Strumming pattern – Open the Eyes of My Heart

By Andy@Musicademy | January 17, 2011

Continuing our series of strumming patterns to popular worship songs, here is Paul Baloche’s Open the Eyes of My Heart (which I’ve taken from the original Paul Baloche recording). This syncopated pattern form the bedrock of so many worship songs. If it seems difficult to work out on paper, slow it down, try clapping out […]

Strumming Pattern to Mighty to Save

By Andy@Musicademy | January 13, 2011

Last month we had a really interesting request asking if we would post up the strumming patterns to some well known worship songs. So I’ve chosen 20 popular songs s at random that I hope people will find helpful. Some of these are covered in our Guitar SongLearner series (available on DVD or as individual […]

300 new product reviews – thank you so much

By Marie@Musicademy | January 11, 2011

Last week we asked you to submit product reviews to our webstore (and in return receive 66 Advanced Vocals Workout exercises). We were blown away not only by the volume of the response but also the detailed feedback you gave in the reviews. You can still submit a review and receive a coupon – we’re […]

3 Intermediate Guitar DVD sets – which is right for me?

By Andy@Musicademy | November 17, 2010

We’ve now got three intermediate guitar DVD sets. Our original Intermediate Worship Guitar course, the Intermediate Acoustic Guitar course and now the brand new Intermediate Electric Guitar course. So I guess the questions that many people want to know are what is the difference between the courses and how much does the learning overlap? Or […]

The Intermediate Electric Worship Guitar DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | November 11, 2010

Learn to play electric guitar in church Musicademy’s latest release and definately one of the best, our new 4-DVD, 10-hour box set is packed with a year’s worth of lessons for today’s electric worship guitarist. A comprehensive course that will teach you the techniques, licks and styles the pro’s use to create electric guitar parts in […]

Travis Picking demonstration

By Andy@Musicademy | September 27, 2010

One of the highlights of the third disk in our Intermediate Acoustic Guitar DVD set is the section on Travis picking. Here is a little video clip of Andy explaining the concept and then demonstrating the picking technique:

Ask the Expert – guitar extension cabinets

By Andy@Musicademy | September 20, 2010

David Norris emails: “Loving the discussion on Valve Amps. Having recently upgraded from a 60 Watt solid state amp to a 15 Watt Fender Blues Junior, the improvement in tone is amazing – people ask me what effects I have on when often its just the amp! It is definitely loud enough for practice, and […]

Ask the expert – diagram showing chords within keys

By Andy@Musicademy | August 1, 2010

Bob Crockford emailed asking us to look at his chord chart: “When playing by ear, apart from the common keys of C, D, E, F, G and A, I struggle to remember quickly ‘under pressure’ the equivalent chord sequences in other keys, and also the other chords beyond the normal four in any key e.g. […]