Music Stand Rant

By Marie@Musicademy | November 6, 2008

OK. I know that we don’t all play by ear and even if we do we like to have the security of the words in front of us when we lead worship (and not all churches have that great system where words are shown on floor based monitors). But why do so many people insist […]

Worship Gaffe #1

By Marie@Musicademy | October 29, 2008

An all too familiar scenario in this audio clip – enjoy! [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

17 common worship leading mistakes and how to avoid them

By Marie@Musicademy | October 6, 2008

Worship leader mistakes Including too many new songs in the set – your congregation is there to worship – most will find it difficult to do so if they spend most of the time learning your latest masterpieces Vary your set list to include a variety of older, recently introduced and brand new songs and […]

Worship Drummer on Fire

By Tim Bowdler |

The sound man had a benign tone about his delivery, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve done this before – it’ll be really cool. The first part of that sentence is a moot point – I am stymied by a burden of proof – but the second proved to be woefully incorrect and as such I have learned […]

Hendrix-Style Double Stops

By Andy@Musicademy | October 2, 2008

This month we’re going to look at probably my favourite playing style, which is called double stops. Double stops means playing two notes at the same time and was employed to great effect by a certain Mr James Hendrix. Hendrix is known by non musicians for his wailing solos but this style used on gentler […]