Oceans. Like you’ve probably not heard it before…
By Marie@Musicademy | September 15, 2014
Thankfully our Worship Backing Band version is a little more sensitive than this…. The fun starts at just after 2 mins 15 seconds.
By Marie@Musicademy | September 15, 2014
Thankfully our Worship Backing Band version is a little more sensitive than this…. The fun starts at just after 2 mins 15 seconds.
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YouTube is full of obscure clips from musicians, often amateur, uploading their work but rarely seen beyond a handful of views. This is what happens when Israeli musician and composer, Kutiman, splices together 23 different YouTube videos. It’s quite beautiful.
By admin | September 4, 2014
I’ve noticed most church worship teams go one of two ways: Either they sing songs dripping with sugar, rainbows, and unicorns, or they’re somber and sorrowful. And if the church is into Christian Top 40 music, it’s usually the first option. You know what I’m talking about. They sing songs like “Everything is Perfect” or […]
By Andy@Musicademy | September 2, 2014
We had a request for help in dealing with the “awkward silence” between songs in a worship set. Very simply, if you want to make songs ‘flow’ together (i.e. constant audio sound joining the two songs) the most obvious thing is to get your keyboard player (if you have one) to play a ‘pad’ sound. […]
By Andy@Musicademy | August 20, 2014
We’ve had a few customers asking about the song section abbreviations in the timeline of the Worship Backing Band player. We’ve tried to make them as self explanatory as possible but of course there are one or two that might mean different things to different folks. So below is a list of all the abbreviations […]
By Guest Blogger | August 13, 2014
As the church worldwide responds to the terrible crises in the Middle East, we were sent this set of re-worked lyrics for the bridge in the song Oceans which you may want to use in your own churches in the coming weeks. Writer, Jeff Ling, encourages us to “Turn that personal statement of faith into […]
By Guest Blogger | August 6, 2014
Augustine told us that the “law of prayer is the law of belief.” In other words, what touches the heart is what tends to be remembered and treasured. In our day we could easily say that the law of song is the law of belief. I have many volumes of systematic theology on my shelves. […]
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So this little graphic has been doing the rounds the last few days. It’s originally from The Wrong Hands website and is a cartoon by John Atkinson. Our friend Ben Mizen decided to do a “back of an envelope” take on it for worship songs: What other arrangements would you suggest?
By admin | July 29, 2014
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By Andy@Musicademy | July 19, 2014
How to arrange a worship song We had an email recently from Mark Proctor: “As a church we are currently in transition from an organ only church to having a music group. Unfortunately none of us have any experience of arranging songs and every article/website appears to assume that it’s a full ‘rock’ band format […]