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Thanks - after my sister Christina has told me over and over I had to change my domain and my artist name and the design I finally started now. We were talking about getting our project we have to NJ http://www.music-pictures.com/colormusic.htm - somebody she's knows very well ist one of the bosses at the time magazin. So chances might be good that we will make it there - but before I had to change my appearance in the web... strikt order ! The video will appear tomorrow. Still not finished to upload all files and now I am going to bed. HP

BTW - how you like the new very tight design of the main page ?

No panic on the titanic... just moving. The school is a bit more complicated that will take a other 24-48 hours but you will not notice any difference. If everything works out as planed you still can use any stored hpcrazy.com URL's and they will be redirected to the new domain. This will stay 1-2 years and then I guess I will finally shut HPCRAZY.COM down. Probably just keep the email - adress as a sentimal reminder of the last 10 years.

10.08.08 HPCRAZY.COm is getting shut down now. I have startetd to make the major chages which means that the time onn HPCRAZY.COM now finally has come to an end. I have been thinking a very long time about this - wheather this would not be dangerous since I have worked over 10 years to spread the name " HPCRAZY " . But I guess this step can not longer be avoided. It will take some time till all changements have gone through since the whole system is very complex. But this is now the very first but final step to do this. Kind of sad - but this will take me one step futher now. And check out the new design of my homepage. Greetings HP

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

30.07.08 Lesson of the month - moving positions Free lesson - rocksolo with moving positions ideas

Here's a cool video which shall give you some ideas to work with the aeolian scale and how to move a melody following the scale on one string. On the current lesson of the month you can learn all basics and strategies how to shift positions on the fretboard. I strongly recommend that you learn that lesson following my exact instructions. VIDEO TABS JAMTRACK Lesson of the month - moving positions

24.07.08 2 new jamtracks Popsong C#- Grooving moving 7 new teaching videos Basic jazzchords introduction Basic jazzchords 1 Basic jazzchords 2 Basic jazzchords 3 Basic jazzchords 4 Basic jazzchords ex1 Basic jazzchords ex 2

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

Here's a cool free lesson how to play advanced legato licks in the style of Joe Satriani on a rocktrack in the key of A major. VIDEO DOWNLOAD and here you can download the tabs : TABS and here you can get the jamtrack : JAMTRACK

Drop D slide guitar A entire tutorial about playing the bottleneck on a accoustic steelstring guitar in the style of Ry Cooder by using a drop D tuning : Drop D slide guitar - Introduction Drop D slide guitar I Drop D slide guitar II Drop D slide guitar III Drop D slide guitar IV Drop D slide guitar V Drop D slide guitar - Putting things together

Acoustic guitar http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=843 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=842 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=841

Unemployee pier I created this cool and simple song in the great year 2003 where it was very hot and I was hanging round at one pier at the lake I am living. This is a great song to jam with all your friends or many guitars. DOWNLOAD Here the tabs of the basic rhythm guitar Unemployee_pier___jamtrack.pdf Here you can download the original jamtrack : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=51 and to learn the entire song check the lesson of the month april 08 : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showforum=26 Have some nice and relaxed times with this song

Grabbel live This is the liveversion of my tune " Grabbel " iTunes link of the original Below you find a liverecording of it and the tabs of the original. To download the backing track and to get more information how to play on this track please follow this link here : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=823 Theme__Grabbel.mp3 Theme__Grabbel.pdf

23.02.08 Jazzguitar : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=820 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=821 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=822

22.01.08 New teaching videos " Sound & expression I - VI " http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=810 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=355 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=354 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=811 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=812 http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=813

14.01.08 A beginners guide : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showforum=70

And here you find the pentatonics I was talking about. Minor Pentatonics Major Pentatonics and here you find some technical exercises which help you - check the chromatic exercises first to get your fingers a bit trained and then the pentatonic exercieses. http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=29 The root note I am talking about is important for the orientation on the fretboard and to start with the basic improvisation concept : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=908

Here I talk about some basic picking techniques either with pick or the fingers or with a clean or distorted guitarsound. If you want to leanr rock riffs with distorted guitarsounds you might check out the " rock riff's tutorial " Additional I talk about regularity in your practice routines. They are very important that you keep your training and practicing up to gain your progress and keep you going. Here you find 2 articles how you should schedule your regular practice : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=104 http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=178 If you want a professional review of your practice plans go here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showforum=74 At the end I give you some tips how to tune your guitar. The best way is to buy a tuner and work on a combination of tuning by ear and with the tuner.

Hi everybody, Dave was asking for the tabs of the little gimmiks I did on this video. Sorry they are not available. Acutally you can add any bluesy lick in A on this track. For the more advanced players you might check these licks here http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=250 . You can use any lick exept lick nr. 2 - that one does not fit too much on this track. And attention from lick 5 on all licks are in the A mixolydian mode whcih means that you can use them only on the A7 chord - but you can transpose all mixolydian licks to D or E just moving them up in the right key. Greetings HP

Hi everybody, here's now a lesson where you can learn a cool blues rhythm guitar and some cool licks so that you can jam around with your blues friends. There a little problem with the audio at the beginning of the video. You don't miss too much - just wait a few seconds. DOWNLOAD Here are the licks I have used : Licks.pdf You can download the jamtrack I have used here. It is the track no. 2 " Blues classic in A " : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=18 And here are the tabs of the rhythm guitar : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=800

11.12.07 Updated all touch technique videos http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showforum=35 Rockpop Balade video updated : http://www.hpcrazy.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=331

Looks very interesting because it allows you to play normal and slide technique. I think I want one of those too. Greetings HP

Well it does not make any difference. I just liked the glass bottlenecks better.... I would take one which is open on both sides, because otherwise you are sweating all the time in the closed bottlenecks. Greetings HP

29.11.07 Find the latest new here : http://www.hpcrazy.com/membernews.htm