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During my preparations for my concert of the 31.10. I needed to take a break in practicing my songs and relaxed a bit with my blue jazz jacket by playing one of my very favorite jazzstandards " Misty " . A lot of people do not really know I acutally studied jazzguitar as well and I play jazz a lot just for fun. So here's my midnight version of " Misty "

Cool rings... they have the advantage that you still can play normal as well.... I guess

Yes nice to see you back. Can remember you of course You can always ask for a specific artist studies in the upcoming lesson of the month. The next is still not decided http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1193 HP

Mark Knopfler The current lesson of the month teaches you the basics about Mark Knopflers playing style in the time he was the frontman of Dire Straigts. I spent a lot of time to study his style and to see what makes it so special. This lesson shows you the essential from the songs Sultanas of Swing : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=gS9aY41G9EQ Money for Nothing : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Po1TsgvOoOY Private Investigations : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=AhM4tyL5d6I Brothers in Arms : http://www.youtube.c...h?v=a6oWvAGmiCo Got to the lesson.

23.9.09 It has been a bit quite over the summer now in my blog. There were several private reasons for that but also a lot of changements with projects therefore I needed to talk with a lot of people to get things organized. Music for TV & movie I have produded a new generation of music with special guitarsounds and guitareffects which seemed to be very popular along the music - libraries and the my agency in US. Therefore I got several very good feedbacks about my latest words and I am in the final row as composer for a company who works with a broadcast company in US and a company who made several filmusic for 20th fox productions. Hopefully I will get a job somewhere. That would be great. Beside this I got 3 new tracks signed at my agency in Hollywood who also made the music for " Final destination 3 " - hopefully one day I will make it to such a movie too. I had a meeting as Swiss TV with the guys from the musicproduction department. They showed me in detail what they need from me and also told me that I am one of the most popular " in-house" composer there along the different editoral departments. Now I know exactly what they need I will make more placements I guess. Colormusic My lifeshow " Farbmusik " is on the way to true professionality. I tried to build up a team to get this whole thing running. I was not so easy because of course you first have to find out who really fits in the team and who really will do a great job. Unfortunately I had a bigger backlash this week but now it seems to be clear who will be in the team and who not. So I got somebody for graphicworks. She made a incredible job and she delivered on time and in a very professional manner. She made the bill for a testing liveshow on oct. 31th http://www.music-pictures.com/hp_plakat.pdf Somebody is responsible for all verbal presentations on stage and off stage and she is responsible for the social networking. http://www.frauenstimme.ch I got somebody who will help with possible sponsoring but he help me a lot to get my mind clear which way the music shall be. And last but not least I got a manager now who will take care of all booking and coordination activities. We already organized a professional fotoshooting so the new websites or soon online. The english one aready is http://www.music-pictures.com and the german one is http://farbmusik.com/beta All other possible partners unfortunately dropped out for some reasons. I spent a lot of time for social networking but I am glad that everything is clear now and I can start with the main work again. Online lessons The online lessons had to been holded back a bit in this time because I really was too busy. But Stevo one of my students at http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool is helping me a lot to make promotion work to keep it going. On guitartricks.com I had to clarify my status in the past days because a lot of things are changing there. But now we found something which really works great for all parties. I will now take care of rare playing techniques and rare licks and all " they call them " esoteric topics like " how to play " - " philosophies " all which comes with playing and mind and emotions. Therefore I launched a " talk to your guitar " series which is officially supported by them So as you can see it was not quite at all in the past 2 months and hopefully this will lead my work to the next level. :-) HP

Lesson of the month This lesson is about Larry Cartons version of T-Bone Walkers " Stormy monday blues ". This is a blues which is played very often and I heard it in many bars actually so it is obvious that there are many diferent versions of it around. I picked the Larry Carton version because his version and his playing style is just great for this lesson of the month. Here is the progression of Larry's version : A7 / D9 / A7 / A7 D9 / D9 / A7 B-7 / C#-7 C-7 E9 / D9 / A7 F9 / E9 D#9 or an alternative version A7 / D9 / A7 / A7 D9 / D9 / A7 B-7 / C#-7 C-7 E9 / D9 / A7 D9 / A7 E9 Get the lesson

Here I talk about me and my guitar who got 3 new tracks signed in Hollywood and the fact that I have to wear a suit for an upcoming fotoshooting.

I think it will run smoothly but let me know if you find something which is not working properly. I think the new design is giving the school a real professional look now. Things seem to be more complicate first but once you get into it you will see that everything has become much user - friendly and easy. Some real essential changements can be read here : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1180

This online guitarschool has a facebook account were you find some free stuff and you can keep yourself informed about the current news. LINK

Hi Rune, thanks... was kind of a work but the basic design was already a default setting. But take your time to check the new functions and possibilities. I wanted to have a more personal and dynamic system and here it is. HP

Finally the new system is here for the school. Still running some tests, but I think it is great. Please let me know if anything with the subscription manager is not working properly.

Well in this case it good I found the time to go through those firefox updates... was pretty much to do...

Yeah I was supprised how big the difference was in Firefox browser. Now it looks nearly the same... but didn't you use the fullscreen button on the right of the player ?

Update for firefox It has seemed that the old system didn't display the videos correcly in the firefox browser. I have found a solution now and edited all videos - now the whole school is also compatible with Internet Explorer & Firefox 3.5

Here I talk about playing the famous song " Still got the blues " by Gary Moore. Check out my instructions on the bending tricks which are typical for his style and take your time to work out the melody and the variation on the melody properly. This will help you a lot on your personal expression on guitar. If you would like to work out the whole song note by note I have posted the full edited tabs as a .pdf - .gp5 or .midi - so if you like you can work through the whole song. But you will be busy learning the great melody with variations and the typical Gary Moore bending tricks. http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschoo...?showtopic=1171

Summer report It has been a while since my last blog entry. I was pretty busy because I had to move out of my place I live because of health problems. Some of you might noticed in the last videos that I used to have a running nose. Something at my place caused these problems and they had even got worse. So unfortunately I had to move out of the place. Talk to your guitar I have started with a new idea I had of a monthy video blog I call " talk to your guitar ". I thought it was a funny idea and the guys from guitartricks.com gave me the OK to act officialy as a representative with this idea. You can check the video on facebook here http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=...4025&ref=mf HP's online guitarschool on facebook.com Stevo ( Tonic Scale ) opened up a facebook group on facebook.com where issues about this school can be discussed and some additional information are available too. If you have a facebook.com account you can join here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zurich-Switz...27503763?ref=mf. There will be a major update of the school here in the next few weeks and as far as I understand the system it will be possible to synchronize the school here with facebook.com. The new system is great anyway. I am sure you will love it. I have tested it once for a few days but the subscription manager was not working proberly thats why I switched back to the old system till everything works out perfect. But you can already have a look on my german guitarsite http://www.gitarrenforum.eu Composing work I have released new music in order to license it at any kind of TV or movie library. One of the new songs can be listened at http://www.music-pictures.com/music/index.htm . It is called " reflections of the past ". If you might be wondering which color this song has. It is my favorite color - indigo. I got reports from all agencies and libraries I started to work in the last months ( LA, Houston, London ) that my music has been used in TV or movie productions. Seems like this really starts to work - it needs time and patience indeed but once the system is up and they love the music it really works. The more I get into composing work the more I feel that my strong sections which are wanted most are : Electronica, New Age, Ambient, Piano solo Summerbreak I will be off duties for 3 weeks now after the lesson of the month August is recorded.

Here's a cool video for all playing levels which shall give you an idea how to make a connection with your guitar and how you can get more and more into music. If you really work on those very slow and controlled movements this will raise your technical abbilities more then you might believe and this also will prevent you from any kind of injuries which are caused by " wanting too much immediatly " . http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschoo...?showtopic=1150

I would I personally think that this is the best tutorial which I ever wrote. Brings all important things together on a quite easy way.

Advanced rock improvisation course Learn a easy to use improvisation concept for rock guitar which make you able to play over the whole fretboard. This is the introduction to advanced rock improvisation concepts. This entire tutorial will get you to the point where you can start to be creative with the minor pentatonic on the entire fretboard. Please take your time to really work out the theoretical and practical background which is needed to understand the whole concept. The 7 lessons will give you a good basis to get into creative improvisation work on a very easy way. Advanced rock improvisation – Introduction Advanced rock improvisation I : Pentatonic in all positions Advanced rock improvisation II : Pentatonics on one string Advanced rock improvisation III : Pentatonic – aeolian scale Advanced rock improvisation IV : Adding licks or motives Advanced rock improvisation V : Megachops & runs Advanced rock improvisation – Final notes

Ah now I remember you. I think this was at the red concert. I am on the video editing now. The first one is up now. This was at the final concert. Somebody was there with a videokamera and sent me the files this week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesguGDFw0A

Which one were you - I guess I met you but I just now I do not remember. Just editing the videos of the last concert where I played both instruments. I will upload them soon. Yes those concerts in Zürich showed me that my colormusic works and people love it. Imagine that I did not do any active promotion for them and still the people came. This is a thing which shall be changed - it is only a matter of that people are there and they love it. The other thing which has to be better is the professional setting probably with more lightshow stuff. But the desicion is final - I will get this working on national and hopefully international liveshows. My contacts and success stories from 10 years online business might help me.

That's exacly the point. This upcoming DVD project really showed that I have been pretty away from what I am. I am glad that I stopped it now because at the end I would had to compose music which I do not really feel - link on the SULZER movie. So I go back to the roots and it is good to know that you guys support me.

Future plans I have been working very hard since the beginning of September 08. Believe it or not - Since then I have been working nearly 7 days a week to get all things done which had to be done and to push new ideas forward. It was a very hard but also very successful time since we think back to the movie I scored, the Hollywood placement, becoming a featured artist at taxi.com, getting signed by international digital music distribution companies, having a whole concert series realized with 7 color - concerts performing each time 7 originals on piano and guitar. Those who only know me as a guitarist might not know that I have the same professional abbilities on the piano as well. My vision of colormusic has leaded to serveral request to produce movies, DVD's or other projects with my colormusic. So you might see what the problem is. It is far too much for a one man company, and to be honest this has leaded to some health and personal problems which made me stop now and starting to think about my real priorities. I have made my desicions now : 1. Live - Playing : I definitly want to get back the reagular live - playing where I perform my music and my abilties on piano & guitar. It is not that easy because I have been away the music-scene for nearly 10 years - and of course to get booked at the really great places you need to know the booking managers. Making all the networking is a lot of work and of course I can not do too much of it because I am busy enough with my music. So I am lucky that I now have finally got somebody who is taking care of this business. We got some great ideas how my music and my show can be set up in special occasions to create a fanbase and then to finally performe at festivals, concert halls ... 2. DVD - Production : I am in fact planing to realize a DVD series with my music and some visual effects but this is displaced. The current setting with my team is not how it should be and I think this DVD can wait. 3. Online - Education work : I will keep up my online education work on guitartricks.com and my own 3 websites. I already made kind of a schedule stragegie where I can put together my efforts on live - playing and creating great new online lessons. But the focus on my teaching videos will be more in the advanced playing section since this is the strategie which will persist in international competition with my current business setting. 4. Music for TV, Movie & Hollywood : I had some very lucky moments with my composer work since I started 18 months ago. I will focus on my core - business here as well producing my style of music as can be heared at my liveperformences or on http://www.music-pictures.com. So if those internation music libraries still want my music its OK. I already have had many placements including the one on the ABC serial " Ugly Betty " but I will not do any scoring or composing work anymore which is outside my main core - business even when I have made a lot of money. I think an artist should not go too far away from what he really feels because this might stop all creativity as it happened to me now. So this is an outlook for the upcoming months and probably years. I will now slowy get back to work, but now I really will keep in mind where my real priorities are and don't forget to really enjoy life beside my work. This might slow things down but will keep my work up on the long term ;-)