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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.

Here I give you a few tips how you can play a 80s melodic rock solo. Sound and expression are very important for this kind of playing style so you might get some useful insight from this lesson.

Here's a short sequence of the lesson of the month feb 11 http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1483

The topic of this lesson is a shuffle blues in the key of E in a medium tempo in the SRV style. There are some spezific problems which have to be reviewed. Like the sound, the way of playing and the licks which work best. These are mostly double stop licks and combinations of them with chords, the rhythm guitar and some single note lines. The sound I have used is created with the AXE FX II – a marshall 800 with some delay on it and thats it. You can use any kind of medium distortion on your amp the playing technique makes the difference. The progression is : E / A / E / E A / A / E / E B / A / E / B Get the lesson : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1483

Hi Thomas, thanks for your words. You name it " you need to have the heart of a child * then you see things right and this is the key to so many things. I am glad you survived cancer. This is a real challenge but has a chance to get real insight into important things in life. Stevo here in the school had it and survived. Best HP

Hi Lew, thanks for your feedback - this really gives me motivation to carry the online teaching on. I heard such kind of feedback many times, that my online lessons feel like they are made just for the special student. I dont know what the secret is but I guess it is because I really like all my students even the ones I never have seen in person. My hands are much better then when the problem started and I think I found the weak point over the X-mas days now. I need to do very regular sports and keep disziplin with things I eat and need to practice guitar regular and relaxed. I think with a lot of disziplin I can be able to heal it completly. Best HP

2011 Blog Looking back to 2011 the main events which happened were that on the one hand I really got my work on a very good level since I moved it into my studio in Egg. I was booked out with students the most time and my guitarlessons on guitartricks.com have been very popular since I changed my teaching style to a new system. I had many concerts with my farbmusik which were good visited and I can not outline it enough I am very proud of my 4 hours soloconcert on Feb 4th in the Prediger church in Zürich were I play all colors each on guitar and piano with a break of 10 minutes after each color. Looking back its like my live - work has been finished in this one concert. I have practiced so many years to have this level on guitar and piano to make such a concert possible. For my a soloconcert was always the highest thing a musician could reach If you ever play only one solo - piece on a concert you know what I mean. It took all my concentration, my knowledge, experience as a musician over all those years and my entire concentration to make this " march to the southpole alone " possible. Here's a picture from the last " violet " sequence. Pretty much of the spectators where there for the whole 4 hours and they loved it. They told me that they never experienced such a concert before, in its perfection, deepness and emotional impact. The second thing main thing which took my attention in 2011 were my health problems with my hands pretty short after my personal highlight of this concert. These problems slowed me down very much and guided me through the rest of 2011. The good news is that I still can play without limitations, the bad news is that I still suffer from this problem and nobody really can tell me what it is and how long I will be able to play without pain. From my personal experience from the past I know that it has a reason for this. Many years ago I needed to stop playing the piano because of a problem with my right hand. There I changed to guitar and I never regreted it. Now I decided to take any effort which is needed to go out and play live again. Over years I did not focus on live - playing again, I made a few concerts from time to time and my main focus was teaching, online teaching and composing for TV and Movies. Now its more the time to make concerts, start new projects with other musicians - just to be creative. I already started with the first steps by sorting out old things and removing things which will be in my way - check the new foto's on http://www.gitarrist.ch ... more will follow. Best HP

Wes Montgomery Tutorial In this tutorial I'll be teaching some elements in the style of Wes Montgomery. One technique he was famous for was using his thumb to play single notes, octaves and chords. I'll play a short example for you in the key of Gm. Even if you are not a jazz player, this technique is useful for expression in soloing. Here a list of all lessons : Wes Montgomery - Intro Wes Montgomery - Technique Wes Montgomery - Latin 1 Wes Montgomery - Latin 2 Wes Montgomery - Swing 1 Wes Montgomery - Swing 2 Wes Montgomery - Latin Pop 1 Wes Montgomery - Latin Pop 2 Wes Montgomery - Final 1 Wes Montgomery - Final 2

Here's the final sequence of my new mississippi blues tutorial which will be available soon. Took out my bottleneck and played some blues :-)

This lesson will give you some easy ideas how you can work with the pentatonic ( all positions ) and some theoretical background to play nice and good sounding melodic rock solo's in the key of Gm using the Gm scale. To understand this lesson it is very usful that you are able to play ALL pentatonic positons. Here you find all in the key of A http://www.hanspeter...p?showtopic=325 - the numbers displayed on the graphics are the intervals of the scale. Pentatonic is 1 2 b3 4 5 b7 The minor scale is 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 As you can see the differenc are only 2 notes the 2 and the b6 - this is important to understand the whole content of this lesson here and will help you a lot to play more free on the fretboard. For more understanding of intervals please read this article : http://www.hanspeter...hp?showtopic=27 GET THE LESSON

Changments Its has been a while since my last blog entry - nearly 6 months - wow. In my last blob entry I was writting about some health problems and as a result my plan slow things down. So what happened since then ? Actually a lot My health problems ( unfortunatly with hands ) have forced me to think about several things and priorities in playing and in life. I have used this time now to change a few things based on this situation. I had a similar problem many years ago which forced me to dramaticly change my musical life. At that time I was a professional pianist and on the way to become pretty successful. There I needed to stop playing piano but it was possible to play guitar and so I changed my main instrument and became a guitarist - but looking back honestly I know that I wanted to do this changment and so it came. But I needed that injury at that time to really go the new way - the same as now. Already last year I noticed that I wanted to change something now the changments have taken place. Musical Career I considered myself always as a live musician since I am this kind of player who can boost energie and abilities in a live situation. Through my online work and all my obligations I did not have the time and motivation to pursue liveplaying so much anymore. But now is the time to go out and play again - I dont know how long my hands still can play ( nobody knows what it is ) - but at the moment I still can play but I needed to change my perception of music and what I want to play and how. Here are my findings : 1. Touch Technique : I think the time of expanded touch technique concerts is over. I still can play it but this technique is really hard to play and brings a lot of physical stress to the angles of the fingers and needs a lot of practice time with only little abilities of improvisation and creativity on stage. 2. Normal Playing : Because of the touch technique I stoped to pracitce normal playing techniques. But I was pretty good in it when I practiced it and I can do it with very little effort - so I am coming back with this. Takes some time of course till the really high levels can be reached - but I am on the way 3. Piano playing - I used to be a very good piano player. ( this is what people always said to me ) and I own http://www.pianist.ch. I am giving more energy to piano playing and live performances. 4. Performing - since Touch Technique not my main feature anymore I am forced to start to play with other musician. The first main changment is that in my main concert program " FARBMUSIK " I no longer do concerts solo anymore. I started to work with Tatjana Nikic. http://www.tatjananikic.com - she is a great concert pianist from Croatia and she started to play the piano parts of my compositions and I do the " normal " guitarparts. A first full concert took place on oct 15th and it was a success. People loved the new performance style of " FARBMUSIK " and there is a discussion to get in more musicians. percussion first. A concert with 2 piano's in the Jecklin Forum in Zürich on jan 14th 2012 is on the way. An additional feature in FARBMUSIK - http://www.music-pictures.com/colormusic.php Teaching My teaching work is going on but I change my online teaching style a bit and I noticed that my lessons at http://www.guitartricks.com have become pretty popular. Since the changment 6 months ago I get far more possitive feedbacks, more downloads of my guitarmusic and I am totally booked out with private online and live students. They come from far away now to have private lessons but I did not do any advertisment, it is just happening. I still only take a limited number of students but I am now taking 15 per week and they love it. Jamsessions : As a great additional feature we started with regular jamsessions on oct 22th from a central studio in Egg. Everybody who loves blues and jamming can come there and play in a really wonderful room and surrounding. As a extra highlight all jamsessions will be broadcasted live into the internet. The live videostream can be watched at the named date and time ( Zürich - Time ) at http://www.gitarrenforum.eu/index.php?showtopic=2414 Summary My main goal now is to become that live musician with FARBMUSIK which I always was again and I will take any effort to go back there with the new situation. I enjoy the work with my students and I will keep it up because the feedbacks and energy I get from all my students around the world is just great.

Here I give you some ideas for lead guitar on a typical 80ths slow rock track.