admin

This is song I recorded today - showing my emotions trying to be cool because I fell in love with a student of mine a few weeks ago and I was trying very hard not to show my emotions and staying cool. but_I_was_cool.mp3

Basic rock licks in HD

4.9.08 Tomorrow is my birthday so I wanted to have all work finished to be able to celebrate it a bit tomorrow since I am going through a lot of hard working times in the last weeks. I wasn't even able to make a few days during my " official " holidays in summer. But here are the results : www.gitarrist.ch I have changed the entire design of my german website and adapted it the the design of hanspeterkruesi.com. The main new thing are the private online lessons. They are switched to HD video format now and actually they are really great. There is a new video where I play some stuff to show my playing style at http://www.gitarrist.ch/gitarrenunterricht.htm and the private online lessons are featured at http://www.gitarrist.ch/onlineunterricht/p...ktion/index.htm Music-pictures.com I have finished a assignement for a movie about Kenya where I was asked to compose some music for it. That wasn't easy at all even that I lived in Nairobi for 2 years when I was I kid. You can check the music I made at http://www.music-pictures.com/afrika . Guitartricks.com Guitartricks is going through some major changements which will be coming soon. This kept me busy for many weeks to get those standards on video editing they were asking for. But I guess it will be worth - I heard some very exiting news which I will announce as soon as it has come to real. I will advertise with a video about touch technique for guitartricks on http://www.ultimate-guitar.tv/ in the next weeks. I will keep you informed. My YouTube channel I checked my youtube channel this day and I was suprised that I already have 199000 views till now. So I decided to record 2 new videos where I play 2 jazzstandards with the touch technique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLpRkKMpSm0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0x45GkI868

New videos Garry Moore blues Classicrock ideas IV Lesson of the month Starting with modes in minor keys

On guitartricks.com where I am a instructor there are major changements going on. Since my teaching method is a bit unconventional I needed to explain my method the the reasons the way I create my online lessons. Here is what I wrote.

Now it is done. In the next few hours hpcrazy.com will be shut down and will only link to www.hanspeterkruesi.com

Now actually that was Monika my pysical sister ( view http://www.schlegel-holzbau.ch/portrait.htm ) actually she is a typical Swiss woman and we do not have much which makes me feel that she is my sister. I just been thinking take I don't fit in the entire familly " Kruesi " since in the part I knew I am the only artist. But then I meet Christina Kruesi 4 months ago. She turned out to be a relative and the sister I always wanted to have... and that part of the familly reminds me much more how I am. So since we started to work together on http://www.music-pictures.com she is officially my sister since people stated to think we are married because we have the same name. also view http://www.ckruesi.ch Greetings HP

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