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.

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 … Continue reading “Drill #46 – John Petrucci Warm Up Exercise”

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

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 … Continue reading “Nate Talks About the Mastery Program”

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 … Continue reading “How to Play All the Small Things by Blink 182”