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Cool HP, know my CAGED and it's a very good point you're showing and it's similar to what George Harrison does in the song Kansas City. Sharing the youtube. Abrazo Amigo!

essential, fundamental.... just great.
thx Hanspeter!

Here I show you the essentials you need to know to play the mixolyidan mode in a cool jazz guitar settings. This includes some essential chords, essential patterns and a selection of ideas and licks where you learn the essentials how to use the mixolydian mode. You always focus on the chord notes in the case of g7 this would be the G,B, D and in most cases you focus on the B ( 3rd ) and approach it with the A#.
Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here I show you a very cool and simple but yet not very simple summer blues guitar riff and some ideas how to develop the tune with some ideas with the E minor pentatonic. I created a cool tarantino style backing track for this cool blues guitar lesson.
Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Thank you very much, Hanspeter, i really appreciate that.

Here I show you a very cool and simple but yet not very simple summer blues guitar riff and some ideas how to develop the tune with some ideas with the E minor pentatonic. I created a cool tarantino style backing track for this cool blues guitar lesson.
Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

The House Of The Rising Sun - Rock Guitar Lesson
Here you can learn a rock version of the song " The house of the rising sun " inspired by Five Finger Death Punch and The Animals. I show you the chords with power chords, the main melody and I try to give you ideas how you can work out an instrumental version of this classic classic song. The first part is for all levels and the last part is more like a guitar masterclass.
 

Thanks hp….love this arrangement, have been working on it for awhile.
Greg

Hey Greg, yes that's possible. I will upload it at the beginning of next week since I will not be in the studio till monday.

Here I show you the essentials which you can play when you play the phrygian mode on jazz guitar. This includes cool chord combinations, some soloing with the pentatonic but also the phrygian mode and some ideas with some upper structure triads. In the case of the E phrygian mode the F and the F major chord or arpeggio are the most defining factors if you want to high light the phrygian mode and don't want to let it sound like a regular minor pentatonic improvisation.
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Here I show you a wonderful melodic major blues guitar in the key of D. I show you 2 different guitar parts which work great together as a duo. At the end I also explain to you the concept of " living in the tone " which is crucial from my point of view in a melodic major blues guitar.
Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :
here you can download my recording of this tuine in Dolby Atmos :

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Here I will be talking about the essentials you need to know about the dorian mode in jazz guitar. This includes :
Essential Jazz Voicings: We begin by establishing a harmonic foundation with essential Am7 shapes, some extensions like Am9 and some typical dorian chord licks.
The Scale Connection: Understand how your familiar Minor Pentatonic framework serves as the skeleton for the full dorian mode.
Arpeggio Targeting: Learn to navigate the the Am7 arpeggio in combination with the D arpeggio to display the typical sound of the dorian mode.
Jazz Phrasing & Ideas: Apply the theory through practical licks and melodic concepts. You will see how to integrate the additional "color notes" of the Dorian mode to create fluid, professional jazz lines.

Here I will be talking about the essentials you need to know about the ionian mode in jazz guitar. This includes :
Essential Jazz Voicings: We begin by establishing a harmonic foundation with essential Gmaj7 shapes, including sophisticated textures like Gmaj7(6/9).
The Scale Connection: Understand how your familiar Major Pentatonic framework serves as the skeleton for the full Ionian mode.
Arpeggio Targeting: Learn to navigate the G Major 7 Arpeggio to confidently land on the most important chord tones during your improvisation.
Jazz Phrasing & Ideas: Apply the theory through practical licks and melodic concepts. You will see how to integrate the additional "color notes" of the Ionian mode to create fluid, professional jazz lines.

Unlock the world of jazz guitar with our curated selection of essentials. Whether you are transitioning from blues and rock or starting fresh, here you will find the core building blocks: from mastering modes and jazz chords to developing sophisticated phrasing. Explore our comprehensive videos, tabs, and backing tracks designed to bridge the gap between simple scales and professional jazz improvisation.
This jazz guitar essentials course will give the essentials you need to know on a intermediate jazz guitar level to start with real jazz guitar improvisation.
You will learn the modes, and the essential tricks behind the modes, essential phrasing tricks, essential chord tricks and a first understanding of the complexity of the world of jazz guitar such as first basic analysis of chord progressions and first ideas of improvisation concepts.

Here I give you exercises to make combinations with rock guitar chords and single note lines. The key or the secret sauce is the precision. I show you 3 very similar but very useful examples how you can play chords and single note lines in order to create very tight rock guitar sound.

Here you can train the foundation of basic rock guitar powerchord techniques with the chords E5, D5 and A5.

This lesson is probalby the most important one of all when it comes to improvisation concepts. Here I show you the mind set how you perform the Question & Anwser improvisation concept in a slow blues. The notes are easy to play but the goal is to learn the mindset of this concept.

Here I am talking about one of the core elements in any blues guitar improvisation. The dialogue between to people which is displayed into music. Most of the time, it involves arguments between a married couple. So it's not about guitar licks - it's more about talking on guitar and displaying a dialogue.

I want bring back the awareness for this cool tutorial which I did like 4 years ago. Carlos Santana is a great guitar artist and his compositions are quite easy to play and worth checking them out. This song here is a very nice example for that.

Great Lesson, love the football analogy ! Sharing, Abrazo amigo!

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Hey guys,
here's is now the newsletter of the month June 26.
There have been a lot of things going on in the past 4 weeks. So lets go step by step :
SMPV
I have now been voted in as an official member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Music Pedagogic Association Winterthur / Zürcheroberland. smpv.ch - the foto is still not there but I guess it will come soon when we have our first meeting with the new Board of Directors. My goal is to bring in my strategic experience in professional online music education of the past 25 years to help this largest music association in Switzerland to gain back the relevance they had when made my SMPV diploma after my university guitar studies in the mid 90's. That's quite a task and it will be complicated because it's a huge organisation but I give my best.
HPCrazy Guitar Academy
The digital world is changing in lightspeed in the year 2026 and I had to come to the conclusion that the only sustainably strategy is to take all efforts to a private network ( HanspeterKruesi.com ) and to just use social media accounts to redirect all possible traffic to this website. That what has been done ongoing since 2023 and now it's also time to change the entire social media strategy to " More Quality instead of Quantity " . This means in fact that the focus now is on all Premium Members here on this plattform and to create high quality content for Premium Members. It's the only remaining sustainable way to go in the digital world of 2026 because the big plattforms are changing there content policies by the minute and nothing is predictable anymore. So I took a break of content production to rethink my strategy and here it is :
NEW :
HPCrazy Guitar Lab : This is the heart of our exclusive premium circle. The HPCrazy Guitar Lab is designed to take you behind the scenes of professional guitar playing, high-end sound architecture, and advanced creative workflows. This is not just another passive tutorial site—this is an interactive, member-driven masterclass experience where you actively help shape the curriculum.
Read more :
The livestream will only be accessable for premium members. You are free to already post comments, suggestions or requests what you want me to talk about during the livestream. You can also enter the chat during the livestream if you want to participate the Lab live. If you miss the livestream no problem you can watch it any time later and as a premium member you have full access to all features, tabs and backing tracks provided.
We will start with a approx. 1 hour livestream on Thursday 18.6.26 6:00 PM Zürich time here :
Backing Tracks in Broadcast Quality
Some of you guys might have noticed the risen quality of the backing tracks in the past few months. I am in fact a professional composer for TV & Movie : music-pictures.com and I am bringing my experience from 25 years of composing into all backing tracks to your benefit. I makes way more fun to practice when you have a perfect sound. Check as an example my most recent backing track " Dark Tarantino Style Blues Guitar Riff " where I produced the backing track in the specs of this very specific genre :
Community Counts !
I want to encourage all active members of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy to get your voice heard here. You can ask any questions to any tutorial, you can use the students forum to open new topics and build your own little community, you can use the Premium Member Blogs to create your own world.
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Here you might want to read the last extended student post in the students forum. You are free to post what you like as long as it is only related to music and guitar playing. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/guidelines/
Last but not least
Due to these changes I need to adapt the premium member prices to a sustainable level. The good news is that premium members who have an on-going subsription will not be affected by this pricechange. I want to say " thank you " to all those who have supported my work in the last years and so all you guys will not be affected by this.
For all others - the price change is only 1$ / month if you choose the yearly subscription :
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions
These were now all relevant changes here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy
Best
HP

LOVE IT HP!!! Hope to see more like this and music scores for movies that I like very much but no real clue on the how. Sharing, abrazo amigo!

Hey guys,
I took a few days off from producing tutorials. There is now a changement in the strategy coming. I will put quality above quantity and also put this community here more in the centre of all activities rather then my YT channel or other social media channels.
Also I can announce that I am now an official elected member of staff and soon co-president of the SMPV Winterthur Züricher Oberland https://www.smpv.ch and next week I will finally become an official member of the music staff of the catholic church in Egg and the whole region. They want me to play piano or guitar. It just came because I happen to be an emergancy musician for them in January and everybody love my music so much that they want me to continue : https://www.kath-egg-maur.ch/