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In this lesson you learn the essentials of the music of AC DC. From my opinion this is more the work of the rhythm guitar which is played by Malcome Young. So I talk how to use the main chords of this style and how to work with it in a dynamic way which is very important also for any kind of other rock or bluesrock guitar playing. At the end of this lesson I give some ideas for lead guitar. To download the tabs, the jamtrack and the video go here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1548

Here's a cool version of Jingle Bells with a lot of rockguitar in it. To download the backing track please visit : http://www.hpcrazy.com

HPCRAZY.COM and live activities It really has been a long time since my last blog entry. Wow the last one was at the beginning of July 12. There was the summer break and I have a lot of personal things to work out how I will continue my entire system. I had a terrible cold for more then 3 months. 2 months I was more or less home and too weak to do more then the minimum of my duties in my schedules. Illness is always a sign that something is wrong in the entire system so I took this time to think about many things and I have found my answers in personal and professional life now. So I will share some of my findings and my activities during this time here in my blog. Live activities I have played many concerts and shows during this time. So I was practicing a lot since I was playing different kind of music at every concert. There were a few Farbmusik concerts. One was the first live broadcasted concert from our live streaming studio in Egg. Since this was the very first concert which we broadcasted there were various technical difficulties which occurred during this live performance. So I was not really happy about the result. I wanted to have a perfect concert, prepared a lot that all sounds should be perfect but somehow many things went wrong. After the concert we had team meeting and checked out all mistakes which happened and the next concert 2 weeks later worked out fine. You have an impression here. I was playing with a jazz band and I had a lot of fun since I only play Jazz once a year with this band. Have a look here to this very rare occasion : http://www.jamsessionegg.ch/2012.11.17/index.html I really enjoyed this time with all these live activities. I was totally focused on this and my preparations and practice work on the guitar. I was playing like 4 -8 hours daily again and it felt great. I have not done this for years and reminded me where my true passion in music was for the most time of my musician life. And it was not a accident that I was invited to a Steve Vai concert in Zürich. I always loved his kind of spiritual approach to music and found a lot of accordance in his philosophies and thought about music and life but I never have seen him playing life. And I must tell you it was a real initial happening for me. I really could feel his vibe and energy behind music and the kind of mission he is going for. And I felt that this is very near to what I am going for. So I went home totally inspired and with a new vision what my musical life shall be in the future. I did not release any CD anymore since 2010. Before I released about 22 CD's I guess but after 2010 where I released 8 CD's I was so empty and nothing new came up. I also felt that my mission I had in music was lost. This changed in that night were I saw Steve Vai live. Thanks Steve even when we don't know us personally :-) HPCRAZY.COM I have relaunched my website http://www.hpcrazy.com in August 12 as a experiment and to try to get my lost inspiration back. This website is connected very much to my YouTube channel which more or less was there since 2006 but I never took it serious. But amazing even that I did not take it serious I have 600 subscribers and nearly 500000 views. So I thought that my YouTube channel connected with my website will be my voice in the internet for the future. Work already has begun. Currently there are 2 parts. The lesson of the month and the " Talk to my guitar " show. So you have a new video every two weeks. Later we will add parts from the live broadcasting from our studio in Egg. We are still working on the last technical updates. A 2nd camera will be installed in these days and from then on it will be like a TV studio and we are looking forward to this great add to the whole HPCRAZY.COM concept. And I must say a big thank you to Richard who has payed all this. Without his financial help this never would have been possible. Now we a full professional TV studio ready to go in the next weeks. Thanks to him my year long dream of my own T-Shirt will come true. THE T-shirt with the slogan " I don't look crazy but I am ". We hired Saskia Böhm as a designer. She is really fantastic and did many projects with me in the past and also designed the current concert poster for my big concert on Jan 12 in the big church in Egg. http://www.farbmusik.com/live.htm Even that this T-shirt is not out now and in the hands of Saskia's abbilities I already have many preorders now. For all those who are interested in having this T-shirt. I will be shipped international and the price will be more symbolic. Preorders can be sent to [email protected] I think thats all for the moment. Best HP – Crazy and remember I don't look crazy but I am. :-)

http://youtu.be/qTIyCKQWt9Y Here is a lesson about lydian mode and modal lydian improvisation in the style of Joe Satriani. Check out my instructions about upper structure triads. Thats very important. :-) To get the full lesson with all background information and download links go here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1542

In this lesson I explain on the example off my " orange blues " how you can work with different modes in an open timing blues in E. You can choose between E major, E mixolydian, A lydian and E minor pentatonic. This way you are able to spread your possibilites of expression dramaticly. Also working with different dynamic levels with your distortion and additional Wahwah can help you a lot to sound really dynamic and expressiv. Get the lesson here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1537

A song from the colourmusic series ( orange ) played by Hanspeter Kruesi and Dr. Pink

http://youtu.be/D7ISpqTqORI Here I talk about different types of comping in jazz guitar on the example of the first part of the very famous standard " Autumne Leaves " This progression Cm7 F7 Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7 Am7b5 D7alt Gm7 is a very common combination so it makes really sense to work out some stuff which you can use again in other tunes and keys. Tabs and Videodownload are available for subscribers here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1534

Here is another clip from the " Talk To My Guitar " series.

Here I am talking about typical Rockabilly Guitar. If you learn the Intro of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Good then you already know all what is needed For you I show the first part of it here again and show you how you can create an entire solo only using the material you have learnt from there. Sound settings are also a topic if you really want to play original style A clean Fender Amp or any other clean amp setting a delay with 117ms delay time and some spring reverb. On the rhythm guitar it is essential that you have the accent and the foot which counts the timing on 2 and 4. Imagine that when you play on 190 Bpm you can not count 1 2 3 4 anymore :-) http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1531

Talk to my guitar : Me and my guitar ( the friendly guitar from the neighborhood ) give you some ideas to play a cool psychadelic funk guitar. You can download the backing track at http://www.hpcrazy.com