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Some of you guys might know Jason Becker because his illness but probably don't know how great he used to be as a guitar player. I just stumbled over this tune today. And it's brilliant :

Great, thank you Hanspeter! This short blues tutorial points to something, which I really miss quite often. Express emotions instead just playing around on licks & scales Let's talk the blues

Hey Roland - no it's not a mistake from your side. In fact it's the backing track which I also used on the blues doublestop madness tutorial. I added this information now to avoid some future confusion

Hello Hanspeter, thank you for the tutorial! Seems actually to be linked to the wrong download... (Double Stop Madness) Maybe some error on my browser side? Greets, Roland

New camera I am going to get myself a new camera. A Canon HV30 - this is a high definition camera and will rise the quality of the videos. Then slowy I will start to shift this school to the new quality. I am sure you are going to love it. Becoming a tougher teacher Since I always have beeing a very easy going teacher always thinking that fun on the guitar must be first - I have decided to become much thougher by telling you how things are and what is really required to reach certain goals on the guitar. My own experience was that learning the guitar is not always fun. Sometimes you have to work hard to get to the next step and from my 10 years experience of teaching online has showed that I have to ask from you a similar things since you are expecting me to take you to that road I have be gone myself. Of course there is a difference having professional ambitions or if you are playing just for fun - but still some things have to be done and as you teacher I will give you detailed instructions what you have to do to become a better guitarplayer. Therefore you might read these 2 articles : Pratice schedules - the long way to mastership Practicing gutiar

Opening of my blog I have decided to open up a blog here so that you can follow my work and my thoughts and nearly everything. All my normal students now these things since I use to talk a lot after the lesson is finished and here's now the opportunity for you Reset It might have pushed through that the time from Feb. 07 - Feb. 08 has been one of the hardest in my entire life which affected me in all parts of my life. I am quite happy that I least I did not fall ill so still could make the major changements I needed to. Now things are done. I am living at a very nice new place, I have a new studio, I have a new place for my remaining live students and I have got over my personal affairs. Feels like a full reset - was strange first but now I feel like I am starting everything from the beginning. Life teaching Looks like my life teaching has comme to a end. I have only very few remaining students ( those who were with me for years ) and the new place is actually not the place to keep it going and growing. It is more a place for a local guitar teacher and not the place which new students expect when they come to a testing lesson. I regret this a bit but I was not possible to get this organized better. Maybe it is in fact the time to let this go. Composing & filmusik I have started to get more professional in composing & filmmusik last year by releasing my website http://www.music-pictures.com . I got some contracts in the USA - one in Hollywood and I am working with Swiss national TV SF DRS. I have now released a series " dramatic sports " which shall be used on any sports broadcast on the Olymipcs in Bejing. You can listen to them at http://www.music-pictures.com/newsletter/news.htm and I have to make the music for a documentary film about East Afrika till the end of September. Live performances I have made a agreement with the person in charge of the St. Jakobs church in Zürich http://www.offener-st-jakob.ch/. I got the permission to perform 7 liveshows in the next month. This is in fact great news since this is one of the places to go in Zürich if you are willing to make something great and special in the cultural section. If I succed I can not what will happen New webidentity As time gets my hair more white I think it is time to let that " HPCRAZY " go. I will be more and more just Hanspeter Kruesi which is my real name. Currently http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com leads to hpcrazy.com but slowly slowy I will change this. These are now the latest news for you Greetings HP