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Here is a list of my favorite guitarists, not necessarily in this order. What's yours? Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page Tony Iommi Gary Moore Eric Clapton Yngwie Malmsteen Uli Jon Roth Michael Schenker Eddie Van Halen Randy Rhoads David Gilmore Alan Holdsworth Al Di Meola Glen Tipton Neil Giraldo Paul Gilbert Tom Scholz Elliot Easton Andy Summers The Edge Ritchie Blackmore Joe Satriani Ronnie Montrose

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 …

Hi Guys, Just wondering if there is a place here for an old left handed guitar player like me. Your comments would be strongly appreciated. Thank you very much. Looking forward to receiving your reply. Best wishes from The Netherlands, Joe Davis Jr.

Hey guys, this website is going to a next phase after a phase of around 4 years where I was building up the whole Guitar Academy with content which offer you guys the full scale of music education. I can tell that the most really essential topics are now here and represented and for all beginner - advanced players the system is complete that it can be full operational. Now comes the phase were we can start working as a community. What is the benefit of a community ? Together we are stronger because we can share our experience and our knowledge. I did the best to cover all the professional needed topics in the academy but the human interaction is also an importan…

Hey guys, I want to make the Guitar Students Club to the center of our small guitar community here. So if you have any suggestions, requests or comments please let me know what you guys think, or what is on your mind. Tutorial Requests It's always hard for me to find topics for upcoming tutorials since there are many things which I don't know and I often don't have so much time for research and stuff like that. If you want to help me to find topics for new tutorials please let me know. I only have one condition - it has to be somehow a popular topic or a topic which might be in the interest of the majority of students - but also sometimes topics which are …

Some useful information about the great features in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. We have the guitar courses and the student blogs. Both are all great features which guide you through your personal guitar journey. Here you find all courses & the list of the search tags : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-courses/ Here you find the Premium Member Blogs : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/blogs/ and here you find the beginners course if you are totaly new to guitar playing :

Hi all, now that we are approaching the end of the year, I thought about objectives for the upcoming year. For me that is : Get routine to play tight and in timing. Sounds easy to achieve but unfortunately, each time I have a lesson with HP, I learn that it is not. :-) What are your goals for next year ? Have fun, Volker

Premium Blogs If you need any guidance or advice which tutorial or which course would fit best to your current guitar playing situation let me know where you stand, what your goals are and I can give you tips and tricks and the proper links. If any new questions show up then just continue to write and we have a monitor on your progress and you can also always check where you stand. Of course you can write anything else " off topic " about music or guitarplaying. The tool is free to use as long your posts follow the community guidelines. For the german speaking members here : Open up your own Premium Blog If have made your upgrade you open up your blog here : https://www…

Here I want to share some ideas for updates which I have. You might want to give your opinion or suggestion here to help to improve the whole system. ------------------------------------- I am thinking about writting some guided courses out of the existing tutorials here to help you guys to get kind of a direction which tutorials shall be to watch and to work on. There is already so much content here in the academy - it's hard to keep track on all material which is here and if you don't know what to search for then you will not find it. Tell me what you think about this

We reached 3000 members now on this website. That's quite something. It's really hard to get people to subsribe to private websites. Thanks for all the support out there - this small community is growing at bit every day. Keep on spreading the word out there :-) #hpcrazyguitaracademy or #hpcrazy

Hey guys, all lessons here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy seem to be posted randomly but they aren't. All lesson are marked with Search Tags. They help you to find similar lessons of a specific typ when you click on the specific tag of your choice. Let me explain. Playing Level Tag When you click on the HPCrazy Guitar Academy or any of the departments of it you find the Level Tags. Click of the level of your choice and you will find all lessons which are marked with the same level. You also find the on the top of any list of tutorials on the left side : Secundary Tags Beside the level some tutorials have secondary tags which let …

Hey guys, I hear so often that people don't understand why the HPCrazy Guitar Academy does not have that big traffic as some guys out there think it would be worth. Well the truth is - there is a lot of competion out there in the net and there are companies, teams or groups who probably have more man-power then I do have. I am a one man company and I am doing everything myself - even this website. Well it's a CMS by invision power board but still I do all the maintainance, the promotion and the content creation including the production of the backing tracks myself. You probably now see the problem - I can not be everywhere - the main problem is that I don't have the …

In this club you find some free downloads for all members of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. This is like a selection of files which I think are cool for you guys and also represent the vibe of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. Some of the files might be a bit difficult for beginners or intermediate players but it's good to know that material like that exists and it might be an inspiration for some of you guys. On some things you might work for months or years. But thats the path of a true guitar lover who always wants to improve. As an example I am trying to play " Eugene's Trick Bag " since many years. Now after many years I think I get to the point where I can play it. Even…

This topic here is for your questions and comments about any 7-string guitar topic. You can post any question if you like or you can refer to the original topic which you find here :

Here you find my tips on how to avoid / treat guitar injuries. If you want to discuss your case please let me know to give you more detailed advice for my personal experience.

In HP's version of Snowy Whites Midnight blues. I have been working on the run he does at the :21 / 3:45 mark. I love that he doesn't provide a lot of tabs. It makes me better to work it out. But that lick has me baffled. I have worked and worked at it. I can't get it nailed down. can anyone provide me some tips/tabs for that run. I can't tell if he starts it with an open string or not. and its just fast enough that i can't hear every note. any help would be appreciated My email is [email protected] Thanks

These days I am dealing with some problems of injuries from too much computer and guitar work. It's not the first time and the problem is quite common when I look back to all my students from the last 30 years. One should always keep in mind that our body is not made for guitar playing and when you play a lot you get tension and pain in your muscle system and it often comes from your shoulders even when it hurts in your elbow or wrist. Doing regular exercises as shown in this older video is the key to avoid dropouts in playing because you have to pause. If you already run into problems and you have pain then you still can keep on playing but then focus on eartraining…

It is really simple to sign up for new member accounts here. Just click on the SIGN UP button and fill out the simple form. But here some additional information which help you to decide to sign up : 1. Your data is not used in any way for marketing or promotion. The only thing which you might get if you opted into my newsletter. That one you can opt out anytime. That one will not be more then once per month. If you want to opt out of the newletter go to https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/notifications/options/ then select " newletter " and deactivate the " email " box. You can opt in any time again. 2. If you really feel like you want to have your acc…

If you are a true guitar fan and a enthusiastic student of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy then you might want to have a t-shirt. Most of my live - students have at least one t-shirt at home. There are currently 2 different designs available. The old style logo and the modern logo. --------------

Hey guys, I just bought a 7 string guitar to expand my possibilities of sound and expression. I will soon make some video's or recordings with it. My question is would you guys be interested to follow the journey with the 7 string guitar yourself with your own 7 string guitar. I just ask here in the HPCrazy students club and not on YouTube anymore. It's about time that members of the HPCrazy Students Club get a benefit of being here and part of the community. Let me know what your thoughts are about the 7 string guitar - or maybe you have some other idea's to share.

Hey guys, would you be interested in several courses here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy ? At the end of the course you would be able to pass the tests for the HPCrazy Guitar Academy Awards. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-student-awards/ As an example the Blues Intermediate Award : Tell me what you guys think about this.

Hey guys - somebody is currently claiming to be me by saying there are give-aways or even Dr. Pink for free. This is a scam. Please listen to this video to clarify. This is how the messages look like : Here my comment about this all :

2 days ago Steve Vai performed live as a guest musician together with Whitesnake. The guitar work of Steve Vai was great as always. But who finds the mistake in the video ?

Hey guys, there is a new version of guitar pro available. https://www.guitar-pro.com/c/10-guitar-pro-new-features In earlier tutorials I used to also add the guitar pro file for download. But at that time this service was not used so often. Maybe it has changed now. So I wonder if you guys would be interested that I add the guitar pro files again. I think guitar pro is in fact an awesome tool for practicing and I could offer a discount for all HPCrazy Guitar Academy students. https://www.guitar-pro.com/?pg=cart&CodeReduction=hpcrazy#ae163

Thanks again Hanspeter for listing www.abtguitars.com on your website under the links. For all those of you who don't know me yet: I am an enthusiastic user of the HP Crazy Guitar Academy. Over the last few years I have developed a guitar that I will produce in small series starting in 2023. The guitar combines the best thinking and ideas of the guitar world enhanced with some new innovations. Hanspeter tested my second prototype of the Capricorn. For more information visit my website.