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Hey guys, here are now the may 24 updates : First of all - it has been an extrem busy month for me where I needed to learn a lot of repertoire on piano and guitar for some upcoming performances here in Switerland. The amount of diversity can not be bigger. On piano I needed to work on Mozart, Schuhmann, Beethoven, List and on guitar I joined a 80's & 90's cover rockband " Thell " for a few performances. I learned a lot of songs in detail which will soon come along such as this " Eye of the Tiger " tutorial : There are 2 updates in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy : 1 : Updated site guidelines - No refunds policy 2 : There is a new department available here in the Academy. My teaching method is more intuitiv then many others. I felt it makes sense to get beginners used to my method from the very beginning so that they can get into the intermediate level where most tutorials are located at the moment. Here's the entire department : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/1-guitar-beginners/ and here the first tutorial. I want to introduce 3 other active members of the community here. They are all personal friends of mine. Medikon is from Germany, Edguardo from Argentinia and Peter from Switzerland. I once presented the guitar Peter buildt here in this community. Medikon EguardoUcha Peter Abt - check out the guitar he buildt. Now lets move on to the new tutorials of this month : Blues Bo Diddley Blues Guitar : Here I show you the signature rhythm / groove of Bo Diddley which to take his words " The Rhythm That Shook The World " and give you some great idea's to play guitar along to the great rhythm. THE Slow Blues Guitar Riff : Here I show you THE slow blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. Rock Timing once more is crucial theme in rock guitar so you should not miss these 2 tutorials about timing and presicion : and here is the other one : and here is a cool hypnotic rock guitar riff. I am testing difference styles on my tiktok account and as it seems this type of style and genre works really good even I I only have like 130 followers. Jazz Easy Minor Smooth Jazz Licks : Here I show you some nice and tasty minor smooth jazz guitar licks over the progression Fm7 / Fm7 / Db7 / C7 Autumn Leaves Chords : Here I show you some very useful exercises for jazz guitar improvisation. The tips and tricks are adapted to the chords of the first part of the tune " Autumn Leaves " which is a very common chord progression in jazz. Highlight of the Month I strongly recommend this tutorial here. If you want to jam a cool song together with your other guitar buddies then this one is easy, relaxing and sounds really cool : These were now the updates here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. I have some additional cool stuff planed with will come soon - also I will finally start to produce more music again. In these times as an independant artist you need to find a position where AI is taking over the market. I did some research to see what AI can do and now I have my strategy. I also did a lot of research of social media and YT channels to see what the big community is doing out there to find my position. I also did a lot of research on creating guitar sounds which will soon be displayed in a new department called " Sound Lab " - you can already view a german version of the presation page here : https://gitarrist.ch/gitarren-sound-lab.html also check my recent blog entry about compression settings for a smooth guitar sound here : That's now all for this month - remember if you love this community here please also share your guitar world to others and support this community with an on-going Premium Membership. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/ Thanks for your support HP

This is the very first lesson you would get if you would step into my studio and learn guitar from the very first step. We are learning to connect with music, to count, to feel the rhythm and trying to play very simple things with this method. This is the first lesson of a series. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

There is a new department available in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy : Guitar Beginners If you are a Guitar Beginner - then this is the part which brings you step by step with a various set of exercises to an intermediate guitar playing level. The first 6 - 12 months are hard for any guitar beginner because there are many things which have to be repeated all the time till one is able to perform them on the guitar. These exercises are meant to keep you motivated even if you need to repeat many things over and over again. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/1-guitar-beginners/

Here I show you the guitar parts of the song " Eye Of The Tiger " by Survivior and I analyze the composing technque of the best motivation song ever ! Here you find the tabs of the guitar parts I explained : Eye Of The Tiger - Guitar Parts.pdf The full score is available in the Guitar Pro software as a purchase.

Here I show you THE slow blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

There was a mistake on one chord - download the latest version. It's fixed now.

That's a good point Greg. I added them now - but they are not complete because not all notes in the exercises can be displayed as a chordshape but I guess this one helps. Any yeah - great that you are already on it since one year. Me even longer - a regular warmup exercise for me.

If you have done the Spider Walk ( Spider Legs ) on guitar for a while and you want to move on to the next step. This exercise is what I recommend to my intermediate - advanced guitar students. Here you can download the tabs associated to this tutorial :

Yes one can learn a lot from Autumn Leaves even the tune is quite overplayed

Here I show you some very useful exercises for jazz guitar improvisation. The tips and tricks are adapted to the chords of the first part of the tune " Autumn Leaves " which is a very common chord progression in jazz. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Yeah I really love the vibe of this one here

Here I show you the signature rhythm / groove of Bo Diddley which to take his words " The Rhythm That Shook The World " and give you some great idea's to play guitar along to the great rhythm. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Guitar Beginners I will start a new series of tutorials now. I want to guide the total guitar beginners through the first really hard 6-12 months of learning guitar. The point is - when you start with guitar there is not much you can do till you have the technical abilities to grab chords - specially the barré chords, to play some lead guitar with simple melodies and to do your first bendings, the first vibrato's and and and.... This phase can be really frustrating because things take time and you can not make any shortcuts. But my job as an instructor is to keep you guys motivated in this time and still get you a creative and fun vibes into your beginner steps on guitar. My system is different then the regular ones and it works. I got many feedbacks from beginner students over many years. In these tutorials I will also show everything slow and very precise. The will come with the title index " Guitar Beginners - ..... " and will be also marked with this tag here in the search tags. Guitar Beginners For guidance during your process in those first 6-12 months I strongly recommend that you use the blog feature where you can write about your experience and your difficulties in order to get some professional advice. Blog Feature

Compression Settings Whick compression settings work if you want to ge a sound which cuts off the high frequencies in a soft way and make the sound soft ? Here's the problem - if you want to play fast with a pic and you want to attack each note the sound of the attack of the pic might be disturbing in way that it makes the sound of your runs somehow a bit hacked or uncomplete which causes that you don't get into a smooth fast playing flow as you would like to do so. A good example for that is that old style jazz guitar players solved this problem with the treble knob on there guitar to cut off the high frequencies in order to play fast and smooth runs with the pick. But the disadvantage of this is clear - since the high frequencies are cut off the sound looses is wide emotional spectrum because the high frequencies are missing. Now here comes a solution which I found which works - I am still not 100 % convinced but it's going in the right direction. That solves the problem with the runs - but still the sound still misses the emotional impact as it would not have any compression - so the search is going on.

That's really an interesting approach with the chords but in fact that can also work. I once had a student who did not know anything about scales, chords or theory but he was able to play fast over the entire fretboard after years of playing like this. But in fact it was hard to teach this student because he was unable to build up any types of structures in his playing. But for what he played it sounded quit good.

This one will be next :-) But in a way to jam with the Bo Diddley groove. That one is fun.

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Yeah thanks - I can tell I had a lot of fun with this one here check my TikTok account

Here I show you a very cool hypnotic phrygian rock guitar riff. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :