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Guitar Secrets - Crazy Arpeggio Licks If you are tired of always sounding the same and even playing arpeggio's don't help you anymore to give some more colors into your guitar solo, then this tutorial is for you. Here I give you some ideas how you can play arpeggio's of minor and major chords differently. They make your sound wide and give you an extra color into your guitar solo. Crazy Arpeggio Guitar Licks.pdf Crazy Arpeggio Guitar Licks.gp spanish guitar improvisation.mp3

Yes that a good devision of the topics and I strongly recommend that. 🙂 Thats really serious practicing - well done. I never used a pencil... but I see the point. 🙂

What I can tell you to help you is that the tone is only 50% the equipment and the rest is playing technique. I mostly use only Delay and Reverb as effects - only on high gain guitar leads sounds a compressor. Plug in's are fine as long as your computer has enough CPU and the amp modelling is good enough. Clean sounds mostly are good and high gain sounds are also mostly ok - where it comes to discover the weakness of plugins is when you want to work with dynamic playing with medium destortion. Good plugins still react to different dynamic playing and bad ones sound more or less the same no matter how you attack the strings.

I want to mention a renewal of one of our members here. It's like a donation and well appreciated. The member renewed the premium membership for 10 years. Thanks for the trust and that helps to keep things running. 🙂 I am going to add those 450 US$ to the donation amount. 🙂

Yeah it's a ZZTop tune - but Jeff Healey also played it and I love that one more. 😄

Hey Charley, nice having you back. I remember you were a very activ member of the community 10 years ago - I was at guitartricks.com then - I left them 2012 because they changed the regulations for instructors there and at the beginning of 2019 I decided to have this community back online. 🙂 I think guitarpro is the best tool to have - and I really recommend that one. 🙂 and thats why I provide the guitarpro files here in the community. 🙂 I think I will work out something to start to understand modes better and how to use them. It's really a topic and it takes it's time to really understand it and to really be able to use them intuitiv in your playing.

Yes I think theory is something which is still missing a bit. I thought I want to go for tutorials which really get students to understand and use the modes. And Les Paul was right. 🙂

Yeah these licks should give you new ideas how to use the pentatonic. 🙂

Hey Tharvey, you are welcome 🙂

Hey Charley, yeah I must say the lessons work best when you follow them with Guitar Pro. It's just an awsome tool to learn - thats why I provide everything as Guitar Pro file.

The Thrill Is Gone ( BB King ) - Guitar Lesson Here you can learn the song " The Thrill is Gone " by BB King. I checked several versions of this iconic song and there are many different versions available by BB King. Some are in B minor and some in C minor. So this tutorial refers to the original recording of the late 60s but more how to play minor blues in this style and how to play in the style of BB King. There is an analysis about the material he is playing and his way of making the guitar " cry like a baby ". There are 4 chapters with different topics. The chords are : Bm7 / Bm7 / Bm7 / Bm7 Em7 / Em7 / Bm7 / Bm7 Gmaj7 / F#7 / Bm7 / Bm7 The chapters are : 0:00 Introduction 3:14 Chords 8:45 Solo 17:24 Final Notes The Thrill Is Gone.pdf The Thrill Is Gone.gp the thrill is gone.mp3

Yes that's a good thought - or just very simple chords 🙂

Es gibt neu nun ein Therapie Konzept mit Farbmusik. Dies nennt sich Sternen Therapie. Es ist die Kombination aus Astrologischer und spiritueller Krisenbegleitung und Heilungs - und Therapie Musik. Das Prinzip besteht darin, dass die gesamtheitliche Harmonie durch die Farben durch Musik und Meditation wieder hergestellt werden soll. Die Farbmusik war immer dafür gedacht die Zuhörer wieder in Balance und Harmonie zu bringen - nun habe ich eine Therapie Konzept entwickelt wo zusammen mit der Astrologie ein individuelles Meditations und Therapiekonzept mit Farbmusik für Interessierte anzubieten. http://www.sternentherapie.com ---------------------------------- There is now a new therapy concept with color music. This is called Sternentherapie ( star therapy ). It is the combination of astrological and spiritual crisis support and healing - and therapy music. The principle is that the overall harmony through the colors through music and meditation should be restored. The color music was always intended to bring the listeners back into balance and harmony - now I have developed a therapy concept where together with astrology to offer an individual meditation and therapy concept with color music for interested people. http://www.sternentherapie.com

Thats a wonderful description Andrea - thanks for letting us know. 🙂 I think this way of meditation and creativity works for everybody. I think I will make some more tutorials about techniques to play guitar and meditate at the same time to help those who still have difficulties on that. 🙂

Hey Charley, thats nice to hear. I listened the show myself and I thought it was really entertaining for a possible audience. And yes in fact we only scratched the surface till now. I am also working myself hard at the moment to show more aspects of my music which I never published. And yeah the Blue Jean Blues is an awesome song. I think you can rock that one. You can let other students know in the students club about your practice plan. That section is for the students to interact. Slowly getting some life into this little community we have here. 🙂

I had a cool Interview with Charley from RadioOG.com - we talked about music and the swiss music scene and the way I see musc and how I developed my career as a musician. In this interview you hear a lot of background information about the start of my career, the way I see music and the way I see teaching guitar. Was really a fun experience this chat. See my blog entry in Radio OG's Friday Nite Underground show : LINK and listen to the radio - these guys really have some cool music there. If you want to listen to the interview you can download it here. It's our skpecall we had 1 week ago. << LISTEN TO THE SHOW HERE >>

Here you can learn the guitar part of the song " Soul Man " as played by the Blues Brothers. This is a very classic guitar intro and that intro is the signature part of the song. Soul Man.pdf Soul Man.gp

Wild SRV - Guitar Lesson Here I give you some instructions on how to play a really wild guitar in the style of SRV or Voodoo Chile. The movement of the right arm is the signature movement of SRV playing style. It has a reason why it has to be like this. It's because all which is played in the trio situation with only Stevie Ray Vaughan and his Band Double Trouble requires that you have full punch on your playing that you can keep the intensity up. That's the secret of that specific playing technique. You recognize it by this circle style movement of his right arm. In the tutorial I give you some instructions how to do that and to work with some rhythm patterns to develop an automatism. Wild SRV.pdf Wild SRV.gp wild srv.mp3

A new donation of 53.06 by Karl Heinz from Germany. Many thanks 🙂

Here you can listen to my HPCrazy Guitar Night from the 7.3.21 - I wanted to do a classic guitar night with the focus on blues rock and rock. I picked 2 songs from the CD " Blues City " - The Sherrif and Grand Ma's Apple Pie and I did a lot of not released works like " Indian Summer " or the " Misery Blues " where I for the first time tried to do some singing. Well I know the singing can be improved. In fact I took some singing lessons when I was playing a lot in piano bars at the beginning of my career and my bosses wanted me to sing so I gave a shot but I never liked it. This time I enjoyed even I knew it was bad. Somebody was asking for the song " Drunken Snake in the Dessert " - I was not prepared for that to switch the guitar thats why the picture with the accoustic guitar is not so good. But I can tell that after a long time of testing equipment and the livestreaming I found the solution now which works for any future livestreaming. And I am planing to do a HPCrazy Guitar Night every month where I will play things I am working on, also make jazz specials, smooth jazz specials and accoustic guitar specials - maybe also meditation specials. We will see how it develops. And for the first time I included the Super Chat and Super Sticker function in the livestream where fans can donate during the ongoing livestream. I love that feature. 😄 If you haven't done your donation you can do it here on my website. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/clients/donations/2-support-the-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/

Hey Sara, thanks for letting me know that. I did not know that. I just heard about the story about the David statue and found that a good example to explain how creativity can work. I read in a book about meditation in City noises and it should now disturb you if you don't have another solution. It's a matter of concentration I think - but I understand that. I am also pretty noise sensitive. 🙂 Thats great that you hear music that way. The right path would be to improve your musical abilities that you are able to translate the music you hear on your guitar or your recordings. As I always say in teaching - music is always here you just need to learn how to translate it. 🙂

Creativity and Meditation What is the connection between meditation and creativity ? I want to share my thoughts and my way of living creativity. My way of seeing music, art, thoughts and life is, that everything is already there you just need to open up your mind to see or feel it and then start to create. There is a prominent example for that way of thinking. When Michelangelo, the famous italian artist was asked how he created his famous David statue he answered that the statue was always there he just needed to remove the unnecessary parts from the stone. It's the same with music. Music is something which has always been there you just need to be able to hear the music. One can not create something which has not been there - it's part of nature and part of everything. And how do you hear that music ? Here comes the meditation - by switching all other noises in your conscious. That can work with meditation or what I often did with long jogging tours. I can not tell how many songs I composed while I was jogging. The main technique to open yourself up for music and switching off everything else which disturbs the creative process. It can also happen that you hear music while you are sleeping. I compose quite a few songs like this. The picture you are seeing is taken at one of my favorite meditation spots out in nature on a hill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Was ist die Verbindung zwischen Meditation und Kreativität? Ich möchte meine Gedanken und meine Art, Kreativität zu leben, mit Dir teilen. Meine Art, Musik, Kunst, Gedanken und das Leben zu sehen, ist, dass alles schon da ist, man muss nur seinen Geist öffnen, um es zu sehen oder zu fühlen und dann anfangen zu erschaffen. Es gibt ein prominentes Beispiel für diese Denkweise. Als Michelangelo, der berühmte italienische Künstler, gefragt wurde, wie er seine berühmte David-Statue erschaffen hat, antwortete er, dass die Statue schon immer da war, er musste nur die unnötigen Teile aus dem Stein entfernen. Genauso ist es mit der Musik. Musik ist etwas, das schon immer da war, man muss nur in der Lage sein, die Musik zu hören. Man kann nicht etwas erschaffen, was nicht schon da war - es ist Teil der Natur und Teil von allem. Und wie kann man diese Musik hören? Hier kommt die Meditation - indem Du alle anderen Geräusche in Deinem Bewusstsein ausschaltest. Das kann mit Meditation funktionieren oder was ich oft bei langen Joggingtouren gemacht habe. Ich kann nicht sagen, wie viele Lieder ich während des Joggens komponiert habe. Die wichtigste Technik ist, sich für die Musik zu öffnen und alles andere auszuschalten, was den kreativen Prozess stört. Es kann auch passieren, dass man Musik hört, während man schläft. Ich komponiere ziemlich viele Songs auf diese Weise. Das Bild, das Sie sehen, ist an einem meiner Lieblingsmeditationsplätze in der Natur auf einem Hügel aufgenommen.