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In Jazz guitar the phrasing is a very important part of your groove and your laid back feel which makes even simple melodic motives sound smooth and cool. In this tutorial I show you the main tricks which are needed to start to sound smooth and cool on a jazz guitar. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all fans of jazz guitar. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here is now the june 23 newletter : Blues Many guitar players would love to play and improvise blues over the entire fretboard. Here's now THE tutorial which gives you first ideas on how to work with the basic blues improvisation concept with : question / anwser / resolution on the entire fretboard. I show you how to move your musical motives on the entire fretboard and also give you some tips for variation and flexibilty. Before you start this tutorial you need to know all 5 minor pentatonic positions on the fretboard. So I strongly recommend that you also check the Minor Pentatonic Bootcamp. All tutorials and links are displayed here : You had a hard working day and you just want to chill a bit with a drink and your guitar ? Then this tutorial is for you. This song is really simple - but simple things in life are helping to relax and to enjoy a bit. Rock You had a hard day and you want to let off some steam ? Then this tutorial is the right one for you. A great phrygian rock guitar riff which is quite simple to play and sounds great. I strongly recommend playing it with that cinematic backing track I created for you guys. You find all my experience as a composer for TV & movies in that backing track and it's fun. You love Drop D stuff with a nasty distortion ? Here is another great blues rock with drop D. It's really simple to play and sounds great. Funk If you want to play a steady and tight funk guitar the deadnotes which are all 16th notes have to be practiced in detail. It's very important that you really take you time to play proper and precise deadnotes in 16th note figures. In this tutorial you can learn the main exercises which are required to fullfill the task. Smooth Jazz Smooth Jazz is always a popular topic and of course you can also play a minor blues in a smooth jazz setting. Here we have the best of 2 worlds in one tutorial. Free Students Club Download Here you find the transcribed tabs of the guitar instrumental " Mediterranean Sundance '' by Al Di Meola. This tune was on the most famous guitar record ever recorded : Friday Night In San Francisco ( featuring Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia and John Mc Laughlin ) which were some of the outstanding guitar players of that time. The recording catched up with a night where 3 great guitarists had a highlight and nailed what professional guitar playing should be. If you are truly into guitar playing there is no way to pass on this tune - at least check out the theme and the rhythm guitar. The solo's are out of range for a lot of players out there. In order to download this file for free you need to hit the Join Club button - if you have not already done this before. New : Free Meditation Music Download I will share spontanious recordings of meditation music in 432Hz which I play regulary for myself as meditation in the Farbmusik Meditation Club. If you want to know more about the 432Hz tuning you might visit this page here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/files/category/1-healing-and-therapy-music/ This is a spontanious improvisation on the acoustic nylon guitar tuned to 432Hz. I have added a meditative wide reverb effect on the gutiar and during the improvisation I visualized the color " Yellow ". In order to download this file for free you need to hit the Join Club button - if you have not already done this before. Next Fullmoon Farbmusik Concert from Seegräben. On June 4th there is the next Fullmoon Farbmusik Concert. If you are from Switzerland you might want to show up in the little church in the centre of the beautiful town of Seegräben. It starts at 8PM - for those who can not come - we worked a lot to get the livestream working in that church. One of the main problem is that the walls of the church don't let the mobile signal pass so easy but I think the problems are now solved. Also there will be a new camera now and the audio signal was also improved. If you want to join the livestream just be there at 8 PM Zürich time and tune into the livestream. There is a lot of work behind this website here. If you love the work me and my team are doing for you please support it with a Premium Member subscription even if you are not a regular user of this website. All money will be invested to keep the service up and to improve the services which are offered. I strongly believe in a business model of people helping each other rather than just selling products. That’s why this website is built the way it is. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/ or you can also make a donation here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/ Thanks for you help and support - we hear use again in one month. HP

Here I show you the main blues improvisation concept in blues with question / answer / resolution and how to use this method over the entire fretboard in an easy way. Even though this is a beginners tutorial you need to know all 5 positions of the minor pentatonic to follow this tutorial. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

To get a good clean sound - set your amp on the " clean " amp - then you can work with the gain to have more or less punch in the sound and with the master and the output / volume you define the loudness. Put " Bass / Mid / Treble " on a neutral middle position. That's it. You don't need any software.

If you want to play a great dark and dramatic rock guitar riff then the phrygian mode is the one to choose. It gives your riff and sound this dark, dramatic and cinematic effect which you might are looking for. In this tutorial I show you a selection of riffs and ideas which you can use for a rock guitar riff with the phrygian mode. In this case it's E phrygian. The backing track is a creation from my experience as a composer for TV and movies. I was a Hollywood composer some years ago before I became a YouTuber. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here I share all my knowledge about clean guitar sound settings in all genres. If you want a personal review on your playing technique and your sound settings please book a private online guitar lesson here :

There is now a new feature available for club members here. I will add some free 432Hz music downloads here in the club. They are available for FREE for all club members. To become a club member just register a free account and hit the " JOIN " button. This is now a first step to promote more music which I produce with 432 Hz tuning instruments and synths. The standard tuning is in fact 440 Hz but the experience has showing that music with 432 Hz tuned instruments have a way better healing and relaxation effect on listeners. But you can check it out yourself. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/files/category/11-free-432hz-meditation-files/

Finally I picked up the 7-string guitar again and worked out some stuff which works only with the 7 string guitar. And here's a cool chord progression in the key of E minor. It's a progression which we all played many times : Em / D / C / B7 but now with the power of the 7 strings - a big big wow how these chords have so many deep tones and vibes. And since we are in E Minor I also added the E minor pentatonic to the tabs - sounds really different - for those who own a 7 string guitar. You definitely should check this stuff out. Cool 7-String Chords in Em.pdf

Here you can learn how to play a deep drop D shuffle blues guitar. Even though this is an " advanced " tutorial it also works for beginners since many parts are quite easy to play. Only to get them heavy and groovy requires advanced playing skills. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here I show you the rock guitar riffs of Ted Nugent 's song " Cat Scratch Fever ". The song is also played by Motörhead - therefore listen to my instructions in the video. Here you can download the flies associated to this tutorial :

This one is coming as a new tutorial very soon :

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Here's a really great guitar player which I just discovered. He has been hanging around at jazz jamsessions here in Zürich. So I heard of him. Wonderful his playing.

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Here you find the guitar bootcamp where you can learn everything you need to know to master the major pentatonic and the major scale on the entire fretboard. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " ! Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial here : If you have any questions or comments please do below.