Volume 1 includes 10 short video tutorials covering essential harmony and backing vocal techniques:

• How to form basic harmonies
• Understanding 3rds & 5ths
• Finding harmonies above and below the melody
• When and when not to sing
• Using unison effectively
• Matching lead vocal phrasing
• Pads or vowel sounds to add colour
• Emphasising key phrases to add punctuation
• Echoes and ad libs

Suitable for men and women at all singing ability levels. The video lessons are taught by Andreana Arganda who has sung on over 50 live and studio worship albums with Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Vicky Beeching, David Ruis, Casey Corum, Andy Park and many others.

A total of 2.5 hours instruction on two DVDs designed for both male and female singers at any level who'd like to learn how to harmonize or improve their backing vocals skills. Together the DVDs contains high quality backing tracks to 20 worship songs with:

• 10 instructional video lessons covering harmony and BV technique
• 2 separate harmony parts for each song to copy and learn
• on screen words
• and a full version of every song to practice to

Track listing for video lessons and harmony backing tracks

1. You Never Let Go - Matt Redman
2. Forever - Chris Tomlin
3. Holy is the Lord - Louie Giglio, Chris Tomlin
4. Mighty to Save - Reuben Morgan, Ben Fielding
5. Everlasting God - Brenton Brown, Ken Riley
6. Hosanna - Brooke Frazer
7.  Be My Everything - Tim Hughes
8. Blessed Be Your name - Matt Redman
9. You Are - Ben Cantelon
10.  God of Wonders - Marc Byrd, Steve Hindalong

Who is it for?

This course is suitable for people that are able to sing but want to develop their ability to sing harmonies and backing vocals. If you've not had vocals lessons before we would definitely suggest getting the Worship Vocals Course and working through that before attempting the Harmony & Backing Vocals Course. Like this you can be sure that you are singing correctly with proper breath control.

Is volume 2 more difficult than volume 1?

Yes, the harmony parts of volume 2 are a little more challenging.

What else is available to help me practice?

We have a DVD called Worship Backing Band - Musicians Practice Tracks which contains 54 worship songs that you can play along with. Practice is a lot more fun with other people! You can select to take the vocals out of the mix so you are effectively the singer with a pro band. Its like high quality worship karaoke. The DVD shows on-screen words and chords so if you play an instrument you can also play along as you sing. 

We also have two warm up and work-out CDs which are an excellent accompaniment to the DVD set. The Essential Musicademy Vocals Warm-Up CD contains many of the vocals warm-up exercises taught on the DVDs. Its very helpful to have all the exercises together in one place in a format you can use in the car, at church or wherever you are. The Advanced Vocals Work-out CD goes a step further with a variety of hard core exercises to really train your voice. You'll see a marked improvement in vocal tone, range and power as well as an improvement in your ability to hear and sing harmonies.

Will the DVDs work on my DVD player?

The DVDs are NTSC and coded Region 0 which means they will play anywhere in the world.

Can I get a refund if I don't like the DVDs?

Yes, you are also covered by our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee if having received the DVDs you do not feel they are right for you.