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Guitar Secrets - How To Groove On Rock Guitar ! Do you want to learn how to groove on rock guitar ? Then this tutorial is for you ! Here you learn the very basics elements of rock guitar rhythm guitar and rock guitar groove but now you are including your body and you learn how to feel what you are playing instead of just playing a rock riff. If you have never done this before even if you are an advanced guitar player you should work this out. It is a difference if you play basic things just because you can play them technically on your guitar or if you really feel every note you are playing. The method which I am showing you works for any level and works for…

Guitar Secrets - Rock Balade Here you can learn the secrets of sound theory and playing technique to play a professional rock balade. The secrets are the sound in combination with your playing technique and to know the target notes from the modes which come along with the chord progression you are playing along. Guitar Secrets - Rock Balade.pdf Guitar Secrets - Rock Balade.gp rock balade Bm 70.mp3

Guitar Secrets : 2 & 4 Feel Blues Basics ( Must Have ! ) Hey guys this tutorial is probably the most important tutorial when it comes to groove and rhythm feel in any blues, shuffle or swing situation. Here you learn how to get into the 2 & 4 feel. This will help you tremendously to improve your blues phrasing, your feel and your laid back vibe in any blues. If you are an experienced player and have never done this before I strongly recommend that you do this tutorial as well even when it feels very basic to you. This tutorial is an absolut " Must Have " for any guitar player. 2 + 4 Feel Basic Blues Exercises.pdf 2 + 4 Feel Basic Blues Exer…

Guitar Secrets - Minor Modes I work with the intervals and show you a very easy way to understand and to connect with the other modes. Once you know the intervals you can easily switch from one mode to another. Minor Modes.pdf Minor Modes.gp minor modes.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Shuffle Groove Here you can learn everything you need to know to master any shuffle groove on a normal blues guitar. This is a " MUST HAVE " tutorial for all levels so don't miss this one ! Shuffle Grooves.pdf Shuffle Grooves.gp shuffle blues D.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Crazy Guitar ( Bass ) Tapping You want to learn the secret of crazy guitar tapping and even sound like a bass player ? Then this tutorial is for you. I show you how to work out a simple improvisation with the chords Am / G / F with a crazy tapping technique where you play the guitar like a piano player. This technique is called touch technique and was invented by Stanley Jordan but my version is a little bit different from his technique because I use a standard guitar tuning. In this tutorial I show you how to work out a rhythm guitar with your left hand and then how to start to improvise with your right hand and then how to develop a simple…

Guitar Secrets - Offbeats This is a full tutorial to learn everything you need to know to master offbeats. This tutorial is for any playing level if you never really worked on offbeats in specific. Offbeats.pdf Offbeats.gp

Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios Many guitar players would love to work with arpeggios but how is this exactly done ? There are many ways to do this. In this tutorial I show you a very comprehensive way to start to work with arpeggios without pushing your technical limits to the impossible. I am using a track with the chords Am / F G , showing you how you can work with a simple arpeggio pattern and how you can work with it. Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios.pdf Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios.gp guitar secrets - arpeggios.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Crazy Arpeggio Licks If you are tired of always sounding the same and even playing arpeggio's don't help you anymore to give some more colors into your guitar solo, then this tutorial is for you. Here I give you some ideas how you can play arpeggio's of minor and major chords differently. They make your sound wide and give you an extra color into your guitar solo. Crazy Arpeggio Guitar Licks.pdf Crazy Arpeggio Guitar Licks.gp spanish guitar improvisation.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Basic Rhythm ( Complete Beginners Course ) Rhythm is one part of the music and guitar education which is often a bit neglected but it’s a very important part of music. It makes 50% of the musical expression. So this is in fact a " Must Have " tutorial. If you don’t know rhythm and timing you will have difficulties making music. This tutorial talks about the basics of rhythm and timing and is meant for beginners but if you are a more experienced player and never have done this before I strongly recommend that you also do this entire tutorial. Even if you think that you can play the basic rhythm figures, try to do it and give your practicing th…

Guitar Secrets - Natural Minor VS Harmonic Minor Here you can learn the difference between natural minor and harmonic minor and how and when you use either one or the other mode. In this easy guitar secrets lesson you can understand how you can switch in a easy way from the one mode to the other one by just switching to one or two notes but I also give some insight how you can get a more exotic sound and vibe with the harmonic minor scale by just whole scale fragments like the melody from Phantom of the Opera. At the end of the tutorial you will understand the differences and how and when you use which scale on a beginner and intermediate guitar playing level.…

Guitar Secrets : Finger Picking Patterns ( Full Course Easy - Sophisticated ) In this tutorial I talk about guitar fingerpicking patterns from the very basics up to sophisticated professional sounding patterns which are not too hard to play. Timing and the proper practicing of the basic patterns is the key to success when it comes to relaxed and intuitiv playing abilities on this guitar style. This full course is for any playing level from beginner - advanced player. If you are an advanced player and you never have done the basics before I strongly recommend that you do those exercises as well because they are the basement of your playing and will allow you to…

Guitar Secrets - Dorian Mode In this guitar secrets tutorial I talk about the dorian mode or dorian scale. This scale is related to the normal pentatonics since all notes of the pentatonics are part of the dorian mode. The pentatonics is 1 b3 4 5 b7 and the dorian mode is 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7. As you can see there are only 2 additional notes which make the dorian mode. It's the 2 and the 6. That means you can take any pattern you have and just add those 2 notes to get the dorian scale or you choose the ones I am showing you here in the tutorial. The tutorial is divided into 2 parts. The easy to understand part for beginners and the part for the advanced players amo…

Here’s a great guitar secret which I call “ The Power of 3 “. What is that ? If you want to have great guitar parts which are memorizable there is one concept which comes from marketing strategies. It’s called “ The Power of 3 “ and it works in that way that if you want to have information which stays in the minds of other people you can have to either repeat it 3 times or have something which comes in 3 rounds to prepare for a highlight. It’s a very rare concept in guitar soloing and maybe you might already do it without even knowing it - but it is a very useful concept which you can work out. It’s easy and fun and it works. This tutorial is from the " Must Have " series…

Guitar Secrets - Sound Great On Cheap Guitar Equipment In this tutorial I talked about how to sound great on cheap guitar equipment. This is a question which probably drives most of your electric guitar players in the world. You only have a limited budget to buy a good guitar amplifier. Maybe you can spend $200 for a guitar amp or even less and you're frustrated because you think you cannot sound great on a cheap guitar amplifier. The difference between cheap and expensive guitar equipment is in many cases the dynamic range. What is the dynamic range ? It's the way the tone reacts to your playing technique by going softer or harder in volume or your picking…

Guitar Secrets - Sound Great On Cheap Guitar Equipment Learning scales and modes on the guitar is always a big challenge. Changing keys on the guitar is not such a big brainer you can just move patterns you have learnt up and down the fretboard. But when it comes to playing free of patterns on the guitar fretboard the guitar shows it’s limitations because you hardly find any visual hook which you can connect to scales and modes you have learned. The solution for this problem is to work with intervals and to learn them by heart. The guitar is a pentatonic instrument and most of you learned the minor pentatonic as a first scale on the guitar. So the trick is to …

Here you can learn horizontal pentatonic tricks which are a great add in your guitar playing. Most guitar players are stuck in their patterns which make them play vertically which is cool but if you want to sound different the easy way the horizontal pentatonic tricks are the right ones for you. I show the patterns on the B and high E string, show you the fingering and then give you some ideas how to work with these horizontal patterns. At the end of the tutorial I show you how to combine the new ideas and licks with your normal playing. This tutorial is from the new " Must Have " Series. Means thats one you better don't miss. funk rock Am 95.mp3 Horizonal Penta…

The classical cadence is the most important subject to understand music and how chords move or just how music works in general. There are several expression for the classical cadence. Some call it the I IV V progression, some the L Form and some Tonica, Subdominat and Dominat. But the main thing is that it represents a principle which you find in mostly all music genres which have the focus on musical expression. And the principle is that a chord progression starts with a Resting Point ( Tonica, I, Root ) then Build up Tension ( Sub Dominat, IV ) goes to a Maximum Tension ( Dominant, V ) to get back to the Resting Point. This works in all major and all minor keys the same…

Here you can learn the very basics which make any rock rhythm guitar great and sophisticated. Basic Rock Rhythm Exercices.pdf blues rock Am G D.mp3

Here you can learn all you need to learn in the first 3 – 6 months of your journey when you are starting the guitar. From my experience as a guitar tutor and guitar instructor since 1999 it always turned to be those topics I am talking about here. The threshold to go further is the barréchord. That one is the tricky part which can make the first steps harder and longer time to get stuck in the beginners phase. The good news is with regular practicing you can really make it in 3 months. I experienced this myself when I started the guitar at the age of 20. So i pretty much remember those steps. Be patient and just practice regular and suddely those things I am showing here …

Here you can learn a cool finger picking riff with my special feature " Reverse Damping " cool finger picking riff A80.pdf Cool Finger Picking Riff A80.mp3

Here you can learn some ways how to create a smooth, cool and sophisticated clean lead guitar by using different phrasing tricks. In this case on the example of my song " Unemployee Pier " Unemployee Pier.pdf unemployee pier _jamtrack.mp3

Here I give you my tips and tricks how to find your perfect guitar pic for your playing style. Not always the most expensive guitar pic is the best to choose. It depends on your playing priorities.

Here I give you the essential tips for practicing guitar. This is for any level. At the end I give some tips for the pro's or upcoming professionals among. The key to success in guitar playing are from my experience the following points : Regularity 1:15 Persistance 2:24 Joy 3:07 Aceptance 3:54 Pro Tips 6:05 Then there are some tips for real professionals and at the end some tips about performance 8:25 The background music is taken from my CD " Acoustic Swiss Blues " : https://www.hpcrazy.com/cd.html

Here you can learn how to play and use the harmonic minor scale. As an example if you have a song with the chords Am and E7 you use harmonic minor on the E7 chord. Here you find some advanced exercices on harmonic minor. You find all modes and all related chords with 3 note per string patterns for E and A typ chords in the exercises. Take your time on them. technik uebungen _ diatonische tonleitern _ harmonisch Moll.pdf