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Improving your online experience on the Worship Backing Band website

By admin | April 9, 2013

Quickly add multiple products to your cart Thanks to customer feedback we’ve commissioned a change to the Worship Backing Band website which will speed up and simplify the purchase process for customers buying multiple items in one go. Previously you had to laboriously click through to each product and select whether you wanted a single […]

Do you think that people going through a divorce should be allowed on a worship team?

By Marie@Musicademy | April 4, 2013

That’s the question we were emailed recently and my heart went out to the person who had sent the email. I certainly don’t think there is a straight forward answer to this and my hunch was that our Musicademy community would have a lot more experience on the topic between them than I. So with […]

Helping the congregation learn new songs – Transitioning – Part 5

By Kenny Lamm | March 31, 2013

In our last post on the challenges for a church moving from traditional to contemporary worship styles, East City Church continued its journey to worship renewal by producing a song list of known songs for the congregation and identifying new songs that will be introduced to the congregation. To fast track the worship transition, East […]

The power of introverts

By Marie@Musicademy | March 15, 2013

An excellent defence of introverts and beautifully animated. Up to half the population are introverts. Even if you are extrovert, your partner, your kids, your fellow musicians may well not be. But we live within a value system which is the “extrovert-ideal”. Introverted traits like apparent shyness, seriousness, working on tasks one at a time […]

Transitioning to contemporary worship styles – Part 4 – Song list creation

By Kenny Lamm | March 14, 2013

In Kenny Lamm’s first post on changing church worship styles he introduced you to East City Church which now continues its path to worship renewal. We have looked at needed technology improvements and the development of a worship leadership team. Today, we will explore a critical component of the transition–the development of a song list. […]

How do you give kind but honest feedback to musicians who just aren’t up to the job?

By Marie@Musicademy | March 4, 2013

Feedback – Mixing kindness and honesty We had a touching email arrive at the office last week from a lady who had been turned down at worship team auditions for several years. The lady really, really loves to sing and had been so determined to progress that she had employed a vocal coach to help […]

Transitioning – Part 3 – Worship Leadership Team

By Kenny Lamm | February 23, 2013

East City Church continues its path to worship renewal. If you missed the first two posts, you should catch thos now (part 1 and part 2) to get you up to speed with the transition. Today I propose to East City Church the formation of a Worship Leadership Team (WLT). Creating a Worship Leadership Team […]

Survey results – what you told us about our newsletter, blog and Facebook page

By Marie@Musicademy | January 31, 2013

Thanks so much for taking part in our recent communications survey. We’ve done a lot of analysis on the results which we share with you below. The Findings We had over 300 people take part in the survey which was split into questions for people who access our content via the newsletter and website […]

Learn Facebook marketing with Marie Page’s new Smarter Marketing Guide

By admin | January 24, 2013

New Facebook marketing guide Musicademy resident social media expert, Marie Page, was commissioned to write an extensive practical guide to Faceboook marketing by leading digital marketing website SmartInsights. Here it is made exclusively available (without the need for SmartInsights membership) to friends of Musicademy. You’ll find lots of insight into how Marie uses Facebook to […]

Lots more “super” chord charts released

By Marie@Musicademy | January 17, 2013

We’ve had some great feedback on our “super” chord charts and lots of requests for more so today we have released another batch. They are listed on both the Musicademy and Worship Backing Band websites. You’ll find them (in alphabetical order on Musicademy here) or if you have an account with our sister site, […]