Jingle Bells Hallelujah Chorus Mashup
By Marie@Musicademy | December 14, 2011
Well worth watching through the first minute or so. Love the seriousness of the professional vocals with the lyrics and melody mash-up.
By Marie@Musicademy | December 14, 2011
Well worth watching through the first minute or so. Love the seriousness of the professional vocals with the lyrics and melody mash-up.
By Guest Blogger | July 20, 2011
I was delighted to find the post below on Jamie Brown’s excellent blog. It reminded me of a discussion we had here way back about the usefulness of images behind words in worship. Its a particularly pertinent post for us as we’re about to launch our some new Worship Backing Band products which will include […]
By Guest Blogger | June 3, 2011
Keep it to yourselves, but Sheena, is a punk rocker! Believe me, it could be a lot worse! I would like to take you back to New Year’s Eve, 1977. I was 11. At the Rainbow Theatre in London, four New Yorkers took to the stage and began a set of what can only be […]
By Guest Blogger | May 3, 2011
That Makka Pakka’s got his work cut out for himself, hasn’t he? It seems that his whole purpose for being is to clean. Not, in itself, an unworthy cause, but he does seem to be rather fixated with cleaning stones, which frankly, is a hiding to nothing in my book! Let me explain. A little […]
By Andy@Musicademy | April 6, 2011
Following on from last weeks’ discussion about musicians being paid to play at weddings, I wanted to bring the subject of wedding function bands to the table. Now at Musicademy we have a function band comprised of professional musicians that play at weddings, birthdays and other celebrations. We charge a set fee depending on the […]
By Guest Blogger | February 28, 2011
A quick word about slash chords. Well, a word about slash chords. Or two. Having spent a dozen years in the musical wilderness, the thought of “Slash” chords filled me with rock ‘n’ roll anticipation: Yeehah! There was I expecting free Les Paul gold-tops, a “marlie” tech who’d rush on in between songs stuffing Marlborough […]
By Guest Blogger | February 18, 2011
Only kidding! The title is truly awful and an extremely tenuous link, but it was the first thing that came to mind. However, Mrs. Wife and I did recently attend a Moving Picture House to see the wonderfully sublime, The King’s Speech. It was, quite simply, brilliant. I’m not ordinarily given to gushing, but I […]
By Guest Blogger | February 7, 2011
In those early months of the band, generally speaking, I kept my head down. For starters, in the intervening 12 years of enforced musical absence, I’d lost my musical chops, and beyond that, I was still an interloper, an atheist among the good and the great. However, three things began to happen. Firstly, my little […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 31, 2011
Thank you for bearing with me (previous post Me, Worship & Jesus (though not necessarily in that order) here, a slight detour now. I’ve been saving this bit, so brace yourselves: “My name’s Nick, and I’m a musician”. I lived for years in denial, but finally had to admit it, firstly to myself and then, […]
By Guest Blogger | January 24, 2011
Paranoia is abjectly useless! Most emotions or thought processes at least serve some sort of purpose: fear can protect us from harm, injury or death; empathy enables us to enrich the lives of others, but paranoia is just utterly pointless. Picture, if you will, a 37 year old, hung-over, perspiring, middle-class man. Head bowed, not […]