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The blog section now will allow me to give more guidance in the learning process here on this website. Like 2 years ago I started with the tagging system here, where you can find the content which matches your playing abilities best. Here once again the current tagging system to remember : BLUES blues guitar easy blues guitar intermediate blues guitar advanced blues guitar masterclass ROCK rock guitar easy rock guitar intermediate rock guitar advanced rock guitar masterclass JAZZ easy jazz guitar intermediate jazz guitar advanced jazz guitar jazz guitar masterclass jazz guitar standard smooth jazz ACOUSTIC GUITAR nylon guitar steelstring guitar beautiful acoustic guitar chords beautiful spanish guitar chords ARTIST STUDIES Gary Moore Joe Satriani Stevie Ray Vaughan ZZ Top MUSIC THEORY & EXERCISES music theory theory exercises technical exercises But I will give more guidance to your learning in the future. It is also a bit upon you guys to talk about your difficulties in learning and practicing. I can give you more support to find the right tutorial which matches your current needs in your current guitar journey. Also I want to give more guidance so that you guys can achieve your goals in a faster way and what is really important is that you avoid mistakes which are very time consuming to fix.

and the website is now redesigned and reordered and fits to the developments of the last 12 months. http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com

Here's now a brand new feature in the Guitar Academy - The Premiem Member Blog section. I always wanted to have an exclusive section only for premium members and here it is. Read more about it here :

Hi and welcome to this brand new feature here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. What is the general idea of this blog section ? 1. I would like to share more insights and more features - such as live streaming and general talks about the topic in detail to members who are really into music and guitar playing. I have dedicated my whole life only to music, composing, music production and last but not least guitar playing and teaching guitar. So I have a lot of expert knowledge to share but I can not give everything for free all time. So I got this idea of a section here on this website where the entire content is only available for premium members. And here we are. The entire blog section will only be visible and readable to premium members and you might get some knowledge and insights which are very valuable or interesting for you or you just want to support the work I am doing. 2. I always wanted to have a private section for those members who want to really go deeper into music and guitar playing and also want to share their experience or their story about guitar playing to others who are on the same path. So here we are - you are free to express yourself here in the blog area. I am thinking about enlarging the webspace for premium members so that you can upload more images or sound files but it has to stay on a reasonable level because at the moment it is not possible to get a hosting package with tons of data storage. So that's the reason why it is limited. 3. I want to give premium members the opportunity to share their practice plans, their gear, their overall learning story for review so that you get some support here in your learning process. I always wanted to do this but it has to stay on a reasonable workload for me. So it is strongly limited to premium members. If you have any question or problem you can now share it here to the community and maybe other members are having the same problem and want to share their experience. Here you now have a private place where you guys are among you. I guess only students who are really serious about their guitar playing and music are willing to pay for a premium membership so this way you can be sure that you meet people who are on a similar path as you. You are free to use this section the way you want. You can even enable an RSS feed of your blog and share it anywhere else if you want. That's now all for the moment - it's up to you guys to use this brand new amazing function to get deeper into your music and your guitar playing - with the assistance of this premium community here.

Here I show you how to get really creative with only 3 slow rock guitar chords. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

I heard this guy here like 20 years ago but forgot his name - but the music stayed in my memory. A FB friend is just visiting a concert of him in Switzerland and posted it there. Now I remembered the name : Keziah Jones The Master of Funk Guitar from my point of view.

This blues guitar course takes any guitar player from the beginner to the intermediate level. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for any blues guitar beginner. Here are the chapters : 0:07 Introduction 1:53 Chords & Form 6:56 L-Form 8:31 Shuffle vs Straight 11:28 Blues Riffs 15:15 Scales 20:27 Improvisation ( Question / Anwser / Resolution ) 29:20 Final Notes 32:12 Appendix Here you find the files associated to this tutorial :

Would you guys enjoy this one here ? A new Judas Priest song

Hallo Achim, das ist schön zu hören. Grüsse aus der Schweiz.

Here I show you some beautiful Spanish guitar chords in the key of Am and give you some tips on how to create a wonderful simple melody with your spanish guitar. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Vic Vergat - a Swiss Rock N Roller has passed away. He was one of the 2nd row in the late 80's in Switzerland behind Krokus. I remember I also bought this record here. Maybe some of you guys knew him. I did.

Here's now the November 23 newsletter : Blues Advanced use of the mixolydian mode : In this month I made 2 tutorials on the advanced use of the mixolyidan mode. I am showing licks and also possibilities to make combinations with the minor and major pentatonics. For the fans of minor blues I made a tutorial where I teach you how to make combinations with a minor blues riff and lead guitar. Rock Month of the modes : In this month I made 2 tutorials about the use of modes. On is an easy introduction on how to use modes in a tune and the other one talks specific about the dorian mode in a rock guitar envirement. Jazz Advanced tutorials : I've made a tutorial about one of the most iconic jazz guitar tunes " Midnight Blue " by Kenny Burrell and a tutorial which teaches you the advanced use of modes in a simple progression by using the " modal interchange " method which is very common in jazz. Month of the modes This month was very much focused on modes. They are the tools to really make great music and expand your playing on a way more expressive and creative level. If you still have difficulties in understanding modes and the theory behind it, I strongly recommend that you work yourself through the theory first. or you make yourself familiar with the theory of the diatonic chord progression which explains you how to analyze a chord progression and how to proceed modal interchange. Your Tutorial Requests ! I am always struggeling to find good ideas for tutorials. Somebody requested that I do " Carlos Santana " again. That's a great suggestion so you can await some Carlos Santana in the upcoming time. If you have some other requests and ideas please let me know and post your request here : Special Member Offer ! If you are a student of this or my local students community and you are located in Switzerland I can make you a great offer. Bodo from moon-music.ch who is a good friend of mine is offering some very limited offers for my students were you can get selected high quality guitars for a dramatic discount. This offer is only available for students who are able to pick the guitar up themselfs. The current offer is this guitar here. If you are interested please write me a PM. Social Media I have opened up a new Whatsapp Channel were students and followers can get instant messages which you probably will not find anywhere else. I will use this channel to share information which is also time sensitive so it might makes sense to join the channel. This might be spontanious livestreams or other things. You find it " HPCrazy Guitar Academy " here : https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va8KMMk8F2p8XY39eB3Q or use this QR code New Payment Gateway Many of you have contacted me to ask if there are other possibilities to pay for your premium membership or other services then by using PayPal. I finally installed a new payment gateway where you can just pay with your credit card without the need to have an account somewhere. Here you can read more about this new and great feature here in the academy. When you make a payment now you find the new gateway as " Credit Card ( Stipe ) ". That's the name of the service I have connected to this website. It does not work in all countries worldwide but it's a great first step to solve this problem and more and more countries are included in Stripe.com. New concerts ( livestreams ) Since I have decided to take my creative powers back to the center of my work. I am restarting my career as a live performer with 2 concepts. The one concept is the Farbmusik Fullmoon Concerts held in the small church in Seegräben ( Switzerland ). There I perform my unique concept of improvising colors on piano and guitar and people can experience the colors with the music and the light. During the concert I have a small controller where I can select the color I will improvise next and people can wish any color they want. The concerts are also broadcasted live but due to the low light settings inside the church you don't see so much but you still see the color and the audio quality is good. The next concert is on Nov. 27th - if you are around near Seegräben Switzerland you can also be part of it in the small growing live audience. and the 2nd concept are the HPCrazy Guitar Nights which I started again 2 months ago. This is currently only a livestream from my studio even there was a small live audience there each time. So if you are near Egg ZH ( Switzerland ) and you want to join in the small live audience send me a PM. The next concert is on Nov. 24th. and please support my work with a donation even if you are only a viewer of the livestream. There is in fact a lot of work behind all of this which keeps me very busy on a 7 day week. I also started to compose and record again. This will also go into the concerts. Here a most recent work. A very dark ambient guitar tune called " Black Hole " Thats all for the moment. That's for your attention and thanks for your support here on this small but growing community. If you love my work please support it with a T-Shirt, a premium membership or a donation. There is now a T-Shirt shop on my YouTube Channel. There you find them : https://www.youtube.com/@Hpcrazy/store Here you can make your premium membership : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/ and here you can make donations : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/ Best HP

Here I give you instructions on how to get an advanced shuffle blues guitar improvisation sounding great by using the minor and major pentatonic and also by working with the mixolydian modes of the chords. With these sound tools you can make your shuffle blues guitar improvisation sound great. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Bodo of http://www.moon-music.ch was in the studio and brought me 2 guitars to check them out for him if they sound cool. Here you can hear the first check of the Duesenberg Paloma Catalina Blue. I just pluged it in and played what you can see in this video. If you want to buy this one here and you are located in Switzerland and you are a member of this community here. Send me a PM and let me know - I think Bodo can make you a special price.

Here I will talk about Jazz Guitar " Modal Interchange " and give you a real bootcamp where you can practice to used different modes on a simple chord progression : D-7 / G7 / Cmaj7 / Cmaj7 This tutorial is only for advanced players which already understand the modes in major, minor, harmonic minor and melodic minor. Here you can download the files which are associated to this tutorial :

I reactivated my soundcloud account. You find it here : Please check out my new recording " Black Hole ". A dark ambient track with some guitar and great effects.

Feedback from the AI Front regarding music and creative professionals. The fact is that the first platforms and tools are there that can quickly compose music according to the relevant specifications and make it available for download. I tested one platform and it usually takes 2-3 minutes and you have 60 seconds of music according to the relevant templates you entered. As you would expect, the results are quite usable across all genres of electronic music, if still a bit vague and undefined. In other genres, the weaknesses become even more visible. But that cannot hide the fact that if someone needs sound for a presentation for little money, such files are sufficient, as the sound is only intended to achieve ambience. However, one must not forget that AI is self-learning and improvements can therefore be expected in the coming years. There was recently a strike by creative workers in Hollywood over this very issue. Wage dumping due to the use of AI. It was then agreed that they would like to implement a "human" solution here and the one agency I am contracted to also writes today that they will not accept music that has been produced with AI. What is of course also clear is that when it comes to really "big" music with a real emotional effect, it doesn't work without talented artists. This was also stated in the agency briefing. That's the current situation - the development is indeed threatening, but there is still a place for people who practice composition with the utmost professionalism. Personally, I will continue to use my current product “Farbmusik”. An AI cannot capture the emotional connection between music and color because it has no emotions.

Hey Arnold, thanks for your feedback. A good suggestion. I did not do any Santana in the past months. I can do that again.