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This is the very first lesson you would get if you would step into my studio and learn guitar from the very first step. We are learning to connect with music, to count, to feel the rhythm and trying to play very simple things with this method. This is the first lesson of a series. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

There is a new department available in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy : Guitar Beginners If you are a Guitar Beginner - then this is the part which brings you step by step with a various set of exercises to an intermediate guitar playing level. The first 6 - 12 months are hard for any guitar beginner because there are many things which have to be repeated all the time till one is able to perform them on the guitar. These exercises are meant to keep you motivated even if you need to repeat many things over and over again. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/1-guitar-beginners/

Here I show you the guitar parts of the song " Eye Of The Tiger " by Survivior and I analyze the composing technque of the best motivation song ever ! Here you find the tabs of the guitar parts I explained : Eye Of The Tiger - Guitar Parts.pdf The full score is available in the Guitar Pro software as a purchase.

Great stuff.........thanks HP!

This is killer HP!

Hi HP Great Lesson. Kind regards from Peter abtguitars

Here I show you THE slow blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

There was a mistake on one chord - download the latest version. It's fixed now.

Perfect..thanks HP….downloaded and printed for tomorrow’s practice session. Regards Greg

That's a good point Greg. I added them now - but they are not complete because not all notes in the exercises can be displayed as a chordshape but I guess this one helps. Any yeah - great that you are already on it since one year. Me even longer - a regular warmup exercise for me.

Hi HP I have been working on these Arpeggios for over a year now and I agree that the diminished arpeggio is the most difficult…not too smooth yet but I consistently work at each of these arpeggios and include this file in my daily practice routine. Personal request: I was wondering if you would be kind enough to add the chord shapes to this download. As a relative newby to Jazz, my senior memory for the progressive shapes is significantly less than perfect and I believe this addition would be very helpful in my efforts. Kind regards Greg

If you have done the Spider Walk ( Spider Legs ) on guitar for a while and you want to move on to the next step. This exercise is what I recommend to my intermediate - advanced guitar students. Here you can download the tabs associated to this tutorial :

Yes one can learn a lot from Autumn Leaves even the tune is quite overplayed

Classic tune..............great stuff HP!

This is one more step on my personal learning curve: Use Major Pentatonic and Mixolydian Mode for your Blues. Incorporate cool licks and mix everything into cool rhythm patterns. Now I'm going to have a word with my fingers so that they never forget that again. Thank you Hanspeter.

Here I show you some very useful exercises for jazz guitar improvisation. The tips and tricks are adapted to the chords of the first part of the tune " Autumn Leaves " which is a very common chord progression in jazz. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Yeah I really love the vibe of this one here

Great stuff HP!

Cool stuff HP!

Here I show you the signature rhythm / groove of Bo Diddley which to take his words " The Rhythm That Shook The World " and give you some great idea's to play guitar along to the great rhythm. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Guitar Beginners I will start a new series of tutorials now. I want to guide the total guitar beginners through the first really hard 6-12 months of learning guitar. The point is - when you start with guitar there is not much you can do till you have the technical abilities to grab chords - specially the barré chords, to play some lead guitar with simple melodies and to do your first bendings, the first vibrato's and and and.... This phase can be really frustrating because things take time and you can not make any shortcuts. But my job as an instructor is to keep you guys motivated in this time and still get you a creative and fun vibes into your beginner steps on guitar. My system is different then the regular ones and it works. I got many feedbacks from beginner students over many years. In these tutorials I will also show everything slow and very precise. The will come with the title index " Guitar Beginners - ..... " and will be also marked with this tag here in the search tags. Guitar Beginners For guidance during your process in those first 6-12 months I strongly recommend that you use the blog feature where you can write about your experience and your difficulties in order to get some professional advice. Blog Feature