Andy Chamberlain gives advice to worship musicians on how to play with emotion.

Autumn is here. The leaves are falling from the trees. Winter will soon be upon us. With the dying of some of the visible things, new life is growing in the invisible places; bulbs are beginning to stir underground, ready to send their new hopeful, bright shoots and flowers into the air once the winter […]

Part of the new “Musicademy Shorts” series, Marie Page gives advice on choosing keys suitable for female worship leaders and smaller congregations.

Flo Benton from Alaska emailed with an emergency request as she was leading worship for the first time. I thought it would make a good Blog post so our advice is here as well as Flo’s responses.

You know the scenario, you’re either trying to remember the chords for a song that you don’t have music for, or you’re trying to find some chords to accompany a new melody, so you stab at all sorts – G F, C Em, A, Bb – some seem to work but some don’t. There is, […]

We’ve just found a great online resource for proper sheet music and guitar tab. Click the link to go to Musicnotes. As well as almost every rock and pop song you might want to play, the site has plenty of music for worship songs by Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin and more.

Worship leader mistakes Including too many new songs in the set – your congregation is there to worship – most will find it difficult to do so if they spend most of the time learning your latest masterpieces Vary your set list to include a variety of older, recently introduced and brand new songs and […]

Andy Chamberlain gives a guitar lesson teaching how to play in tenths on guitar. Here you play two notes in the same key that are ten intervals apart. Great for finding new chord voicings in D. This is the technique that the Delirious song Majesty was written using. This technique is also taught in depth […]

We were sent the following “Ask The Expert” question – and its one which comes up often in different shapes or forms so read on if you are interested in ideas for moving a congregation from traditional to contemporary worship music.

Florence Benton from Alaska emailed to ask for advice on leading worship from keyboards for the first time. It’s a big jump to go from playing keys as part of a band to leading (and singing) as well. Not only are you leading the congregation in their worship, but you will be needing to lead […]