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Hey guys, here I will post updates which come in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. So here are the current updates : 1. Guitar Secrets - I have renamed the Guitar Techniques into this new name and there will some amazing stuff coming in the very near future with this new title. 2. SEO Improvment - I did not do so much for Google optimization for this website here. But I started with it as a first step which a much easier navigation for you guys. BTW - it you run a website - any link to the HPCrazy Guitar Academy is much apprechiated. 3. Livestreaming - The livestreaming somehow is still in the beta phase - I have change the software now to OBS and I will be working it out that announced livestreams will in fact show up there where they are announced. This seems to be a much bigger problem then I thought.

Notification Settings and Followed Content Here I want to give some information to get the best benefit out the content here. Followed Content You can follow any content of your choice here in this community. When you post anything in any topic you can select if you follow the topic or not. You can also follow departments, members, events or wherever you find the " follow " button. Notification Settings If you follow any content here in this community you can go to the notification settings and define if you get either a push or an email notification if your followed content gets updated. You find the notification settings here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/notifications/options/ if you want to manage the followed content more in detail you find the settings here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/followed/

Hey guys, I want to make the Guitar Students Club to the center of our small guitar community here. So if you have any suggestions, requests or comments please let me know what you guys think, or what is on your mind. Tutorial Requests It's always hard for me to find topics for upcoming tutorials since there are many things which I don't know and I often don't have so much time for research and stuff like that. If you want to help me to find topics for new tutorials please let me know. I only have one condition - it has to be somehow a popular topic or a topic which might be in the interest of the majority of students - but also sometimes topics which are rare might also be fun. So if you have any ideas or requests - please let me know.

Some useful information about the great features in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. We have the guitar courses and the student blogs. Both are all great features which guide you through your personal guitar journey. Here you find all courses & the list of the search tags : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-courses/ Here you find the Premium Member Blogs : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/blogs/ and here you find the beginners course if you are totaly new to guitar playing :

Out of more than 20 years of professional online education I am happy to show you the main features of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy in these 13+ minutes here. From my point of view this online guitar academy represents the best of the best in professional online guitar teaching and building up the whole system took me more than 3 years. Now it is complete. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Members I have worked very hard to make this community here a great experience for you guys here. Let me share how you can get the most benefit out of the HPCrazy Students Club here. You can share your thoughts about guitar playing, guitar music your learning process, your practicing guitar routines with other students here. There are several possibilites to do that : Open a topic here in the HPCrazy Students Club and share whats on your mind - or what you are working on, which difficulties you have on a specific tutorial, exercise or technical aspect of your gear. If you want to share your recording on a specific tutorial here in the HPCrazy Students Club read the " Rules " . If you are tired of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media platforms because you don't want to share your personal information to big companies. You find a private social media platform here as well and I promise you won't get any add's or I will not give your personal data to anybody. Here is only about music, guitar playing and experience about music life. Where is the social media platform here ? It's very easy - click on your member name or any others member name - this leads you to the member profile - there you can do " Status Updates " similar to Facebook. You can add anything you like, even upload files - limited storage 5 MB ( Members ) -20 MB ( Premium Members ). You can follow your friends here - just go to there account and hit the " Follow " button. You can also comment to your friends status update. Check it out - it's really an awesome feature. There is a full news feed just related to the selected member. I have to limit the storage because I still can not afford my own server and techician to run it. But it could be a future outlook if there will be many members here. I can tell from my personal opinion, that the time of facebook and similar is a bit over since it's just business and big data there. That's why I did not install the direct facebook login tool. There is no connection to any big data platform here. Just Google analytics monitors a bit the traffic. Also sign up for the newsletter. I dont do many newsletters but this way we can keep in touch if anything comes up. You find the newsletter sign up tool here on the frontpage or in your member account settings. In generel check your settings in your memberaccount - you will find quite a lot cool tools here which you can activate or deactivate. Check your notification manager. There you can activate or deactivate your personalized notifications : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/notifications/options/ Premium Members Premium Members have access to the blog section. There you can post anything you like. Just open up your own blog, make a first post and add your first category of your blog. You can post anything you like there. The blog section is the private place for premium members. Only premium members can read your posts. So this way you have your privacy and you can build up your community with your friends here. I have made a Test blog for your guys that you can check it out and get some inspiration what you can do. But there are basicly no limits. The only limitation is through the current webspace limition of 20MB if you want to upload any files. Here you find the updates information about the search tags, the guitar courses and the Premium Member blogs.

Check out the brand new feature here in the Guitar Academy. In the blogs you can write about your journey on guitar, the exercises you are doing and the difficulties you are having and you can empower the community that you guys start to communicate with each other and help each other. I also will have an eye on your posts and monitor your practice plans and give some guidance there. The blogs are private and only premium members are able to write or read the posts there. I decided to make it only available to premium members to have some privacy there and also I feel like premium members are that group who are really interested to move forward systematically in their guitar playing abilities and that only works with dedication and disziplin. The blogs are also a great tool to keep a timeline for your progress and your journey that we all together can channel our efforts in your guitar learning process. For the german speaking members here : To open up your blog just go here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/blogs/ Then click on create a new blog and then follow the instructions. If you are adding a new blog you will be asked to create a category where your first blog enty will be placed. If you add new entries you can attach it to the category you created or you can also add more categories if you have more to say. If you have difficulties in opening up your blogs let me know.

Here I want to share some ideas for updates which I have. You might want to give your opinion or suggestion here to help to improve the whole system. ------------------------------------- I am thinking about writting some guided courses out of the existing tutorials here to help you guys to get kind of a direction which tutorials shall be to watch and to work on. There is already so much content here in the academy - it's hard to keep track on all material which is here and if you don't know what to search for then you will not find it. Tell me what you think about this

We reached 3000 members now on this website. That's quite something. It's really hard to get people to subsribe to private websites. Thanks for all the support out there - this small community is growing at bit every day. Keep on spreading the word out there :-) #hpcrazyguitaracademy or #hpcrazy

Hey guys, all lessons here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy seem to be posted randomly but they aren't. All lesson are marked with Search Tags. They help you to find similar lessons of a specific typ when you click on the specific tag of your choice. Let me explain. Playing Level Tag When you click on the HPCrazy Guitar Academy or any of the departments of it you find the Level Tags. Click of the level of your choice and you will find all lessons which are marked with the same level. You also find the on the top of any list of tutorials on the left side : Secundary Tags Beside the level some tutorials have secondary tags which let you find all tutorials which are marked with the same tag. You find them on the right side of the tutorial list. The Search Function The search function allows you to find anything you are searching for which you probably did not find with the tags. It just works like a regular search engine. If you are looking for a very specific tutorial with a full title or for something with more the 1 word you need to set the title like this : "This Is An Example"

In this club you find some free downloads for all members of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. This is like a selection of files which I think are cool for you guys and also represent the vibe of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. Some of the files might be a bit difficult for beginners or intermediate players but it's good to know that material like that exists and it might be an inspiration for some of you guys. On some things you might work for months or years. But thats the path of a true guitar lover who always wants to improve. As an example I am trying to play " Eugene's Trick Bag " since many years. Now after many years I think I get to the point where I can play it. Even I never achieved to play it like in the movie " Crossroads " I improved a lot in other playing techniques. Thats the vibe one needs to follow. And the journey never ends.... https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/files/category/7-free-guitar-student-files/

Here you find my tips on how to avoid / treat guitar injuries. If you want to discuss your case please let me know to give you more detailed advice for my personal experience.

It is really simple to sign up for new member accounts here. Just click on the SIGN UP button and fill out the simple form. But here some additional information which help you to decide to sign up : 1. Your data is not used in any way for marketing or promotion. The only thing which you might get if you opted into my newsletter. That one you can opt out anytime. That one will not be more then once per month. If you want to opt out of the newletter go to https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/notifications/options/ then select " newletter " and deactivate the " email " box. You can opt in any time again. 2. If you really feel like you want to have your account delected contact me over the support. I can do that - but just keep in mind this takes me a few minutes of my precious working time. 3. For your registration please use a valid email. If you don't get the confirmation email after your registration then you have to check your spamfolder and if you don't find it there please take an other email. I have specific problems with ...@orange.fr emails which all get rejected by the email provider. 4. Any social - media registration like over your google, facebook or twitter account is deactivated since I want to keep privacy in this academy very personal.

Hey guys, would you be interested in several courses here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy ? At the end of the course you would be able to pass the tests for the HPCrazy Guitar Academy Awards. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-student-awards/ As an example the Blues Intermediate Award : Tell me what you guys think about this.

I often get contacted how subscriptions can be canceled or renewed. So here all Information which are needed : First of all if you haven't selected the automatic renewal on PayPal there is no automatic subscription. In this case there is nothing to do. Pay Pal Cancel Pay Pal Subscription If you selected the automatic renewal of your subscription you can cancel it either in your PayPal account and / or on the subscription page : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/ There is a small link with " cancel " - click on that and follow the instructions. Renew Subscription If you want to renew your subscription you go to the same page again https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/ Now click on the subscription of your choice or in some case this does not work then click on the small link with " renew " - click on that and follow the instructions. Credit Card ( Stripe ) Stripe is only available in around 30 countries. There is no automatic renewal system. If you want to renew your subscription just go with the invoice created by this website here. Manual Payment If you want to do a manual payment by bank transfer please only do this with yearly subscriptions because I have to upgrade your account manually. The transfer data will be displayed at the end of the subscription process and it normally takes up to 2-4 business days till your money arrives and I can upgrade your account. Problems ? https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/contact/ Refunds The system is very fair for everybody. You can view the video's and use the search system here for free. Only the tabs, backing tracks and blogs are available for premium members. Therefore there are no refunds for premium memberships because any member can know if the system works for them or not before the purchase.

Hey guys, you might have already saw the download section here. There I will be posting important files for download. Some of them are free for all registered member and some of them for a small fee. You will see the files marked with FREE are for free and very usefull and important if you want to study guitar on a deeper level. You find an overview of all files in the download section here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/files/category/2-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/ Please bookmark this link to easy find this section again.

Here I'm talking about the HPCrazy Guitar Academy which is now a full and complete Online Guitar Academy from the beginner till an aspiring professional guitar player. I am talking about the different departments of the guitar Academy and explain the functions and the possibilities which you can have here. First is the HPCrazy YouTube channel which you might already be a subscriber. It is free and there are 2 uploaded videos every week. If you subscribe and hit the notification button - the bell then you get notified when Premiere takes place or a new video is uploaded. To get to the next step you can follow the link which is at its here and subscribe to a free member account in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. It is worth joining to the free member account since if you join the HPCrazy Students Club there are 5 available which are also available for free members. You can also interact with the other students and get more into touch with them. To get access to that size with your attitude each tutorial with your find here on YouTube do you need to make the premium membership upgrade. New is that they are also available in Guitar Pro format. Students of the HP crazy guitar Academy get a 20% off for this software. If you feel like you want to have a more personal guidance or guitar coach you can book a private online guitar lessons in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. This is the premium service and I only take up to 15 private students per week. If you want to go even if they further you can study guitar in the HP crazy guitar Academy and finisher started with a diploma. The requirements to finish the studies are very hard and compared to the normal Bachelor Master System which can be found at music universities this diploma is a artist diploma compared to like Japanese karate master. So this is a true guitar master degree. Whatever you choose to take advantage of the HP crazy guitar Academy system is for all students worldwide especially for those with low budget which cannot afford to go to university but still have the waist or did really go deep into guitar playing or music but it's up to you which department do you want to join but you can learn the same things in each department with hard work. The hashtag where you can find all the students of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy is #hpcrazyguitaracademy

Hey Folks, I have finally completed the description about the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. So you can read below if you are interested. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online Guitar Academy Free membership allows to download all files in the students club if you have clicked on the " Join " button. It also includes to take part of the discusssion in the Guitar Academy and to open topics here in the club. Access to all downloads in the Guitar Academy or other parts of the music site require a premium membership upgrade for only 3.75 US$ / month. HPCrazy Guitar Academy The HPCrazy Online Guitar Academy is a complete online education system for guitarists. At first there is the HPCrazy YouTube Channel. This channel is basically a free guitar academy for all interested guitarists worldwide. The idea of this guitar academy originates from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne a few years ago, where high quality learning content is made available free of charge to everyone on the net and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the subject matter can then integrate themselves into the educational system. So joining the HPCrazy Guitar Academy with a Premium Membership is the first step to expand the educational offer. The free guitar tutorials are designed in such a way that learning success can be achieved even with the free content. Whoever wants to purchase the respective teaching material must purchase the Premium Membership. The Premium Membership also includes the other music downloads on the webpage. This serves as additional inspiration and motivation. If you want to go one step further, you can get private guitar lessons or private online guitar lessons. For those who want to fully immerse themselves in guitar playing, a part-time guitar study program can be started. Categories The following categories are available in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy : Blues - The Blues Guitar Tutorials are designed to learn the basics of blues, blues improvisation, theory and basic improvisation concepts with the so-called question-answer concept. Beside these basic concepts, more complex blues forms are shown, playing styles of well-known blues guitarists are analyzed, or simply different Blueslicks are shown, with which you can quickly achieve a great professional sounding success with simple means. The tutorials marked with Masterclass are for advanced guitarists. Rock - In the Rock Guitar Tutorials all important techniques of this genre are shown. It starts with the so-called power chords, the commonly used chords of the rock guitar. The rhythm guitar in rock is relatively simple, because the power chords are relatively easy to grap, but nevertheless the rhythm is very important and is trained accordingly. A timing accurate rhythm guitar is the foundation of every rock band. Lead guitar is technically very demanding and has to be trained accordingly. Various exercises on timing and synchronization techniques are important parts of the lead guitar and are completed with an appropriate lick library. The tutorials which are marked as Guitar Masterclass are intended for the very advanced guitarists and serve as motivation and inspiration for the others. Jazz - The jazz guitar is by far the most complicated music form. In this genre a preoccupation with music theory harmony and rhythm is inevitable. The study of modes, chord progression, syncopation, improvisation concepts and various blues and musical forms are the center of the training on the jazz guitar. In jazz, improvisation concepts are very sophisticated and complex. The demands on guitar technique are very high and require special training. With the different protagonists of jazz are just as important as the so-called transcriptions of various solos by jazz musicians. In the tutorials these demands are met. Funk - The Funk guitar is primarily a rhythm guitar. A preoccupation with rhythmics is the center of training for the funk guitar. The basic forms of the so-called 16th rhythmics are learned and implemented on the guitar. Different chord licks, single note lines, tricks and other genre typical aspects of this guitar are shown in the tutorials. Covers - In the cover tutorials known pieces are analyzed and the most important parts of the pieces are shown on the guitar. In some cases arrangements are also shown, which others are based on the melody of a well-known piece. Acoustic - In the Acoustic Tutorials different aspects of the acoustic guitar are shown. This includes the genres of Flamenco Jazz, Rumba, any other form of Latin American guitar techniques, accompaniments, singer songwriters, blues on the steel-string guitar and much more. Artist Studies - In the Artists Studies, playing techniques, pieces or typical playing styles of well-known guitarists are analysed and shown. In particular, simplified aspects of well-known guitarists are also shown that these protagonists are often top-class guitarists. Only in the Guitar Masterclasses are the playing techniques and details of these players discussed. Guitar Meditation - In the Guitar Meditation Tutorials you can learn how to play the guitar and meditation techniques I have developed. The focus is on simple melody and chord sequences which have a repetitive character and are therefore suitable to get into a meditative state while playing. The basis of the Guitar Meditation Technique lies in the so-called Farbmusik. Farbmusik is a form of music developed by me which works with visualisation techniques, breathing techniques and meditative improvisation techniques. These are shown in the Meditation Guitar. Guitar Techniques - In the Guitar Techniques different guitar techniques are shown. These are the typical playing techniques, which are looked at in detail and perfected. It can be the playing techniques, working with guitar effects, rhythm exercises or other aspects of the purely technical implementation of guitar playing. Classic & Filmmusic - In classical music and film music, small classical-looking etudes are shown or arrangements of classical pieces are presented. There are also simplified arrangements of well-known film music pieces or pieces that would work as film music. Credits 1999 - 2005 : Various mandates in Swiss Universities of Music - ACM ( today ZKdK ) and WIAM. I supervised up to 30 students per week who wanted to become professional musicians. Various guest mandates and lectures in guitar workshops in other music schools. 2005 Lecturer and representative of the SMPV at the D-A-CH Symposium in Germany. Lectures on music lessons and internet. Concepts and experience reports. SMPV ( Swiss Music Pedagogical Association ) Accreditation ( authorization ) 1999 - 2007 for private university education and SMPV consulting and teaching activities. The accreditation was an authorization to train private students to become professional musicians. Featured online instuctor at guitartricks.com ( 2006 - 2012 ), featured online instructor at Gibson.com ( 2007 ) and support of over 80000 students online. During this time I gained a lot of experience in optimizing learning content for a general worldwide audience. Feedback, statistics and experience reports from that time are the basis of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. At the same time, I ran the Gitarrenforum.eu - a leading online portal in Europe at that time for guitar and guitar lessons. Starting in 2013, management of a successful guitar channel on YouTube under the name HPCrazy with currently over 27000 subscribers, over 100000 visitors / month and over 600000 viewed minutes / month. ( Feb 2020 ) Playing Level The general tutorials are designed for the slightly advanced guitarist / guitarist. The tutorials marked with " Guitar Masterclass " are for advanced to semi-professional guitarists and can serve as inspiration for other guitarists. For beginners and slightly advanced guitarists there is a playlist on YouTube - Beginners & Easy Lessons. These tutorials can also be found in the Academy but are not specially marked there. The tutorials are designed in a way that all questions are already answered, but if you are stuck in a tutorial, you have the possibility to get a private lesson or to buy a support ticket. Free Membership The free membership is also worthwhile, because a community of people interested in guitars is created here, where you can directly exchange ideas with others about the free tutorials. Especially in times of Big - Data it makes sense to use alternative platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and co. The data collected in the Academy will not be used at all. There is very rarely a newsletter, but you can activate it or not. The HPCrazy Guitar Nights are also organized and coordinated in the community. At the Guitar Nights students can take an active role and play along. All student activities can be organised in the HPCrazy Students Club. Members can also start contributions there. My Experience From 2003 to 2006 I managed the Gitarrenforum.eu, built up an online guitar school and at the same time built up and wrote the English equivalent on HPCrazy.com. At that time I had a lot of traffic, many students, many visitors and therefore I was able to build up a great wealth of experience. In 2006 I got a mandate at GuitarTricks.com, at that time the biggest portal worldwide about learning guitar and guitar. At that time we had all user base of 1.5 million subscribers and I was always in the top 4 of the so-called featured instructors on this web portal from 2006 to 2012. 2007 cooperation with Gibson and there I was used as advertising medium for Guitartricks.com. Because of my great popularity at that time, strategic decisions of Guitartricks.com were also discussed directly with me. During this time I have gained a lot of experience in running a general betting portal for a large number of students and providing them with content. I learned what users want, what serves them in the game, and how to pass on learning content to a broad mass of people. This knowledge has now been incorporated into my own guitar academy, the HPCrazy Guitar Academy, and is now available on the YouTube channel and the guitar academy presented here.