Creating fractal images for visual worship

By Guest Blogger | December 16, 2009

Here is an explanation for creating “fractal images” like the Christmas ones we published yesterday. Richard created the Christmas fractals using a freeware fractal generating program called Apophysis.  To read more about fractals, visit here. Apophysis generates random images using fractal mathematics. But the maths is completely hidden behind a friendly interface, so don’t be put […]

Beautiful Christmas Images – free for use

By Guest Blogger | December 15, 2009

Our friends at Engage Worship have come up with some more wonderful free worship resources. These are a set of 10 “fractal” images suitable for adding some visual creativity to Christmas services. Click through to Engage Worship, create an account and you can download all 10 images for free. They are created under a Creative Commons License […]

12 Tips for Electric Guitarists (from our 50+ Tips series)

By Andy@Musicademy | December 8, 2009

Somebody recently pointed out that we’ve missed electric guitar out of our 50 tips series! How could we?! Particularly since I’m predominantly an electric player and its clearly God’s chosen instrument too… So here goes.   Different approach to acoustic When acoustic players pick up an electric they tend go one of two ways. They […]

Ask the Expert – How do I get my backing vocalists away from the sheet music?

By Marie@Musicademy | December 7, 2009

Julie Meyer from Kansas emails: “I’m having trouble weaning my background vocals off of sheet music.  Any suggestions?  The problem is they stare at the music (sometimes 5 pages per song) the whole time and don’t really participate in worshiping (their most important role on the team).” Andy replies: You didn’t mention what they are […]

Advent Liturgy

By Guest Blogger | December 2, 2009

This is an alternative take on an Advent liturgy – reminding people the true reasons why we should look forward to the Christmas season.  You can also download the Powerpoint slides at EngageWorship.

Learn to sing harmonies in church worship

By Marie@Musicademy | December 1, 2009

How to sing harmonies in church Have you ever wanted to learn to sing harmony in worship songs but just don’t seem to manage it as effortlessly as some singers do? With this new 2-DVD course (or online download) we have unlocked the secrets of harmony and backing vocals by teaching you easy-to-remember harmony lines […]

5 tips – Lead Vocals

By Andy@Musicademy | November 28, 2009

We’re nearly at the end of our 50 tips series (which I think has now grown into about 150 tips). This time we look at the art of lead vocals. It’s about leadership. You don’t have to be a great vocalist to be a great worship leader but you do have to be good at […]