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Hp, I'm one of your students from Carmel, IN (USA), and I absolutely loved this lesson! You are 100% correct; it was not easy, especially at 40BPB. Good Lord, the uncomfortable silence made me think about what you said: timing, form (and the foot). Trust me, I can play G Blues; however, I never used the alternative chords of G13, C9, E9, D9, and A13. That opened my eyes. Now, here comes the best part. I was the designated rhythm player for two other guitarists when I arrived at a New Year's Eve jam last night. And it was my first time playing with these guys. The band opened with Atlanta Rhythm Section - Spooky. After the opening ADGB, the song goes back and forth between Em7 and A13. The chords were written (not displayed) on a teleprompter to follow. Here comes the best part: if I had not sunk my teeth into your "Slow Blues Guitar" lesson, I would not have recognized the A13 chord. Since I did - I NAILED the meatiest part of the song!! From that point, the night went great. Even better, I was invited back. For that, I say "thank you" HP. Sincerely, John Johantges Carmel, IN (USA)

Hey guys, first of all - HAPPY NEW YEAR to your all I wish you a great life and guitar journey in 2024. Here are now the latest updates : Blogs There is a new feature available in the Academy since the beginning of Dec. 23. This gives you the opportunity to have your own account here on this website and share anything you like. You can have as many categories in your blog account as you like and you can share anything you like. One really great feature is that you can share your pracitce plans and routines to me or the community to get a feedback or some suggestions what you can work on since there are so many lessons available here on this website. You find the blogs here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/blogs/ Here you find some technical information if you have difficulties to open up your own blog : I will also enlarge my service to the community by sharing some really exclusive content to the community in my blog : Community Interaction I am glad that the community starts to interact more now here in the academy. The main idea in fact was always that you guys can use this community to interact with eachother. Learning from the experience from others is in fact an important thing on the ethernal guitar journey. You are all free to comment anywhere you want. You can open up your own topics in the Students Club if you hit the " Join Button " or it's also possible to make any comments on any blog post. Check out the topics in the Students Club here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/79-topics/ or check my latest blog entry about " Playing Fast Guitar " or maybe you want to share your " Next Year Objectives " here : or the current discussion here in the latest tutorial. John from Carmal IN is sharing a really cool story : now lets move on the the latest tutorials : Blues Easy Blues Guitar Solo : Here I show you how to create great and easy blues guitar solo's over the entire fretboard. All you need to know are 3 minor pentatonic positions and follow my tips. Slow Blues Guitar - Timing Fundamentals : Timing is 50% of music and in slow blues it's probably rated even higher. So here you can learn how to get an organic timing and how to build great timing automatisms that you can play freely on any slow blues and sound great because your timing works. Rock Ueber Blues Rock Guitar : Here I give you some cool ideas to play a really cool ueber blues rock guitar riff with a drop D tuning + give you some ideas how to play a wild solo by using the phrygian nat. 3 scale. And by the way - I upload my version of this track on Tik Tok - I had only 20 followers. This got me nearly 10K views there. I might upload that version soon on YouTube. Precise intermediate rock guitar : This tutorial is for all intermediate rock guitar players who want to work on their timing and precision in playing. This is a " MUST HAVE " for all rock guitar players. Jazz Secondary Dominants : Here I teach you the theory of the " secondary dominants " in major and minor chord progressions. If you are into jazz guitar this tutorial is a " Must Have " even it might seem to be hard to understand at the start. Once you got the trick is really easy - like riding a bike. with that tutorial comes a really important working sheet which helps you to get familiar with Secondary Dominants : Music and Outlook 2024 When I remember back to the beginning of 2023 things all seemed to be working nicely and smoothly but the alogherithm of YouTube has changed during this year and new uploads are getting new viewers only for a few days and then they don't get rated to much anymore in the archive. That made my traffic go down approx. 20-30 % even though the content I am uploading is high quality. So I decided to give more energy to this community with the goal to make it more independent from the pressure from the algorithm of social media platforms. That has the big advantage for you guys that I don't need to focus all the time on popular themes which are supported by algorithms and I can focus on offering you guys a perfect online guitar academy which also covers the really important themes. You can take the " Secondary Dominant '' tutorial. This is so important if you want to play a great jazz guitar but it's not a popular theme at all. Also digital music distribution which change by the beginning of 2024. Spotify will not pay artists any royalities anymore if you don't reach at least 1000 streams per submitted track. I feel I don't want to support this anymore. I still think about this - but probably I will also pull the full artistic work to this website here and only upload limited music to digital platforms. And again this has the same benefit that the music has not be limited in it's creativity by the algorithms of digital streaming platforms. I will try to find a middle way in this but the desicion is made to try to find an offramp. You can support this new concept for your own benefit by sharing this website to your guitar friends. So these were the latest news here - thanks for supporting my work and being here in this community and the high quality work will be continued. Best HP