Christmas gift ideas from Musicademy

By Marie@Musicademy | December 5, 2012

Whether you are looking for low cost stocking fillers or something rather special for your significant other Musicademy has a great range of music-related gift ideas: Stocking Fillers Musicademy Vocals Warm-up and Work-out CDs Vocals Workouts for Guys and Girls Hand drumming (djembe, bongo, congas) and percussion Drums Work-Out CD Bass and Guitar Song Learner […]

The Musician’s “Cut Out & Keep” Guide to Transposing

By Andy@Musicademy | November 28, 2012

Transposing for guitar, keyboards and bass For lots of players the real world way of transposing involves keyboard transpose buttons or capos to put a song that’s in a complicated key into an easy-to-play key. But how many semitones up or down do you go with that keyboard button or, for guitarists, which fret do […]

Musicians Practice Tracks DVD now HALF PRICE

By admin | November 19, 2012

Half price offer on 54 practice tracks Our Musicians Practice Tracks DVD is now HALF PRICE. What you get are 54 worship songs on one DVD with on-screen chords and words. Perfect for guitarists, keyboard players, bass, drums and even vocalists.   Click through to read why it’s got 5-star reviews by other customers. (Click […]

The Musicademy Cut Out and Keep Guide to Chords in a Key

By admin | October 29, 2012

Useful guide showing you which chords to expect in any key If you find this useful (or it’s shown you how little you know), take a look at our Playing By Ear in Worship course. This covers all the necessary music theory to make you a far more proficient player.   If you need a […]

What chord comes next in a song?

By Andy@Musicademy | October 25, 2012

One of the members of the Musicademy website sent me what you can see in figure 1 below. He struggles with playing by ear and remembering the chords in common keys so he came up with this little chart that he sticks to his keyboard or guitar when he leads worship. The basic idea is […]

Learning to Play by Ear Part 2

By Andy@Musicademy | July 31, 2012

Previously we looked at how to work out all the chords available in the key of G and then use them to write a song.  I suggested you took an existing song and worked out which chords came where by listening to see which ones sounded major, which ones sounded minor and by the process […]

More “super” chord charts for worship

By Marie@Musicademy | April 16, 2012

We’ve had some great feedback on our new “Super Chord Charts” so we’ve added another 11 to the range. These are: Beautiful One Blessed Be Your Name Extravagant Worship (currently our free MultiTrack of the Month) From the Inside Out Giver of Life Happy Day Hosanna How Great Is Our God In Christ Alone Indescribable […]

Worship Leader review of Playing By Ear DVDs

By Marie@Musicademy | March 15, 2012

Delighted that Worship Leader have described this as “An excellent training tool for anyone in your worship team”. We definitely agree with them but it’s nice to have an objective third party come to the same conclusion! You can see a full video trailer for the Playing By Ear DVDs on our webstore as well […]

New Super Worship Backing Track Chord Charts!

By Marie@Musicademy | January 3, 2012

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 […]