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Vocal skills seminar for singers- breathing, posture and warm-ups

By admin | October 23, 2012

Here is a live vocals session from a Musicademy training day with Nicki Rogers. If you’d like further help with your singing, check out our worship vocals DVD course and Harmony & Backing vocals DVDs. And if you like the warm-up exercises Nicki is teaching here, take a look at our range of CDs and […]

A guide to guitar effects pedals for beginners

By Andy@Musicademy | October 22, 2012

Whether you are an acoustic or electric guitar player one of the simplest ways you can add some dynamic or sonic change to your worship set is by stepping on an effects pedal at appropriate moments. However, if you are new to the world of pedals there seems to be endless choice of single or […]

Transferring from guitar to bass

By Andy@Musicademy | October 16, 2012

If there’s one instrumentalist that church worship bands seem to have a shortage of its bass players. There are often loads of guitarists but very few who make the transition over to bass. Part of the problem is that whilst the two instruments share the same notes and tuning, the way you approach each is […]

3 reasons not to record a CD

By Guest Blogger | October 15, 2012

Recording a Christian album Last weeks’ post “10 Mistakes Churches Make When Recording” received loads of clicks and likes so here is the second installment from Scott. Although (hopefully) humorous, each mistake I listed in that original post relates to some real, common mistakes I’ve seen churches make when embarking on the wonderful quest to […]

Top 10 Mistakes Most Churches Make When Recording Their First Worship Album

By Guest Blogger | October 5, 2012

We’ve resurrected this great post written a few years ago by our friend Scott Bartlett. Does this sound familiar? Do comment in the box below. 10 mistakes churches make when recording their first worship album 10. Raising $150,000 and hiring the Hillsong production team only to end up with the best-sounding, worst-written, worship CD to […]

What guitar picks do you use? (Yes really!)

By Andy@Musicademy | October 2, 2012

Recommended guitar picks and plectrums I occasionally get emails asking for advice on what gear to buy and recently I was asked which guitar picks I recommend. When I started Musicademy I vowed never to get into the “What picks/strings do you use?” debate as it seems dangerously close to some kind of weird train […]

Two new vocals CDs and downloads. One for Guys and one for Girls.

By Marie@Musicademy | September 6, 2012

Two brand new sets of vocal warm-up and vocal technique Musicademy is delighted to launch two new products – the Vocal Workout for Guys and the Vocal Workout for Girls. Both are available on CD and also as online downloads. Click through to the website to listen to samples and buy the workouts. The Vocal […]

Altering the fabric of the building to reduce echo and reverb inside a Church

By Guest Blogger | August 30, 2012

Part three in our series of sound proofing challenges in church This is part 3 of a series about sound proofing in church. Part one considered options for churches with zero budget, part 2 continued this theme by looking at the main “noise-makers” inside the building with a view to again reducing noise without finding […]

The evidence that vocal training really gives results – get ready for goosebumps

By Marie@Musicademy | August 21, 2012

You’ll probably be aware that Musicademy runs a number of live training workshops as well as producing instructional DVDs. We wanted to share with you the amazing beauty of what some of our “students” achieved in a one day training session recently with Nicki Rogers. Nicki spent the day in Chislehurst working with a small, […]

Controlling volume overspill in church part 2 – identifying the noise-makers

By Guest Blogger | August 17, 2012

Sound proofing in church In my original post on controlling volume overspill in church, I spoke specifically about noise problems outside of the building, concluding with the statement: If you seriously need to reduce the volume spill into the outside world then you should speak to your local acoustic consultant. However, in the light of […]