empowering young people into worship – part 3

By Guest Blogger | October 15, 2009

In the first post of this series we looked at the early stages of working with young people and then we looked at a number of key challenges. In this final post we consider a further 5 issues. 1. GRADUALLY RELEASE THEM. This should go without saying, but generally speaking, don’t unleash a young band or individual […]

What on earth is contemporary worship anyway?

By Marie@Musicademy | October 13, 2009

We had a challenging question posed by Nick Woodburn from Bedford UK where he asks us to describe the defining characteristics of contemporary worship music. Here is Nick’s preamble to his question. “I have a question, loosely connected to the guest blog by Kim Gentes, titled “Has modern worship become corrupt?” I could relate very […]

Musicademy survey results – what you said

By Marie@Musicademy | October 9, 2009

Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to complete our recent online survey. To date we’ve had around 500 responses and its still open if you would like to add your views. We have really appreciated the feedback and in particular the comments you made about the blog, the website and our […]