Chord of the Month - Dsus2 new shape

Every month I’ll show you a (hopefully) new shape to a familiar chord that you can use to expand your vocabulary. To kick off, try this voicing instead of a regular D or the more familiar D2/Dadd9 shape you may know.

How to get maximum exposure for your song writing

If you have ever recorded a worship song, it is an exhilarating experience, but also a lot of work. First there is the writing, wrestling with the words to make them work with the music and rhyme, and say what God has put on your heart to say. There is capturing the right melodies, and […]

Free lesson from our new Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar DVD

This lesson, taken from our new Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar DVDs, shows you how to use Add9 and 5 chords to add strength and beauty to your playing. There are three Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar DVDs in the box set representing a years’ worth of learning over seven hours of instruction.

Worship Training Day Ealing London 5 November 2022

Saturday 5 November Musicademy presents a packed training day for the whole worship team (or just come by yourself!). Features special guest vocal coach Nicki Rogers and Psalm Drummers Terl Bryant and Mark Jones. The programme features: BRAND NEW plenary session from the whole Musicademy, SFL and Psalm Drummers: 12 things to Improve your Worship […]

New series – Thoughts on church and worship, discipleship and more

Given the recent discussion on our post “Bored of contemporary worship” we wanted to start adding some posts that help us examine our theology in relation to worship and church. Musicademy’s approach to DVD training has always been essentially practical and we want to bring some of that practicality to the discussion on worship theology. […]

Worship Team Dynamics - the phases a new team must go through

Dr Bruce Tuckman published his Forming Storming Norming Performing model in 1965. The theory is an elegant and helpful explanation of team development and behaviour which can be usfully applied to worship teams. Tuckman’s model explains the sequence that a team goes through as it team develops maturity and ability and relationships establish. The role […]