Ask the Expert – Weak and thready voices

By Catherine Nicole | February 17, 2010

A subscriber from the UK emails: “I hope you can help with a problem we have. In our music group we have some female singers who need some help on a number of fronts: 1    Voices are fairly in tune but very “weak and thready” 2    They run out of puff quickly especially with up-tempo songs […]

Top 10 Do’s & Don’ts – Lead Guitarists

By Tim Bowdler | February 16, 2010

Guitarists perform a fine balancing act in worship groups. They are there to embellish and add the icing on the metaphorical worship cake. If they bring too much icing with their grab-bag of tricks they can destroy something beautiful within seconds. Lead guitarists should be encouraged, though. Guitarists who choose an electric invariably see it […]

Developing the drum beats you already know – part 3

By Guest Blogger | February 12, 2010

For more from Stu Roberts check out heyfunkydrummer.com     Other posts you may like: Developing the drum beats you already know – part 1 Developing the drum beats you already know – part 2 Drum screens – cage free or free range 50 tips for drummers How many cymbals for Sunday? Free video drum […]

Ask the Expert – Tips on shifting keys

By Andy@Musicademy | February 10, 2010

Sonia Symes from Kent in the UK emails: “Thanks for the worship keyboard DVD course. It has truly been a great blessing!  My skills at the keyboard have been improved greatly.  One question – how do you shift between keys between songs.  For example, if I play one song in C major and the next one […]

Video guitar lesson – using CAGED chords

By Andy@Musicademy | February 4, 2010

One of the main questions I get asked when doing seminars is how to find guitar chords further up the neck. When constructing electric guitar chord parts I tend to use a system called CAGED chords. Many classic electric guitar parts have been built using the CAGED system and by learning CAGED you should be […]

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts – Worship Leaders

By Tim Bowdler | January 31, 2010

The life of a worship leader is a happy one. These people get all the fame, the royalties, the best-looking girls (or boys), they get to travel around the world and sing their carefully crafted compositions to lots of loyal followers. They are perfect in every way… No. The truth is they get irritable, they […]

Hey Man Slow Down – A Creative Journey With Worship

By Jonny Baker | January 28, 2010

Welcome to a ‘Grace’ worship service simply entitled slow. The worship space is divided into two halves by back to back projection screens. On one side a VJ (like a DJ but mixing visual images rather than music) mixes slow images and the other fast images. People sit whichever side they relate to most. We […]

Learn to play double stops on guitar in worship

By Andy@Musicademy | January 22, 2010

Double stops means playing two notes at the same time and was employed to great effect by a certain Mr James Hendrix. Hendrix is known by non musicians for his wailing solos but this style, used on gentler songs like Little Wing and Castles Made of Sand, is perfect for playing in worship settings. The […]