Instruments Archives

Video clip – Top tips for worship keyboards

By Marie@Musicademy | July 31, 2023

Footage from a Musicademy seminar on band skills. This is the section on tips for worship keybaord players.

Free Band Skills course with all Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVD orders

By admin | March 13, 2023

All orders for any Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVDs will receive a free gift this week only (ends midnight Sunday 19 March). We’ll add the Band Skills DVD to any order you make for a physical DVD from either the Musicademy or Worship Backing Band websites. No need to add them at the checkout. […]

Free gift with all Musicademy and Worship Backing Band DVD orders

By admin | January 28, 2023

All orders for any Musicademy or Worship Backing Band DVDs will receive a free gift this week only (28 Jan to 4 February). We’ll add the Advanced Vocals Work-out CD AND a Worship Backing Band Musicians Practice Track DVD with 54 songs with on-screen lyrics and chords to play along to. No need to add them […]

Streaming your worship services legally | Everything you need to know

By admin | April 8, 2020

Here at Musicademy and Worship Backing Band, we’ve had calls and emails daily about the legality of using worship songs in online services. People are very confused about the different licenses, and the new Streaming Plus License that CCLI has created. I decided to chat to our friends at CCLI and asked them to point […]

How the world worshipped this week: sharing your online services

By admin | April 6, 2020

Online Church: How the world worshipped With Covid-19 forcing much of the world into lockdown, churches have responded by diving into online services. Whether using Zoom, Facebook Live, YouTube or more complex set ups such as OBS, tech, pastoral and worship teams have found themselves in a steep learning curve in recent weeks. This article […]

Streaming online church services: the tech, the tips and the stories from around the world

By admin | March 23, 2020

Last weekend was the first weekend that many churches globally closed their physical doors and instead embraced the virtual world of online services. Over on the Musicademy Facebook Group several people had spent the previous few days discussing the technical options, the pros and cons of the various streaming platforms before taking their decisions on […]

Free Christmas resources for churches

By admin | December 9, 2019

Here we have pulled together a helpful list of Christmas resources. Please feel free to add in your own finds to the comments at the bottom. Free Christmas resources for churches Christmas story narrations – Fantastic set of narrations of the Christmas story re-written for a variety of contexts. Also a fun story behind the development […]

Worship Training Day Facebook Live Videos

By admin | November 11, 2019

We had a fantastic training day in Maidstone and shared live footage from the day on Facebook Live videos. We’ve collected them all here (give them time to load) so you can watch. These were filmed using mobile phones from our host church volunteers so are not professionally edited of course. The sound is straight […]

How to choose the perfect cymbals: Buyers Guide

By Guest Blogger | August 21, 2019

Cymbals play an integral part of a drummer’s set up – it’s not something that should be overlooked. Cymbals project a distinctly recognisable sound, and they cannot be altered or tuned in the way that drums can. With a cymbal purchase, you truly have to be 100% confident that its sound is right for you […]

Ask the Expert – Advice for guitarists with small hands

By Andy@Musicademy | August 9, 2019

Julie Fox from Cambridgeshire in the UK asks: “Thanks for a great site. I have been playing the guitar on and off for the last 30 years, but I find so many of the chords really hard to play because I have small hands. No amount of stretching for instance gets me to play a proper […]