50 tips – Orchestral Instruments in Worship

By Andy@Musicademy | January 21, 2010

  Your key role is not the melody! If you’ve grown up playing classical music then you are probably used to reading the melody but in congregational music where the lead instrument is the vocal that role becomes redundant so you have to find something else to do. Here are 5 ideas – very useful […]

Drum screens – cage free or free range?

By Guest Blogger | January 20, 2010

Cage Free or Free Range? Have you ever wondered the difference is between Free Range Chickens and Cage Free Chickens? If you’ve been confused at your local grocer over this quandry, let me help you. “Free Range”, according to the USDA, means that the chicken has had access to the outside, but is not necessarily […]

Free discussion resource for housegroups from Seth Godin

By Marie@Musicademy | January 18, 2010

  I’m a huge fan of marketing blogger Seth Godin. The way he makes you think about business, life and marketing kind of turns your brain upside down. He’s recently released a free e-book of single page compilations from 70 influential writers and thinkers called “What Matters Now“. Now this isn’t a Christian book as […]

Free worship backgrounds

By Marie@Musicademy | January 13, 2010

  We had lots of requests for more of the worship backgrounds that Richard Lyall produced at Christmas.  Here are a few more, this time without words so that you can drop them into Powerpoint (or other software) yourself and add your own words. Click to download the free Worship Backgrounds zip file. If you […]

Help spread the good news

By Marie@Musicademy | January 12, 2010

  I came across a new Christian broadsheet newspaper recently – The Christian Times and was very impressed with the content. It’s a UK based and interdenominational newspaper and is appealing to Churches across the country to help bring wholesome, Christian-related news back in to our communities. They contacted us with an offer which I think […]

Graham Kendrick’s Guide to Psalm Surfing

By Marie@Musicademy | January 11, 2010

  We’ve been looking recently at ideas for spontaneous worship, inspired almost entirely by a seminar I attended by Graham Kendrick. In the last post I described how Graham uses a basic groove and perhaps a chord sequence to provide a foundation for singing in an improvised style from the Psalms. I’ve done a bit […]

6 Tips – Backing Vocals

By Andy@Musicademy | January 7, 2010

  Blend One of the keys to good Backing vocals is learning to blend so however many vocalists your have it sounds like one voice. So watch the lips of the worship leader or lead singer and try to match their starts, stops, phrasing, volume tone and vibrato. Only sing melody to emphasise phrases or […]