Creating Guitar Parts for Worship: Rhythmic Division [Video]

By admin | January 8, 2019

Here’s Matt Isaac’s third video exploring ways of creating electric guitar parts in worship. Rhythmic division for electric guitar in worship Key points covered in this video: How rhythmically dense do you want the part to be? Sometimes one chord per bar is enough! Add or reduce the feeling of pace through how you subdivide […]

Creating guitar parts for worship: Range and Density [Video]

By admin | November 2, 2018

Here’s Matt Isaac’s second video exploring ways of creating electric guitar parts in worship. Range and density for electric guitar in worship Key points covered in this video: Pitch variation can be found within shapes, via string choice, not just along the fretboard Listen to other parts, use range to avoid overcrowding, and to contrast […]

[Flash sale] Save at least 25% on the Musicademy Electric Guitar Course

By admin | October 17, 2018

  Use the coupon code ELECTRICSALE to save an additional 25% on either the Electric Guitar DVDs or alternately, the downloads. With the downloads you will get an automatic 25% off when the full course is purchased and the code will take another 25% off whatever your total is when applied during the checkout process. Click HERE for the DVDs […]

Creating guitar parts for worship: Space and Dynamic [Video]

By admin |

New electric guitar video series by Matt Isaac Welcoming guitarist Matt Isaac to our team of bloggers with the first of a series of videos exploring ways of creating electric guitar parts in worship. This first video is quite “talky” but those coming up in the future are a lot more hands-on. Space and dynamic […]

Free beginning worship guitar lesson

By admin | October 8, 2018

Here’s a free lesson from Musicademy’s Beginning Worship Guitar Course which is available both on DVD or as downloads. This is quite an early lesson in the course and teaches the chords Cadd9, G and Em7  and how to use these in sequence. The lesson also covers using a pick, bars and counting. This is […]

Contemporary vs traditional singing techniques [Video]

By Cat Mayne | September 17, 2018

Church worship bands often have a mix of people: young and old, classically trained, contemporary trained, or those with no training and simply reflecting the cultural norms they grew up with. Blending those styles can sometimes be a bit of a challenge, particularly with vocalists where most worship bands wanting to play contemporary songs will […]

Coaching classical singers to sing in a contemporary style

By Chris Steynor |

A singer in your congregation has a passion for worship, and has approached you about joining your music team. You have a heart to use people’s gifts, and this person is clearly well-trained musically, has a genuine faith, and is keen to serve. But it soon becomes clear that their singing style is very ‘classical’ […]

Annoying pedal boards

By Andy@Musicademy | May 30, 2018

If you can’t make products people love, instead go and make less annoying products that people will use I was reading a quote from the marketing guru Seth Godin a while back and he was talking about either making products that people love and if you can’t do that make products that become less annoying. […]