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Ask the Expert – Acoustic pedals for alternating pick and finger styles

By Andy@Musicademy | February 28, 2014

Rev Graham Hunter from London asks: “When leading worship on acoustic guitar, I sometimes want to adjust the tone to reflect the change between strumming with a plectrum, and then finger-picking. Should I get an EQ pedal, or a compression pedal, or both? And what do you recommend – both in terms of make / […]

Free worship bass lesson – Famous One by Chris Tomlin

By admin | February 20, 2014

Here’s a fantastic lesson from our Advanced Bass DVDs and downloads. When you download the full course, as well as each individual lesson you get two backing tracks for each song. These have the song with and without the bass part so that you can easily hear the bass in one mix and then use […]

Ask the expert: one of our singers is terrible but she doesn’t realise it

By admin | February 18, 2014

Post by Musicademy. Click through to the Facebook discussion above to read the original question and the advice people have offered so far. This is an excellent question outlining a problem faced by so many worship teams. What do you do when one of your musicians is simply not very able but doesn’t […]

The 10 commandments of bass guitar

By Andy@Musicademy | February 17, 2014

Have you an 11th Commandment to add? Flash sale: 50% off our Worship Bass Courses All our worship bass DVDs on half price sale. Offer ends Wednesday 26 October 2016. See also: The Ten Commandments of Electric Guitar. Musicademy’s training DVDs and online lessons for Bass Guitar (Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced). Free bass guitar […]

Free lesson from the Worship Guitar Collection – The Power of the Cross. Playing hymns on guitar.

By admin | February 6, 2014

The Power of The Cross – Stuart Townend and Keith Getty This monster of a lesson shows you how to approach playing hymns with quick chord changes on guitar, and because the song changes key for the final chorus you’ll learn these quick change chord shapes in both the C and D based shapes. Not […]

The 10 commandments of electric guitar

By Andy@Musicademy | January 30, 2014

Here’s our take on the 10 commandments for electric guitar players. Do you have any more commandments to add? Do check out the 10 Commandments of Bass too. Have you seen the Musicademy worship training DVDs and downloads for guitar – beginning to advanced levels on acoustic and electric guitar. Worship guitar DVDs Worship […]

Advanced Worship Keyboard DVDs

By admin | January 25, 2014

Musicademy’s Advanced Worship Keyboard DVDs. Designed for intermediate level players (i.e. who already play in a worship team) who want to learn to make the most from all the sounds possible from their keyboards. USD price (available for shipments to North America) $49.99 (RRP is $69.99) and £39.99 (RRP £49.99) in pounds sterling for shipments […]

The original portable keyboard?

By admin | January 24, 2014

Another antique find from the Whittakers Musical Museum, Weiheke Island, New Zealand. This is a “missionary piano” dating from the 1800s. It was constructed to be portable to enable missionary Christians to take their music with them on their travels. It’s photographed with a normal sized upright piano in the background so that you get a […]

Free worship bass lesson – Lead Me To The Cross (Hillsong)

By admin | January 17, 2014

Here’s a great lesson from Musicademy’s new Worship Bass Collection teaching you a professional session bass part to Brooke Ligertwood’s Lead Me To The Cross. Buy the rest of the course on DVD or as downloads.

The original transposing piano!

By Marie@Musicademy | January 16, 2014

Did you think the transpose button was the exclusive reserve of the contemporary keyboard? Think again. This piano dates from 1894 and was built in London by George Russell. You can see a Liverpool company, James Smith & Son, was the seller. Developed for “ear” players who tended to play in a preferred key, the […]