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This one will be next.... really love this song

Suggest …Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan.

This will be the next tutorial - the tabs are already ready. But this song is really demanding since all is composed thru - even there are different versions. I have chosen this version here :

Oh looks like I completly forgot that one

Here I show you some pro minor smooth jazz guitar licks which you can use on most of any smooth jazz guitar tunes which are in a minor key. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Will check that one out - next will be " Cold Shot " coming in 2 weeks.

Perfect…look forward to this one. Thank you

This will be the next tutorial - I just love love this version here - but it will be a guitar version of it.

Does anybody know a current guitarsong which just came out and is cool ? 🙂

Hey Guys - this song will be discussed in a very near tutorial. Do you guys know this band ? I always loved them.

guys I really love this recording. Again this is a night where some real magic happened. The intro guitar solo is just great. I think about doing a tutorial about it.

I really love this song here - i will do a tutorial on that one.... one of my very favorite classic rock songs

Hey guys, for the next tutorial on tuesday I have a task for you guys. I will be talking about options in my jazz guitar theory tutorial. Read the theory file I posted and try to understand what options are. They are marked " red " in the theory files here. If you have any questions please ask here since jazz music theory is not so easy to understand but options are a very important part of jazz music.

This will be the next tutorial - get your twin reverb amp out 🙂

Mine too - well " The Good The Bad The Ugly " is my favorite of the spagetti western. Working on the backing track. That one is really tough to produce 😄

Awesome! One of my favorite movies - I am looking forward to it. 🙂

and this one will be next 🙂

I will do this one here - so you guys better watch the movie before to get properly motivated.

These are the goals I use to develop my daily practice plan. Not everything listed is practiced in each session. Some items are handled by a 3 to 5 minute exercise, others have to be kept in mind throughout the practice session. Practice is deliberate action performed to address a problem, as you can see, I have a lot of those. General Maintain a practice journal. Enter what will be practiced in the journal as part of the warm-up. Record myself regularly and perform a self-assessment. Develop an exercise to address problems found during self-assessment. Less noodling, more deliberate practice. Learn where the strings are. Develop 2-hand synch. Remember it is not about speed. Tap foot on 2 and 4. Rhythm Primary focus is playing in time. Secondary focus is using triads and shell voices, not big chords. Practice changing chords. Practice common chord progressions. Practice common rhythmic patterns/styles. Practice ability to develop an appropriate rhythmic pattern based on the drums and bass guitar. Practice diatonic chord scales. Practice hybrid picking and easy finger picking. Practice legato and dynamics. Melody Do NOT drill scales up and down so much that kinetic memory results. Practice scales over a drone. Speak the note names, Solfege, or interval. Practice octaves all over the neck. Practice arpeggio style, triads, 7th chords, pentatonic scales, and diatonic scales against the parent chord. Practice around the Circle of 5ths. Practice legato and dynamics. Improvisation Learn a lick. Analyze its intervals and rhythm. Play it in 5 positions. Transpose it to another key. Practice developing a melody over a one chord vamp (major, minor, dominant, diminished chords) using a variety of scales. Name the intervals. Listen close to what works. Comp two bars, then improvise a fill for two bars, using the standard 12 bar blues. Long Term Play songs. Play with others.

same to me - I also wanted to go back to disciplined practice work but other things kept draining my energy which leaded to naps 😄 Thats why I cancelled the guitar nights.

Here is a one month later update. I didn't follow the plan, not even a little. In fact, most of my guitar practice time was spent taking naps. The most practice I did in July was following the changes to Dark Blues Music. New goal, learn a song.

Suzanne by Leonard Cohen Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half-crazy but that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer that you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind And then you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him He said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them But he himself was broken, long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him, and you want to travel blind And then you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind Now, Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river She's wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind And then you know that you can trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind Dead girl (a country song) by Dax Riggs, Acid Bath Dead girl There will never be another one that dreams like you Dead girl There will never be another one that screams like you When death sleeps, it dreams of you Delilah played the dead girl at the freak show She smiles like a ghost Like zombies eatin' dust in Mexico Life dries cold beneath the dead soul lights She asked if it would hurt I smiled and said no The lie ran down my chin like embryo She smiles like a corpse Like zombies eatin' dust in Mexico Life dries cold beneath the dead soul lights When death sleeps, it dreams of you Dead girl There will never be another one to look in your eyes Dead girl There will never be another one that bleeds like you I been dryin' in a dead age I been reekin' of the new plague The sound of the ocean is dead It's just the echo of the blood in your head Sister burn the temple And stand beneath the moon The sound of the ocean is dead It's just the echo of the blood in your head Burning your black flags Burning your black flags I been dryin' in a dead age I been reekin' of the new plague The sound of the ocean is dead It's just the echo of the blood in your head Sister burn the temple And stand beneath the moon The sound of the ocean is dead It's just the echo of the blood in your head Burning your black flags Burning your black flags

This one will be the next tutorial - love that song and the clip and I must admit I have been a Maiden fan for a long time. 😄

Does anybody dig for Iron Maiden ?

Yeah that one is really professional - I dont even get all functions. The FM3 has a similar soundquality - if you go to the next sound level. 🙂I have one for at home 🙂

The AXE FX III is pro level cool, I figure I can start small and can always upgrade later. Then I can give my old gear to a nephew.

Hey Lew, thanks for joining. I checked the song and I like it - even it is in fact a bit quirky. The problem is that the main parts in the this songs are other instruments - like the main pattern is a lapsteel guitar. But the main chords are easy to get. You can work something out with this : E / B / A / E

Hi, I joined last week after finding your lesson for Achy Breaky Heart on youtube. I really like your teaching style. I'm a classic Rock and Country fan. Currently trying to learn Tim McGraw's "Indian Outlaw" from 1994. I can't find a lesson for it, just a couple of chord tabs neither of which are very accurate. The song also takes on a section from Paul Revere and the Raiders "Cherokee Nation". It's a bit of a quirky song, but made the top 40 and started Tim's career.

Check Wash it all away by FFDP - thats my favorite 🙂

I never listened to FFDP before so I picked a song at random, it turned out to be a requiem. Now I'm sad.

I must say Arch Enemy is one of my favorite metal bands beside Five Finger Death Punch. FFDP I can not do because Dr. Pink has only 6 strings 😄

That boy don't follow directions none, but he sure looks good.

Cool to see your video - I heard some interesting ideas that you were jamming on and I am really looking forward to hearing your next version too. Nice guitar too - I am a fan of the P90 sound, so I like that particular Yamaha model and hope to try it out someday. 🙂

Yes following the chords is missing but since there are only 3 chords you have enough time to check that out. Less notes and more following the chords is a good key. 🙂

After a quick analysis, here are main problems. not in the pocket. not following the changes. substituted the 1,5, open D, 3 chords with 1, open D, 3 chords (the 5 was too hard to reach). melody phrasing meanders, always ends on a long note, and does not following changes (not nailing the chord tones). Back to the woodshed ...

Nice cool and relaxed vibe 🙂

Because of the ongoing Covid restrictions in Switzerland my buisness is still suffering from income loss as many other buisness of others as well I guess. So this post is not to complain - it's to mention the possibilty to support the HPCrazy Guitar Academy in these times. The work will go on - I already decided this. The goal is to get so many premium members that they system is economic healthy - at the moment it is not. So if you love the work I am doing you can either make the premium membership upgrade or / and make a donation here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/clients/donations/2-support-the-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/

Thats great - looking forward to that 🙂 thats true - it's like a general rule in life 🙂

My practice goal for the next weeks is allredy set: Set up the Guitar, Pedal, Amp, in a good way. Set up a place with Smartphone & Light (the room is very dark) Play a song I like and don`t struggle to much Post it in the academy Future plan: Do this with some lessons (less is more for me here) Do this with my own Songs Then I look ahead further ...I don`t want to loose too much time with noodeling. Look more for the whole song & result. I f this works I can trust myself and maybe do something in a group. Today I'm at home with other work and football with a friend 😀

Yesterday I picked an exercise that was too ambitious for me, I planned playing 135 arpeggios in the key of C in 3 octaves starting with Em. I spent more time lost than picking notes. So, today I'm going to focus my exercises between frets 1 through 5. For example, play major chords around the circle of 5ths staying between frets 1 through 5 at 60 bpm. Play a bar for each chord as 1/4 notes, then 1/8 notes, then triplets. Then repeat with minor, dominant, and diminished. This can be repeated with arpeggio 135, 1357, and scales. When I get too frustrated and need a break, I'll work on the Catfish Blues lick.

Why don't you guys do a practice - group to share the efforts of keeping the disciplin ? I must admit - I never did strict practice plans but I played non-stop for over 10 years. But my teacher also recommended me to do a plan - now since I am more wise I also do more precise plans and exercises. 🙂

I did this several times in my life... to make practice plans...mine were allways to ambitious. SO I learned something musically -but somthing more about myself: That I need shorter plans and to do it more regualary over a longer period. At least, to write things down it's the first step - to focous more on what will come in time. Best wishes to you Tony! It's funny early in the mornig ...today ...I thought about writing down the dayly exercises and themes, that come up while I'm playin. To rembemer and come back to them later. I HAVE big packs of paper allready 😂 ... but some things/songs/themes are growing. I'll never give up playing and to get better focous on the things I want. If "learning" is fun - I'm in. Greets Andrea

Thats a really good practice plan Tony. I am pretty sure it will take you to a next level when you do it regular. One piece of advice - as long as you have difficulties with a specific technical exercise always make it 2 times once you master it you can go back to once and concentrate on playing the full series of the technical exercises.

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I want to mention a renewal of one of our members here. It's like a donation and well appreciated. The member renewed the premium membership for 10 years. Thanks for the trust and that helps to keep things running. 🙂 I am going to add those 450 US$ to the donation amount. 🙂

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