NEW! Beginning Worship Guitar Workbook Songbooks and Training Tracks

By Andy@Musicademy | February 28, 2013

Workbook Songbooks We have released four Workbook Songbooks to go with our new Beginning Guitar DVDs. Learn 40 extra worship songs including chord charts. 277 pages packed full of extra tests, new chords, strumming and picking patterns, even transposing exercises! They are designed as optional extras to help you maximise your learning as well as […]

How to plan for DIY Acoustic Treatment

By [email protected] | February 20, 2013

No matter how good the monitors or the digital to analogue converters that recreate your waveforms are, it is almost certainly the room in which you’re sat that will be letting you down sonically. Many of us, working domestically these days, have smaller than ideal spaces in which to monitor and record. So what can […]

Transitioning worship (Part 2) Technology improvement

By Kenny Lamm | February 11, 2013

Here we have another warmly welcomed guess post from our friend Kenny Lamb who works with the Baptist State Convention in North Carolina, USA. Just to say from the outset – just because this talks about transitioning to a contemporary style of sung worship it doesn’t necessarily mean you HAVE to have this level of […]

Free video split track worship backing track

By admin | February 4, 2013

Free backing track for February – Video Split Track/Lyric Track To mark some fantastic new price deals for our Video Split Track backing tracks, this month our free backing track is a Video Split Track rather than a MultiTrack. Don’t know the difference? Well a Video Split Track is a stereo backing track with fully mixable […]

What would Jesus really be like if he was a member of your congregation? Would you (and your pastor) recognise him?

By Marie@Musicademy | February 1, 2013

Excerpt from Gerard Hughes – God of Surprises My small group read a chapter from Gerard Hughes’ book God of Surprises recently as a discussion starter on the topic “If Jesus appeared in the flesh today, how would the church receive him?” The chapter paints a possible contemporary scenario. Jesus certainly upsets more than a […]

Understanding extended chords – Girl, Put Your Records On

By Andy@Musicademy | January 16, 2013

If your playing experience has mainly been with worship bands, approaching something that looks like a jazz or extended chord can seem pretty daunting. One way around this is to find some kind of pop/jazz crossover song with just one or two new chord shapes that can be drip fed into your technique kit bag […]

5 tips for transitioning and flowing between songs

By Guest Blogger | January 15, 2013

Transitioning and flowing between songs In formal church traditions, where the service is often of the ‘hymn sandwich’ variety, there is obviously no need to consider how to transition between songs. However, with the rise of less formal, contemporary worship (due in large part to the charismatic renewal of the 1960’s and 70’s), there has […]