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Here I teach you how to build your own jazz guitar chords from scratch in the 2 major modes : Ionian and Lydian. I talk about guidetones and on how to add the options which are associated to the 2 modes. After the theoretical part I show you a practical use with a chord solo in the Joe Pass style. These files are associated to this tutorial : If you need any further professional assistance please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

Hey guys, the newsletter is a bit late this month. I was really busy with my concert preparations for the concert on Feb 5th in the small church in Seegräben. This was now the 2nd full guitar solo concert I performed in this setting. The difference between the Farbmusik concerts and the HPCrazy guitar nights are that the technical and artistic requirements are higher and I did not do this since 2019 anymore and I started to work with my compositions which I did in the past years which have been only heard on Swiss national TV and other broadcasters but I never used them in any live situation, also because electric guitar somehow did not fit in that modern sound when using traditional sound settings of artists like Gary Moore, Santana, Joe Satriani ... but somehow I was willing to find a way now since that part of my work has been a substantial part of my artistic work in the past decade ( http://www.music-pictures.com ) . So I tested for many days to finally get to a solution which worked out and fitted the needs of modern sounds. The result was used the first time on that concert. You will get more insights into that in the upcoming months - so stay tuned here. But this project took all my attention in the past 3 weeks - also to program and test the new live equipment. So this is a path which just has started and for sure I will continue with this together with new compositions. I also consider picking up my composition work which I stopped now for more than 4 years. Therefore I installed a 2nd recording studio beside the one in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy in my home because inspiration often strikes in the evening and in the night. The 2nd thing was that since I started to do professional guitar training again in Sept 2022 there were a lot of things to explore and also I faced an injury in my right arm which I am still in treatment. Too bad to say it was because of my extended computer work I did in the past 24 months and when I started to practice many hours daily again it was too much. So I needed to figure out how I can reduce computer work to the minimum, do the regular therapy since I was still working and practicing on guitar. And this took quite some energy. The good news is - the whole thing is under control now and getting better fast since the changements start to have a tremendous effect. But as always in life there is a lot of discipline required. The HPCrazy Guitar Academy continues as always and I have had quite a lot of ideas to expand the type and style of tutorials but also guitar recordings since I entered the creative path again. The new design of the Academy has a better effect on users and it will now stay the way it is and thanks to your support the Academy is growing slowly but surely. Thats all news for the moment - thanks again for your support you are providing to the HPCrazy Guitar Academy and also the growing interest in my Farbmusik. There is an english written website about that. If you are interested you can get lots more information here : https://farbmusik.com/eng/ Best HP

They there members of the HP crazy Guitar Academy ! I wish everybody a Happy New Year and a joyful year 2023 . Looking back to the past year the HPCrazy guitar Academy went through a lot of changements and a lot of improving of the services which are offered to all you students here. There are growing numbers of students here which all share the same passion as everybody else which is guitar playing and the joy of guitar music. The academy now represents a professional online guitar Academy which combines all experience from 20 years of professional online education in guitar playing. Looking back to this time I remember the times being at guitartricks.com which was at that time the worldwide leading online guitar Academy in the internet, looking back to my time as instructor at gibson.com, I feel that the HPCrazy Guitar Academy now is a complete system and ready for all you guys who really love guitar playing and want to improve your playing and also enjoy guitar music. With the growing number of subscribers and free members we are slowly building up a community here and looking forward to the things to come in 2023. I am planning to keep the pace going on 2 tutorials a week with different topics as blues rock jazz and other playing techniques or other genres and also giving more professional guidance into music theory and on how to bring music theory on the fretboard. Reviewing the numbers of 2022 I can gladly say now that we have passed threshold of having quite a number of Premium members here which support the work and helped to keep the service up so that there is no more danger that the service has to be stopped so we are looking into a bright future here and please if you did make a premium membership upgrade make your small contribution to the community here and also make a premium membership upgrade even if you're not a regular user of this Academy here. That's now all the news of the Guitar Academy thanks for your ongoing support in the last year and happy New Year to everybody out there and we keep up the joy for guitar playing and guitar music in 2023. Best HP