Enjoy this performance of Nina Rota's legendary movie soundtrack theme from The Godfather! Check out Nate's cover video, as well as the tabs and sheet music that include classical guitar tremolo technique. Be sure to comment on the YouTube video if you think Nate should do a lesson / breakdown video on this piece! Contact us for top-shelf, friendly, engaging classical guitar lessons!
Read lesson → Rock Band Camp Summer Enrollment You can now enroll for Summer 2017 Rock Band Camp! All of the information is on the Rock Band Summer Camp page. Serving Delaware County and the Tri-State area. Rock Band Summer Camp with Richards Guitar Studio and Richards Rock Academy is held at ValleyPoint Church in Glen Mills, PA. The …
Read lesson → Join our Garage Band class at Richards Rock Academy! A great beginner/intermediate class for learning to play in a band, and having a blast jamming with other students! Low-pressure environment and no live-shows requirement. For more information or to reserve a seat, email us HERE or call (484)480-6201.
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 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 → On Friday, September 18, Richards Rock Academy bands played a 3-hour rocking show at Richards Rock Fest at the IBEW Austin Room in Boothwyn. A beautiful banquet hall setting, perfect sound provided by Bruce Gill, delicious catering and open bar, and 6 RRA bands made for a night we all will remember! This was the …
Read lesson → Here is a middle-of-the-night candid talk about WHY we teach the Rock Guitar Mastery Program and why it is so important to our mission at RGS. You WILL NOT find a team of teachers who think long-term like we do, and put such a value on music regarding it’s impact on quality of life. Guitar …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Every guitarist needs to develop legato technique on the guitar (hammer-ons, pull-offs – in this case it’s pull-offs), no matter what style of music. Randy Rhoads style legato is a great way to learn, simply because he had a lot of influences he incorporated into his style, as well as many …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Ahhhh ARPEGGIOS! Love ’em or hate ’em, sweep arpeggios are an attention-getter and a sure-fire way to add flash to your solos. Sometimes, there are multiple notes on the same fret – but lined up one string after the next. So, you should NOT bar these. Barring will create a bunch …
Read lesson → CLICK HERE for Tabs Drill of the Week #37 – Bach Gavotte Classical Guitar Lesson Classical guitar – an indispensable element to many great guitarists training. Think Randy Rhoads or Chris Broderick, for example. The music of J.S. Bach has been performed consistently for 300 years and has stood the test of time as some …
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