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It was really about time that I overworked the entire website now and made the whole thing as compact and cooperate identity look style as possible. Now I am proud to announce that the new website is online now. Check : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com The idea was always to pull all my services and all my work to one website and now it's done. One of the main hard tasks was that there are in fact so many services and projects. They are still all out there but all roads and links will now lead to this website here. This important update is also part of my new strategy I worked on since more than one year to free myself from all social media plattforms. I don't believe that they will have a consistant future as they had in the past. Many users are upset by them changing community guidelines all the time only for their advantage and the abuse of there personal data on this plattforms. Here on this website your personal data is completly save and will never be used for something else then the monthly newsletter and you can completly delete your data anytime. Also digital music distribution is overgoing dramatic changes. Spotify announced that only artists over 1000 streams per song will get any royalities payed out. Then earning of the artists which are below that will go to the bigger artists. That's something I can not support anymore. And there are now more and more restrictions for artist who want to distribute there music in Spotify and other plattforms. I will do special edition distribution here on this website - for music which is not allowed in the official stores anymore or just because I want to make my music faster available for users. So this is a major shift in my online and digital strategies. And as a personal note - when Facebook and co came up I knew this would not lead to something good and it was in fact a mistake to spend so much time keeping up on social media strategies. In these days the situation has changed so much that the ammount of time you have to spend to reach as much people as before as exceeded a healthy balance in the workflow. So this website is now my personal anwser to the developments which started to go in the wrong direction since 2018.

Some tapping solo and special chord effects ideas for blues to explore the entire fretboard. Download the backing track here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/slow-shuffle-70-feat.-hanspeter/id785286347?i=785286636

My new tutorial is now online - this time something for the touch technique and tapping fans among you. Its pretty easy you can give a shot - at least for the 1. part.

Check my new website here : http://www.hpcrazy.com and the Yodel video I am talking about here :

This is a musical way of learning the lydian mode. Try to create you own mood by usind the lydian mode.

Hi everybody, this is my contribution to the 10th anniversary @Google Zürich #youtubeyodel - looking forward to see all #swisstubers again at the gathering.

Here some major tips and tricks using the palm muting technique. Download the backing track here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/funk-rock-am-95-feat.-hanspeter/id668781969?i=668782011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIagT6SD3sU Here some ideas how to play legato ( playing without attacking the strings with the pick ) in a easy manner. Download the backing track here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/funk-rock-am-95-feat.-hanspeter/id668781969?i=668782011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aco1vApuRcY Here is a lesson where you get tips how to play a cool, east but still sophisticated slow blues in the Rory Gallagher style. You find the backing track here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVLkcUW4tc This is the backing track to the " Empty Bottle Blues " with the chords : Am / F G Find the lesson to the backing track here :

Here^s my modern tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Improvised to a beat I am currently working on.

Here some useful tips and tricks how to make a good and steady lead guitar on 120 bpm. The backing track can be downloaded here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/rock-backing-tracks-vol.-2/id938138630

Here you can learn the minimum requirements to follow my tutorials here on the HPCrazy YouTube channel.

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Here the essentials of funk guitar in the style of James Browns music. The backing track I used can be downloaded here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/funky-bass-em-100-feat.-hanspeter/id870722453?i=870722470

An easy blues in A using the tremolo effect. But you can also play this blues without it.

Here some ideas how you can spice up you simple 3 chord songs. This example is in G using the progression G, C, D More information about the modes used here :

Here's an original improvisation over the theme of " California Dreaming "

Here a small improvisation with flamenco elements.

Here some imformation about my HPCrazy Academy and the diploma. : More informtation at http://www.hpcrazy.com/academy.htm in german for Swiss students : http://gitarrist.ch/hpcrazy.htm

Here some " Let Ring " tricks for an advanced blues improvisation in A. If you missed the episode 1 : If you missed the summer theory boot camp about modes : Download the jamtrack here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/straight-blues-130-feat.-hanspeter/id785286347?i=785286678

Here some ideas for an easy classical suite using the progression Am / E7 / Dm / E7

Here is an other lesson from the " Ass Kicking Rock Guitar " Series. Here you find no. 1 and here you can download the backing track https://itunes.apple.com/album/hard-rock-dm-120-feat.-hanspeter/id938138630?i=938138637

Here some more insight into the tax issue which is going on with me for a while. The final one - now my laywer will take over the case. You find the original track I used here :

Some advanced tips and tricks to play a rock balade in the 80s style with legato playing ( Joe Satriani Style ), palm muted runs and some melodic lines on the 2nd part of the song. The chord progression is pretty similar to the song " Without You Baby " by " 3 Doors Down " - the backing track used can be downloaded here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/rock-balade-am-75-feat.-hanspeter/id938138630?i=938138666

Here a lesson in the style of " Mary got a lamp " by Stevie Ray Vaughan. The backing track is added at the end of the tutorial.

Here's an idea how to make a nice improvised song with Touch Technique with the chords : C / G¦B / Am / F. The technique with keynotes also works in any other normal played improvisation.

Here's a wonderful rainbow cloud which I was lucky to witness yesturday. A very rare natural phänomen kind of similar to polar lights. It happened during a warm strom with nearly 20 degree's ( in Jan ! ) - I was able to film the cloud with my mobile. The song you are hearing is an acoustic guitar song from my colourmusic series

Here some cool ideas how to play a dirty mississippi style blues with or without bottleneck. You can download the backing track here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/drop-d-130-feat.-hanspeter/id785286347?i=785286562 Get my blues CD " Blues City " - don't miss the booklet it's fun B-) https://itunes.apple.com/album/blues-city-feat.-hanspeter/id631817871

Here some tricks how to make great wah wah grooves with some delay and a lot of deadnotes and ghost movements. The intro of Jimi Hendrix's song Voodoo Child is a good example for that. But you can use this technique on Hip Hop, Funk, Urban or any other groove music style.

Here some information what's currently going on. :-) And I played a song for you at the end. Guess which one ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBQ5AHvQDg Here some thoughts and tricks how to lay down the basis of a good sound and expression on a dramatic shredding guitar solo on a rock balade. Download the backing track here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/rock-balade-2-am-75-feat./id938138630?i=938138675

This is an improvised red song with some classical elements played with HPCrazy's touch technique. You find more touch technique on my CD " Live and Pure " https://itunes.apple.com/album/live-pure-feat.-hanspeter/id907878622

HPCrazy.com My presence as a guitar player with online eduction and guitar music turned out to work best which is not because of good luck. My past presence as guitar player on worldwide leading websites ( guitartricks.com and gibson.com ) helped pretty much to overcome the starters gap where you need to struggle for every view and new subscriber. But I am also personally very happy about this because guitar playing always was my main passion and I noticed in the past weeks that this really starts to work and people know about me, my guitar playing and my philosophy in it. There are 2 scenes which stand for this : I recently visited the Zoo in Zürich and there somebody followed my and finally asked me if I am HPCrazy. He turned out to be a big fan. When I when to the guitar shop the other day to fix some issues on my pink guitar which I call “ Dr. Pink “ on my YouTube channel everybody in the shop knew the name of my guitar. That was really funny. In Nov. I started with my HPCrazy Academy ( http://www.hpcrazy.com/academy.htm ) which is a entire concept of learing guitar from my YouTube channel, private online lessons, private lessons in Switzerland and till the possibility to make an high profile education with the possibility to finish with the HPCrazy diploma. That was always an idea which I had when I started teaching in 1998 but now my students which I have really are going for it and to name one in special who really took a first intense year to open up to a deeper understanding of the guitar. The main focus of my HPCrazy education is to reach a deep connection with music and the individual guitar playing. Therefore I developed several different methods and concepts in order to make this connection as easy as possible. There is a lot of psychology behind it and feedback’s from all over the world have showed that it really works on any playing level. And last but not least my song “ Drunken Snake in the Dessert “ https://itunes.apple.com/album/blues-city-feat.-hanspeter/id631817871 has been used in a Hollywood production ( Mind Games ) What was very difficult for me that I suffered from a nailbed infection which pulled me out of playing for months and I am still in the recover phase. I can play again now but I still have to watch that I don't push it too hard. The amazing thing is that I feel that now I finally reached the point of my guitar playing where I am able to play anything I like and express myself the way I want. This is great since I have been working all these years to get this feeling that I master the guitar and I control my guitar and not that the guitar controls me.

Here some ideas for shred guitar with tremolo picking and phyrgian or phyrgian nat. 3 scale. It's kind of John Petrucci style with the fast tremolo picking and the octaves but also somehow at Zack Wylde style. We all only cook with water - so here some tricks. You can download the backing track here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/dark-rock-dm-90-feat.-hanspeter/id668781969?i=668782410

Some recent news about my work - check my website for all updates I am talking about http://www.hpcrazy.com

This is a song played with a drop D tuning. It is called " The Goodbye " and describes the typical final scene in a western movie where the good guy rides into the sunset. This is now a Swiss sunset with a sea of fog The song is from my CD " Blues City " https://itunes.apple.com/album/blues-city-feat.-hanspeter/id631817871

This is a bluesy version of the X-mas song " Holy Night " - if you prefer to contribute something more rocky visit this older tutorial :

Here some idea's how to play a relaxing blues with some unusual chords. You find the backing track here :

Here's a wonderful blues in A played by HPCrazy. Learn the entire sunset blues here

Here learn some essentials on heavy metal rhythm guitar. In this case it is pretty similar to "You got an other thing coming " by Judas Priest. Download the backing track here : https://itunes.apple.com/album/heavy-metal-f-m-130-feat./id938138630?i=938138646

Here you learn the basics of a great sound and expression on a high gain rock lead guitar. Don't underestimate this video even you are a advanced player. Here are the tracks I used : https://itunes.apple.com/album/rock-balade-2-am-75-feat./id938138630?i=938138675 https://itunes.apple.com/album/rock-em-140-feat.-hanspeter/id938138630?i=938138730

A new backing track CD now available on iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/album/rock-backing-tracks-vol.-2/id938138630

I personally think this is the best blues I ever played in my entire career.