Oct 01 '06 Finished recording a couple of tracks for various projects, you can listen to 'Amsterdam(Half Broken)' written by, and appearing on the forthcoming Hallebeek/Kotikoski album here. Another track is 'Go For It MF' (wonder what that stands for) from Bas Cornelissen's new solo album that will be out later this year, featuring some great special guests. A challenging solo with lots of changes for sure, listen to that one here.That song is written by Frans Vollink who also play bass on there. The last one is a track called 'Fives' composed by Antti Kotikoski for his solo album. Listen by moving that mouse and clicking here.
I did an interview with Zakk Wylde, who's of course from Ozzy Osbourne and his own Black Label Society for this month's issue of the Music Maker. You can view the cover here, read page 1 here and page 2 here. The whole conversation will be printed on the interviews section of this site shortly.

Sept 01 '06 Essential Guitarist :: Richard Hallebeek :: LNR :: Fusion Jam Competition
And the winner is...Rick Graham! We were pleased to receive such amazing entries from players all over the world doing their take of 'New Day', but there can only be one winner, so listen for yourself! You can check out Rick's solo here and visit his site here. Rick's prize includes a personal lesson from me, Liquid Note Record's current discography and a forthcoming interview with the folk at essential guitarist.com. Congrats Rick!

July 12 '06 Essential Guitarist :: Richard Hallebeek :: LNR :: Fusion Jam Competition
The entries are in! Thanks everybody who joined the competition for jamming over the New Day backing track at the Essential Guitarist site, sending it out to us and letting us hear your take on the song. We heard some great stuff there and I surely learned some new licks! Thanks for taking the time to learn the song and the challenging harmonies. It was great to realize the song made it all over the world, from Mexico to Italy, from the States to the UK, guitarists were jamming on New Day. The winner will be announced within a few weeks, getting all the good stuff. Who will it be...? Stay tuned!

April 11 '06 Essential Guitarist :: Richard Hallebeek :: LNR :: Fusion Jam Competition
Fancy jamming on a backing track and having your solo judged by the EG Team, Matt Williams of UK virtuoso label, Liquid Note Records and Rich Hallebeek? Fancy winning the whole LNR catalogue ? (RHP/JAM...etc..), getting an interview with you published on the award-winning Essential Guitarist website, getting your winning track published on the three aforementioned sites? Fancy winning a guitar lesson from me? Sound at all tempting?
If you answered yes to any of those, then your next step is to enter our exciting competition here. Simply download the backing track 'New Day', get jamming and let me hear what you’re all about. Good luck!

March 14 '06 I'm mixing a song called 'Under The Influence' I did with Antti Kotikoski for The Alchemists II. The final mix should be ready this month and out in a couple of months on Liquid Note Records. You can already listen to a bit here. That song features Marco Minnemann on drums and Jaan Wessman (Mike Keneally, a.o.) on bass. I always enjoy a good anagram and a good one for Jaan Wessman's name would be 'Sane Man's Jaw', which also could be a great link for his website. If you're in Europe, you can now also order Richard Hallebeek Project directly at GuitarEuroShop, rather than ordering from the various UK and US sites that stock Liquid Note Records CD's. If you want to get just one song at a time, RHP is also available at Itunes.