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Here I talk about using the dorian mode in a rock guitar environment. I first show you a simple rock guitar riff you can play, then the defining note of the dorian inside the minor pentatonic, then 3 notes per string patterns and then some cool licks which work in a dorian mode setting. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

I am currently back on a practice routine of 4-6 hours or more per day. I am working hard on technical exercises which are the 3 note per string patterns of major and minor and also harmonic and melodic minor in several speeds. I am also working on doing those patterns with tremolo picking which in fact is quite a challenge for me because I considered myself a legato player before and I always skipped those exercises. Beside these exercises I really want to take my chances now on sweep picking techniques. This is really hard for the fingers and it needs many many repetitions to get it all right so that you can start to use those passages in regular playing. My goal is to get a more complete player and so it is necessary to go through this. It's really something which also needs regular sports exercises besides to not get into injuries because playing guitar is not a natural movement for the body and so besides that practice routines it is necessary to do sports at least on a 2 days or better daily rhythm. Beside the scale and pattern practice and working a lot on the development of a truly emotional guitar sound with puristic sound settings such as a Fender Deluxe with only a spring reverb and medium distortion sounds and dynamic playing with pinch harmonics and dynamic pic work during runs and phrases. It starts to work out fine - especially on my new guitar which really displays all little nuances of the playing technique. I also work on a fat and emotional sound with the slighly distorted Fender Deluxe sound in the very high positions from the 15th till the 24th fret. There I have the problem that my fingers are too big for the small frets so thats a challenge to get things sounding great up there and to have full tone control. And last but not least I am upgrading the jazz department. My goal is to get this new emotional guitar sound and playing technique into regular jazz standards in improvisation from 60bpm till currently 220bpm. And therefore I am working on the jazz standards in the list below to always follow each chord in the improvisation. Thats the keypoint in jazz guitar improvisation from my point of view. So here is the list of the jazz standards I am currently working on : Misty Blue in Green Autumne Leaves All of Me All The Things You Are Fly Me To The Moon Cold Duck Time Girl From Ipanema Jazz Blues Oleo Flintstones Footprints Night In Tunesia ( I love love love this one here ) Stella By Starlight Take the A Train There Will Never Be Another You And last but not least don't miss the next guitar night livestream on Oct. 21st at 20:00 Zürich Time.

Here I show you the guitar part of the tune " Crossroads " by Eric Clapton. There are many versions of this song but I have chosen the Creme version. I also talk about a concept on how to do a cool improvisation in that style with only drum and bass and a retro guitar sound. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here I show you how to work with the mixolydian mode on a simple practice backing track with A7 / A7 / D7 / D7. I will show you the main patterns you need to know to cover the entire fretboard and a few licks that you understand how to use the mixolydian mode in a blues guitar setting. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

View File Modes - Intervals A lot of students have difficulties in understanding why intervals are so important to understand modes. Here are a few exercises where the modes are all played starting from the C on the 3rd fret on the A string. Here you can see the difference of the modes very well and you can understand how they are built. Once you can alter from one mode to another in just one position then you can start to do this everywhere on the fretboard. All you need to know are the intervals of each mode and where to find each interval in relation to the root note of the mode. This exercise seems to be small and easy but this is the main thing you need to learn if you want to be able to play freely on the entire fretboard. Every mode is defined through the intervals in relation to the root note. Submitter admin Submitted 10/14/2023 Category Theory & Exercises  

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Here I show you a wonderful set of beautiful acoustic guitar chords in the key of C. Beside that I give you some tips on how to tell a story with your guitar and your guitar playing. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

I worked hard today to open up my new department of the Guitar Academy for Swiss locals. So check out the description in german. It's called " Gitarren Sound Lab " https://gitarrist.ch/gitarren-sound-lab.html In general the whole german website is polished and updated. I want to give more energy to the local students which I neglated for quite a while.

Here I show you the theme and the chords of the jazz tune " Midnight Blue " by Kenny Burrell. Beside that, I give you some tips on how to master the improvisation in a relaxed way. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

If you want to go to the next step in your rock lead guitar you can not pass the modes. Here I give you some first insight how you can work with modes in rock guitar by using a very simple chord progression : Here you find the files associated to this tutorial : I am using the basic patterns of the modes technical exercises. I strongly recomment that you work on all of them when you want to get deeper into modes in any genre :

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Many of you always requested tutorials where I talk about how to use chords and solo's at the same time. So here I talk about a simple minor blues guitar riff and how you can add different solo parts inside the riff and also how to use chord variations and how to create a whole story with this one riff and make it sound great and interesting for your audience. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial here :

SUISA foreign royalties settlement. My music was used a lot on TikTok without my knowledge. How this got there I do not know, but is nice. Otherwise there are over 60 pages with uses on Amazon and Deezer. The winner are my 2 brands " color music " and " color music ". It is indeed planned to compose new music and distribute accordingly digitally through my digital record company. Gives a lot to do....

Here's now the October 23 newsletter : Blues Basic Timing Bootcamp : This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all blues guitar players who have never done this before. Here you learn the basics of proper and perfect timing in shuffle blues guitar. Drop D Blues Rock Guitar : Here I show you some really cool blues rock guitar licks which you can use with a drop D tuning on your guitar. Works great in a classical 60's trio formation like Cream, Jimi Hendrix or Rory Gallagher did. Advanced Minor Blues Guitar : Here I give you some advanced tips and tricks to play on a regular slow minor blues by following the chords and using modes. This way you can expand the possibilities of your expression and sound in minor blues. Rock Guitar Advanced Rock Guitar Jam : Here I share some tips and tricks on how you can create a great rock guitar improvisation in any jam session situation by just using this chord progression. E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / G A / E5 / G A / E5 / The trick is to work on different levels of intensity in your tone, expression, playing and sound. Even the things which are played seem to be easy. You need to have your things a bit together to be able to create the vibe in your playing as described. Rock Guitar Secrets - Easy Arpeggio's : Here i give you some instructions on how to work with arpeggio's the easy way. You use the normal chord shapes of the E, A, C and D type chords as orientation and this gives you the grid to play along with the target notes of any major or minor chord. Jazz Guitar Basic Jazz Guitar Improvisation Concept : Here I teach my basic jazz guitar improvisation concept where you can lay the foundation for all future jazz guitar improvisations. In jazz it's all about time and space and therefore you need to train your abilities to master time and space while playing the guitar. Once you have your foundation you can get creative and free in your expression on jazz guitar. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " ! Touch Technique ( Guitar Tapping ) Guitar Tapping - Basic Chords : Here you find the basic exercises for chords if you want to enter the amazing world of the " Touch Technique ". This technique is basically adapted from piano playing and expands the possibilities of expression of the guitar dramatically. These basic tapping guitar exercises are quite easy and here you learn how to create either major or minor chords with the tapping technique and how to groove with this technique like a piano or percussion player. Guitar Tapping - Basic Chord Rhythms : Here you find a summary of exercises for the double handed guitar tapping ( touch technique ) where you can work out basic chord rhythms. These exercises are basic exercises taken from basic left - right hand independence exercises from piano playing. There are basically 2 types of exercises. You have those where you do ostinato figures with the left and right hand and make combinations and figures where you do independant figures of the left and the right hand. The selected chord progression is Am / Am / G / G . A very simple progression which includes both types of chords. There is an audio file added that you can hear how the tabs should sound alike. HPCrazy Guitar Nights With the HPCrazy Guitar Night on Sept. 22th I started a new journey in my artistic and educational work which I have been doing over many years now. I have been focused mainly on the educational part of my guitar journey and the creatic part, especially the life playing part, has always been neglected due to being too busy with too many different things. This will change now - I will take the live-playing from the last place in the priority list to the first place and the second one will be the education of course. But this shift in priorities will have an impact in the education part as well. I also want to share in random video's my thoughts, findings, tips and tricks which I am working on during my journey which is starting now. So beside the regular educational content you will find some random talking out of the box video's which might also be in your interest. My goal is to get a small guitar community rolling and having a space for people who just love guitars and guitar music. Every journey starts with a first step and so it will be on Sept. 22th. Here you can watch the HPCrazy Guitar Night of Sept 22th Don't miss the next Guitar Night on Oct. 20th - you'll find all information about it here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/events/ Farbmusik Concerts About a year ago today, I decided to seriously pursue the creative part of my profession again. Until then I had always done my color music live concerts on an extremely puristic equipment. Guitar and an acoustic amp with a bit of reverb - the rest playing technique. Then I had a vision of an expansion of the sound spectrum and it has indeed now gone a year until this arrived more or less as thought. New equipment had to be installed, everything had to be tested. Then the new guitar can be added, which also took more time as thought. But now about 1 year later the vision has become real. Tonight the original color music concept is now implemented. Piano and guitar in all colors and facets. It is quite a challenge I have to say every time, but now the thing stands as it once was - only crucial sound enhancements have been added and the color music journey 2.0 can now begin. Yesterday was now the first full color music concert with complete concept and the now mature new guitar sounds. I am especially pleased that even people who do not play guitar notice that this guitar has an extremely emotional and deep sound. That was the goal and now we are working on improving the organization and promotion and now new pieces and sounds will be added. Watch the past concert of Sept. 29th here : The next concert will be on Oct. 28th - you find all information here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/events/ These were now all news from my side. As you guys can see I was really busy. This month I did a lot of practice work on the guitar in order to really master my new guitar Mrs. Blue and I can say I am back now. In fact it took me one year after my long break to get back to my normal playing form. Way longer then I thought. But it's not only that I am back - I went to the next level of sound and expression on the guitar which makes me really happy. Thanks guys for all your support in these times. You make this all work with your contribution. If your premium membership has expired please make the upgrade again even you are not a regular user of this website and help to keep the work going. Here you find all information about the organization of your premium member account. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me. Best HP Dr. Pink Mrs. Blue

Yesterday was now the first full color music concert with complete concept and the now mature new guitar sounds. I am especially pleased that even people who do not play guitar notice that this guitar has an extremely emotional and deep sound. That was the goal and now we are working on improving the organization and promotion and now new pieces and sounds will be added.

View File Guitar Tapping - Basic Chord Rhythms ( Tabs & Audio ) Here you find a summary of exercises for the double handed guitar tapping ( touch technique ) where you can work out basic chord rhythms. These exercises are basic exercises taken from basic left - right hand independence exercises from piano playing. There are basically 2 types of exercises. You have those where you do ostinato figures with the left and right hand and make combinations and figures where you do independant figures of the left and the right hand. The selected chord progression is Am / Am / G / G . A very simple progression which includes both types of chords. There is an audio file added that you can hear how the tabs should sound alike. Submitter admin Submitted 09/28/2023 Category Theory & Exercises