Guitar Music

Here are 2 new videos : Lesson of the month january 10 - How to use arpeggios. http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1222 Free lesson ; Amazing Grace http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1223

Here I play and teach a real bluesy blues on the guitar - if you have the blues you should dig to it.

So here's a very cool version of " Jingle Bells ". I show you different possibities how you can celebrate a cool Rock n Roll X- Mas Beside this you can learn normal playing and improvisation techniques. http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1210

Here you can get some other ideas how to play a christmas song on your guitar. I used mainly the chords C, F and G. Here you can get the lesson to learn this great song.

Lesson of the month The current lesson of the month is about the great playing style of Johnny Winter. He is a blues rock slide guitar player. YouTube Link I show you the essentionals of blues rock slide guitar, the techniques, the style on the example of Johnny Winters song " Highway 61 " + a professional backing track. Get the lesson Free " Blues Rock " lesson Here's a cool video where I show you some great ideas which are played with a tuned down guitar. Get the free lesson

Download Here's a cool video where I show you some great ideas which are played with a tuned down guitar. The tuning is : D G C F A D Play this kind of style with open strings and fingerpicking. This will give you the best results. And by the way ... just got out of my bed and recorded this video for you.

Here a cool video were you can get some basic inspiration about slide guitar. slide_guitar.pdf DOWNLOAD - 22 MB

Mark Knopfler The current lesson of the month teaches you the basics about Mark Knopflers playing style in the time he was the frontman of Dire Straigts. I spent a lot of time to study his style and to see what makes it so special. This lesson shows you the essential from the songs Sultanas of Swing : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=gS9aY41G9EQ Money for Nothing : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Po1TsgvOoOY Private Investigations : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=AhM4tyL5d6I Brothers in Arms : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=a6oWvAGmiCo Got to the lesson.

Lesson of the month This lesson is about Larry Cartons version of T-Bone Walkers " Stormy monday blues ". This is a blues which is played very often and I heard it in many bars actually so it is obvious that there are many diferent versions of it around. I picked the Larry Carton version because his version and his playing style is just great for this lesson of the month. Here is the progression of Larry's version : A7 / D9 / A7 / A7 D9 / D9 / A7 B-7 / C#-7 C-7 E9 / D9 / A7 F9 / E9 D#9 or an alternative version A7 / D9 / A7 / A7 D9 / D9 / A7 B-7 / C#-7 C-7 E9 / D9 / A7 D9 / A7 E9 Get the lesson

Finally the new system is here for the school. Still running some tests, but I think it is great. Please let me know if anything with the subscription manager is not working properly.

This online guitarschool has a facebook account were you find some free stuff and you can keep yourself informed about the current news. LINK

Update for firefox It has seemed that the old system didn't display the videos correcly in the firefox browser. I have found a solution now and edited all videos - now the whole school is also compatible with Internet Explorer & Firefox 3.5

Here I talk about playing the famous song " Still got the blues " by Gary Moore. Check out my instructions on the bending tricks which are typical for his style and take your time to work out the melody and the variation on the melody properly. This will help you a lot on your personal expression on guitar. If you would like to work out the whole song note by note I have posted the full edited tabs as a .pdf - .gp5 or .midi - so if you like you can work through the whole song. But you will be busy learning the great melody with variations and the typical Gary Moore bending tricks. http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschoo...?showtopic=1171

Here's a cool video for all playing levels which shall give you an idea how to make a connection with your guitar and how you can get more and more into music. If you really work on those very slow and controlled movements this will raise your technical abbilities more then you might believe and this also will prevent you from any kind of injuries which are caused by " wanting too much immediatly " . http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschoo...?showtopic=1150

Advanced rock improvisation course Learn a easy to use improvisation concept for rock guitar which make you able to play over the whole fretboard. This is the introduction to advanced rock improvisation concepts. This entire tutorial will get you to the point where you can start to be creative with the minor pentatonic on the entire fretboard. Please take your time to really work out the theoretical and practical background which is needed to understand the whole concept. The 7 lessons will give you a good basis to get into creative improvisation work on a very easy way. Advanced rock improvisation – Introduction Advanced rock improvisation I : Pentatonic i…

I have added to new great rockriffs Rockriff 9 Rockriff 10

Practicing plans A new opportunity for all students to get more guidance into there learning process : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschoo...hp?showforum=74 HD Update : Technial exercises easy improvisation variations on rhythm

Updated the Django Reinhardt videos in HD and added 2 final lessons. Here the full tutorial :

Latin Guitar - Tutorial This is a tutorial where you can learn the very basics of latin guitar in the style of A.C Jobim. You learn the typical chords, the bass movements from root to 5th and you learn the typical rhythm patterns. Take your time to go through all lessons properly and at the end you will be able to play latin guitar. Introduction Latin Guitar 1 Latin Guitar 2 Latin Guitar 3 Latin Guitar 4 Latin Guitar 5 Latin Guitar 6 Latin Guitar 7

Add 2 new great songs for rhythmguitar. They are not to hard to play but still worth taking a look to get the hint. Groovy strumming song in Am Picking song in C

25.02.09 A cool bluesrock session in march with the following videos : Bluesrock in A Blues Intro E La Grange ( Lesson of the month march )

I am testing a new videoplayer since the old has had some problems with the hd-res settings. Here's are the first examples Picking song in Am Picking song in Em Strumming song in Am Please let me know what you think. Don't miss the fullscreen mode ! If you love it I will get the license for it. I already love it HP

Easy songs The first part of an entire series. Here you can learn some easy songs with different playing techniques. The goal of this tutorial is to teach you different basic techniques on rhythm guitar in combination with some usful ideas what you can do with basic or open string chords. This might give you some inspiration to create you own songs. Picking song in Am Picking song in Em Strumming song in Am more to come

Jamming the blues Here you can learn how to play an entire blues with other musicians or an other guitarplayer. You learn how to play blues on time and how you switch between soloing and rhythm guitar. Beside this I show you how you can work out some great soloing stuff with double stops. Download the video now

Hello to all..., Just wanted to let the folks that are coming and check'n out this School that join as members, you can ask questions. There are students here such as myself and others that are more than happy to help or communicate the school, some techniques... Once a Full Student of the School you can join in with us in the Student area... I've been here a few months but checked out the free area for a while. I too didn't do any posting here but now I see where it may have helped. There is so much to learn here... Hanspeter is a great teacher. And Much fun to be had... Be Great... Peace... TonicScale...