Empowering young people into worship – part 1

By Guest Blogger | September 15, 2009

So. You’ve worked hard with your band to improve your musicianship, teamwork and Biblical theology of worship. You’re all set. But then comes the moment you’ve dreaded. Yep, it’s the 13 year-old who always wants to play your guitar after church every week, driving your Fulltone overdrive to wig-blasting levels towards your elders. This mysterious […]

The Mandy Test – Romantic lyrics in worship songs

By Guest Blogger | September 14, 2009

  In discussion about worship with a youth group recently we compared different secular song lyrics that expressed love and the group put them on a spectrum of how usable they were in worship to God. Some struggled with the ‘cheese factor’; some pop songs have a more obviously different style to the songs we […]

Everyone loves a bargain – new Musicademy discounts

By Marie@Musicademy | September 12, 2009

  Everyone loves a bargain so we’ve decided to find you more ways of saving money with Musicademy. We’ve reworked our discount structure to reward you with lots more price reductions when you buy a selection of products from us. Buy all our Worship Guitar DVDs for a 20% discount Both the Vocals warm up […]

50 tips – Worship soundchecking

By Andy@Musicademy | September 10, 2009

  Sound checks can be time consuming, but there are ways to make them more efficient and less arduous. Most sound checks have three stages. 1st each instrument is line checked to make sure a signal comes through the desk, 2nd you decide what you want in your monitors and 3rd everyone plays together, stops […]

Let the church lead worship, not worship leaders

By Marie@Musicademy | September 9, 2009

  We had a really interesting but potentially controversial comment yesterday on one of our blog posts on worship leading about interactive worship. We’re publishing the quote here in full as we’d love to hear others’ views. Please do continue the discussion below. Frank Viola and George Barna write in chapter 6 of Pagan Christianity:Exploring the Roots of our Church Practices: […]

Ask the Expert – Guitar pick advice (yes really!)

By Andy@Musicademy | September 8, 2009

  The other day I got an email asking for advice on what guitar picks I recommend. Now when I started Musicademy I vowed never to get into the “What picks/strings do you use” debate as it seems dangerously close to a sort of train spotting competition usually hotly contested by slightly strange bearded men […]

Free video clip – using orchestral instruments in worship

By Marie@Musicademy | August 29, 2009

Our new Orchestral Instruments DVD will be available in October (hopefully a little before then if we can get the manufacture moving more quickly). You can pre-order now but while you wait for it to arrive here is Musicademy’s Marie Page giving advice on using orchestral instruments in worship. Other posts you might find helpful: Using orchestral instruments […]

Advice for travellers – a timely guest post from Bob Kilpatrick

By Bob Kilpatrick | August 28, 2009

I travel a lot. I just flew home from Texas two days ago. Two days from now I’ll be on an airplane bound for North Dakota. I’ve flown over a million miles with United Airlines alone. They gave me lifetime Premier Executive status when I reached seven figures. This was not a gift, though; it […]