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I really enjoyed this. It is great hearing more of your music!

Yes I think theory is something which is still missing a bit. I thought I want to go for tutorials which really get students to understand and use the modes. And Les Paul was right. 🙂

Yeah these licks should give you new ideas how to use the pentatonic. 🙂

Maybe some Theory? I know I know, dirty word. but I love it. As the great Les Paul said, The more you learn about Guitar/Music. The more you realize you know nothing... The things one can do with guitar are limitless. Peace...

Creativity and Meditation What is the connection between meditation and creativity ? I want to share my thoughts and my way of living creativity. My way of seeing music, art, thoughts and life is, that everything is already there you just need to open up your mind to see or feel it and then start to create. There is a prominent example for that way of thinking. When Michelangelo, the famous italian artist was asked how he created his famous David statue he answered that the statue was always there he just needed to remove the unnecessary parts from the stone. It's the same with music. Music is something which has always been there you just need to be able to hear the music. One can not create something which has not been there - it's part of nature and part of everything. And how do you hear that music ? Here comes the meditation - by switching all other noises in your conscious. That can work with meditation or what I often did with long jogging tours. I can not tell how many songs I composed while I was jogging. The main technique to open yourself up for music and switching off everything else which disturbs the creative process. It can also happen that you hear music while you are sleeping. I compose quite a few songs like this. The picture you are seeing is taken at one of my favorite meditation spots out in nature on a hill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Was ist die Verbindung zwischen Meditation und Kreativität? Ich möchte meine Gedanken und meine Art, Kreativität zu leben, mit Dir teilen. Meine Art, Musik, Kunst, Gedanken und das Leben zu sehen, ist, dass alles schon da ist, man muss nur seinen Geist öffnen, um es zu sehen oder zu fühlen und dann anfangen zu erschaffen. Es gibt ein prominentes Beispiel für diese Denkweise. Als Michelangelo, der berühmte italienische Künstler, gefragt wurde, wie er seine berühmte David-Statue erschaffen hat, antwortete er, dass die Statue schon immer da war, er musste nur die unnötigen Teile aus dem Stein entfernen. Genauso ist es mit der Musik. Musik ist etwas, das schon immer da war, man muss nur in der Lage sein, die Musik zu hören. Man kann nicht etwas erschaffen, was nicht schon da war - es ist Teil der Natur und Teil von allem. Und wie kann man diese Musik hören? Hier kommt die Meditation - indem Du alle anderen Geräusche in Deinem Bewusstsein ausschaltest. Das kann mit Meditation funktionieren oder was ich oft bei langen Joggingtouren gemacht habe. Ich kann nicht sagen, wie viele Lieder ich während des Joggens komponiert habe. Die wichtigste Technik ist, sich für die Musik zu öffnen und alles andere auszuschalten, was den kreativen Prozess stört. Es kann auch passieren, dass man Musik hört, während man schläft. Ich komponiere ziemlich viele Songs auf diese Weise. Das Bild, das Sie sehen, ist an einem meiner Lieblingsmeditationsplätze in der Natur auf einem Hügel aufgenommen.

If my intention is to calm down I meditate for a while. If I play music over a long time - more and more musical ideas are shown to me. After some days of playin a lot - my soul and body needs to calm down for a long time. Thats the circle I`'m in. If I play a lot I sometimes dream of little music phrases in the morning. If I meditate a lot I become more and more still inside. Where I wrap my mind around the well opens - for the possibilities that are here. Greets Andrea

Here you can listen to my HPCrazy Guitar Night from the 7.3.21 - I wanted to do a classic guitar night with the focus on blues rock and rock. I picked 2 songs from the CD " Blues City " - The Sherrif and Grand Ma's Apple Pie and I did a lot of not released works like " Indian Summer " or the " Misery Blues " where I for the first time tried to do some singing. Well I know the singing can be improved. In fact I took some singing lessons when I was playing a lot in piano bars at the beginning of my career and my bosses wanted me to sing so I gave a shot but I never liked it. This time I enjoyed even I knew it was bad. Somebody was asking for the song " Drunken Snake in the Dessert " - I was not prepared for that to switch the guitar thats why the picture with the accoustic guitar is not so good. But I can tell that after a long time of testing equipment and the livestreaming I found the solution now which works for any future livestreaming. And I am planing to do a HPCrazy Guitar Night every month where I will play things I am working on, also make jazz specials, smooth jazz specials and accoustic guitar specials - maybe also meditation specials. We will see how it develops. And for the first time I included the Super Chat and Super Sticker function in the livestream where fans can donate during the ongoing livestream. I love that feature. 😄 If you haven't done your donation you can do it here on my website. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/clients/donations/2-support-the-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/