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 shows you a variation on a great John Petrucci warm up exercise from the book Rock Discipline. This exercise focuses on string skipping, alternate picking, stretch, finger independence, and finger dexterity control. If you only have a few minutes to warm up before playing guitar, this is a great choice …
Read lesson → Read about Richards Rock Academy performance at the Pumpkin Express festivities at Barnaby’s in Ridley, PA. Here’s a video of Stix N Pix Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne and Sweet Child O Mine by Guns N Roses. Go to Richards Rock Academy blog HERE
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 In this lesson, I show you how to play All the Small Things by Blink 182. This song is great for practicing power chords, downstroke chord strumming, and octave riffs. The focus of the power chord performance is on clean/clear tone and fret-hand dampening, as well as pick-hand follow through. Here …
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 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 …
Read lesson → In this video tutorial, I show you how to find notes on guitar. Playing songs, solos, improvising, songwriting, and learning songs by ear – all of the areas of guitar playing – are enhanced by your knowledge of basic music theory. So, if you know the names of the notes on the fretboard and some …
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