 |  | | The Musicademy Worship Bass Course
The Musicademy Worship Bass Course is three 2-hour DVDs in a box set. The courses are taught by top Christian session musician Matt Weeks whose credits include Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Chris Tomlin, Brian Doerksen, Paul Baloche, Graham Kendrick, Vineyard Music and many others.
The Beginners Worship Bass DVDs lead you through a 3-DVD course and teach you how to: Play open, fretted, long and short notes and develop left and right hand technique, Create different grooves in time with the kick drum, Play worship songs in different keys using major and minor scales, Discover intervals, Nashville numbering and transposing, Use arpeggios, octaves, passing notes and harmony lines, and Learn and play along to Blessed Be Your Name, Here I am to Worship, Hosanna, Everlasting God and Beautiful One.Plus gear guide, practice tracks and tips from some of the world’s best known worship leaders and bassists including Chris Tomlin's bass player Jesse Reeves. This course covers a years’ worth of worship focused lessons and is suitable for complete beginners as well as guitarists who want to transfer their skills to bass.
The Intermediate Worship Bass DVDS: By following this 3-DVD course you will learn how to Develop your timing, skills and learn a range of new grooves, Play in different styles using slap, string skipping, damping, and chromatic runs, pedalling and harmonics, Develop your music theory knowledge of intervals, major, minor and chromatic scales, Learn about chord construction, substitutions and inversions, Play by ear, indifferent keys using Nashville numbering Develop your positional playing and left and right hand technique, Use 10ths and arpeggios for creating melodic bass lines, Create fills and licks using pentatonic scale shapes, Develop 16th note playing and sub division awareness, Improve your communication, dynamics and learn three steps to shaping a bass line. This course covers a years’ worth of worship focused lessons and is suitable for existing bass players who want to broaden their skills. The intermediate DVDs are not available as individual volumes. Includes 2 hours of lessons, practice tracks, loops and tips from top worship bassists on each DVD including Chris Tomlin's bass playyer, Jesse Reeves.
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| | |  | | Musicademy Beginner Keyboard Series
Teaching keyboards for worship with a proven step-by-step method without having to wade through traditional piano lessons
Learn to play well known worship songs and hymns in different keys
Use major, minor and slash chords as the basis for contemporary playing
Follow contemporary chord charts rather than traditional music scores
Play scales, arpeggios and chords and understand how to use them in modern worship songs
Understand and use voicings for smooth sounding chord changes
Develop right and left hand rhythm skills and introduce variety using broken chords, auxiliary and passing notes
2 hours of teaching on each of 4 DVDs including interviews and advice from worship leaders Stuart Townend, Brenton Brown, Vicky Beeching, Tim Neufeld (Starfield), Tommy Walker, Noel Richards, Leeland Moring and Andy Piercy (producer for Delirious? and Graham Kendrick).
In Beginners Volume 1, suitable for complete beginners, you will:
Learn the basics of simple keyboard playing
Learn about scales the building block for playing
How to work out the notes in any major key
Discover how to use chords to play songs simple left and right hand techniques
Play along with the song "Lord Reign in Me"
How to use a sustain pedal
Practice tips
Gear guide which keyboard is right for you and your budget.
Volume 2 is for students who have either followed volume 1 or already play a little. In this volume you will:
Learn how to play songs in the key of D using simple chords based playing
Play along with the song Here I am to Worship
Learn about the theory behind different types of chords - tones, semitones, major chords, minor chords and slash chords
Play triads, explore alternative fingering and find suitable chord voicings
Plus tips on reading music and playing without looking at your hands.
Volume 3 is the next stage on from volumes 1 and 2 in the Musicademy Beginners Keyboard Course. It is also ideal for existing classical players wanting to learn simple chord-based playing techniques. In this volume you will:
Learn how to add interest to your playing by changing register, using broken chords and passing notes
Play along with the songs Come Now Is The Time to Worship and There is a Redeemer
Learn more scales and arpeggios
Learn how to play with feeling and expression
Plus tips on listening skills and using the transpose button
Volume 4 is suitable for player who have already developed confidence in playing worship songs used a chords-based approach. In this volume you will:
Learn how to add syncopated rhythm to your playing
Develop left hand independence
Play along with the song Beautiful One
Learn to tackle hymns confidently on the keyboard
Play along with the hymns Amazing Grace and How Great Though Art
Plus advice on singing and playing at the same time and playing in public for the first time.
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| | |  | | Musicademy Intermediate Keyboard Series
Either for people who learnt to play classical piano as a child but now want to play contemporary worship music with ease. Also ideal for people who already play worship keyboards but want to extend their techniques and move out of their comfort zone. The Intermediate Course will enable students to:
Approach the keyboard as a chords based instrument and lose your dependency on the music score
Integrate added, suspended and extended chords into your playing
Use inversions and alternative voicings for smoother playing
Develop left and right hand rhythm skills to fit the groove of the song
Improvise using melodic fills, auxiliary and passing notes
Use string, pads, electric piano and organ sounds
Develop techniques for leading worship as a keyboard player
Choose the right equipment for you
Understand the tools that help you play by ear
2 hours of teaching on each of 3 DVDs including interviews and advice from worship leaders Stuart Townend, Brenton Brown, Vicky Beeching, Tim Neufeld (Starfield), Tommy Walker, Noel Richards, Leeland Moring and Andy Piercy (producer for Delirious? and Graham Kendrick).
Intermediate volume 1
Chords tones and semitones, major chords, minor chords, slash chords
Using chords as the basis for playing How Great is Our God
Using rhythm Let Everything That Has Breath
Time signatures
Intermediate volume 2
Melodic fills and improvisation chord notes, passing notes, auxiliary notes
Using songs playing slow songs, playing fast songs Once Again, Forever
The major scale Keys
Nashville numbering system
Introduction to ear training
Intermediate volume 3
Using the left hand well Faithful One, Everlasting God, Amazing Grace
Using different sounds
More advanced chords
Leading worship from keys
Spontaneous playing
Getting the right gear.
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| | |  | | Musicademy Song Learner Guitar Series
Musicademy has just released three new DVDs for acoustic guitarists called the "Song Learner Series". Each of the 2-hour DVDs contain six or seven 12-20 minute lessons teaching you to play a contemporary worship song. Songs featured include Everlasting God, Beautiful One, The Father's Song and Facedown as well as a number of challenging hymns - In Christ Alone and David Crowder's beautiful arrangement of All Creatures of Our God and King. The idea of the Song Learner Series is to enable you to master the guitar parts played on the original record, note for note, and as such significantly enhance your playing.
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| | |  | | Musicademy Worship Vocals Course
Musicademy Worship Vocals Course is teaching DVDs specifically for people involved in worship. The teaching covers professional techniques for breathing, projection, control, and harmony skills all built around well known contemporary worship songs.
The DVDs are designed to increase the confidence and delivery of the student both as a singer and worshipper. Subjects covered include:
* Correct breathing
* Harmony skills
* Using the diaphragm for power, projection and control
* Use of the head and chest voice
* Falsetto, vibrato and vocal frei
* Lead and backing vocals
* Working with a band
* Moving from traditional to contemporary singing styles
* Essential music theory made easy
Suitable for men and women, soloists or groups of singers.
Each of the four 2-hour DVDs also features a comprehensive set of warm up exercises designed to extend the range, tone and power of the voice.
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