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Creativity First Wow it really has been a long time since my last blog entry. It has been an intense time - sometimes not so easy since I started my first steps into a new life without extended online teaching and extended internet projects. It is now 3 months ago since I made this step and I personally think it was the best desicion of the past years. Some really new aspects have come into my life and in fact it is a total different life with its difficulties but it feels great. So what happened since then ? Actually I have started to focus totally on creativity as a liveperformer and as a composer. These 2 aspects never really had a bigger space in my work since I did not have the time and the open spaces to really get into this creative world. So I started to practice guitar and piano regualar again - and specially in the morning hours. A time which I usually used to awser all emails, orum entries or other internet activities. Since I have more time for this work I am able to really work on the connection with the guitar or piano again with several mental exercises in combination with technical exercises on guitar or piano. And it was worth ! I had 2 concerts at the beginning of june and the first one was a real challange. It was in Germany under pretty hard conditions and I did not fail. It was not my best performance but without my exercises I would not been able to stand the big pressure this way. This is part of the new life that you need to face difficult situations and still be able to do a great job - no wonder that the report in the media was very good ! The next concert only 4 days later was the best soloperformance I have ever played ! Wow I am still exited The next goal are now to make concerts from the now finally finished studio egg http://www.jamsessionegg.ch and to start working with bands. New performances are already booked and on the way. The 2nd part - composing : Here I have started to put energy into this part or my work and wow it works. I am still a successful composer at Swiss National TV - they just asked again for new music. I have become a featured artist at audiosparx.com - view http://www.audiosparx.com/ColourMusic - my recent work " http://soundcloud.com/music-pictures/coming-home " got a contract with a US based libray and my track " http://soundcloud.com/music-pictures/fire " is in the final phase of getting signed at a successful Hollywood library. Beside this I am currently scoring a Swiss movie which shall be seen at the Umwelt Arena on a 15m screen. So I am on the way now to a live where creativity will always be first and facing difficulties which appear in local settings when you work together with " real " people. It was a change after working in internet for 15 years but I will never regret this step I made.

Easy Rock Guitar Secrets This lesson is about rockguitar essentials which you need to know to play a good and stready rock rhythm and lead guitar. http://www.hanspeter...?showtopic=1522

Tricks on major pentatonics In this lesson I will talk about the major pentatonic which is a bit tricky to play when you want to sound good and sophisticated. Check my ideas how you work with simple licks only with the pentatonic, add some double stops and then add some additional notes. The combination of all these tricks make the difference. Get the lesson

Started a new section on my YouTube Channel - Musicclips

Carlos Santana is the main protagonist of the genre " Latin Rock ". His playing style and his kind of music influence many not to say all upcoming guitarist so it realy makes sense to look a little bit behind the scenes. Also the big names only cook with water and here you get some insights of the theoretical background and playing tips. This is meant to be a very easy to understand introduction into his really great style -- to get deeper I really recommend to you to buy his music and make some transcriptions and play it exactly the way he does on his recordings. In these examples I have used the C aeolian scale and on the last example the A dorian scale : C aeolian E |--------------------------------------------8--10---| B |-----------------------------------8--9--11---------| G |--------------------------7--8--10------------------| D |--------------------8--10---------------------------| A |-----------8--10-11---------------------------------| E |--8--10-11------------------------------------------| A dorian --------------------------------------------5--7----|| -----------------------------------5--7--8----------|| --------------------------4--5--7-------------------|| -----------------4--5--7----------------------------|| -----------5--7-------------------------------------|| --5--7--8-------------------------------------------|| More about Carlos Santana can be learnt in this entire tutorial : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1345

Make Music Here in this lesson I give you my personal advice how to keep up your motivation and your fun for guitarplaying on the long road to mastery. The main tip is : Stop thinking " How long will it take " because the road will never end and you need make music now and enjoy it now. This is the magic trick. In this video I give you more tips and background information from my own experience from practicing 10-16 hours daily over 10 years. I think I know what I am talking about. Take your time to follow my advice and my practical tips which I give you in this tutorial. Go to the lesson here : http://www.hanspeter...?showtopic=1516

New System - 21.4.12 It has been 4 weeks ago since it became a fact that I will be leaving guitartricks.com. Since this was a major inpact in my whole working system I really needed to think what will be in the future. I did not meet anybody for longer time to be alone to really think all this over and now here are my findings which I do believe will be my path for the coming years. 1. Online Teaching It makes sense to keep my own online guitarschool ( http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/ )running together with my activities on my YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/user/hpcrazycom ) and my activites on my german guitarsite ( http://www.gitarrenforum.eu/ ) and my personal guitarhome ( http://www.gitarrist.ch/ ) where I by the way have updated all foto's by now. 2. Live Videostreaming Next month we will definitly start to broadcast our activities from our Studio Egg live into the internet. I am really looking forward to it. It took a long time to fix all technical difficulties since we will be working with 3 camera's to get you closer to what will happen there. We will broadcast our jamsessions and concerts from there. All further information and dates can be found at http://hanspeterkruesi.com/livestream.htm 3. Creativity I will become more creativ. I really missed this so much during the past months and years where I was to busy to compose and expore new possibilites in music. Therefore I will put much more time and energy into this part of my work and make it to an equal part of all my activites. I have opened up a creative box ( http://hanspeterkruesi.com/box.htm ) and a Soundcloud account ( http://soundcloud.com/music-pictures ) and I already could get a contract for my first song which I created one week ago : http://soundcloud.com/music-pictures/coming-home 4. Live Activities I will put much more energy into my live activities such as concerts, live performances from the studio Egg and jamsessions. I will do this with my masterpiece " Farbmusik " ( colourmusic ) http://www.music-pictures.com/colormusic.php and with more activites as a pianist. I have updated my homepage as a pianoplayer and founded a agency and already started to work http://www.pianist.ch/ . I did not practice piano for nearly 6 months but this will be part of my regular work now and after I while I will be back on very professional level and combine it with guitarperformances with Farbmusik. So thats now the path for the future - I think it will take some time till I get back on my normal earning level again. I was thinking to take more private students but I am really at the limit with 10 - 15 students a week. I can only be a good teacher when I am happy and therefore I need to be creative and make concerts. Best HP

Here you can learn a nice accoustic blues track including some solo ideas which are specially made for accoustic steel string but also every other guitar. The track is taken from the " Whorehouse Blues " by Motorhead. Here you learn the essentials and on soloing I give you some technical advice how to work on fast runs with pentatonics or blues scale. here you can check out the original track. That one is played with 1/2 step tuned down guitars. So if you want to jam along with your normal tuned guitar please take the Ab minor pentatonic or blues scale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7Voy9YK1I&ob=av2e GET THE LESSON

After being an instructor for 6 years at guitartricks.com I am now unfortunately forced to quit. Somehow I am happy about this since the workload on the technical side ( video shoots, editing, cutting, track production ) has really become quite big in the past 2 years. I still was able to do it since I felt responsible for all students which gave me feedbacks, asked for specific new tutorials but on the other hand more and more I was not able to be creative anymore which made me very unhappy in the past 12 months. I tried to find a solution in the past that at least I could hire somebody who would help me with the videoshoots and video editing but since the Swiss Franc has become such a hard currency and my salery from Guitartricks.com always was in US$ I could not afford it. Several attempt to negotiate this with Guitartricks.com to get some support in this matter did not bring any results. Now a new videostandard was annouced which would have trippled my workload and could only be made with a professional team around. I tried to point out the situation but again I did not get any support. So now I needed to quit immediatly since the there was a timeline of 3 days for this changments. Well thats how it is. I do understand the position of Guitartricks.com and I wish them the best in the future that they remain the no. 1 source for guitarplaying in the internet. For my understanding they are too much fixed on technical things and creativity, fun and individuality which is part of playing and learning is not payed enough attention - but thats only my perspective. I am greatful that I was part of this experience for 6 years. In these days I have been no. 1 in the populary list they so I am quitting on the top which is great. Whats next ? Well the main problem of course is the loss of 50% of my fixed income. I need to replace that. The easiest way to do that is to go out and play piano again. So I have updated my pianist homepage www.pianist.ch and I am ready to go out and play piano again. But of course I will be creative again. I have saved enough money that I can go a longer way now without bigger income but at least I will get my happiness back in my work. I really missed creativity. I am really looking forward to this and hopfully I will get a bigger income from this work then I had from Guitartricks.com. Since I am still running my own online guitarschool I still need to think about if I shall continue here or if I should stop completly with online teaching. I will decide in the next weeks and months. I will keep the system running anyway and updates will come at least till the end of the year. Best HP

In this set of lessons I'll teach you a short simple original song, "Arizona Blues". I'll introduce the tune to you, then show you how to play the two main parts. Next I'll put the two parts together for you, then get into the hammer-on and bluesy licks. I'll play the song through for you, then finish by explaining a bit of my philosophy behind it. Arizona Blues - Intro Arizona Blues - Part 1 Arizona Blues - Part 2 Arizona Blues - Together Arizona Blues - Licks Arizona Blues - Song Arizona Blues - Philosophy

Here now some news from the past weeks. 1. I had some great concerts in the past weeks. I want to online 2 of them. The one was with the Band Hazzada Jazz where we performed some Jazz from the great american songbook. I dont play Jazz very often and so I needed to pratice pretty much to get my Jazz - skills back to professional level. But it was worth. I really enjoyed it and the band and the people who listened liked my playing very much - I would love to play more Jazz and so we will broadcast a concert in the next weeks from the studio in Egg. As soon as the technique is ready we can proceed. The 2nd performance to outline was in Pfedelbach in Germany. It was now the 2nd time I played a concert with my own music outside Switzerland. This time it was a preview to the big multimedia concert in June in the castle of Pfedelbach ( D ). The preview was very successful and so I can really look forward to that big concert. 2. I have made some essential changes on my websites www.hanspeterkruesi.com and www.gitarrist.ch / the main changement is the " Creative Box " - there I will release unrelease and very new material of mine. Just how creativity strikes and not when I need to follow some pruoduction lines. I really waited a long time for this that I can really find time to become really creative again. Success also means a lot of work and I was not able to be creative for nearly 2 years, but this will change now and this is the first step : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/box.htm And the 2nd main feature now is that all music now can be heard on iPhones and iPads with the new audio player from Soundcloud.com - I will now add one new song every day till all music is back online. I am also very proud of my new online CD - Store http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/radio/index.htm

Here is a cool lesson where you can learn the basics of funk guitar, some advanced tips and actually all you need to know about intermediate funk rhythm guitar. Beside this you can learn some very nice dorian licks and get some insight into the use of dorian mode. One main tip is that the difference between minor pentatonic and dorian scale are only 2 notes. So you only need to learn them. Pay close attention to my instructions about this. And here is the link to my recording of this song :-) http://www.music-pictures.com/news Get the lesson here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1495

Wow this is a very good practice plan. Very structured and covers the important things which are in fact nessary to master the guitar the way you described. I want to give you the following additional suggestions since I know how you play from your mp3 you sent me. http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=977 - as an additional to your current private online lesson http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1343 - for Oye Como Va http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1345 - Santana in general and since you are getting into scales I would suggest that you learn the modes as well. You don't need to get into all modes but the modes in major and minor ( not harmonic and melodic minor ) would be a great add. And learn the connection between scales and intervals. Every scale is a summary of intervals - example minor pentatonics contains the intervals 1 b3 4 5 b7 / the minor scale ( aeolian ) 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 or the major scale ( ionian ) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showforum=42 http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=45 Greetings HP

Double Stop Madness - Here I give you some insight to create a crunchy and punchy solo with double stops. The key is D.

This is a lesson where you can learn the essentials of the " Touch Technique " where you play the guitar like a piano. Its in the style of Stanley Jordan but acutally this is my personal style which I developed over many years.

Here you can learn some cool ideas how to play the Jimi Hendrix Chord and to play in a similar style like his song " Voodoo Chile " which was also perfomed by SRV - learn the sound setting and the way you play the chords and get some solo ideas with your Wah Wah.

Starting 2012 Since my last blog entry so much has happened - the really intensive phase began now in Jan 2012. Last year I have decided to put more energy into liveplaying and I have started to change my practice routines in order to get on my vision of my playing level and it is working pretty well. Now when I get up I start to practice instead of making any kind of office work. This is a big changment and it works. Now here the results 1. Livestreaming events : We are starting to make livestreaming events from the studio Egg where anybody can watch and listen our activities which will take place there. These will be jamsession with opening acts - currently I am the opening act when I perform some of my new solopieces which I worked out. Later others can do the opening act. I will also will be present at the jamsessions. So if anybody whats to jam with me you can come and join. All dates will be announced here : http://hanspeterkrue.../livestream.htm 2. Liveperformances : Also my activities in liveperformance as raised a lot. From the next week on a whole summary of occasions where you can see me playing live will show up. I will also play my first concerts in Germany which will be the first step to international concerts. I will see how far my journey will go but its incredible how fast this changment which I have decided at the end of 2011 have taken place. You find all upcoming liveevents at http://hanspeterkrue.../livestream.htm . 3. On Jan 14th I have a wonderful sold out liveperformance with Tatjana Nikic in the Jecklin Forum in Zürich where we performend " Farbmusik " with 2 grand pianos and guitar. 4. New Hollywood contract ! - my flamenco style sologuitar song " The Dessert " has been signed at a big Hollywood music library. This is great news - you can listen to it here : http://www.music-pic.../news/index.php 5. The SMPV ( Swiss Music Pedagogic Association ) which is the biggest and most important music association in Switzerland has made a very very supprising request to me. They asked me to join the steering commitee ! I had a hard time to think this over since I am really very busy and have no time for such a job with this big resposibility but I have agreed under certain conditions which are only possible for me in my current timemanagment. Maybe they are ready to agree. Its a big honour for me and my work I must say whatever they will decide. This shows that my progressive work I did over all those years is recognized ! 6. Fractal Audio and G66.eu - I will be featured on G66.eu with my new teaching videos on YouTube using the brand new AXE FX II. There I will act as a representive of Guitartricks.com and so I am more free about the content of my YouTube videos which was restricted the past 5 years due to my contract obligations with them. This is a great opportunity now to show my work to a much bigger audiance since G66.eu is the only distributor of Fractal Audio in Europe and the AXE FX is THE amp and FX modelling system of the present which gets a lot of attention. The campaign will be launced very soon - currently I am recording the videos. The first series is here. Therefore check my YouTube Account : http://www.youtube.c...om?feature=mhee 7. Swiss national TV has asked me to compose a Swiss stlye version of a song from Easy Rider for a big show. I am on it but the main work Tatjana Nikic will do because I have no time left but she is a great composer and I lookinf forward for here suggestions. So these were the most important news from Jan 12 - was a lot of movement but its going in a good direction.

Here you can learn some tricks about basic rock improvisation. With this method you can start to improvise with very basic theoretical knowledge and the tricks I am showing you in this lesson. The Jamtrack I have used can be downloaded here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=59

Learn to play a very easy blues in A by using the open strings A, D and E and some very easy melody lines which I explain to you in this lesson.

http://youtu.be/mtadiP9BZlg Learn all essentials the easy way to play a good solid rock rhythm guitar by using powerchords. Powerchords are all chords marked with 5 - example : E5 , A5, G5, F5, C5 ... you find them in every chordbook.