Richard Hallebeek
Guitar, music, guitarmusic
My pedalboard is featured in this month’s issue of Gitarist Magazine! “The core of my setup is a Hook Wizard tube head, which I control via MIDI using a Fractal Audio FC-12. With the bottom row of switches, I toggle between the specific voicings of the HOOK AMPS — ranging from Fender-style cleans to Plexi...
I recently recorded a solo for The Rewind Collective, a great project out of the USA. This track is a tribute to the legend himself, Steve Lukather, covering “Ever Changing Times.” It was a blast to trade licks with this incredible lineup: 🎹 Mathieu Fiset – Keys 🎸 Steven Sexton – Bass 🎸 Richard Hallebeek...
Excited to kick off Amsterdam Guitar Heaven November 22 2025, with Jack Pisters, former head of the Amsterdam conservatory and now main director of Muziekgebouw Eindhoven! “12:15 – 13:00 Opening Workshop Richard Hallebeek and Jack Pisters – an introduction to the theme “Shred’s Not Dead. Just Different.” For decades, Richard Hallebeek has been considered one...
I recently had an inspiring conversation with Niels Guns for his channel ‘Sixty Scales and the Truth’. We went deep into my journey — from discovering guitar at age 10 after seeing Talking Heads on TV, to becoming the youngest student ever accepted at the Amsterdam Conservatory, to studying at GIT in Los Angeles during...
I’m at Guitar Summit in Mannheim, Sept 26 & 27 – Europe’s biggest guitar show! You can find me at booth #100 together with my friends from Chicken Picks. Come by and say hi! Guitar Summit 2026
‘Looping Forward’ – New Single Streaming release on August 2, 2025 Pre-orders featuring high res files, charts and music minus 1, now available from this site: www.richardhallebeek.com/release/richard-hallebeek-looping-forward-2025/ Matthijs Geerts – Keys Rik van der Ouw – Bass Niels Voskuil – drums © Richie Rich Music 2025
I recorded a couple of tracks for the ‘Fischer & Fuchs Project’, a German drums-and-guitar duo with a fresh sound. This is one of three solos I did for their upcoming album, which is set to release this summer. For this track, I used the RH-1 custom guitar into a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx III, running...
What’s the secret to writing fusion music? Composing every single day, getting pushed out of my comfort zone, and sometimes stacking 30 guitar tracks. I had a great chat with *Kevy Metal* about my musical adventures, from working with Dweezil Zappa to crafting new songs with my band and why fusion remains my creative playground....
I’m excited to announce the upcoming release of my new single, ‘Endless Horizons’, available streaming on all major platforms from November 25, 2024! This fusion track is the first in a series of singles celebrating the diverse spectrum of jazz/rock and fusion. Over time, these releases will come together to form a full album. For...
I recorded a track for Sandeep Chowta called ‘Stories’ and it will be out on his next cd that will be released soon. Sandeep is from India and he is one of the biggest composers for Bollywood movies. I love that stuff! His last cd ‘Matters Of The Heart’ featured Scott Henderson, Jimmy Johnson, Lee...
I wrote a blog on the ChickenPicks guitar picks website about the use of sequences in pentatonic scales. It works really well for me and I’m sure you’ll get some new ideas from it! You can watch the whole blog here: https://tinyurl.com/kk9pxte2 The ChickenPicks guitar picks have been an enormous help in getting my hybrid...
I’m beta testing the new Midi Guitar 3 app from Jam Origin. It works really well! And it still feels like a tiny miracle getting polyphonic midi out of the guitar’s jack output. Signal path: Guitar jack out > straight into Logic Pro X. Controlling five soft synths at once from Propellerhead’s Reason and Logic...
I’m the winner of the Gitarist Magazine Reader’s Poll Awards jazz/fusion 2024 – 8th year in a row! Wow! I’m so thankful for all your support throughout the years! This year will be a bit different in that, for the first time, there will be a real-life physical award ceremony at Bridge Festival, Eindhoven. This...
I recorded a track called ‘Morning Wow’ for Lorenzo Feliciati’s upcoming cd ’Second Rumble’ with Gergo Borlai on drums. Very nice power trio to record with! It’s the first single from Lorenzo’s upcoming cd called ‘Second Rumble’. I used my RH-1 signature custom guitar through a Hook Wizard head > IR out loaded with Scott...
I recorded a solo for a really cool project from Finland called ‘G Series World Collaborations’. Former editions featured Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Alice Cooper, KISS), Marco Sfogli, Roy Marchbank, Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake, Cher) and many more great players.It was a big pleasure and honor to be part of this project! 1st solo: Toni Jokinen:...
