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Here I show you THE slow blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning.

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If you have done the Spider Walk ( Spider Legs ) on guitar for a while and you want to move on to the next step. This exercise is what I recommend to my intermediate - advanced guitar students.

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Here you find a sponatious piano mediation improvisation in 432 Hz to the color ( Farbmusik ) Violet.

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Rhythm Studies
Here you find the entire course " Rhythm Studies " were students can learn to fix their rhythm and timing issues. The key to fix this issue is to know what rhythm is and to practice every aspect of rhythm with a click and directly on the fretboard. If you know how rhythm is written then you know what kind of rhythm pattern you are playing and how it sounds. This is an entire course " Rhythm Studies " were you start from the very beginning. Take every lesson very seriously. At the end of the studies it gets really difficult and if you don't know each module of this course very well you don't have a change in the last 2-3 lessons anymore to fulfill the task. Also take the written pauses very seriously. Every note has a beginning and an end. So also be precise on the endings of the notes.

I am currently working a lot on guitar sounds with my AXE FX Products. I do own the AXE FX III and the AXE FM3. Here you can see my studio rack :


Now here's the current task which has to be solved or which was always a task when I worked on guitar sounds. The unedited amplifier sound or sound out of modeling amp systems which I mostly use have a kind of " hardness " in it. That means that you hear the attack of the pick well and in a disturbing way this makes it hard to play a really fast run - also when you only play legato and the notes don't come as smooth as they should. This effect can also happen when you have your amp settings nice at home and then you go on stage and the sound engineer puts a random microphone position and then you have this same effect again which gives you the same described problem. This is the task I am working on often and the bad things can change when you change the sound environment like the room, the microphone, the microphone position, the guitar, the pick or the playing technique. All have to work together to get the perfect guitar sound which makes your playing seemingless and supports your playing technique.

The next level of professional education are the guitar courses which I started to write now. For any level from intermediate to advanced till professional there will be awards of even a diploma available. The reason for the courses is to canalize all the information and tutorials which are available to some goals which you might want to achieve and to help you guys to give you some direction in what you want to work on.

Here you find the summary of the courses which are currently available : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-courses/

Anybody who wants to do the test after working on the course can achieve an award or a diploma which will be displayed permanently in the personal profile. Here you see the award of the blues intermediate course.

Crazy Minor Blues Guitar Pentatonic Licks

You want to get some really fresh and crazy ideas how to improvise in a slow minor blues guitar solo ? Here are 3 crazy minor blues guitar pentatonic licks which I created for you. I first show them to you and then show you how you can put them into your regular minor blues guitar licks. This is a " Must Have " tutorial because it opens up your mind to brand new ways of playing blues guitar.

Crazy Minor Blues Guitar Pentatonic Licks.pdf

Crazy Minor Blues Guitar Pentatonic Licks.gp

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Here I teach you all you need to know to play a professional rock n roll guitar. I talk from my experience of playing 3 years in professional rock n roll bands.

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I have been reviewing and listening to the new young generation of guitar players who really take the way of guitar playing to a new level. These are of course Matteo Mancuso, Josh Meader from the jazz fraction, Max Ostro from the metal and shredding fraction and Tim Hanson and Ichika Nito from the I would call new age - metal fraction.

Here I show you guys a very cool straight blues guitar riff with the following chords : E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / B7alt I show you how you can create a cool vibe by switching between the E minor pentatonic and the mixolydian modes of E7, D7 and A7.

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Here I show you the theme and some basic chords to play the popular jazz standard " Fly Me To The Moon " - at the end of the tutorial I give you some tips to build up an easy improvisation by following the 3rds of the chords.

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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

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Classical Cadenza.pdf

If you want to follow chords in blues with adaptiv double stops then voicing leading is the right technique to fulfill the task. Here you show you some examples of how you can follow the chords in a simple blues guitar progression with Bb7 / Eb7.

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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.

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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.

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Here I give you the main tips you need to know if you want to be successful throughout your entire learning guitar journey.

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Here you find the tabs of the theme of Joe Zawinul's song " Mercy Mercy Mercy ". The tabs are showing the theme and the vamp where solo's are taking place. In the backing track there is the theme first played 2 times and then it enters the solo vamp. After that it goes to the 2nd part of the theme before the full final theme is played at the end.

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This tutorial is for all guitar players out there who probably just bought their first guitar, having their first guitar lesson and they want to learn rock guitar. This is probably the only shortcut in learning guitar I can offer. This tutorial is a " Must Have " for all guitar beginners who want to learn rock guitar.

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Please also start working on the basic chords at the same time. As a rock guitar player you don't need them so bad but if you really want to play guitar you can not skip them :

Once you done those tutorials you can start working on the Basic Rock Guitar tutorial :

 

The next classification test is now available in my Guitar Academy. Jazz Guitar Intermediate - the requirements for passing the test are described there. The purpose of the classification tests is to give online students as well as regular " live " students a guideline of where they stand with their guitar playing, what the requirements are to be able to pass at a certain level in a certain genre. This should motivate, but also channelize. Nowadays you can find masses of information on the subject of guitar and guitar learning everywhere on the internet and in my practical experience, most students are overwhelmed by the flood of information and they overtax themselves or have unrealistic short and medium-term goals. The grading tests are intended to counterbalance this. The whole system as it stands now is the sum of my experience from over 20 years of professional online education and the construction of this system, which is now slowly becoming complete, has taken around 4 years. Now you can get started - the combination of online Guitar Academy and live lessons, concerts, music and and and.... I think there are very few such complete online education systems on the Internet - here every level is catered for, from beginner to budding professional guitarist. Another new feature is that the official language is "English" and "German". In the Premium Member Blogs, where the playing level, requirements etc. are discussed in detail, users can now also write in German.


 

 

Here I teach you all you need to know about rock guitar power chords, powerchord damping techniques and some basic lead techniques which you can use in any rock guitar situation. Even if it is labeled as basic, it is not so easy and will take some time till you find your tone and expression but with their few instructions you can make it from a beginner to a solid rock guitar player. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all rock guitar fans.

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This blues guitar course takes any guitar player from the beginner to the intermediate level. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for any blues guitar beginner.

Here are the chapters :

0:07 Introduction
1:53 Chords & Form
6:56 L-Form
8:31 Shuffle vs Straight
11:28 Blues Riffs
15:15 Scales
20:27 Improvisation ( Question / Anwser / Resolution )
29:20 Final Notes
32:12 Appendix

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Here I show you the theme and the chords of the jazz tune " Midnight Blue " by Kenny Burrell. Beside that, I give you some tips on how to master the improvisation in a relaxed way.

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Here I show you some beautiful Spanish guitar chords in the key of Am and give you some tips on how to create a wonderful simple melody with your spanish guitar.

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Many of you always requested tutorials where I talk about how to use chords and solo's at the same time. So here I talk about a simple minor blues guitar riff and how you can add different solo parts inside the riff and also how to use chord variations and how to create a whole story with this one riff and make it sound great and interesting for your audience.

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Guitar Tapping - Basic Chord Rhythms ( Tabs & Audio )
Here you find a summary of exercises for the double handed guitar tapping ( touch technique ) where you can work out basic chord rhythms. These exercises are basic exercises taken from basic left - right hand independence exercises from piano playing. There are basically 2 types of exercises. You have those where you do ostinato figures with the left and right hand and make combinations and figures where you do independant figures of the left and the right hand. The selected chord progression is Am / Am / G / G . A very simple progression which includes both types of chords. There is an audio file added that you can hear how the tabs should sound alike.

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