Free worship keyboard lesson – You Alone Can Rescue

By Marie@Musicademy | March 1, 2014

Here’s a lesson taken from our Worship Keyboard Collection. Teaching Matt Redman and Jonas Myrin’s You Alone Can Rescue, this lesson focuses on teaching riffs and interesting lines the keyboard player can use as well as making the most of different sounds on the keyboard itself. This lesson gives a good introduction to the style […]

Advanced Worship Keyboard DVDs

By admin | January 25, 2014

Musicademy’s Advanced Worship Keyboard DVDs. Designed for intermediate level players (i.e. who already play in a worship team) who want to learn to make the most from all the sounds possible from their keyboards. USD price (available for shipments to North America) $49.99 (RRP is $69.99) and £39.99 (RRP £49.99) in pounds sterling for shipments […]

The original portable keyboard?

By admin | January 24, 2014

Another antique find from the Whittakers Musical Museum, Weiheke Island, New Zealand. This is a “missionary piano” dating from the 1800s. It was constructed to be portable to enable missionary Christians to take their music with them on their travels. It’s photographed with a normal sized upright piano in the background so that you get a […]

The original transposing piano!

By Marie@Musicademy | January 16, 2014

Did you think the transpose button was the exclusive reserve of the contemporary keyboard? Think again. This piano dates from 1894 and was built in London by George Russell. You can see a Liverpool company, James Smith & Son, was the seller. Developed for “ear” players who tended to play in a preferred key, the […]

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 […]

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 […]

NEW! The Musicademy Worship Keyboard Collection.

By admin | March 26, 2013

Are you looking to inject some creativity and fresh ideas into your piano and keyboard playing? Discover the techniques, tips and ideas in contemporary worship keyboard playing by learning pro keyboard parts to 18 well known worship songs. This new 4-DVD set contains a years’ worth of keyboard lessons teaching you the chord shapes, voicings, rhythms, […]

5 tips for transitioning and flowing between songs

By Guest Blogger | January 15, 2013

Transitioning and flowing between songs In formal church traditions, where the service is often of the ‘hymn sandwich’ variety, there is obviously no need to consider how to transition between songs. However, with the rise of less formal, contemporary worship (due in large part to the charismatic renewal of the 1960’s and 70’s), there has […]

What new DVDs are we planning to release this year?

By Marie@Musicademy | January 12, 2013

We’ve had a few emails recently from customers who have seen that we’ve recently upgraded our Beginners and Intermediate Guitar DVDs and concerned that we are about to do the same with Bass, Drums, Vocals, Keys etc. I can confirm that we have no plans this year to replace any other of the Worship Course […]