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Here I show you the theme and some basic chords to play the popular jazz standard " Fly Me To The Moon " - at the end of the tutorial I give you some tips to build up an easy improvisation by following the 3rds of the chords. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Yeah Rhythm Changes are something really important in Jazz

I love these 60's black and white recordings and sound

Hey guys, we already passed one month in the new year and here are the latest news and developments from this website here : HPCrazy Guitar Academy I have been building up this community by the end of 2019 and this community represents the BEST OF THE BEST out of 25 years of professional online education. The main quote of this academy that there are no shortcuts on the guitar learning journey and we face the reality. The academy shall help you to achieve your goals and get a lot of joy out of this journey. So here is now the new phase : Courses & Search Tags One of the main problems out there is the overwhelming amount of content everywhere and it is hard to keep track or to focus on specific topics. Even though there is a lot of content out there, there is no system which gives students the opportunity to search for courses, for content of their interest and to share what one is working on to get individual suggestions on how to optimize the learning process. Now the HPCrazy Guitar Academy offers exactly that. You guys might have noticed that the learning concept here is different then to traditional courses or teaching methods. And it starts from the very beginners - pro's. So here is what we got : The Beginners Course - it takes all students from the first step till the point where you can choose the genre you like : once you finished this course you can continue with any intermediate topics you like. You can either check the Blues Guitar Intermediate, Rock Guitar Intermediate oder Jazz Guitar Intermediate Course or any tutorial which is marked with the search tags with " intermediate " or " easy " Here you can check out which search tags are now already available : You can find an overview of this great new section either in the main navigation or the HPCrazy Students Club or directly here on this link : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-courses/ now here comes the next great new feature which help to get you guys the optimal and individual learning experience : Blogs The blogs is a feature which shall start to get this community running and that you can start to share your personal story, your personal problems and experience on your guitar journey to me and the community. Interaction with other students and also the tutorial is important to canalize your efforts to the best and joyful benefits. Here you can view the new video about the blogs and the courses and find all information about this great new feature here : I also start to write my personal blog where I share some really unique thoughts to the community. You find it here : The main goal of all these new features is to empower the community. The more the community is activ the more benefit and fun you get out of your guitar journey and I am here to help. There is already a lot of content available now we can start building up the community. Check out the blog which already 3 members wrote : Jim Peter Volker or you can participate the community like Jeff or Edguardo is doing. and now lets move on to the new tutorials : Blues If you want to follow chords in blues with adaptiv double stops then voicing leading is the right technique to fulfill the task. Here you show you some examples of how you can follow the chords in a simple blues guitar progression with Bb7 / Eb7. Here I show you guys a very cool straight blues guitar riff with the following chords : E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / B7alt I show you how you can create a cool vibe by switching between the E minor pentatonic and the mixolydian modes of E7, D7 and A7. Rock Here I show you how to take a classic rock guitar riff with E5 / E5 / D5 / A5 and extend it to several stages of expression and sound. The key for cool stuff in music or any art is different stages of expression of the same simple thing. Here I show you a very cool rock guitar riff which is played with 140 bpm. So you need to have your things a bit together to master this riff. I give you a lot of tips to play precise and to simulate a detune guitar effect with a special vibrato. At the end I give you a few tips to master the lead guitar on this specific riff. Jazz Here I show you 3 mixolydian jazz guitar licks which represent the main 3 concepts of using the mixolyidian mode in any jazz guitar setting. Practical Music Theory Here I teach all you need to know about harmonic minor. The beginning of the tutorial is for everybody who wants to play harmonic minor and the 2nd part is only for those who understand the concept of modes and diatonic chord progressions. Nearly 100% of the guitar players who are interested to start working with modes come from the pentatonic. Here you find an easy way to convert your pentatonic patterns into the mode of your selection. You need to know the minor and the major pentatonic and then you are ready to go. The trick is that you know your pentatonic patterns by heart and also the intervals which are played in the patterns. To move from the pentatonic patterns to modes you just need to add 2 more notes. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all players who are sick of playing pentatonics all the time. Here I show you in detail how to proceed and in practical use how to start working with modes. -------------- Farbmusik Hier erläutere ich im Details das Konzept der Farbmusik. Es ist angelehnt an Therapiekonzepte etwa aus der Kinesiologie oder der regulativen Diagnostik nach Dr. Klinghardt. Grundsätzlich ist es ein Konzept welches ein multidimensionales Erleben von Farbe mit Musik und Licht ermöglicht. This video is in german but I translate the text here for you : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here I explain the concept of color music in detail. It is based on therapy concepts from kinesiology or regulative diagnostics according to Dr. Klinghardt. Basically, it is a concept that enables a multidimensional experience of color with music and light. Upcoming Livestreaming Concerts Don't miss the upcoming livestreaming concerts : and this one - if you are from Switerland you might want to come to Seegräben and attend in person So that was all now - as you might notice. Again this was a lot of work. It's all for the community here. Lets get it started now. HP

Thats really interesting. The lyrics I know are completly different ... and I know them because I once tried to sing the song back in my times as a bar piano player

That's in fact the main part which should be on the focus once starting to work with modes. It's not the scales, runs or arpeggio's. It's hearing the notes in a mode during the improvisation.

I didn't know that - but good to know - thanks

Here I show you guys a very cool straight blues guitar riff with the following chords : E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / B7alt I show you how you can create a cool vibe by switching between the E minor pentatonic and the mixolydian modes of E7, D7 and A7. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Some useful information about the great features in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. We have the guitar courses and the student blogs. Both are all great features which guide you through your personal guitar journey. Here you find all courses & the list of the search tags : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-courses/ Here you find the Premium Member Blogs : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/blogs/ and here you find the beginners course if you are totaly new to guitar playing :

Here I created a new video to go more into details about the amazing new features here in the academy

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Starting Guitar This course here is the starting point for all guitar players who want to start guitar and they enter a guitar lesson with no experience. This one tutorial is the one which you first should pay attention to. Here you can learn all you need to learn in the first 3 – 6 months of your journey when you are starting the guitar. From my experience as a guitar tutor and guitar instructor since 1999 it always turned to be those topics I am talking about here. The threshold to go further is the barréchord. That one is the tricky part which can make the first steps harder and longer time to get stuck in the beginners phase. The good news is with regular practicing you can really make it in 3 months. I experienced this myself when I started the guitar at the age of 20. So i pretty much remember those steps. Be patient and just practice regular and suddely those things I am showing here work out for you and you are ready to get to the next level of guitarplaying. If you want to make sure that you are practicing right please open up your blog and share your practicing routines. Here you can download the basic chords which I am talking about in the tutorial : To learn the pentatonics you might want to work on the pentatonic patterns. I would start with pattern 1 as you can see in these files here but the main problem is the flexibilty of your fingers. This will take some time - so you can use this time to already work on all pentatonic patterns. This will work on the same problem you are facing as a beginner. You can also work either on the the minor or on the major pentatonics. I strongly recommend that while you learn your pentatonic patterns you start to learn the intervals which you can see in these patterns. As a beginner you only need to know where the root note of each pattern is. The root note is marked with a " 1 " You are ready as soon as you can play the basic chords with basic strumming fluently. This will take as mentioned approx. 3 months if you practice them 3 times daily ( at least 5-10 Min ) and as soon you can include the barré chord fluently with basic strumming you are ready to go into the direction which you want. The pentatonic patterns should be played in 8ths fluently with alternate picking like with 80 bpm and you should always know where the root note is. Then you can start with more creative playing and start working on the genre which you would like to learn. Next step would be now to start checking tutorials which are marked with " easy " : blues guitar easy rock guitar easy easy jazz guitar A really great spot is to start with blues because most modern music finds it's root in blues. All improvisation concepts in other genres are in fact coming from blues. I would recommend to really go through the Basic Blues Guitar tutorial : --------------------------- If you need any help you can open up your blog and write about your guitar journey or you can book a private online lesson to make sure you learned everything right !

Hier eine spontane Aufnahme mit dem Handy vom Sound Check des Konzertes vom 25.1.24 in Seegräben. Das war die ursprüngliche Form der Farbmusik - hier habe ich am Konzert wieder einmal Live gespielt und dem Publikum hat es sehr gut gefallen. Oder was ist Deine Meinung dazu ? ---------------------------------- Here is a spontaneous recording with my cell phone from the sound check of the concert on 25.1.24 in Seegräben. This was the original form of color music - here I played live again at the concert and the audience liked it very much. Or what is your opinion?

Hier erläutere ich im Details das Konzept der Farbmusik. Es ist angelehnt an Therapiekonzepte etwa aus der Kinesiologie oder der regulativen Diagnostik nach Dr. Klinghardt. Grundsätzlich ist es ein Konzept welches ein multidimensionales Erleben von Farbe mit Musik und Licht ermöglicht. This video is in german but I translate the text here for you : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here I explain the concept of color music in detail. It is based on therapy concepts from kinesiology or regulative diagnostics according to Dr. Klinghardt. Basically, it is a concept that enables a multidimensional experience of color with music and light.

Hey guys, I have a TikTok account since a few weeks. There I will only post some performance video's. If you guys are interested you can follow me there too. BTW - it's amazing how much traffic you get there with only a few subscribers https://www.tiktok.com/@hpcrazy73

Yeah the smooth jazz tutorials are my favorite jazz tutorials.... I should make a new one in the near future

Here I show you a very cool rock guitar riff which is played with 140 bpm. So you need to have your things a bit together to master this riff. I give you a lot of tips to play precise and to simulate a detune guitar effect with a special vibrato. At the end I give you a few tips to master the lead guitar on this specific riff. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Thanks Jeff - this one is a classic tune... no way to skip that.

That's nice to hear - don't miss the tutorial - will be 30 minutes of compressed knowledge. Coming soon.