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Hi HP,
I listened to "Piano Color Meditation" for the first time today. It's wonderful and calming. Great work! Thank you. -Frank

Hey guys, after my mom and my whole familly has passed away in the past 2 years a few personal notes how this will effect my work and my strategies in the upcoming future.
And here you find the donation section I was talking about : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/
 

Dec. Newsletter
here some updates about the HPCrazy Guitar Academy :
I have reorganized the whole site a bit in order to make it easyier for you to find the content which you are interested in. Since most of the user's are here for the HPCrazy Guitar Academy everything is highlighting now that part of the site. Here are now the latest improvements on the site :
1. The feed of the latest topics is now at the top of the page. If you want to follow all topic's you just come here regulary in order to view the latest topics.
2. The 2 clubs went a bit in the background since not many of you are using it to interact with others but I think they are still worth to be there since some topics just belong there.
3. The latest Premium Member Downloads appear on the top of the page now as well - if you are using a PC or MAC on this site.
4. A new " Best Use " Video and probably more changements are coming soon.
HPCrazy Guitar Academy NEWS
Blues
The Sophisticated Slow Blues Guitar Tutorial was pretty popular. So if you love to play a sophisticated slow blues guitar in the ballpark of Peter Green or also Gary Moore. Then this tutorial is for you.
If you are a intermediate blues guitar player and you are looking for more tutorial's on this difficulty level just click on the " blues guitar intermediate " tag :
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/tags/blues guitar intermediate/
For any other blues guitar tutorials you find a summary of the main tags here :
blues guitar easy
blues guitar intermediate
blues guitar advanced
blues guitar masterclass
If you want automatic messages about new blues content please visit the Blues Forum and click on the " Follow " button. Then go to your personal settings and there to the " followed content " - there you can click on " Change Preference " to define how you want to get notified about new content.
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/55-blues/
Rock
All students who are already intermediate players and now want to go to the next step of rock lead guitar playing should watch this tutorial here. Here you find the very basic but very sophisticated exercises and tips to put your rock lead guitar on the next level.
If you are a intermediate rock guitar player and you are looking for more tutorial's on this difficulty level just click on the " rock guitar intermediate " tag :
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/tags/rock guitar intermediate/
For any other rock guitar tutorials you find a summary of the main tags here :
rock guitar easy
rock guitar intermediate
rock guitar advanced
rock guitar masterclass
If you want automatic messages about new rock content please visit the Rock Forum and click on the " Follow " button. Then go to your personal settings and there to the " followed content " - there you can click on " Change Preference " to define how you want to get notified about new content.
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/56-rock/
Jazz
Even Jazz is not so popular on YouTube many of you guys came to the HPCrazy Guitar Academy just because of that and your selection was quite wise since in fact I have originaly studied jazz guitar at Swiss Music University and I had a pretty successful career here in Switzerland in the first part of my carreer as a Jazz Pianist.
If you are new to jazz but still want to give a try I recommend that you check out the brand new tutorial " The Days Of Wine And Roses ". It's a really neat tune and the best thing is, that it is very easy to play. The piano on the backing track is of course played by me.
 
Music
I did a very simple and short recording of my arrangement for " What A Wonderful World " by Louis Armstrong and that video broke all records till now. It made near to 50K views on only one week.
7-string guitar
I started my journey on the 7-string guitar and if you want to join it and maybe also try a few steps with the 7-string guitar I am sharing my experience and also some tabs and simple exercises which can help you on your journey as well or just if you are curious about this big miracle of the 7-string guitar. What I already can say is, that in fact it is a big challenge even for me.
 
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. 
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

Nov. Newsletter
here some updates about the Music & Guitar Academy :
Blues
The month october was the month of the blues chords. Here are 2 exiting tutorials where you can dive more into sophisticated blues chords.
Ane here you find even " More Blues Chords "
If you want automatic messages about new blues content please visit the Blues Forum and click on the " Follow " button. Then go to your personal settings and there to the " followed content " - there you can click on " Change Preference " to define how you want to get notified about new content.
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/55-blues/
Rock
If you are a beginner or slowly intermediate player and you want to play a solid rock guitar solo then check out the " Rock Lead Guitar Exercises " - those exercises are all you need to know to become a solid rock lead guitar player.
If you are already an advanced player then you might are interested to learn some really cool mega chops and a steaming hot hard rock guitar riff.
If you want automatic messages about new rock content please visit the Rock Forum and click on the " Follow " button. Then go to your personal settings and there to the " followed content " - there you can click on " Change Preference " to define how you want to get notified about new content.
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/56-rock/
Personal Notes
Thoughts about new creative ways I could go.
7-string guitar
I really want to expand my sound spectrum in my music and my solo guitar playing specially with the touch technique. Doing 10 finger tapping on only 6 strings is really challenge because there is not much space left and you always need to check which strings are free. But the big disadvantage of the 7 string is in fact the tone control is not so good like on 6 strings.
An other thought - I love doing scatting but the range of my voice does not work so well on the regular open string keys - but B minor is just great and works. So I will give a try there.
Composing - Live Playing
I am checking Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malsteen and other players at the moment to get some inspriation for own songs or playings. Today I came to the finding that I would love to do instrumental cinematic guitar music. That would combine the best of 2 worlds - guitar sounds and cinematic sounds. Main problem I currently have is in fact my time schedules to arrange and compose the music for that. But I will send it into my creative channels and see how it evolves.
Read more here :
To follow my notes about my music just click on the follow button in the topic.
HPCrazy Guitar Academy Member Tips
If you like you can start to connect with other members of the HPCrazy Students Club. If you already have hit the " Join Button " you write your own topics there and share to others whatever is on your mind.
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/79-topics/
In the HPCrazy Students Club you find free downloads which might be in your interest. They are free for all members who have hit the " Join " button.
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/files/category/7-free-files/
If you are interested to get a student award you find a description of the goals and how to reach them also in the HPCrazy Students Club :
https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-student-awards/
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.  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

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

Hey JD,
I'm glad you were able to find the lessons which fit best to your needs here. Takes a moment if you are not experienced with the system here.
HP

I love your blues lessons. WOW !
Finally I found what I needed. 
Thank you so much for your great ideas and instructions !
 
Best regards, JD
 

Blues Guitar Improvisation Concept
The concept of blues guitar improvisation is very easy and explained in less than a half an hour. But you can work on this concept for 30 years and you still will find something new which you have never tried before. This tutorial is a " Must - Have '' for every blues guitar player on any level who has never done this concept before. Playing a blues guitar improvisation is not about licks, it's more like a conversation with question, answer and a resolution.
Download the attached files to this tutorial here :
If you have any questions please ask it in this post below or book a private online guitar lesson.

Guitar Secrets - Perfect Timing
If you want to have perfect timing on your guitar playing it is essential that you know all the tools of rhythm and timing on the one hand how they are written and how you can work them out in a creative way. This is an introduction into the basic tools such as whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eight notes, triplets and 16th notes. If you master those tools you can start to be creative with perfect timing.
Here you find the exercises I am talking about in this video :
if you are totaly new to rhythm notation please first read these files :
 

Blues Guitar - Perfect Timing
Here you can learn the really important exercises to get perfect timing in any shuffle blues. This tutorial is a " Must Have " for any guitar player on any level if you haven't done these exercises before. This is a MUST HAVE tutorial for any blues guitar player.
Here you find all files needed to work with this tutorial :
If you have any questions please ask it in this post below or book a private online guitar lesson.

In this tutorial I talked about how to play a great acoustic blues guitar solo performance. Think about the blues guitar player in the streets of New Orleans or a similar scene where you just sit there with your acoustic steel-string guitar and you want to play blues without any band. That's what this tutorial is about. This tutorial is divided in three parts, first I show an easy theme which is played in the key of A, then I play a simple blues guitar rhythm guitar and show you how to improvise by using the a minor pentatonic and the simple chords which I showed you and at the end I going to give some instructions how you really put things together correctly.
Here you find the standard blues form which is very important to know by heart :
A / A / A / A
D / D / A / A
E / D / A / E
Pay really closed attention of my final notes at the end about timing, rhythm and form.
Acoustic Blues Guitar Solo Performance.pdf
Acoustic Blues Guitar Solo Performance.gp

Reflective Blues
Here you can learn one of my originals - a reflective blues kind in the style of " Paris - Texas " or similar movies. I played it with fingerpicking but it works also with normal picking technique. 
Reflective Blues in D.pdf

Slow Blues ( The Jack Style )
Here you can learn a Slow Blues in the style of “ The Jack “ by ACDC. This is a blues with 60 BPM and in the key of E. First I going to show you the chords and the chord riff which is played and which make the signature sound of this Blues and then I going to show you a simple improvisation with the Question - Answer - Resolution “ concept. The concept works like this : You first play a motive which represents the question then play It again. After that you play the answer then play the question again and at the end comes the resolution. This is the improvisation concept which is used conscious or unconscious in most of the Blues compositions and blues improvisations. I show you the musical motifs in detail and with the proper timing. That way you understand how you can variate them in a easy way by just making variations on the timing signature. If you want to play the Jack by ACDC exactly the way as it played just listen to the original song and adapt the chords and the chord riff you learned here to the chords which are used there. But they are more or less the same and the riff is a very common blues riff which got famous by the song of AC DC. The chords which are used here are :
E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / A7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / B / A7 / E7 / B
Slow Blues E ( The Jack Style ) .pdf
Slow Blues E ( The Jack Style ) .gp
slow blues ( The Jack Style ).mp3