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Glad you love this one here. Yes on this track and lesson the groove is the focus - Pentatonic is not bad - also not in smooth jazz. Once you have more modes together then choosing the pentatonics for a specific sound you want to achieve is really the cool thing.

I can do something with chords - with the regular youtube video's it's a bit tricky since I need to also think about popularity. With the premium member content I could do a course on that.... 🙂

That's possible - give me a few weeks for that....

Creative Smooth Jazz ( Lee Ritenour Style ) - Guitar Lesson Here you can learn a few creative tricks how to play a creative smooth jazz guitar in the style of Lee Ritenour or others. The trick is to have a few rhythm figures together in a really secure way that you can start to play around with them in a creative way and you can start to move motives and ideas around those rhythm ideas. Creative Smooth Jazz.pdf Creative Smooth Jazz.gp creative smooth jazz.mp3

Hey tharvey, what do you mean with that ?

Hey Sara, thanks for your extended ideas. These would also be good adds - as I said I am thinking about new things to add. I must not nessessarly be premium content could also be more insight and more things to know in depth. I take you suggestions into considerations.

Thats a good topic which can be learnt in a course here - I thinkt that makes total sense because there might also be questions showing up which can be posted here..... and you can not learn this in one tutorial - like on YouTube. It's a longer process and one needs to build up experience in that. 🙂

Hey guys, I am thinking about making an extra section only for premium members - like extra lessons extra long lessons or further explainations. This will be a section only accessable for premium members and I will post like one or 2 extra videos there. Since it's for you guys out there - let me know your thoughts about this. What extra should such lesson need to have ? One thing which is already on my mind to provide the courses which can be done to prepare for the Awards in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. Awards would be :

Guitar Secrets - Natural Minor VS Harmonic Minor Here you can learn the difference between natural minor and harmonic minor and how and when you use either one or the other mode. In this easy guitar secrets lesson you can understand how you can switch in a easy way from the one mode to the other one by just switching to one or two notes but I also give some insight how you can get a more exotic sound and vibe with the harmonic minor scale by just whole scale fragments like the melody from Phantom of the Opera. At the end of the tutorial you will understand the differences and how and when you use which scale on a beginner and intermediate guitar playing level. Minor VS Harmonic Minor.pdf Minor VS Harmonic Minor.gp minor vs harmonic minor.mp3

Hey Kevin, yes timing and rhythm are 50% of the music, so it is really worthy to work on it even it might not be so interesting at the first moment. But the fun will come 🙂 I have already did those rhythm courses with my life students and they improved a lot.

Chuck Berry Rock N Roll Guitar You want to play a cool rock n roll guitar in the style of Chuck Berry then this is a tutorial to go. By analyzing the intro of Johnny B Goode By Chuck Berry we're also checking out his song Roll Over Beethoven you get the main ideas how to play a solid and punchy rock n roll guitar in the style of Chuck Berry. In this tutorial I first analyze the intro of Johnny be good for you and then I pull out the few ideas which work the best in any professional rock n roll guitar setting. I started my career as a professional guitar player in rock n roll bands such as a Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis impersonator band so I know what I'm talking about because I played so many shows and I know what I am talking about and I can show you the tricks which I learned during this time. Chuck Berry Style.pdf Chuck Berry Style.gp chuck berry style.mp3

Hey there - welcome here in my Guitar Academy 🙂 Thanks for your feedback.

Yeah this one will be fun 🙂

3 Crazy Pentatonic Guitar Licks Here you can learn 3 crazy and special pentatonic guitar licks. You want to have a different vibe in your solo with the minor pentatonic then I give you 3 cool ideas here in the A minor pentatonic to think a little bit outside the box. This might give you some ideas to start your own ideas with the minor pentatonic which are not the usual ones. 3 Crazy Pentatonic Guitar Licks.pdf 3 Crazy Pentatonic Guitar Licks.gp 3 crazy pentatonic guitar licks.mp3

hmm - it's not explained where this app shall appear. Just that if you use iphone or android it shall appear somewhere.

Hey guys, I have now activated the App for iPhone and Android. So if you log in with an iPhone or Android device you should see the link to download the app. I can not really test this feature since I am the admin here and I don't have an iPhone. So guys if you find time - check out if this feature works and how it looks on your device. I think it's a general app and inside the app you need to search for : Hanspeter Kruesi - Music & HPCrazy Guitar Academy Let me know of your experience you made with this app. i understand that this program ist still on beta. 🙂

Hey Andrea - cool that it works 🙂 About the buttons - I can change that. But I am not experienced in this - so give me some time on that. I am so busy in different things. It looks the same on my Computer - the buttons are quite dark but still somehow visible.... 🙂 But I have a look on that.

This site offers a cool feature where you can share your thoughts and daily experience with guitar or music to others. Your friends can follow your account and comment to your status update. So where is this feature ? You have to click of your profile name and this leads you to your personal profile. On the left corner at the bottom of the page you can activate your " Status Update " feature and share your timeline to eveybody or your friends here. Let me know how this worked out for you 🙂

Spanish Guitar Improvisation Tutorial When it comes to spanish guitar improvisation on a typical progression there are a few easy tricks to know to make you sound nice and melodic by following the chords with the target notes ( Chord Notes ) - In this tutorial I show you a simple progression with special chords but then also with the normal chords and show you how to use them for a nice and tasteful spanish sounding guitar improvisation. This tutorial goes along the style of Al Di Meola or John Mc Laughlin and is more for pic players but it also works for finger picking players. We all know that record " Friday Night in San Francisco " - it's a bit influenced by that but this tutorial is more for beginners in this genre. The chord progression is the following one : Dm / Dm / Bb / C Dm / Dm / Bb / C Gm6 / Gn6¦F / Edim / A Spanish Guitar Improvisation.pdf Spanish Guitar Improvisation.gp spanish guitar improvisation.mp3

Phrasing is an important element in smooth jazz guitar. I would even say it's the most important part of it. So let's have a look how you can achieve an easy way of phrasing with 3 tricks I am showing you. In this example I am working with a I VI II V progression in D major. That means that you can use either the D major pentatonic or the D major scale. In combination with the 3 phrasing tricks I am showing you here in this tutorial you can already reach a good level on smooth jazz guitar and reach the quam. Smooth Jazz Guitar Phrasing Tricks.pdf Smooth Jazz Guitar Phrasing Tricks.gp grabbel_jam.mp3

Ok I see - thanks for that information. 🙂

Do you have any bands in specific which you like ?

Hey Sara - well it's not hard to do - just never thought about it. I might give a shot on that one. And I can guess on Joscho Stefan, that he did something like that 😄

Hey Andrea, thats a good topic - funny that I never thought about this before. I work something out.

Good to know Kent 🙂 Hey Sara - thats and interesting suggestion. Never thought about that. I am not sure if this is something many among you would like to do, since you are the first one ever asked for this - and I never saw such tutorial somewhere else. But for sure what would make sense to play a 2nd rhythm guitar to a backing track.