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Ask the Expert – Acoustic pedals for alternating pick and finger styles

By Andy@Musicademy | February 28, 2014

Rev Graham Hunter from London asks: “When leading worship on acoustic guitar, I sometimes want to adjust the tone to reflect the change between strumming with a plectrum, and then finger-picking. Should I get an EQ pedal, or a compression pedal, or both? And what do you recommend – both in terms of make / […]

Free lesson from the Worship Guitar Collection – The Power of the Cross. Playing hymns on guitar.

By admin | February 6, 2014

The Power of The Cross – Stuart Townend and Keith Getty This monster of a lesson shows you how to approach playing hymns with quick chord changes on guitar, and because the song changes key for the final chorus you’ll learn these quick change chord shapes in both the C and D based shapes. Not […]

The 10 commandments of electric guitar

By Andy@Musicademy | January 30, 2014

Here’s our take on the 10 commandments for electric guitar players. Do you have any more commandments to add? Do check out the 10 Commandments of Bass too. Have you seen the Musicademy worship training DVDs and downloads for guitar – beginning to advanced levels on acoustic and electric guitar. Worship guitar DVDs Worship […]

Download Musicademy’s entire DVD collection online

By Marie@Musicademy | November 12, 2013

Digital downloads instead of DVDs We’ve spent the past few months digitising almost all our portfolio of DVDs so that you can now buy them as online downloads. You’ll enjoy a 20% discount when you buy a full course at the same time (which will include ALL the content from the DVD set) as well as […]

Transposing on guitar. Otherwise known as “Which fret does the capo go on?”

By Andy@Musicademy | October 15, 2013

Here at Musicademy we ran a training day recently and one of the most popular topics in the guitar seminar was about transposing using a capo. We’ve had some emails asking us to go over the technique again (it’s covered in detail on our Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course and our new Capo Positioning & Transposing for Guitar […]

NEW! The Worship Guitar Collection

By admin | August 14, 2013

We are pleased to announce a new set of instructional lessons for worship guitarists The Worship Guitar Collection is a download-only set of 20 worship guitar lessons suitable for existing players. Each individual lesson teaches you a well known worship song. Even if you know how to play the song already you’ll pick up […]

Percussion techniques on acoustic guitar

By Marie@Musicademy | June 11, 2013

We recently came across a couple of videos of one of Andy’s old guitar tutors, the genius but but sadly passed away and much loved Eric Roche. Eric was an incredible player who was not only able to make an acoustic guitar sound like a full band, but one of a number of modern players […]

40% off our Play By Ear DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | May 20, 2013

40% off flash sale. Learn to play by ear, without sheet music or chord charts We are offering our Play By Ear DVD set at a huge 40% off until the end of May. The course teaches you how to play by ear as well as gain a deeper understanding of what you can do with […]

The “Cut out and Keep” Guide to How Chords Work

By Andy@Musicademy | May 3, 2013

Here’s a handy guide to help you understand the notes the most common basic and extended chords. If you’ve not done much chord theory its really worth absorbing. Chords – the knowledge… that must be obeyed at all times!! 1. Basic Chords Basic chords are known as triads as they only contain 3 notes. Even […]

Free guitar lesson – Subsitute chords and tricks in C

By Andy@Musicademy | March 28, 2013

Here’s a lesson taken from our Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Course. The course is available on DVD or as individual downloads – see trailer below. We’ve created cheat sheets like the one below for each of the keys where we teach substitute chords on the course.