What makes a good worship song?

By Guest Blogger | May 4, 2012

Finding songs for worship is easy. There’s no shortage of options in every style and genre and there are new ones constantly coming onto the scene. Finding good songs, however, is a challenge. There are many aspects to look at when it comes to selecting the right songs and through a series of posts, we’ll […]

A revolution in writing and sharing worship songs?

By Sam Hargreaves | September 22, 2011

You might have come across RESOUNDworship.org – a website sharing new worship songs for free, by a relatively unknown group of writers.  We’ve had no major-label backing, little or no budget, and have worked on it mostly in our spare time, and yet the site has over 8.500 subscribers and has resourced churches worldwide.  And […]

Secret of the Pop Song part 2 – The Breakthrough Single

By Marie@Musicademy | August 31, 2011

Secret of the Pop Song – part 2 The Breakthrough Single Mark Ronson – super producer. Music’s Man of the Moment. The Prince of Cool. The Phil Spector of his generation. Amy Winehouse, Adele. Secret to a pop single Lamont Dozier – its what you feel A diary of contemporary culture – Neil Tennant – […]

Secrets of the pop song – new 3 part BBC documentary

By Marie@Musicademy | July 4, 2011

UK broadcaster BBC Two has launched a three part series which explores the process of songwriting. Secrets Of The Pop Song follows the pen to paper to first public performance. Each episode sees songwriter, producer and musician Guy Chambers, collaborating with an artist to write a new song each week — a ballad, an anthem and […]

The feminisation of worship songs?

By Guest Blogger | May 12, 2011

The feminisation of worship songs? I’ve just been at a conference, which was awesome and being a good worship pastor, I went to the seminar on worship. I’ve been to lots of worship seminars (all very helpful) but in the Q&A at the end, there’s always this one question from the floor (and it always […]

Free video clip and chord chart – May the Peace of the Lord Christ

By Marie@Musicademy | May 10, 2011

We are frequently asked for information about a beautiful song that we used in the Musicademy Worship Vocals Course. The words are taken from a blessing written by the Northumbria Community. Its basically a Celtic Liturgy. Kate Silber, presenter of our Vocals DVDs, wrote a melody to accompany the blessing which is sung by Kate […]

Is it just me or are a lot of worship songs mediocre?

By Guest Blogger | February 11, 2011

I was reading a recent Musicademy blog post which had some interesting (and controversial) thoughts about worship songs. Here are some snippets from it: “Now you will notice that I said “very poor”, not terrible, not abysmal, not “from the very pen of Beelzebub himself”, just poor. Honestly I wish they were completely awful, because there […]