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Over the past three years, I've often wondered if the effort for my digital presence was still worth it. I know that hamster wheel feeling of constantly producing content that disappears after 24 hours. It felt like I was fighting an invisible system. But I decided to change the rules of the game. Instead of relying on the short-lived reach of social media, I built a sustainable digital network of my own. Last week was the breakthrough: Google read the new structure of my main portal, HanspeterKruesi.com. The result was overwhelming. The number of indexed pages jumped from 2,200 to over 10,500. All the effort no longer disappears; it now permanently strengthens my entire …

Since Summer 2025 there is a new quality of backing tracks available here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. You guys might have noticed. In fact i have synched the production of most of the backing tracks with my pitching process in the synch business for TV & Movie and therefore the quality has to be top notch. And thats you you might have noticed as the change of the quality. As an example the current backing track " Van Halen Style Rock Guitar " is in fact produced on typical 80s production standards with typical 80s sounds which also includes the typical Eddie Van Halen guitar sound. or the track " High Octance Red Rock Guitar " was produced upon the standards of a p…

Hi {member_name} there have been some really cool updates on the Music & Guitar Academy. Students Awards If you are working out thing on your personal playing level you might be interested if you already have a certain playing level. Therefore the HPCrazy Guitar Academy offers now a first bundle of Students Awards. Blues Guitar Intermediate & Rock Guitar Intermediate. If you want to know which requirements are needed to pass from Blues or Rock Guitar to an Intermediate player please check out the requirements here : Now how do you proceed. Check the requirements which are needed to pass and also if you need some additional inspiratio…

Dear members, We're making a change to our newsletter to better serve our most dedicated community. Moving forward, the main newsletter will be sent exclusively to all current and former premium members. This lets me focus my resources and energy on those who have actively supported this platform. For all other members, the newsletter will still be available on the website, so you won't miss any updates. Exciting News: Introducing the Exclusive Farbmusik Supporter Newsletter! In a major step forward, I'm launching a new, exclusive newsletter specifically for supporters of the Farbmusik concept. For $120 per year, this newsletter is more than just an update—it's a way to b…

I will add upcoming news of my activities here - also those which are time sensual such as spontaneous livestreams. If you don't want to miss them then just " Follow " this topic. The news feed also includes updates in my personal professional blog where I share some useful background information about guitar practicing strategies, composing, music business or anything else.

I have started to produce synch music for TV & movies again and started with the pitching process in order to my music placed again in any TV or movie broadcast as it is still ongoing since I did this till 2015 and unfortunately I did not find any time anymore to produce more music for synch. I have updated my business plan now that it is now possible again to pitch my music for that specific need. Here you find my description of my composer profile which I updated in the agencies : Here are now 2 most recent adds to the pitching process : Instrumental Blues

I have been into professional online education since 2003 having my first guitar sites and websites around music. Looking back to those times I still have a smile on my face because back then the internet was an unexplored area which one could be creative and in fact reach many people with the work as an artist. And so I did - I reached millions of users since then but like around 2018 things started to change. The first laws with restrictions came and of course all the big companies tried to get more and more influence over the internet and so they did. Also being in the Swiss YouTube team I have seen many things which were going on in the background which leaded to my p…

Hey guys, I have a TikTok account since a few weeks. There I will only post some performance video's. If you guys are interested you can follow me there too. BTW - it's amazing how much traffic you get there with only a few subscribers https://www.tiktok.com/@hpcrazy73

I have started a new strategy in the creation of new tutorials a few days ago. After a longer phase now of just creating tutorials to fill up the missing parts here in the academy and to have all done in a complete manner I will now shift to a new strategy which way smaller amounts of learning material but easy to follow tutorials. I have noticed in the past 2 years in teaching that many students are overwhelmed with the mass of content available and therefore had problems keeping up the motivation to check new material because they felt they were too able to fulfill the tasks which were already given. That's not optimal for motivation and for the continuation of reg…

It was really about time that I overworked the entire website now and made the whole thing as compact and cooperate identity look style as possible. Now I am proud to announce that the new website is online now. Check : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com The idea was always to pull all my services and all my work to one website and now it's done. One of the main hard tasks was that there are in fact so many services and projects. They are still all out there but all roads and links will now lead to this website here. This important update is also part of my new strategy I worked on since more than one year to free myself from all social media plattforms. I don'…

I will start to upload random performance video's which I record mostly direct after I recorded a tutorial and I started to upload them on my TikTok account which created way more traffic then when I upload it here on my main YT channel. Don't ask me what the reason is for that because I don't know. Anyway - since not everybody has TikTok i will upload the same content on my 2nd YouTube channel and also post them here on my website in the Guitar department. You can support my efforts to get more traffic on those videos by subscribing to that channel as well... and BTW help me to reach out 1 K subscribers there. I would be really grateful. The reason I can not upload those…

Here I post some random thoughs and talks all around .... well whatever.

In these blog I want write about my practice routines on guitar to give you an impression what I am working on. Some exercises are really a long lasting project and some just for a certain time. I always start my guitar practicing with these classical arpeggio exercises and I play all of them first slow, then medium tempo and sometimes I try them faster. One of the main problems on these exercises is, that the left hand fingering is quite challenging since the intervals are either 5ths or 6ths or similar and you need to skip the strings in certain positions and sometimes you need to make small barré fingerings - this in combination with the picking technique make thi…

Dr. Pink is getting some company by Mrs Blue. This is a PRS Cheasapeake Bay Bridge Private Stock guitar and it will replace if all goes well my old Godin LGX which I have been playing for over 30 years now. In the past months I felt that the Godin LGX can not display the sound I want to create since I reached a new level of expression on guitar so I was starting to look for a new guitar and since mom left me a few bucks it would have been her wish to invest it properly. So I estimated a budget of 7K for a new guitar - but I didn't find any which really striked me as my old Godin LGX done 30 years ago. At that time that guitar was 3.5K and I only had 100 bucks in my pocket…

In this blog here I will talk about my journey on the new 7 string guitar and share my thoughts, my exercises, my sound settings and new playing techniques which come up with the new opportunities on the 7 strings. I will share my exercises here in this post. They will be available for Premium Members for download. If you have any questions please use this topic here because I want to keep the timeline in this topic here clean. And please give your vote in this poll here.

I just watched the movie " Birth of the Cool '' on Netflix. It's the story of Miles Davis and how influential he was in the world of music. I was always a fan of the musical approach of Miles Davis because he never stopped his development in creativity and music. There was this one scene where they talked about the moment where he started to use the bell with his horn and created the sound which we all know by Miles. There was a festival where a lot of representatives of Columbia Records were sitting in the audience - and he got signed. It was the sound and the vibe of the sound which brought the notes so much to a bigger audience and made jazz so popular. In fact this is…

Here's a blues - rock song in the style of Ry Cooder or Johnny Winter. It's played with bottleneck and I like the title " Wiskey Wagon ".

Daily notes about things around my music Here I will post some notes around my music or philosophic thoughts which popped up during my creative meditations.

Hey guys, many people always asked me if I play in a band and in the past years I always said, that I don't play in a band because I am too busy with all my online projects which were going really well. But it always was something I wanted to do but of course I am really picky with musicians even everybody wanted to play with me in Switzerland. Well maybe not everybody but most of the musicians I know always said that they would join me if I would form a band. I had a talk with Mario Caspar 2 days ago. And I consider him the best drummer in Switzerland when it comes to funky, straight ahead and bluesy grooves. He said he's in and drummers always want to select t…

Hey guys, after my mom and my whole familly has passed away in the past 2 years a few personal notes how this will effect my work and my strategies in the upcoming future. And here you find the donation section I was talking about : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/

Some of you might have noticed that I was not so creative in the past months. It had it's reasons - I was busy to take care of my daily things and my family. My dad passed away 4 years ago, last year my sister followed and now my mom also left to enternity. My entire family is now gone. I feel like a chapter is closing and for sure it will have an impact on my artist work. What exactly it will be I don't know now but I know something will change. I remember when my dad passed away somehow I learnt to be more responsible in life and now I don't know which effect this situation will have on me. But what I know at the moment is that there is no need to stay in Switerland any…

Healing and meditation music Since our world and our society is facing many changements and challenges I have been thinking for quite a while about my personal next steps in music and the music business. I am looking back to a quick successful career in the music business since 1991. I have been a performing artist, composer for TV and movies and companies, a professor at music university, a representative of my country Switzerland on international music symposiums and I recorded over 60 CD's and I am represented on over 500 samplers as far as I checked the last time like 3 years ago. I also have been very prominent in online teaching on guitartricks.com, gibson…

I always had this idea of doing outdoor meditation concerts - like doing a fullmoon concert and being outside and in fact watching the moon while playing somewhere out in nature. But since I dont like to play acoustic guitar so much this was never possible with the electric guitar. But now I have this great new outdoor equipment which contains a 500W jackery powerbank connected with a solar panel. I have done a first test today and it works. I can charge the powerbank within 1-2 hours to get enough power for a one hour concert where I have my Roland 60W acoustic amplifier, my Mackie Mixer and my Fractal Audio FM3. This is awesome. As soon as the weather makes it possible …

All backing tracks you find here on my website are productions from my own studio. For me this is not such a big thing to produce them because I have been a professional composer for TV, Movie and Broadcasting from the years 2003 - 2012. There I active produced tracks, teasers, comercial tracks for adds and things like that. I had many placements in Swiss national TV, in severel ABC shows like Ugly Betty, Orange is the new Black and other TV shows around the globe. So producing backing tracks is really an easy task for me since I know how to produce music in many genres and have the proper tools for that. I am using mainly Steinberg products : Nuendo 11 Groove A…

Hi we are now entering into 2022 and I wish you a happy new year. Here are the latest news and the plans for this year. Finished the testing and developing phase Since 2 years I am serios running this website and building up the system to make it as user friendly as possible and to make your experience here the best possible. Therefore I also needed some experience by you all and see how things work out and how the system can fit the best to your needs. This phase is now closed and we are ready to take further steps. Building up the community The main goal now for 2022 is to build up an activ community here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy and also o…