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Here is now the july 23 newletter : Blues This month was the month where you could learn the basics of straight and shuffle blues guitar riffs from scratch. These 2 extended tutorials are taking everything into details and back to the very basics. For some players this might seem to be not challenging enough but if you never have done these exercises properly and in detail then you might have missed a great opportunity to get the basics down perfectly which lays the foundation of any blues guitar playing level. For beginners this is the perfect entry to get to playing in a fast manner. Rock This month I teach you some easy ways to play professional sounding rock lead guitar in the genres Rock and Hard Rock. There are a few things you need to know to sound great on rock lead guitar and they make like 80-90% of your rock guitar appearance. The fancy stuff which takes a lot of practice is not really needed when you just want to fulfill the task of making a rock song and a rock guitar solo sound great. So check out those 2 tutorials to make sure you have your stuff together and then you still can work on the fancy stuff. Smooth Jazz This month was a smooth jazz month with some really important tutorials. I really recommend the Major Smooth Jazz Bootcamp to all smooth jazz and jazz fans out there. This tutorial has a lot of meat on it. You can work on the topics over weeks and months to improve your smooth jazz abilities. The tutorial includes analysis, technique and practical use and I recommend it to everybody. to relax a bit you might want to check out the Easy Smooth Jazz Phrasing tutorial. Some really cool and easy ways to sound great fast and to have some fun with the backing track which comes with that tutorial. Artist Study I have opened up a topic for your guys where you can request any tutorials, songs or artists you want me to talk about. 2 members of this community wanted me to talk about Scotty Moore. That's the guitarist who defined the way Rockabilly Guitar sounded back in the times of the Sun Studio's in Memphis. He was of course the guitar player of Elvis and defined his sound as well. I can say his playing style was quite out of the box of my normal guitar playing so it took me like 2 weeks to get this down but now the tutorial is available. It's for all guitar players like me who have no experience with that style and shows the essentials you need to know to get into Rockabilly guitar. Your Request for new tutorials As members of this small guitar community we have here you have the privilege to define the course of the tutorials by adding your requests, comments and suggestions in any tutorial or in this post here I opened up for you guys. Let me know what your requests and thoughts are. When they fit the general concept of this community here, then I am ready to go. Your help is in fact most welcome since I don't really have too much time for research of new interesting things which are happening in the guitar world. So just let me and others know what your thoughts and suggestions are. New Free Farbmusik Meditation Song There is a great new meditation or floating Farbmusik song available in the Farbmusik Meditation Club. There you find a very deep and blue guitar meditation in the color dark blue. The track is over 10 min long and I recorded it all first take in one row of 40 minutes. I was trying to just play the guitar in a meditative mindset and so this music turned out to become very deep and guided by the knowledge of the intuitiv inspiration. I have selected a tempo of 60 bpm because this is a good low heart beat ratio to get into a meditative state. To download the track you need to hit " Join Club " if you are still not a member and then you can download it. Let me know how you like it. It's the first composition I did again after a longer pause and my personal finding was that I still have the ability to compose the way I used to before my nearly 3 year break. Updates in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy There is a new department available now in the acoustic guitar section. Beautiful Acoustic Guitar Chords you find a first tutorial tagged with the new tag here : I have also reordered the navigation here - now it's more easy for you guys to navigate through all important parts of this site. There is a new feature available on this website. If you feel like you want to leave this website and you want your account and all your data deleted then you can request this. More information here : Final Notes Unfortunately the alogerithm of YouTube has changed again this year which leaded to a 20 % loss of my usual traffic I had over the years on the HPCrazy YouTube Channel. So I needed to make some strategic changments to keep this community here running and safe for the future. The good news is - I got contacted by YT to be a member of the internal research team. So the channel is still on the radar of YouTube but I think they are doing a few strategic changes and they want to check out things a bit. 1. Social Media strategy : I started to an extended social media stategy to lead all traffic to this website. This helps to prevent more unexpected situations like this to have such an effect on the stability of the academy. You can also help if you want by sharing content you like on your social media accounts or just by spreading the word and leading the traffic to this website. 2. I have set up an additional opportunity to support this academy and there you find all information you need to know how the economic health of this community is. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/ 3. No panic - the situation is a matter of concern but I am not a person who gives up. But I think you guys should know the situation. The whole world is shaking but the academy will stand firm for all fans of guitar playing and guitar music. So thats all for this month. CU guys HP

Here I'll teach you the fundamentals of Scotty Moore's guitar style which defined the way rock n'roll and rockabilly guitar should sound alike. This tutorial is for regular guitar players who are interested to get the fundamentals of his most iconic playing style. From that point on you need to practice it to get it to the level of speed and relaxed playing style which made this guitar sound so great. Here you find the files associated to this tutorial here :

Thank you so much Maestro! This is fantastic. Deeply appreciated Sir.

The tutorial will come this friday. I did what I could but this style is really a bit out of the box of the normal guitar playing. I think I have the basic's together and can play them. It will come with some tabs and a cool backing track in this style. Let me know guys what other topic you guys request.

Checked out Scotty Moore stuff a bit. It's clear what is done, also which sound he is using. It's a very short analog or tape delay. But his iconic rhythm guitar is kind of a brainer to get that one down.... will take me a moment.