Why won’t your guitar stay in tune? One of the most consistent top searches on this website is ‘my guitar won’t stay in tune’ and we tackled the question in an “Ask the Expert” post back in 2009. Tuning problems can be so frustrating. The first thing to check is that you have a decent […]

Brad Schlievert asked a question about the Line 6 Pod HD 500 on our recent live Ask the Expert seminar: “I have a question,about the Line 6 Pod HD 500 and dotted eighth delays. With my Boss dd20 I can select dotted eighth under tempo and set the delay time separately, does the POD HD500 do […]

One of our flagship products, the Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar Course, is now available as a set of 12 online downloads. These are designed for: Customers on a budget who prefer to buy one section at a time Customers wanting instant access to a lesson – it’s simply a case of click to download Customers only wanting to […]

Praise and Worship Backing Track Super Chord Charts Our new Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player and the simpler SplitTrack video downloads are selling really well. Inevitably we’ve had lots of people asking for chord charts. With so many free (read “illegal”) chord charts on the internet, often with inaccurate chords and different arrangements to our […]

Last week we ran a live online Ask the Expert Q&A session. The main topic was that of guitars, which of course extended to pedals, amps, PA, pick-ups, DI and more besides. We’ll drip out the questions and answers over the coming weeks but if you want to read them all together, please click through […]

Play by ear, improvise and understand chords in worship – New DVDs from Musicademy Would you like to be able to hear a song and spontaneously find the chords without sheet music? Would you like to be able to understand chords more deeply so you could transpose, rearrange and even find new chords for song […]

  Learn to play worship music by ear Previously we told you a little about our new Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs which are now available. Click through to buy from the webstore. We thought you might like to see a break down of the chapters and lessons – You’ll learn about: Keys, […]

This strumming pattern, taken from Brenton Brown original, is quite syncopated and important to get right as it ties up firmly with the drum groove and the accents in the rhythm of the melody. Other posts you might like: Our archive of strumming patterns and guitar chords Our archive of posts on guitar P.S. Enjoyed […]

We’ve been endeavouring to make our upcoming Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs the best educational tool we can… So with that in mind the last area we’ve been working on is a really comprehensive set of tests and questions so guys gets the most learning out of the course. There’ll be 20 audio […]