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Here I show you THE slow blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

This is killer HP!

Hi HP Great Lesson. Kind regards from Peter abtguitars

Ah ok I see - I know Locarno , a really nice place ?

Thank you. Yes, I am from Locarno, but I live in Chicago!! Danke Schoen!

Hey Franco, are you from Switzerland too ? ? I am using Steinberg Products. In this case Nuendo as host software and the groove agent 5 as a drum plugin.

Hi Swiss Mate, Love your stuff!! When you say turn on the drum machine.. what exactly is it? An app? Software? A recording/backing track? Thanks & have a great day. Franco

Thanks - yes it's mostly the simple songs or simple concepts which sound great.

This is another great video, HP. Almost unbelievable that three simple chords can sound that good. Thank you so much.

Yes I know but some students did not really enjoy the really hard timing exercises.

There was a mistake on one chord - download the latest version. It's fixed now.

Guitar Secrets - Minor Modes I work with the intervals and show you a very easy way to understand and to connect with the other modes. Once you know the intervals you can easily switch from one mode to another. Minor Modes.pdf Minor Modes.gp minor modes.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Shuffle Groove Here you can learn everything you need to know to master any shuffle groove on a normal blues guitar. This is a " MUST HAVE " tutorial for all levels so don't miss this one ! Shuffle Grooves.pdf Shuffle Grooves.gp shuffle blues D.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Crazy Guitar ( Bass ) Tapping You want to learn the secret of crazy guitar tapping and even sound like a bass player ? Then this tutorial is for you. I show you how to work out a simple improvisation with the chords Am / G / F with a crazy tapping technique where you play the guitar like a piano player. This technique is called touch technique and was invented by Stanley Jordan but my version is a little bit different from his technique because I use a standard guitar tuning. In this tutorial I show you how to work out a rhythm guitar with your left hand and then how to start to improvise with your right hand and then how to develop a simple theme with this technique. The improvisation technique is similar to the technique of solo piano concerts which I also did many besides solo guitar concerts. Here I am not providing any tabs but if you have questions please write me here. 🙂

Guitar Secrets - Offbeats This is a full tutorial to learn everything you need to know to master offbeats. This tutorial is for any playing level if you never really worked on offbeats in specific. Offbeats.pdf Offbeats.gp

Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios Many guitar players would love to work with arpeggios but how is this exactly done ? There are many ways to do this. In this tutorial I show you a very comprehensive way to start to work with arpeggios without pushing your technical limits to the impossible. I am using a track with the chords Am / F G , showing you how you can work with a simple arpeggio pattern and how you can work with it. Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios.pdf Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios.gp guitar secrets - arpeggios.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Crazy Arpeggio Licks If you are tired of always sounding the same and even playing arpeggio's don't help you anymore to give some more colors into your guitar solo, then this tutorial is for you. Here I give you some ideas how you can play arpeggio's of minor and major chords differently. They make your sound wide and give you an extra color into your guitar solo. Crazy Arpeggio Guitar Licks.pdf Crazy Arpeggio Guitar Licks.gp spanish guitar improvisation.mp3

Hey Rafi, these are 7th chords with the root note on the low E-string. Those shapes are good. I also use those ones. I transfered the licks now on those shapes here but I must say they are technicaly more demanding this way - but give it a shot. Maybe it's easier for you since you already know those shapes. Crazy Arpeggio Licks - Root E String.pdf

Woow,.... it’s so streached... what do you think about duch approach:

I understand - I have added the basic arpeggio's for this specific lesson with the chords Dm C and Bb here : Basic arpeggio's Dm C Bb.pdf

Hello, is there any lesson about arpeggios in basic form? I need to start and practice from simple form.

Guitar Secrets - Natural Minor VS Harmonic Minor Here you can learn the difference between natural minor and harmonic minor and how and when you use either one or the other mode. In this easy guitar secrets lesson you can understand how you can switch in a easy way from the one mode to the other one by just switching to one or two notes but I also give some insight how you can get a more exotic sound and vibe with the harmonic minor scale by just whole scale fragments like the melody from Phantom of the Opera. At the end of the tutorial you will understand the differences and how and when you use which scale on a beginner and intermediate guitar playing level. Minor VS Harmonic Minor.pdf Minor VS Harmonic Minor.gp minor vs harmonic minor.mp3

Guitar Secrets : Finger Picking Patterns ( Full Course Easy - Sophisticated ) In this tutorial I talk about guitar fingerpicking patterns from the very basics up to sophisticated professional sounding patterns which are not too hard to play. Timing and the proper practicing of the basic patterns is the key to success when it comes to relaxed and intuitiv playing abilities on this guitar style. This full course is for any playing level from beginner - advanced player. If you are an advanced player and you never have done the basics before I strongly recommend that you do those exercises as well because they are the basement of your playing and will allow you to build up your performance on guitar and become a complete player in this guitar playing style. Below you find the chapters of this tutorial : 0:00 Introduction 1:35 Basic Exercises 12:46 Advanced Exercises 19:35 Sophisticated Finger Picking 25:29 Final Notes 30:24 HP's Version Picking Patterns.pdf Picking Patterns.gp

Hey Michael you are welcome 🙂

This was a very useful tutorial. Thanks HP 🙂

Guitar Secrets - Dorian Mode In this guitar secrets tutorial I talk about the dorian mode or dorian scale. This scale is related to the normal pentatonics since all notes of the pentatonics are part of the dorian mode. The pentatonics is 1 b3 4 5 b7 and the dorian mode is 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7. As you can see there are only 2 additional notes which make the dorian mode. It's the 2 and the 6. That means you can take any pattern you have and just add those 2 notes to get the dorian scale or you choose the ones I am showing you here in the tutorial. The tutorial is divided into 2 parts. The easy to understand part for beginners and the part for the advanced players among you. Use the part which you think is not for you as an additional instruction and inspriation because you can get something out of both parts. Here you now find the chapters of this tutorial. At the end I play a final jam for you that you get some inspiration how you can build up your solo from easy to extrem and to create the waves which lead you to the quam. I will explain in the tutorial what I mean with those waves and the quam. 0:00 Introduction 2:36 Easy 10:45 Advanced 27:22 Final Jam Guitar Secrets - Dorian Mode.pdf Guitar Secrets - Dorian Mode.gp guitar secrets - dorian mode.mp3

Here’s a great guitar secret which I call “ The Power of 3 “. What is that ? If you want to have great guitar parts which are memorizable there is one concept which comes from marketing strategies. It’s called “ The Power of 3 “ and it works in that way that if you want to have information which stays in the minds of other people you can have to either repeat it 3 times or have something which comes in 3 rounds to prepare for a highlight. It’s a very rare concept in guitar soloing and maybe you might already do it without even knowing it - but it is a very useful concept which you can work out. It’s easy and fun and it works. This tutorial is from the " Must Have " series - so check it out ! Guitar Secrets - The Power of 3.pdf Guitar Secrets - The Power of 3.gp blues_2006.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Sound Great On Cheap Guitar Equipment In this tutorial I talked about how to sound great on cheap guitar equipment. This is a question which probably drives most of your electric guitar players in the world. You only have a limited budget to buy a good guitar amplifier. Maybe you can spend $200 for a guitar amp or even less and you're frustrated because you think you cannot sound great on a cheap guitar amplifier. The difference between cheap and expensive guitar equipment is in many cases the dynamic range. What is the dynamic range ? It's the way the tone reacts to your playing technique by going softer or harder in volume or your picking technique or any kind of articulation work on the fretboard.. I have good news for you. In the tutorial I show you how you can work out a technique to sound great on any equipment by using cheap equipment. The main step is to switch off all effects and just have the pure tone of your amplifier and then you start to work out your technique and how to create tone and sound just on your fretboard.If you must have this less than a year then you will be able to sign greater than any equipment you will have and well once you add effects again they will amplify and multiply the greatness of your sound with your learned on just play on cheap equipment. This tutorial is from the “ must-have “ series, meaning. It is for all tour players out there on this planet. I had this lesson myself on the very end of my music studies at music University and it helped me alot to develop my sound to the next level. Slow Blues A 50.mp3

Hey Andreas, yes this is lesson which for sure hits the issue of many players. Glad it works for you. Just try on your current equipment the way I am showing in this tutorial. The pinch harmonic I skipped in this tutorial since it's enough to start this specific journey. But I will do about pinch harmonic in specific in an advanced lesson later. Or you just check YouTube - for sure there is a tutorial which talks about pinch harmonics.

Hi Hanspeter, great lesson. It appears to me as if you did this lesson especially for me. I am spending so much time finding the "right" tone on my Katana, instead of practicing more. I have one question: You mentioned pinch harmonics. I have no idea, how to do that. Have you already done a lesson about this technique?

Guitar Secrets - Sound Great On Cheap Guitar Equipment Learning scales and modes on the guitar is always a big challenge. Changing keys on the guitar is not such a big brainer you can just move patterns you have learnt up and down the fretboard. But when it comes to playing free of patterns on the guitar fretboard the guitar shows it’s limitations because you hardly find any visual hook which you can connect to scales and modes you have learned. The solution for this problem is to work with intervals and to learn them by heart. The guitar is a pentatonic instrument and most of you learned the minor pentatonic as a first scale on the guitar. So the trick is to learn the intervals of the minor pentatonic and to move everything within the positions and the relations between the scales and positions. In this tutorial I'm showing you the root position of the minor and major pentatonic displayed as intervals and how you can add additional notes to create the main minor and major modes which are : 1:21 Minor Pentatonic 1 2 b3 4 5 b7 7:10 Aeolian 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 9:02 Dorian 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 10:40 Phyrgian 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 12:55 Major Pentatonic 1 2 3 4 6 14:58 Ionian 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 15:57 Mixolydian 1 2 3 4 5 6 b7 16:32 Lydian 1 2 3 #4 5 6 7 In the list above I've displayed the scales I'm talking about with the time index and the intervals which are the defining them. If you're able to play the pentatonic in all positions on the guitar fretboard you can adapt those positions to any of those modes and scales by just adding the additional notes which I'm talking about in this tutorial. This method is a bit more of a brainer at the beginning but at the end once the coin has dropped you are able to play freely on the fretboard which is the goal of any guitar player on the planet. To complete your theoretical music education you find more documents about the topic. When you follow the link displayed here. Easy Guitar Scales Understanding.gp Easy Guitar Scales Understanding.pdf Additional : https://www.hpcrazy.com/pdf/diatonic chord progressions and modes.pdf https://www.hpcrazy.com/pdf/the pentatonics.pdf

Ah now I see the mistake - yes you are right there is no 2 in the minor pentatonic ?

Hi HP, It's quite possible that I am not understanding correctly what you are explaining in the lesson but I am referring to the formulas in the article where you show how to add the notes to the minor pentatonic scale to form the different modes of the minor scale: 1:21 Minor Pentatonic 1 2 b3 4 5 b7 7:10 Aeolian 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 9:02 Dorian 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 10:40 Phyrgian 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 Shouldn't 1 2 b3 4 5 b7 be 1 b3 4 5 b7 because there is no 2nd in the minor pentatonic scale? I apologize if I am mistaken here but this is just not making sense to me. Regards

Hey Tony, yes our little community is growing every day. ? I dont get what you mean with the 2nd minor pentatonic formula. 1 2 b3 4 5 b7 is the root position.

Hey HP, My pleasure. From what I can tell so far we have a nice community here with some really cool folks. I'm not sure if anyone has brought to your attention that you stuck the 2nd in the minor pentatonic formula by mistake. 1:21 Minor Pentatonic 1 2 b3 4 5 b7 cheers

Hey Tony, thanks for joining our little community here. Yes I know the topic of intervals can be told complicated or easy. I prefer the easy way. It's how it is you just need to learn them by heart but the good news is once you know them and you recognize them on the fretboard everything starts to fall into place and makes fretboard geography much easier and gives you the ability to play freely on the fretboard.

Hey HP, I’ve been checking out your Horizontal Minor Pentatonic ( Basics ) lesson where you touch on intervals. I’ve seen where other instructors make the subject of intervals too complicated but you emphasize on learning them by heart and there is no way around that. I know all five positions pretty well but I am struggling to memorize the scale on one string. I think by mastering the intervals this should enable me to play more freely all over the fretboard. Tony

Here you can learn horizontal pentatonic tricks which are a great add in your guitar playing. Most guitar players are stuck in their patterns which make them play vertically which is cool but if you want to sound different the easy way the horizontal pentatonic tricks are the right ones for you. I show the patterns on the B and high E string, show you the fingering and then give you some ideas how to work with these horizontal patterns. At the end of the tutorial I show you how to combine the new ideas and licks with your normal playing. This tutorial is from the new " Must Have " Series. Means thats one you better don't miss. funk rock Am 95.mp3 Horizonal Pentatonic Tricks.pdf Horizonal Pentatonic Tricks.gp

The classical cadence is the most important subject to understand music and how chords move or just how music works in general. There are several expression for the classical cadence. Some call it the I IV V progression, some the L Form and some Tonica, Subdominat and Dominat. But the main thing is that it represents a principle which you find in mostly all music genres which have the focus on musical expression. And the principle is that a chord progression starts with a Resting Point ( Tonica, I, Root ) then Build up Tension ( Sub Dominat, IV ) goes to a Maximum Tension ( Dominant, V ) to get back to the Resting Point. This works in all major and all minor keys the same. Below you find all chapters of this tutorial. 0:00 Introduction 1:17 The L-Form 2:04 Major 4:39 Minor 7:30 Inversions Classical Cadenza.gp Classical Cadenza.pdf

Hey Crusty Clad, yeah slowly getting better. From next week on I can work normal again. I will check it out with the dust and clean Dr Pink ?

Another great lesson HP. Hope you are feeling better. I noticed Dr Pink is looking a little dusty around the headstock as well ...lol.

Hey Sara, yes the intervals are the main thing when it comes to scales and modes. I am glad you understood this now. ?

HP, thank you so much for this tutorial. I think until today I did not really understand how important it is to memorize not only the different positions of the minor/major pentatonics but also the intervals. I mean, I knew I should do this, but somehow until today I did not understand why.

Here you can learn the very basics which make any rock rhythm guitar great and sophisticated. Basic Rock Rhythm Exercices.pdf blues rock Am G D.mp3

Here you can learn all you need to learn in the first 3 – 6 months of your journey when you are starting the guitar. From my experience as a guitar tutor and guitar instructor since 1999 it always turned to be those topics I am talking about here. The threshold to go further is the barréchord. That one is the tricky part which can make the first steps harder and longer time to get stuck in the beginners phase. The good news is with regular practicing you can really make it in 3 months. I experienced this myself when I started the guitar at the age of 20. So i pretty much remember those steps. Be patient and just practice regular and suddely those things I am showing here work out for you and you are ready to get to the next level of guitarplaying. The following chapters are included in ths tutorial : Technical Introduction 0:07 Basic Chords 4:49 Barréchord 21:51 First Steps Lead Guitar 28:44 The Pentatonics 33:05 Improvising in Major and Minor Tunes 37:24 Final Notes 42:22 guitar beginners Am.mp3 guitar beginners A.mp3 Starting with Guitar.pdf Starting with Guitar.gp

A lot don't get how important timing is and it's variations like to the you showed and NOT boring at all, its VERY important

Here I give you my tips and tricks how to find your perfect guitar pic for your playing style. Not always the most expensive guitar pic is the best to choose. It depends on your playing priorities.