Some very cool footage – see how a cymbal reverberates at 1,000 frames per second.

We’ve been promising a major update to our MultiTrack Player for some time. It’s finally here and includes the ability to loop, repeat and jump song sections as well as import your own song wavs. We believe our new Player to be the SIMPLEST and the BEST VALUE MultiTrack package around. You will save even […]

At Musicademy we look a lot at getting the best out of different types of instrument and sometimes the vocalists can feel a bit left out so let’s talk about the how to get the best out of the singers instrument, the humble microphone. It’s important for us to realize at the outset that as […]

We had an email from Dave at Cheam Baptist: “We have been wondering how best to provide sheet music for our musicians and are looking for an alternative to using numerous different songs of fellowship books. One option is to gradually build up a library of individual sheet music for each song then create an […]

40% off flash sale. Learn to play by ear, without sheet music or chord charts We are offering our Play By Ear DVD set at a huge 40% off until the end of May. The course teaches you how to play by ear as well as gain a deeper understanding of what you can do with […]

Creativity in Worship (Why I use loops) A few years ago I moved to a new house situated along the flight path into Manchester airport, one of the busiest airports in Northern England. The first few weeks consisted mainly of broken sleep and sudden shock as yet another noisy plane would cut through the air […]

Part 7 in our Transitioning to contemporary worship series. As East City Church transitions its worship service to a unified style of worship (see links below to previous articles in this series), they will need to identify people to serve on the vocal team in worship. ECC already has vocalists that sing in their contemporary […]

Band Skills Seminar #3 The traditional rock band set up with the drummer at the back and the lead singer at the front is often adopted by church worship teams. Why is this so wrong and what alternatives are there? Andy Chamberlain and Tim Martin demonstrate in an interactive band skills seminar. Please note, we […]

Here’s a handy guide to help you understand the notes the most common basic and extended chords. If you’ve not done much chord theory its really worth absorbing. Chords – the knowledge… that must be obeyed at all times!! 1. Basic Chords Basic chords are known as triads as they only contain 3 notes. Even […]

Minus drums worship training tracks Following the success of our Training Tracks for guitarists, we have released four albums of tracks for worship drummers. These enable you to: 1. Learn the drum parts 2. Practise with the band 3. Play along to a drumless track For every song you get three versions. One stripped down […]