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Would you guys be interested in having the ability to go for awards on different levels by passing a test? The test would be a tutorial and if you can play what is teached in the tutorial in a test which I would monitor then you would get an award in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. To do the test you would need to pay a small fee for my time - like 10US$ and possible level award would be : Intermediate Blues Guitar Player, Semi Pro Blues Guitar Player, Advanced Rock Guitar Player and so on and on. Tell me what you think about the idea. At the end the full HPCrazy Guitar Academy Diploma stands which would give you an award for a professional guitar player.

Hey guys, check out this 20 sec clip here. It's what you can learn in the current tutorial " swagger alternative rock guitar " . I really love this riff but somehow the tutorial is not so popular - maybe have a look at what you can learn. It's really easy to play and sounds great. Maybe the title of the tutorial was misleading.... https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxaG1lNRDv-NHOhAlWahqU9j3oFNa4dpTO

Finally I created 2 trailers for the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. The first one will appear before and during a premiere of any upcoming tutorial and the 2nd one before and during a livestreaming concert of the HPCrazy Guitar Night Premiere Trailer : Trailer HPCrazy Guitar Night :

I love your blues lessons. WOW ! Finally I found what I needed. Thank you so much for your great ideas and instructions ! Best regards, JD

How is your Forum working ? Is it a Forum where all members can ask/answer questions ? If there is no " real " Forum yet, would it be interesting to create one or ... is there too much work involved ? Plse advise. Many thanks, JD

Yngwie Malmsteen is giving an interview with a drink in his hand wearing sunglasses. I really adored what he did on guitar even I sometimes hoped that he could play a few long notes in his solo's - but what do you guys think about hits interview. What I can tell - when I was an instructor at guitartricks.com around 2006 we were the leading guitar platform worldwide and our instructors did a lot of tutorials of different artists and there songs. The only artist who ever complained and sewed guitartricks.com was in fact Yngwie Malmsteen.

I got so many mails and messages related to Dr. Pink and which model she is. ( yes is a " she " ) - thats the first point. And the reason why Dr. Pink sounds so good even for an Epiphone is that Dr. Pink is a very rare model from the Epiphone Elitist series from 2005 - 2007 which is not the same model as the Jay Jay French models which came later. I got Dr. Pink at the time where I was an official Gibson instructor and was teaching my Touch Technique on the website of gibson.com. They offered me to choose a guitar of my choice and I liked the color of Dr. Pink a lot and I choosed that guitar. 2 Weeks later I got her, sent directly from Nashville to my studio in Egg S…

Hey guys, happy new year to everybody. I have finally made a real workout on the private lessons system here on this website. Before it was a a little bit old fashion system on my website http://www.hpcrazy.com/private.html Now all is ready. You can select either private video download lessons where you get your own private password protected download page. This system is great if you want to rewatch your lessons over and over again. Or you can have private skype lessons where you can have a professional talk with me about your playing issues you want to solve. Those talks also can be recorded inside skype but the qualitiy is not the same and there we …

Hey guys, I have altered the Emoji's now and there is a small selection of HPCrazy Emoji's available : and some more. If you have any other suggestions for Emoji's please let me know and post a link where I can get them.

Hey guys, x-mas time is approaching. So better start early to learn your x-mas song - this one is real fun and easy to play. Tabs and backing track are available for Premium Members. Here's how the original sounds. A wonderful version by José Feliciano - by the way a great guitar player even he does not play so much guitar here.

Hi guys, there will soon be some changments here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. Due to the high workload to keep the quality of content on the highest level I have decided to adapt the prices to the workload which is created. So here the the changments which are coming soon : New Price for Premium Memberships : 1 Year 60 US$ - Renewal 55 US$ 1 Month 6.50 US$ - Renewal 6 US$ These changes will only affect new subscribers. The current subscriptions will stay but the renewal will be with the new price. Those who made there subscriptions on automatic renewal by PAYPAL probably need to renew there subscription once the automatic renewal fails. But I am …

Just spent an hour blasting through "power shuffle rock", what a cheerful Christmas number! ...lol. Anyone else doing this one? I'm trying to create the "up scoop" on a couple of these dark chords by pressing on my stratocaster bridge with palm of hand just at the right moment, instead of tearing apart the neck by forcibly bending it repeatedly, anyone else have advice here? The notes need to finish with a scoop to sound right. Thanks... Johansen (beginner)

Hey guys, I have started to tag the tutorials here with tags whichs show the level they are. The following tags are available : BLUES blues guitar easy blues guitar intermediate blues guitar advanced blues guitar masterclass ROCK rock guitar easy rock guitar intermediate rock guitar advanced rock guitar masterclass Jazz easy jazz guitar intermediate jazz guitar advanced jazz guitar jazz guitar masterclass jazz guitar standard smooth jazz beside these 3 main genres there are the following important general tags also available : must have ( Tutorials which you really need to watch ) touch technique ( All tutorials where I show …

The best way to learn is to exchange your experience and your ways of dealing with the guitar. The HPCrazy Guitar Academy gives you great features to connect with others. 1. Follow other students - Just go to there profiles and hit the FOLLOW button. Then any status update your new friend makes will be announced to you. Start to talk with eachother and connect to share your experience. Here's an example of an active member here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/profile/3952-andrea-joy/ - Just search the members for people of your interest or you click on the picture of a member profile to learn more about people here. 2. Update your memb…

Hey guys, you might have already saw the download section here. There I will be posting important files for download. Some of them are free for all registered member and some of them for a small fee. You will see the files marked with FREE are for free and very usefull and important if you want to study guitar on a deeper level. You find an overview of all files in the download section here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/files/category/2-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/ Please bookmark this link to easy find this section again.

Hey guys, for the next tutorial on tuesday I have a task for you guys. I will be talking about options in my jazz guitar theory tutorial. Read the theory file I posted and try to understand what options are. They are marked " red " in the theory files here. If you have any questions please ask here since jazz music theory is not so easy to understand but options are a very important part of jazz music.

These are the goals I use to develop my daily practice plan. Not everything listed is practiced in each session. Some items are handled by a 3 to 5 minute exercise, others have to be kept in mind throughout the practice session. Practice is deliberate action performed to address a problem, as you can see, I have a lot of those. General Maintain a practice journal. Enter what will be practiced in the journal as part of the warm-up. Record myself regularly and perform a self-assessment. Develop an exercise to address problems found during self-assessment. Less noodling, more deliberate practice. Learn where the strings are. De…

Suzanne by Leonard Cohen Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half-crazy but that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer that you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind And then you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water…

Hey Guys, to get you to know better. Talk about your gear here - show us what you are having fun with when you play guitar. ?

That boy don't follow directions none, but he sure looks good.

Because of the ongoing Covid restrictions in Switzerland my buisness is still suffering from income loss as many other buisness of others as well I guess. So this post is not to complain - it's to mention the possibilty to support the HPCrazy Guitar Academy in these times. The work will go on - I already decided this. The goal is to get so many premium members that they system is economic healthy - at the moment it is not. So if you love the work I am doing you can either make the premium membership upgrade or / and make a donation here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/clients/donations/2-support-the-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/

Here you can have a visit and a walk through the HPCrazy Guitar Academy which is now a complete and professional online guitar academy. There are cool features for free members and professional features for extended services such as premium membership or private online lesson.

There is now a brand new feature here in our community which awards everybody who interacts here. It's probably just a toy for fun but I love it. All member awards are currently set on 0 points but you get points by posting, replying, following, reacting and more. I will think about this system and set the points and let you know. 😄 Love it - was waiting quite a while to get this ranking and award system running - now finaly its here. You can already start to gather points just with opening or replying to topics or by following other members. You can see your current ranking and award status by going to your public profile here. 🙂

Hey guys, I would like to expand my club of guitars in upcoming tutorials. So you shall not see only Dr. Pink. I would like to include also acoustic guitars. So please let me know your opinion in this poll here or write my your opinion. 🙂