Richard Hallebeek has been playing guitar professionally for over 35 years and has recorded and/or played with Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Scott Kinsey, Dan Gilbert, Carl Verheyen, Michael Angelo Batio, Marco Minnemann, Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati, and Allan Holdsworth among others.
Richard has been playing since 10, starting his studies at age 17 at the Royal Conservatory in Amsterdam for 6 years, then studying for a year at GIT in Los Angeles. While in LA, he recorded the fusion album "Generator" for Mark Varney's label Legato at age 22 with Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Carl Verheyen, and Scott Kinsey.
He won 4th place winner in the worldwide Yamaha Band Explosion contest at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan in 1989 and in 1993. Out of 350 entries, Richard won 2nd place at the Ibanez Guitar Award Finals in Ahoy, Rotterdam. In 2010, Richard headlined the Meeting of The Spirits festival in Leewarden, Holland together with Greg Howe and Carl Verheyen. Richard has performed on the "Weaveworld" trilogy with keyboard prodigy Lalle Larsson (the 3rd best keyboardist in the 2011 Keyboard Magazine polls).
Richard has done two tours throughout Holland and Germany in 2011 and 2012 with Guthrie Govan and Jose de Castro as the "rock blues fusion G3" project.
He now teaches harmony, theory, guitar, and band coaching at the Tune Up Music School in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
As a Music Producer it was very important for me to focus on my guitar playing and develop my own sound. A few months ago I came across Richard Hallebeek's lessons on the Truefire and the lessons were a boon for someone like me who was exploring and being creative. The lessons were so intuitive, engaging and most importantly the topics covered were very helpful, creative and niche.
The All access pass that I have won has surely helped me a lot to access all the content on the website and made me a better Musician! Hoping to see more in the future.
N
Nicola G.
03/22/20
Richard is one of today's greatest Fusion Player!
I have all three of his courses and they are all amazing! Richard Hallebeek is right up there with Allan Holdsworth and Brett Garsed. His Hybrid picking technique is truly astonishing and he has such a unique personal sound. The ideas and examples in his courses are great and require skill and patience. The reward is amazing as you will be working on techniques that are far beyond the norm. I love the Mp3 tracks that are included so you can jam along with the examples. I recommend these courses for Jazz and jazz fusion listeners as well as rock and metal guitar players. Check out Richard Hallebeek and buy his amazing records!!!
