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here's now the april 23 newsletter Blues Guitar Minor blues is the most popular topic in the guitar community so it was about time to share my experience and insight what I think about a perfect minor blues guitar sound. The secret in minor blues is, that it is about tone control and your ability to show many aspects of tone and sound in your minor blues guitar solo. If you want to know more check out this tutorial here : Do you love to go to jamsessions in your local community ? If yes then for sure you know the tune " Watermelon Man " by Herbie Hancock. I visited many jamsessions and this tune is one of the most played and I must say overplayed tune on jamsession but it is still played. If you want to become the GOTO guy at your local jamsession then my tutorial might help you to achieve this goal. Rock Guitar Rock Guitar Rhythm Studies are very important if you want to play a tight and convincing rock guitar. Rhythm and precision is the key to that. Playing proper 16th notes is a task for many players out there but with this tutorial I made things a bit easier for your guys and this tutorial is in face a MUST HAVE for every rock guitar player. The chord combination C F G is probably one of the most overuses chord progression on the planet. Here I give you some ideas how to make you sound fresh and new and to get this modern alternative rock guitar sound where unusaual chord voicings are used or dropped tunings get this modern sound. In this case it's a standard tuning but sounds like if you would have used a drop C tuning. Jazz Guitar Bebop Jazz Guitar is a hard task to achieve because you need a lot of theoretical knowledge and orientation on the fretboard. So here is the most easy possible start to the basics of Bebop on the guitar. We start with a simple II V I progression usind the chords Dm7 / G7 / Cmaj7 . This is the starting point to understand what the prinicple of bebop in general is and how to work it out on the guitar. If you are a total beginner into scales and just used to playing the minor or major pentatonics then these files and instructions here shall help you to get an understanding of scales, modes and there connection between eachother. I know many of you don't like theory but when you want to play Jazz Guitar it a MUST HAVE. Guitar Night HPCrazy Guitar Night is taking place on April 21th as an online event from the HPCrazy Guitar Academy Studio's so that all you guys can attend. I went through a longer phase now of injuries, reorganization and research to proceed with my main creative restart now in 2023. The past 3 years were not so creative for me and in fact it took longer then I thought to get back on the track I left 2020. My injury also took my 3 months to cure it. If you are suffering from guitar playing injuries yourself you might want to watch my therapy recommendations here : I also started to play the 7-String guitar. A great creative add and if you are interested to follow my thought and experience on my 7-string journey then this is the topic to subscribe for free for you. There you also find some exercises which I think are useful for 7-string gutiar beginners. and so we are now ready for the first HPCrazy Guitar Night on April 21th. If you love it or want to support the music please make a donation. You find the link in the description of the event : Technical Information Maintenance work was taking place in the past weeks on the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. If you experienced any problems with your Premium Membership please contact me and we can fix the problem. I also ran into a few technical problems about the bulk mail feature since we are now approaching 3000 members here on this website and this create quit a lot traffic. These were all things which had to be looked at which was quit time consuming I must say but I am glad this phase is now over. I also did a lot of testing and research on the mobile livestreaming workflow and equipment to make it possible to have better livestreams from other locations then only the HPCrazy Studio's. On the last concert from April 6th we were ready to go but there was a defect adapter which caused the drop out. In fact it's amazing how much testing and research is nessary to get all these things done. Also my Live Equipement is new and all the testing and programing took me weeks but I am now finished. My Live - Rig contains the following devices : So you guys see I was incredible busy but the testing and research phase is now over and now I enter back into the creative phase. HP

View File Easy Scale Building Playing different scales, modes and the orientation on the fretboard is a major topic for all guitar players and from my point of view there are 2 ways to approach this problem. 1. You can learn hunderts of patterns which you find in many pattern books you find on the market. Here you find a good collection of different patterns : https://www.guitar.ch/en/guitars/scales/scales.html 2. You understand what is the essence of a scale, how it's built and how you derive from the basic pentatonic patterns to the major and minor scales and modes. The file which you can download here helps you to go the 2nd way. The key is that most guitar players come the minor pentatonic pattern 1 + 4 and there you can start the journey. Derive Minor & Major Scales from basic pentatonic positions 1. Learn the positions 1 + 4 of the minor pentatonic and learn the intervals by heart - these are 1 b3 4 5 b7. The root note is marked red on the graphics. 2. Learn the posistions 1 + 4 of the major pentatonics. The trick is - they are exactly the same patterns on the fretboard - you just need to move the pattern down 3 frets, redefine the root note ( marked red ) and learn the new intervals 1 2 3 5 6 by heart. 3. Minor Scale - check the intervals. The new notes are marked red here : 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7. The grid of the pattern of the minor pentatonic remains - just add the 2 new notes. 4. Major Scale - check the intervals. The new notes are marked red here : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The grid of the pattern of the minor pentatonic remains - just add the 2 new notes. Additional 2 minor scales ( Harmonic & Melodic Minor ) 1. Harmonic Minor Scale - check the intervals and compare it with the minor scale. The new note compared with the minor scale is marked red. 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 7 2. Melodic Minor Scale - this one is not used often but good to know. It's a mix between minor and major scales. You can derive it either from the minor scale where you have to change 2 notes ( marked red ) 1 2 b3 4 5 6 7 or from the major scale where you have to change 1 note ( marked red ) 1 2 b3 4 5 6 7 Submitter admin Submitted 04/07/2023 Category Theory & Exercises  

Hey guys, here's now the march 23 newsletter with some really cool stuff. Blues Guitar Many guitar players love blues so much because it is a musical form where you can start to play very early in your guitar journey. But it is really useful to work on understand the form of blues and work on your perception how long one bar, two bars or 4 bars are in order to feel the form of the blues while you are playing. Playing few notes perfectly required a great feeling for the form of a song. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for any blues guitar player. Here you can really work on your abilitiy to feel the form. Check out my method and start your practice work today. Rock Guitar One of you guys requested a tutorial to work out a perfect rock guitar sound. How to use effects, how to use the distortion and and and.... so this was a great opportunity to share my really neardy knowledge about my point of view what shall be a perfect rock guitar sound. So this tutorial in fact is a " MUST HAVE " for any rock guitar player to optimize your rock guitar sound. Jazz Guitar Even Jazz guitar is not such a popular topic on YouTube there are numberous students here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy who are interested to go deeper into jazz guitar and therefore a lot of knowledge in theory, rhythm and improvisation concepts are needed. Here a nice concept for intermediate players to start a " serios " jazz guitar improvisation on the popular tune " Summertime " in the key of Am. It's worth to start to get into modes and start using them. If you are a free member of the HPCrazy Students Club you have access to the featured free download of the month. 2 versions of a great jazz blues played with walking bass in the key of Bb which is one of the 2 common keys when it comes to jazz blues. The most common one would be F. To download those files you just need to be a free member of the Academy and then join the HPCrazy Students Club by hitting the " JOIN " button. Personal creative notes I am doing fullmoon concerts every month in the small church in Seegräben ( Switzerland ) and since Jan 23 I started to do those concerts fully as guitar concerts. There I show all my musical and creative abilities as a Hollywood composer and a composer for Swiss national TV with my FARBMUSIK concept. You can attend the concert live on March 7th 20:00 in the church in Seegräben or you can watch the livestream. Since the walls in the church are so thick we had problems with the livestreams in the past but we are working hard to get the livestream to a better quality. This month we hope that the mobil signal now will work fine and if so next month will be the better audio quality in the focus. The new camera is already here. A final note on your premium member subscriptions. Please support the HPCrazy Guitar Academy with a regular premium member subscription in order to help to keep the service up here which I am doing for the community. If you feel you still want to end your subscription - just let it expire or if you are on automatic renewal you need to log into your personal PayPal account and deactivate it there. Please don't make any disputs for your automatic renewal if you wanted to cancel your subscriptions - it's in your responsibilty and it causes a lot of administrative work for me even it's not my responisbility. Thats now all important news now for this month. I'll be back in one month with more news. HP