By Andy@Musicademy | June 13, 2025
One of the questions I’m most regularly asked is about my preferred guitars. And I can certainly spend way too much time looking the guitar shops as one (or even half a dozen) is never enough. I’ll happily confess to having GAS (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome). So I thought I’d run you through some of the […]
By Marie@Musicademy | July 31, 2023
Footage from a Musicademy seminar on band skills. This is the section on tips for worship keybaord players.
By Marie@Musicademy | November 16, 2021
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 […]
By Andy@Musicademy | September 3, 2021
I recently read a book which chronicled the rise of the evangelical church in England from the 1950s onwards. This reported a clear link between high levels of participation in worship and personal spiritual growth and communal church renewal. The book, controversially called ‘Selling Worship’ (by Pete Ward), also observes that in sung worship in […]
By admin | April 8, 2020
Here at Musicademy and Worship Backing Band, we’ve had calls and emails daily about the legality of using worship songs in online services. People are very confused about the different licenses, and the new Streaming Plus License that CCLI has created. I decided to chat to our friends at CCLI and asked them to point […]
By admin | April 6, 2020
Online Church: How the world worshipped With Covid-19 forcing much of the world into lockdown, churches have responded by diving into online services. Whether using Zoom, Facebook Live, YouTube or more complex set ups such as OBS, tech, pastoral and worship teams have found themselves in a steep learning curve in recent weeks. This article […]
By admin | March 23, 2020
Last weekend was the first weekend that many churches globally closed their physical doors and instead embraced the virtual world of online services. Over on the Musicademy Facebook Group several people had spent the previous few days discussing the technical options, the pros and cons of the various streaming platforms before taking their decisions on […]
By admin | December 10, 2019
Planning a Christmas service? Read this first DO plan well in advance and lock everything down in good time with the leaders DO choose and circulate your music/key choice well ahead of rehearsals. Christmas is often the one time of year when you have orchestral and brass instruments joining the band. They tend to prefer a […]
By admin | December 9, 2019
Here we have pulled together a helpful list of Christmas resources. Please feel free to add in your own finds to the comments at the bottom. Free Christmas resources for churches Christmas story narrations – Fantastic set of narrations of the Christmas story re-written for a variety of contexts. Also a fun story behind the development […]
By admin | November 11, 2019
We had a fantastic training day in Maidstone and shared live footage from the day on Facebook Live videos. We’ve collected them all here (give them time to load) so you can watch. These were filmed using mobile phones from our host church volunteers so are not professionally edited of course. The sound is straight […]
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