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Easy Creative Funk Guitar Riffs Here you can learn some easy funk guitar riffs which help you to build up your funk guitar skills and playing a very nice and relaxed but still precise and sophisticated funk guitar. Here you can download the files which are associated to this tutorial here : If you need some further assistance please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

If you are a true guitar fan and a enthusiastic student of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy then you might want to have a t-shirt. Most of my live - students have at least one t-shirt at home. There are currently 2 different designs available. The old style logo and the modern logo. --------------

I just watched again the movie " Fabulous Baker Boys " with the wonderful jazz piano music of Dave Grusin. The movie shows the life of bar pianists in the mid 90s. That was also the time when I started my career as a pianist in all those jazz piano bars ( Splendid Bar, Widder Bar, Casa Bar and many others in Switzerland ). The film is so authentic that it brings back the memories of that time. I can almost smell the smell of cold ashes in the ashtrays after the bar closed so at 2:00 in the morning, but you stayed a little longer. The film also reminds me of how it was when people still made music for music's sake without paying too much attention to what was popular. Who knows the film, also knows the end of the story. That's where I want to start again. After years of aligning after Alogerithmen I want to make at least in the creative segment of my work (music) again what I really want. And that is also the beauty of the currently very difficult world political situation - you can actually lose nothing more. Now is exactly the opportunity to do what you always wanted, but you perhaps did not dare, because you were too concerned about security..... it is unfortunately a known law. If you give up your freedom to gain security, you will lose both in the end. This is true on a large scale as well as on a personal level.... Here you can watch the trailer of this great movie :

3 Blues Guitar Chord Licks Here I show you 3 blues guitar chord licks which you can use in a full chorus as a sophisticated rhythm guitar or you can use those licks as a great add to your normal blues guitar soloing. The licks are 2 bar figures so they don't fit everywhere in the blues form. Therefore please check my instructions. Here you can download the files which are associated to this tutorial : If you need any further assistance please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

Hey Dave, thats nice to hear. Yeah music is great way to blow away the grey clouds and get a smile back.

Hard Rock Guitar ( In Your Face )- Riff and Licks Here I show you a great hard rock guitar riff at 130 bpm. At that tempo you need to know a few tricks to get your hard rock guitar really on high pressure and high energy. In the 2nd part of the tutorial I show you some cool licks which work great on this tempo and make your hard rock guitar solo sound great and right into your face. Here you can download the files attached to this tutorial : If you need any further assistance please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

I am currently working on a new arpeggio technique beside the normal arpeggio technique with 7th chords. In this case I want to make them sound more open and more lyrical by adding a 9th extension at the end of the arpeggio. The 9th extensions are adapted from the modes which go along with the chord progression so that on the last chord the G7 you have a b9 extension and not a 9. I want to make them sound as legato and fluent as possible so I decided to mix up the techniques with a hammer on at the beginning and then add sweep picking in some parts of the arpeggio. In fact it also works with alternate picking but still doing the hammer on at the beginning but if I do the sweep picking inserts then when I go to higher speed in fact it sounds more legato then only with alternate picking. I love these arpeggio ideas and it will take a while till I can include them automatically into any soloing. But that's the goal: to make the arpeggios sound more wide and more dreamy. Here you can try them yourself if you want and listen to how they sound at the end.

All Blues ( Miles Davis ) - Jazz Guitar Lesson Here you can learn the theme, the chords and some improvisation idea's of the tune " All Blues " by Miles which can be heard on the recording " Kind of Blue ". Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial here : If you have some further detailed questions please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

Juicy Funk Blues Guitar Riff Here you can learn a really juicy funk blues guitar riff in the key of E. It is played on 72 bpm and is a true challenge for you to really improve your ability for laid back guitar playing which in this case is needed to get the juice out of this great funk blues guitar riff. At the end I give some advice for soloing. You can download the files attached to this tutorial here : If you need further professional guidance please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

For all Jazz fans - this one is the next one - from the epic recording of Miles Davis ( Kind of Blue )

Today I finally was able to start to work with my new concert sound system. I am doing small and medium solo concerts since 15 years and most of the time I have just been using an acoustic tranistor amplifier ( Roland AC 60 ) with the integrated digital reverb. It was always the big challenge to make the guitar sound full with only the minimal equipment. Creating the tone with only my main concert guitar ( Godin LGX with Saymour Duncan pickups ) the 3 different outputs this guitar has and the different pickup settings. It really takes a while till the playing technique matches the equipment - also in different room settings, meaning the acoustic of the venue one is playing. But it was time to let this equipment go and to have something more sophisticated and more suitable for the concerts which I am doing. But still I was nervous to change it because it took me years to get this routine on my old amplifier. So today I tested my new system. It's a pair of Bose SP1 Pro. https://www.bose.ch/de_ch/products/speakers/portable_pa_speakers/s1_pro_system.html They act like a small PA but also just as an acoustic guitar ampifier. The PA together with the sounds from my AXE FM3 live sound device is just awesome. These speakers are like studio monitors and bring a very detailed sound on the stage. But how is the sound just as the minimal equipment with only the internal digital reverb ? It's AWESOME - even better then before. Very detailed, with some slight compression - not too much and with a very balanced signal which makes the guitar sound clear and crispy but still having a good bass buttom which is need for guitar solo performances with only guitar. First performance will be on oct 9th in the church in Seegräben. I am looking forward to it. All playing techniques work better then before so I hope I soon get back to my normal creativity on solo guitar on concerts. That might take a few shows since one needs to get back to the routine which can not be practiced at home....

Hey JazzJoop, wow you found a really old tutorial back from the time where i started again to do my YouTube channel. At that time there were no tabs available - sorry for that. And thanks for your feedback.

Oct 22 - Newsletter Hi {member_name}, here some updates about the Music & Guitar Academy : Blues Do you love to play a smoking minor blues on your guitar. Then this tutorial is for you : If you love blues then these " Tripplet Studies " are a must have for you. Tripplets are the basis of the shuffle grooven and all soloing. Even when a blues is slow are solid and sophisticated timing make the big difference from top to flop. Even if you are an advanced player this tutorial is a MUST if you never have done this before. Have you ever thought about testing your playing level ? Here is a check list where you can see if you have reached the blues guitar intermediate playing level. If you want to go for the award then read closed the requirements. Rock If you are a beginner or slowly intermediate player and you want to play a solid rock guitar solo then these " Basic Rock Licks " are a MUST HAVE for you. Many of you licked the rock riff which I played in the background of this tutorial so here you can also learn that rock guitar riff. It's cool and quit easy to play if you follow my instrutions. Have you ever thought about testing your playing level ? Here is a check list where you can see if you have reached the rock guitar intermediate playing level. If you want to go for the award then read closed the requirements. Personal Notes I have renamed my " Daily Guitar Practice Notes " to " Guitar Practice Notes, Files and Thoughts ". There I share my thoughts, my practice routines and also tabs and files which document what I am doing at that moment free for all members of the HPCrazy Students Club. If you are not a member till now just hit the " Join " button and then you have acces to the free downloads there. If will start to use the guitar on my lifeperformances again. It took me some time to get back to my regular professional practice routines but I feel now is the time to start it again. I will start on Oct 9th on my fullmoon meditation concert in the church in Seegräben. There I will make a mix with the piano. And then finally I will do my first HPCrazy Guitar Night again on Oct. 23rd. If you want to support my creative work please make a donation ( the concerts are for free ) either now or after the concert if you liked them. All concerts will be broadcasted live from the venue. The HPCrazy Guitar Night will be broadcasted from the HPCrazy Studio's in Egg and I am thinking to make live visitors possible there. HPCrazy Guitar Academy Member Tips Share your personal thoughts and experience with others with your " Status Update " or comment or follow other members status. How can you make your status update ? Click on your profil picture this leads you to your personal user profile where you share all you want to others. You can also present your awards to others there. If you want to see other member profiles just click on there profile pictures. To follow them just click on the " Follow " button. That was all now for the moment. If you love the work I am doing for you please make a premium member upgrade even if you don't use the HPCrazy Guitar Academy so regular. I am putting all my online efforts now into this website here - beside YouTube I am not doing any social media activities anymore. If your premium membership has expired and you can not manage to renew it, please don't hesitate to contact me that I can assist you. There have been a few problems in the past and I hope the technical issues have been solved. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/ Best HP

On my last fullmoon concert which I started only on piano at the beginning of the year I announced that on the next concert on Oct. 9th I will bring back the solo guitar into the game. That means for me that I am starting to practice my finger style guitar songs on Farbmusik again and of course also my Touch Technique which more or less is in fact piano playing on the guitar. I must say this technique is really hard when you start to learn it. It's not only that you are doing 2 hand tapping. It's also the fact that you only have 6 strings on the regular guitar and the space is really limited. But I really love love love this technique on the 6 string guitar because it expands the creative expression on the regular guitar so much. But still I have bought a 7 string guitar now because I sometimes really would love to have one additional string. Here you can download the tabs of a song played with touch technique free for all members : And here you can listen to how it will sound at the end on a concert :

Steady Hard Rock Guitar Riff Here you can learn an easy steady hard rock guitar riff which brings together all essential playing techniques from the hard rock genre into one riff. Therefore pay close attention to all details in my instructions. The better and more precise you are able to play them the better and more tight your rock guitar timing will be. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial : and here you can learn how to play basic rock licks to this backing track : If you need any further professional assistance please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/

Hey Beat, yes in fact this should work with any rock guitar video which is in Am or then you just transpose the licks to the new key.

Equinox ( John Coltrane ) - Jazz Guitar LessonHere I teach you the chords and the melody of the standard " Equinox " by John Coltrane. The song is basically a minor blues but through the rhythm pattern which defines this tune it feels more like a 3/4 and a 5/4 measure which alters all the time. Beside the melody I also give you some tips which modes you can use to get a nice and floating sound on your improvisation. Here you can download the files attached to this tutorial here : If you need any further help on this tune please book a private online guitar lesson here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/store/category/1-private-online-guitar-lessons/