Communion as an act of protest – Not in My Name

By Jonny Baker | May 23, 2009

This is the final of three guest posts from Jonny Baker on creative ways to share communion. A mix of a highlight and scary challenge was organising the communion service for sunday morning at Greenbelt 2003 (Greenbelt is a UK based Christian arts festival). Greenbelt was very involved in profiling the brilliant trade justice campaign so it […]

Broken table and wounded eucharistic prayer – worship ideas

By Jonny Baker | May 16, 2009

  This is another guest post from Jonny Baker, part of a series he calls “Worship Tricks”. This describes a ritual his community Grace created at new year. Wounded in all the right places was the theme inspired by a track of that title by 1giantleap. There were a couple of ideas that worked wonderfully. […]

Chord of the Month – Emaj9

By Steve Weeks | May 14, 2009

We’ve not done a chord of the month recently due to the plethora of substitute chords in recent posts. Here’s a “E” Chord with major 7th and a 9th – very John Mayer!   Normally E9 would have a b7 You can take this down 4 frets for a CM79 The open 1st string is […]

Ask the Expert – Improvisation skills for piano

By Marie@Musicademy | May 11, 2009

Mark Ecclestone from Canada asks: “Can you please recommend any websites/teaching resources on learning how to develop musical improvisation and arranging skills (like on how to play a piece of music for piano building around playing arpeggios with passing notes) that are easy to understand for piano playing?  A lot of the material out there […]

Communion By Numbers – Worship Idea

By Jonny Baker | May 10, 2009

Chris Murray, an Anglican clergyman emailed us to say: “I found Jonny Baker’s article most stimulating. I love words, write poetry, have had some published, but want to use it far more widely. I have  J.B.et al’s book “Alternative Worship,” and love it – have used parts. I’d be very interested in the Eucharistic Prayers he […]

New Advanced Vocals Work-Out CD Launched

By Marie@Musicademy | May 6, 2009

  We’ve created a brand new vocals work-out CD to really test and stretch your singing ability. Whilst the tracks contain some elements of breathing and warm-ups, the content is really designed to push your singing to another level. The exercises should take you well beyond your existing range as well as help you develop […]