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Ready to take your guitar playing to the next level? The HPCrazy Guitar Academy, led by expert guitarist Hanspeter Kruesi, brings you the best of the best from over 20 years of professional online guitar teaching. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced player, you'll find everything you need to master modern guitar.
With step-by-step video lessons, personalized coaching, and a supportive community, you’ll develop essential skills, explore advanced techniques, and refine your unique style in blues, rock, jazz, funk, acoustic and more.
All tutorials come along with tabs ( PDF & Guitar Pro Files ) and if needed a professional backing track.
Starting Guitar
Guitar Beginners
Basic Blues Guitar
New : Basic Bossanova Guitar
Basic Smooth Jazz Guitar
Basic Jazz Guitar Improvisation
Basic Guitar Touch Technique
Blues Guitar Intermediate
Rock Guitar Intermediate
Jazz Guitar Intermediate
Rock Guitar Advanced - Building Speed
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Learn Blues Guitar here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. The Blues Guitar Tutorials are designed to learn the basics of blues, blues improvisation, theory and basic improvisation concepts with the so-called question-answer concept. Beside these basic concepts, more complex blues forms are shown, playing styles of well-known blues guitarists are analyzed, or simply different Blueslicks are shown, with which you can quickly achieve a great professional sounding success with simple means.
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Learn Rock Guitar online in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. All important techniques of this genre are shown. It starts with the so-called power chords, the commonly used chords of the rock guitar. The rhythm guitar in rock is relatively simple, because the power chords are relatively easy to grap, but nevertheless the rhythm is very important and is trained accordingly. A timing accurate rhythm guitar is the foundation of every rock band. Lead guitar is technically very demanding and has to be trained accordingly.
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Learn Jazz Guitar in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy here. The jazz guitar is by far the most complicated music form. In this genre a preoccupation with music theory harmony and rhythm is inevitable. The study of modes, chord progression, syncopation, improvisation concepts and various blues and musical forms are the center of the training on the jazz guitar. In jazz, improvisation concepts are very sophisticated and complex. The demands on guitar technique are very high and require special training.
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Learn Funk Guitar online here. The Funk guitar is primarily a rhythm guitar. A preoccupation with rhythmics is the center of training for the funk guitar. The basic forms of the so-called 16th rhythmics are learned and implemented on the guitar. Different chord licks, single note lines, tricks and other genre typical aspects of this guitar are shown in the tutorials.
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Learn guitar covers in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. In the cover tutorials known pieces are analyzed and the most important parts of the pieces are shown on the guitar. In some cases arrangements are also shown, which others are based on the melody of a well-known piece.
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Learn acoustic guitar in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. In the Acoustic Tutorials different aspects of the acoustic guitar are shown. This includes the genres of Flamenco Jazz, Rumba, any other form of Latin American guitar techniques, accompaniments, singer songwriters, blues on the steel-string guitar and much more.
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When it come to guitar secrets you really need to know - this is for you. I will share some guitar secrets which are very helpful for you to become a better guitar player. I would even call it a " Must Have " feature. Guitar Secrets you might haven't heard anywhere else.
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Learn how to play like great guitar artists in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. In the Artists Studies, playing techniques, pieces or typical playing styles of well-known guitarists are analysed and shown. In particular, simplified aspects of well-known guitarists are also shown that these protagonists are often top-class guitarists.
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Learn Touch Technique in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. Here you can learn my version of the Touch Technique which was invented by Stanley Jordan, where you play the guitar like a piano player by using both hands on the fretboard to create an unheard rich sound on the guitar.
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Learn classical influenced guitar and film music in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. In classical music and film music, small classical-looking etudes are shown or arrangements of classical pieces are presented. There are also simplified arrangements of well-known film music pieces or pieces that would work as film music.
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Learn how to create professional guitar songs from initial idea to finished production! I’m Hanspeter Kruesi, an experienced composer and producer with over 20 years in the music industry. My music has been featured on Swiss National Television, international TV stations, and Hollywood shows like Dr. House, Ugly Betty, and Orange Is The New Black. With over 60 released albums, film scores, and commercial productions, I share my expertise to elevate your guitar tracks – covering songwriting, arrangement, recording, sound design, and mixing.
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Here you can learn all about theory in music. You find files which are pure music theory. The next step is to put the theory on the fretboard of your guitar. There will be exercises added to practice theory on the guitar.
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If you are a Guitar Beginner - then this is the part which brings you step by step with a various set of exercises to an intermediate guitar playing level. The first 6 - 12 months are hard for any guitar beginner because there are many things which have to be repeated all the time till one is able to perform them on the guitar. These exercises are meant to keep you motivated even if you need to repeat many things over and over again.
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Professional tips and tricks for the optimization of your guitar equipment in combination with your individual playing technique. I have experience as a composer, producer and studio - and live musician how to handle your equipment in different situations, how to adjust and use compressors, distortion, EQ's or other effects and how to achieve a specific sound.
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My personal vlog with philosophic thoughts about music, philosophy and spiritual topics. View behind the scenes of my music, my knowledge about music and the deeper meaning of my work as an artist, creator and astrologer.
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Farbmusik is my most unique feature in music. I play, compose and improvise music related to colors. These are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In 2005 I brought this concept into a form which can also be viewed on FARBMUSIK.COM
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Topics related to my music and work related to my guitarist work. Background information about my thoughts related to my guitar music, my guitar technique and checking of new sound possibilties.
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News and background information to my pianist work. This includes normal piano playing in genres such as Blues, Jazz, Boogie Woogie, Filmmusic or others but also getting deeper into the philosopy about my piano playing - PIANIST.CH
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