New YouTube Music Theory Lesson – What Makes a Song in a Mode Nate Richards talks about what makes a song in a mode in this music theory lesson. So, what exactly is a mode? Let’s start with the Major Scale – which is the overarching parent scale in all Western music. To be brief, …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Nate from Richards Guitar Studio and Richards Rock Academy shows you a great alternate picking exercise on guitar that helps increase speed, endurance, and synchronization between the picking and frethand fingers. When practicing an alternate picking exercise on guitar, you want to start slowly, playing evenly and controlled, and only begin …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Nate Richards shows you how to play Shut Up and Dance on Guitar – FOR REAL! Linked above is a 5-page guitar tab and a YouTube video lesson tutorial on how to play everything in the song, including chords, power chords, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, intro, verse, chorus, bridge, guitar solo, picking and …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Nate shows you the first of 5 scale patterns that are essential to you guitar development – the CAGED Guitar Scale Pattern 1. The CAGED System is an ordering of bar chords and scales that help you learn how to play chords and scales in any position on the fretboard that …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs for Satriani Find the Note Pt. 2. Nate shows you another Joe Satriani Find the Note lesson, this time on the notes A, D, and Bb. We will locate all of the A’s, D’s, and Bb’s on the fretboard. Music theory and guitar fretboard theory needs practice and drilling, just like technique, …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Nate begins a series on understanding the modes – Ionian and Dorian being the first 2 modes on the list. Learning the modes is important for every guitarist, not just as a guitar scale lesson or technique exercise, but as a music theory lesson on how they work. You will learn …
Read lesson → Nate was featured on Guitarists Unite Youtube channel performing a Rock You Like A Hurricane Guitar Solo cover!
Read lesson → Richards Rock Academy – Rock band school in Aston, PA – played a killer show at the Legendary JC Dobbs on South Street. Five bands performed to an enthusiastic crowd, playing songs such as Rainbow in the Dark by Dio, Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas, Eclipsed by Evans Blue, Crazytrain by Ozzy Osbourne, and …
Read lesson → See pictures and videos at www.richardsrockacademy.com of Richards Rock Academy performing at Legendary JC Dobbs on South Street in Philadelphia, PA. They played on the very same stage as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Tool played in the 90s!
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Nate shows you how to play a single string pentatonic guitar scale. If you haven’t learned the pentatonic scale yet – and you should right away as it is the bread and butter of rock guitar playing – go to this post here. The pentatonic “boxes,” especially the classic root position box, …
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