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Newsletter - 28.4.22

  

Hi {member_name}

there have been some really cool updates on the Music & Guitar Academy.

Students Awards

If you are working out thing on your personal playing level you might be interested if you already have a certain playing level. Therefore the HPCrazy Guitar Academy offers now a first bundle of Students Awards.

Blues Guitar Intermediate & Rock Guitar Intermediate.

If you want to know which requirements are needed to pass from Blues or Rock Guitar to an Intermediate player please check out the requirements here :

Now how do you proceed. Check the requirements which are needed to pass and also if you need some additional inspiration check the suggested tutorials, but you can choose any topic as long it comes along with the requirements described. If you feel that you are ready to go for the test, record a video of yours with max. 10 Min. of your playing and book a test. For free members it's 15$ for Premium Members 10$. If you pass the test you will receive an award which is displayed in your personal profile ( view screenshot )

Sounds like fun to you ? In fact it is and it's always good to have a challenge in your learning process. Most students learn most when they need to pass a challenge. So don't hesitate to go for this challenge. It's not a competation, it's for you to learn faster and more efficient.

Livestreaming concerts

I played 2 livestreaming concerts this month. The Meditation Piano Concert 432Hz - Libra Full Moon and the HPCrazy Guitar Night. Both concert were really great and people who attended live really enjoyed being part of the show in the interactiv chat.

If you want to re-watch them here are the links.

Successful Piano Meditation Music in 432 Hz

I just reviewed my yearly stats of my Farbmusik Meditation Music in 432 Hz and I am happy to say that it made over 4.6 Mio streams in the past 12 months on amazon music. Thats really great and shows that people really worship the relaxing and healing power of this kind of music.

If you are interested to get the latest recordings of this type of music here's the link to follow.

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/files/category/1-healing-and-therapy-musik/

and last but not least I want to share my latest add to the inspirational guitar videos with a band I just discovered - Airbourne. A really cool rock band and in this video Lemmy from Motörhead himself is driving the rock n roll truck.

So these was a selection of news of the month april.

And a technical update :

There were problems of some member accounts which already made a premium membership upgrade when one tried to renew the membership. These problems are ( hopefully ) now solved. So if you ever had problems with the renewal or canceling your membership please try again or read this article here :

Thanks for your attention and i'll keep the music & guitar academy running for the joy of music. Please help to spread the word - I would really apprechiate.

HP

[admin]

  

Hi {member_name},

here some updates about the Music & Guitar Academy :

Some of you might have noticed that I went through some personal processes because my entire familly now has passed away and this brought to some serious thoughts about my next steps in life. For more details please listen to this video here :

I have been overwhelmed about the many really nice feedback of you guys on YouTube and I wanted to say " Thank You " to everybody who always followed me and supported my work with sharing my content or by make a premium member subscription or a donation.

There will now be a change in the perception of my work and my artist development. Therefore please listen to the video. Some of you might be worried that I will now stop to post new video's. This is not the case. It's just that I want to get back to creativity again and don't be a slave of the YouTube alogerithem anymore. That means in fact I will make more creative things and the best way to keep up with my work is to switch here to the " Music & Guitar Academy " - here is all together on one website and you have way more possibilites for interaction and also for having an overview about everything.

I just want to remind you to the tagging system here were you can click on the tag of your choice and this leads you to all video's or posts which talk about that matter. View the tagging system here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/7-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/

and more tags to come. If you like a topic or a download you can click on the tags of each post which leads you to more content which is tagged that way.

The creative part will soon coming and will be documentated here in the Academy.

If you want to support my work you can do this by sharing my content to other places like social media or your personal website or inviting your friends to this website and / or you can make a premium membership upgrade here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/

or you can go for the high quality things  like private online lessons or also just asking questions in the topics or your place to interact - The HPCrazy Students Club :

There will also will be more things coming towards the mediation music because meditation and peace is now important in our world which gets more and more shaken up.

Thanks for joining and interacting.

HP

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here the latest news of the {suite_name}

First of all I want to thank all members here in the Music & Guitar Academy for joining. We have reached over 2000 members here + 160 Premium Members. Slow this community is building up.

I have going through some hard personal times you might have seen my post about it :

but now I am back and ready to continue the work. As I announced I will take creativity more into the focus of my work so you can expect more recordings or performance video's like the most current one here :

and here on my site you will find more background information about the songs, how they were recorded and what the intention was.

In this new creative strategy you will also find more tutorials where you can learn things a bit outside the box for all playing levels. Like on the current performance video there is also a tutorial available with the original backing track attached for premium members. This gives you the opportunity to also take your personal steps on your personal guitar journey.

Pick's of the Month

Here my personal picks of the month which you might love as well.

I really love the live version of the Black Label Society with Zakk Wylde. So here's the tutorial & the really cool backing track that you can jam along with Zakk. And don't miss my version of the jam at the end of the tutorial.

and don't miss my Street Blues Guitar Studies, were you can learn to play are profound Street Music Blues Guitar on any level.

Farbmusik Meditation Music

Don't miss my livestreaming concert of Sept. 10th out of the small church in Seegräben in Switzerland. I have lived in Seegräben many years ago and in this church a lot of devine inspriation came to me. That's the reason why I always go back to my favorite church to play concerts. The Sept concert will be piano but the october one I want to start again with guitar mediation music as well. Here you can attend the concert and if you love it don't hesitate to support my art with your donation : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/

I have on-going success with my piano meditation music 432Hz on Amazon Music. This is the most successful release with over 7Mio streams since one year there.

https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B00HWJWT1U?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_vtUueariOMwwLHQ3mrqesxcET

These were now the most important news from the {suite_name}

Membertips :

If you want to upload your profile picture go to your account by clicking on the profile link. There you can also write your status and share you thoughts to other members of this community to make some friends here. Other members can comment on your status update.

If you love this community here please help to let it grow by sharing it to your friends.

CU you guys next month with the Oct Newsletter.

Best

HP

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  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

[admin]

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

[admin]

  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

[admin]

They there members of the HP crazy Guitar Academy !

 I wish everybody a Happy New Year and a joyful year 2023 .  Looking back to the past year the HPCrazy guitar Academy went through a lot of changements and a lot of improving of the services which are offered to all you students here. There are growing numbers of students here which all share the same passion as everybody else which is guitar playing and the joy of guitar music.  The academy now represents a professional online guitar Academy which combines all experience from 20 years of professional online education in guitar playing.  Looking back to this time I remember the times being at guitartricks.com which was at that time the worldwide leading online guitar Academy in the internet, looking back to my time as instructor at gibson.com,  I feel that the  HPCrazy Guitar Academy now is a complete system and ready for all you guys who really love guitar playing and want to improve your playing and also enjoy guitar music.  With the growing number of subscribers and free members we are  slowly building up a community here and looking forward to the things to come in 2023.  I am planning to keep the pace going on 2 tutorials a week with different topics as blues rock jazz and other playing techniques or other genres and also giving more professional guidance into music theory and on how to bring music theory on the fretboard. 

Reviewing the numbers of 2022 I can gladly say now that we have passed threshold of having quite a number of Premium members here which support the work and helped to keep the service up so that there is no more danger that the service has to be stopped so we are looking into a bright future here and please if you did make a premium membership upgrade make your small contribution to the community here and also make a premium membership upgrade even if you're not a regular user of this Academy here. 

That's now all the news of the Guitar Academy thanks for your ongoing support in the last year and happy New Year to everybody out there and we keep up the joy for guitar playing and guitar music in 2023.

Best HP

[JazzJoop]

Hi HP

A Happy New Year to you. Hoping you have a better one. Pleased the academy is a success learning from you is a pleasure. 

Cheers JazzJoop

[admin]

Hey JazzJoop - a happy new year to you too. I like to hear that learning is a pleasure. Thats how it should be.

[JazzJoop]

Hi HP

Treated myself to a beautiful new guitar for the new year, a Greg Bennett Ultramatic UM-3 in orange sunburst for 225 euro, together with my Harley Benton 550 LP I have two guitars of quality build and finish with superb playability at bargain prices. Both highly recommended.

Cheers JazzJoop

[admin]

Hey JazzJoop - that's nice it's important for the joy of playing that you have one or more guitars which you really love. This motivates more to practice and to play a lot.

[admin]

Hey guys,

the newsletter is a bit late this month. I was really busy with my concert preparations for the concert on Feb 5th in the small church in Seegräben. This was now the 2nd full guitar solo concert I performed in this setting. The difference between the Farbmusik concerts and the HPCrazy guitar nights are that the technical and artistic requirements are higher and I did not do this since 2019 anymore and I started to work with my compositions which I did in the past years which have been only heard on Swiss national TV and other broadcasters but I never used them in any live situation, also because electric guitar somehow did not fit in that modern sound when using traditional sound settings of artists like Gary Moore, Santana, Joe Satriani ... but somehow I was willing to find a way now since that part of my work has been a substantial part of my artistic work in the past decade ( http://www.music-pictures.com ) . So I tested for many days to finally get to a solution which worked out and fitted the needs of modern sounds. The result was used the first time on that concert. You will get more insights into that in the upcoming months - so stay tuned here. But this project took all my attention in the past 3 weeks - also to program and test the new live equipment. So this is a path which just has started and for sure I will continue with this together with new compositions. I also consider picking up my composition work which I stopped now for more than 4 years. Therefore I installed a 2nd recording studio beside the one in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy in my home because inspiration often strikes in the evening and in the night.

The 2nd thing was that since I started to do professional guitar training again in Sept 2022 there were a lot of things to explore and also I faced an injury in my right arm which I am still in treatment. Too bad to say it was because of my extended computer work I did in the past 24 months and when I started to practice many hours daily again it was too much. So I needed to figure out how I can reduce computer work to the minimum, do the regular therapy since I was still working and practicing on guitar. And this took quite some energy. The good news is - the whole thing is under control now and getting better fast since the changements start to have a tremendous effect. But as always in life there is a lot of discipline required.

The HPCrazy Guitar Academy continues as always and I have had quite a lot of ideas to expand the type and style of tutorials but also guitar recordings since I entered the creative path again. The new design of the Academy has a better effect on users and it will now stay the way it is and thanks to your support the Academy is growing slowly but surely.

Thats all news for the moment - thanks again for your support you are providing to the HPCrazy Guitar Academy and also the growing interest in my Farbmusik. There is an english written website about that. If you are interested you can get lots more information here : https://farbmusik.com/eng/

Best

HP

[admin]

Hey guys,

here's now the march 23 newsletter with some really cool stuff.

Blues Guitar

Many guitar players love blues so much because it is a musical form where you can start to play very early in your guitar journey. But it is really useful to work on understand the form of blues and work on your perception how long one bar, two bars or 4 bars are in order to feel the form of the blues while you are playing. Playing few notes perfectly required a great feeling for the form of a song.

This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for any blues guitar player. Here you can really work on your abilitiy to feel the form. Check out my method and start your practice work today.

Rock Guitar

One of you guys requested a tutorial to work out a perfect rock guitar sound. How to use effects, how to use the distortion and and and.... so this was a great opportunity to share my really neardy knowledge about my point of view what shall be a perfect rock guitar sound. So this tutorial in fact is a " MUST HAVE " for any rock guitar player to optimize your rock guitar sound.

Jazz Guitar

Even Jazz guitar is not such a popular topic on YouTube there are numberous students here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy who are interested to go deeper into jazz guitar and therefore a lot of knowledge in theory, rhythm and improvisation concepts are needed. Here a nice concept for intermediate players to start a " serios " jazz guitar improvisation on the popular tune " Summertime " in the key of Am. It's worth to start to get into modes and start using them.

If you are a free member of the HPCrazy Students Club you have access to the featured free download of the month. 2 versions of a great jazz blues played with walking bass in the key of Bb which is one of the 2 common keys when it comes to jazz blues. The most common one would be F. To download those files you just need to be a free member of the Academy and then join the HPCrazy Students Club by hitting the " JOIN " button.

Personal creative notes

I am doing fullmoon concerts every month in the small church in Seegräben ( Switzerland ) and since Jan 23 I started to do those concerts fully as guitar concerts. There I show all my musical and creative abilities as a Hollywood composer and a composer for Swiss national TV with my FARBMUSIK concept. You can attend the concert live on March 7th 20:00 in the church in Seegräben or you can watch the livestream. Since the walls in the church are so thick we had problems with the livestreams in the past but we are working hard to get the livestream to a better quality. This month we hope that the mobil signal now will work fine and if so next month will be the better audio quality in the focus. The new camera is already here.

A final note on your premium member subscriptions. Please support the HPCrazy Guitar Academy with a regular premium member subscription in order to help to keep the service up here which I am doing for the community. If you feel you still want to end your subscription - just let it expire or if you are on automatic renewal you need to log into your personal PayPal account and deactivate it there. Please don't make any disputs for your automatic renewal if you wanted to cancel your subscriptions - it's in your responsibilty and it causes a lot of administrative work for me even it's not my responisbility.

Thats now all important news now for this month. I'll be back in one month with more news.

HP

[admin]

here's now the april 23 newsletter

Blues Guitar

Minor blues is the most popular topic in the guitar community so it was about time to share my experience and insight what I think about a perfect minor blues guitar sound. The secret in minor blues is, that it is about tone control and your ability to show many aspects of tone and sound in your minor blues guitar solo. If you want to know more check out this tutorial here :

 

Do you love to go to jamsessions in your local community ? If yes then for sure you know the tune " Watermelon Man " by Herbie Hancock. I visited many jamsessions and this tune is one of the most played and I must say overplayed tune on jamsession but it is still played. If you want to become the GOTO guy at your local jamsession then my tutorial might help you to achieve this goal.

Rock Guitar

Rock Guitar Rhythm Studies are very important if you want to play a tight and convincing rock guitar. Rhythm and precision is the key to that. Playing proper 16th notes is a task for many players out there but with this tutorial I made things a bit easier for your guys and this tutorial is in face a MUST HAVE for every rock guitar player.

The chord combination C F G is probably one of the most overuses chord progression on the planet. Here I give you some ideas how to make you sound fresh and new and to get this modern alternative rock guitar sound where unusaual chord voicings are used or dropped tunings get this modern sound. In this case it's a standard tuning but sounds like if you would have used a drop C tuning.

Jazz Guitar

Bebop Jazz Guitar is a hard task to achieve because you need a lot of theoretical knowledge and orientation on the fretboard. So here is the most easy possible start to the basics of Bebop on the guitar. We start with a simple II V I progression usind the chords Dm7 / G7 / Cmaj7 . This is the starting point to understand what the prinicple of bebop in general is and how to work it out on the guitar.

If you are a total beginner into scales and just used to playing the minor or major pentatonics then these files and instructions here shall help you to get an understanding of scales, modes and there connection between eachother. I know many of you don't like theory but when you want to play Jazz Guitar it a MUST HAVE.

Guitar Night

HPCrazy Guitar Night is taking place on April 21th as an online event from the HPCrazy Guitar Academy Studio's so that all you guys can attend. I went through a longer phase now of injuries, reorganization and research to proceed with my main creative restart now in 2023. The past 3 years were not so creative for me and in fact it took longer then I thought to get back on the track I left 2020. My injury also took my 3 months to cure it.

If you are suffering from guitar playing injuries yourself you might want to watch my therapy recommendations here :

I also started to play the 7-String guitar. A great creative add and if you are interested to follow my thought and experience on my 7-string journey then this is the topic to subscribe for free for you. There you also find some exercises which I think are useful for 7-string gutiar beginners.

and so we are now ready for the first HPCrazy Guitar Night on April 21th. If you love it or want to support the music please make a donation. You find the link in the description of the event :

Technical Information

Maintenance work was taking place in the past weeks on the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. If you experienced any problems with your Premium Membership please contact me and we can fix the problem. I also ran into a few technical problems about the bulk mail feature since we are now approaching 3000 members here on this website and this create quit a lot traffic. These were all things which had to be looked at which was quit time consuming I must say but I am glad this phase is now over.

I also did a lot of testing and research on the mobile livestreaming workflow and equipment to make it possible to have better livestreams from other locations then only the HPCrazy Studio's. On the last concert from April 6th we were ready to go but there was a defect adapter which caused the drop out. In fact it's amazing how much testing and research is nessary to get all these things done.

Also my Live Equipement is new and all the testing and programing took me weeks but I am now finished. My Live - Rig contains the following devices :

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Fractal Audio FM3 + 1 EV-1 Expression pedal
2 Bose SP1 active monitors
3 LED stripes with all colors for the lightshow
Zoom q8n-4K livestreaming camera + Zoom Qn2 4K livestreaming camera
Huawei mobile WLAN router

So you guys see I was incredible busy but the testing and research phase is now over and now I enter back into the creative phase.

HP

[admin]

here's now the May 23 newsletter

Blues Guitar

Slow Major Blues : You guys probably all know how to play a normal blues, but what happens when I blues is held in a major key ? This tutorial shall anwser all your questions and give you an idea on how to develop a great guitar solo in a major blues. I strongly recommend that you download the tabs which give you a first library of licks which you can learn and create some automatisms in your playing.

Minor Pentatonic Exercises : If you play blues and you want to expand your playing possibilities it is important that you know all pentatonic positions and you have some playing skills to use them. Here you find a whole summary of exercises which should fix the task for ever.

Rock Guitar

Rock Guitar Double Stops : Rock Guitar double stops are a great add to your library of licks and tricks and will expand your sound possibilities. I strongly recommend that you check out this tutorial here.

Rock Guitar Ballad : The sound and your abilities of expression, tone control and sound is the key to any rock guitar ballad or any ballad itself. In this tutorial I share my tips and tricks exclusivly for you.

Jazz Guitar

Smooth Minor Blues Jazz Guitar : In Smooth Jazz you can also use concepts of minor blues and bring them into life. So here I share some ideas

Mercy Mercy Mercy : Here you can learn this iconic tune by Joe Zawinul. Even it's an overuse tune it's still fun to learn and fun to play :

Member Downloads

There is still an on going confusion about the member downloads in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy because all of them are marked as " free " . Unfortunatly thats a bug in the system which currently can not be changed. The download in the Students Club are free for all members which joined the club by hitting " Join ". They represent the vibe of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy which represents the joy and fun for guitar music and guitar playing. So these files are gems on your patch to guitar happiness. Some tabs are really hard to play and probably will keep you busy for months or years. But that's how it is. We are never finished with learning. Here is one which is not so easy as it seems. Billy Cobhams " Red Baron "

the downloads in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy Download section for only free for premium members. If you love the work of the HPCrazy Guitar Academy please make a premium member subscription even if you are not a regular user here to support the work which me and Dr. Pink and now new Mrs. Blue are doing for your guys.

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Personal Notes

New Guitar Mrs Blues :  I feel in love with a PRS Cheasapeake Bay Bridge, Private Stock No. 21 guitar. It was not cheap but mom left me a few bucks and I decided that she would have wanted me to buy it and so I did.

and my thoughts about my journey of sound and expression in the past 5 months. My goal was to make the guitar sound like a human voice / singer and to give it a personal touch. What I can tell I am now truely an expert in sound settings like compressor, amp setting, delays, wah wah, reverb and and and....

HPCrazy Guitar Nights : I decided to pick up the HPCrazy Guitar Nights again and so I did the first show already with the new guitar. I am planing to do them regular now on a monthly basis - the next one is planed for 19th of may since there is a new moon in taurus on that day. Check the events regulary for more details. The next Full Moon Concert is already on the 5th of May but we are having difficulties with the livestream because the walls of the small church don't really give us a good mobile signal for the livestream. But we are working on the task. Maybe this broadcast will work better now.

So these were now most news from the past 4 weeks. I just noticed how much I was working

Thanks for your support guys and please support our work for you by spreading the word and with your premium membership.

HP

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Here is now the june 23 newletter :

Blues

Many guitar players would love to play and improvise blues over the entire fretboard. Here's now THE tutorial which gives you first ideas on how to work with the basic blues improvisation concept with : question / anwser / resolution on the entire fretboard. I show you how to move your musical motives on the entire fretboard and also give you some tips for variation and flexibilty. Before you start this tutorial you need to know all 5 minor pentatonic positions on the fretboard. So I strongly recommend that you also check the Minor Pentatonic Bootcamp. All tutorials and links are displayed here :

 

You had a hard working day and you just want to chill a bit with a drink and your guitar ? Then this tutorial is for you. This song is really simple - but simple things in life are helping to relax and to enjoy a bit.

Rock

You had a hard day and you want to let off some steam ? Then this tutorial is the right one for you. A great phrygian rock guitar riff which is quite simple to play and sounds great. I strongly recommend playing it with that cinematic backing track I created for you guys. You find all my experience as a composer for TV & movies in that backing track and it's fun.

You love Drop D stuff with a nasty distortion ? Here is another great blues rock with drop D. It's really simple to play and sounds great.

Funk

If you want to play a steady and tight funk guitar the deadnotes which are all 16th notes have to be practiced in detail. It's very important that you really take you time to play proper and precise deadnotes in 16th note figures. In this tutorial you can learn the main exercises which are required to fullfill the task.

Smooth Jazz

Smooth Jazz is always a popular topic and of course you can also play a minor blues in a smooth jazz setting. Here we have the best of 2 worlds in one tutorial.

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Here you find the transcribed tabs of the guitar instrumental " Mediterranean Sundance '' by Al Di Meola. This tune was on the most famous guitar record ever recorded : Friday Night In San Francisco ( featuring Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia and John Mc Laughlin ) which were some of the outstanding guitar players of that time. The recording catched up with a night where 3 great guitarists had a highlight and nailed what professional guitar playing should be. If you are truly into guitar playing there is no way to pass on this tune - at least check out the theme and the rhythm guitar. The solo's are out of range for a lot of players out there.

In order to download this file for free you need to hit the Join Club button - if you have not already done this before.

New : Free Meditation Music Download

I will share spontanious recordings of meditation music in 432Hz which I play regulary for myself as meditation in the Farbmusik Meditation Club. If you want to know more about the 432Hz tuning you might visit this page here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/files/category/1-healing-and-therapy-music/

This is a spontanious improvisation on the acoustic nylon guitar tuned to 432Hz. I have added a meditative wide reverb effect on the gutiar and during the improvisation I visualized the color " Yellow ".

In order to download this file for free you need to hit the Join Club button - if you have not already done this before.

Next Fullmoon Farbmusik Concert from Seegräben.

On June 4th there is the next Fullmoon Farbmusik Concert. If you are from Switzerland you might want to show up in the little church in the centre of the beautiful town of Seegräben. It starts at 8PM - for those who can not come - we worked a lot to get the livestream working in that church. One of the main problem is that the walls of the church don't let the mobile signal pass so easy but I think the problems are now solved. Also there will be a new camera now and the audio signal was also improved. If you want to join the livestream just be there at 8 PM Zürich time and tune into the livestream.

There is a lot of work behind this website here. If you love the work me and my team are doing for you please support it with a Premium Member subscription even if you are not a regular user of this website. All money will be invested to keep the service up and to improve the services which are offered. I strongly believe in a business model of people helping each other rather than just selling products. That’s why this website is built the way it is.

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Thanks for you help and support - we hear use again in one month.

HP

[Jimson]

This is fantastic!  Thank you very much. 

[admin]

Here is now the july 23 newletter :

Blues

This month was the month where you could learn the basics of straight and shuffle blues guitar riffs from scratch. These 2 extended tutorials are taking everything into details and back to the very basics. For some players this might seem to be not challenging enough but if you never have done these exercises properly and in detail then you might have missed a great opportunity to get the basics down perfectly which lays the foundation of any blues guitar playing level. For beginners this is the perfect entry to get to playing in a fast manner.

Rock

This month I teach you some easy ways to play professional sounding rock lead guitar in the genres Rock and Hard Rock. There are a few things you need to know to sound great on rock lead guitar and they make like 80-90% of your rock guitar appearance. The fancy stuff which takes a lot of practice is not really needed when you just want to fulfill the task of making a rock song and a rock guitar solo sound great. So check out those 2 tutorials to make sure you have your stuff together and then you still can work on the fancy stuff.

Smooth Jazz

This month was a smooth jazz month with some really important tutorials. I really recommend the Major Smooth Jazz Bootcamp to all smooth jazz and jazz fans out there. This tutorial has a lot of meat on it. You can work on the topics over weeks and months to improve your smooth jazz abilities. The tutorial includes analysis, technique and practical use and I recommend it to everybody.

to relax a bit you might want to check out the Easy Smooth Jazz Phrasing tutorial. Some really cool and easy ways to sound great fast and to have some fun with the backing track which comes with that tutorial.

Artist Study

I have opened up a topic for your guys where you can request any tutorials, songs or artists you want me to talk about. 2 members of this community wanted me to talk about Scotty Moore. That's the guitarist who defined the way Rockabilly Guitar sounded back in the times of the Sun Studio's in Memphis. He was of course the guitar player of Elvis and defined his sound as well. I can say his playing style was quite out of the box of my normal guitar playing so it took me like 2 weeks to get this down but now the tutorial is available. It's for all guitar players like me who have no experience with that style and shows the essentials you need to know to get into Rockabilly guitar.

Your Request for new tutorials

As members of this small guitar community we have here you have the privilege to define the course of the tutorials by adding your requests, comments and suggestions in any tutorial or in this post here I opened up for you guys. Let me know what your requests and thoughts are. When they fit the general concept of this community here, then I am ready to go. Your help is in fact most welcome since I don't really have too much time for research of new interesting things which are happening in the guitar world. So just let me and others know what your thoughts and suggestions are.

New Free Farbmusik Meditation Song

There is a great new meditation or floating Farbmusik song available in the Farbmusik Meditation Club. There you find a very deep and blue guitar meditation in the color dark blue. The track is over 10 min long and I recorded it all first take in one row of 40 minutes. I was trying to just play the guitar in a meditative mindset and so this music turned out to become very deep and guided by the knowledge of the intuitiv inspiration. I have selected a tempo of 60 bpm because this is a good low heart beat ratio to get into a meditative state.

To download the track you need to hit " Join Club " if you are still not a member and then you can download it. Let me know how you like it. It's the first composition I did again after a longer pause and my personal finding was that I still have the ability to compose the way I used to before my nearly 3 year break.

Updates in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy

There is a new department available now in the acoustic guitar section.

Beautiful Acoustic Guitar Chords

you find a first tutorial tagged with the new tag here :

I have also reordered the navigation here - now it's more easy for you guys to navigate through all important parts of this site.

There is a new feature available on this website.

If you feel like you want to leave this website and you want your account and all your data deleted then you can request this. More information here :

Final Notes

Unfortunately the alogerithm of YouTube has changed again this year which leaded to a 20 % loss of my usual traffic I had over the years on the HPCrazy YouTube Channel. So I needed to make some strategic changments to keep this community here running and safe for the future. The good news is - I got contacted by YT to be a member of the internal research team. So the channel is still on the radar of YouTube but I think they are doing a few strategic changes and they want to check out things a bit.

1. Social Media strategy : I started to an extended social media stategy to lead all traffic to this website. This helps to prevent more unexpected situations like this to have such an effect on the stability of the academy. You can also help if you want by sharing content you like on your social media accounts or just by spreading the word and leading the traffic to this website.

2. I have set up an additional opportunity to support this academy and there you find all information you need to know how the economic health of this community is. https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/

3. No panic - the situation is a matter of concern but I am not a person who gives up. But I think you guys should know the situation. The whole world is shaking but the academy will stand firm for all fans of guitar playing and guitar music.

So thats all for this month.

CU guys

HP

[admin]

Here's now the August 23 newsletter :

Blues

Last month we were checking out all that is needed to know about basic blues guitar riffs. Now this month you can take it a step further and go to the advanced blues guitar riffs. If you did the basic blues guitar riffs it should not be a huge problem to fulfill the task on this tutorial here :

This month was the month of Chicago Blues Guitar Player - Hubert Sumlin. A member requested to do a tutorial about Chicago Blues guitar players. I tried to find a common feature which they have and in fact a lot of blues guitar players play with finger picking which is quite a different technique to the usual techniques but in fact the fingerpicking technique makes the sound of those early guys like Albert Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson, Magic Sam, Jimmy Reed and others.

Rock N Roll

If you want to play a solid and professional sounding rock n roll guitar then the Chuck Berry Style tutorial is all you need to know to fulfill the task. I joined a professional rock n roll band at the beginning of my career with that knowledge and it was enough to be on tour for 2 years.

Rock

Also in the rock guitar genre this was the month of the advanced rock riff tutorial. If you have gone through the basic rock guitar riff tutorial you might be hungry and ready for the advanced rock guitar riff tutorial.

If you love Drop D rock guitar riffs then this one is for you. It's easy to play and sounds great.

Jazz

This was the month of jazz guitar improvisation with 2 great tutorials. If you love the tune " Sunny " but you have your difficulties with improvisation then this tutorial shall help you to get some cool professional sounding chops together which are still in the range of an intermediate smooth jazz guitar player.

Jazz Blues is in fact a very important and central thing in jazz guitar improvisation. So it makes sense to really work out the jazz blues in detail and to always add new things and ideas to it. So here are some easy chops for jazz guitar fans to get more into jazz blues guitar improvisation.

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One of the most iconic guitar solos in pop and rock history is probably the solo of Eddie Van Halen in Michael Jackson's song " Beat It ". To understand its value you must understand the time when this song was recorded. Thriller was produced by the team around Quincy Jones which contained the best musicians of that time which produced most of the hit records of that time. Steve Lukather was a constant member of this team and his guitar work was on many hit records of that time. Out of this time later the band " Toto " got formed because they wanted to be more than just studio musicians. When Triller got recorded Eddie Van Halen was the hottest guitar player on the entire scene so Quincy Jones asked him to do the solo on " Beat It ". And so he did. Any other guitar player who later joined Micheal Jackons band needed to be able to play that specific solo. Jennifer Baten was a long time constant team member since Micheal Jackson prefered female guitar players and she was the only guitar player at the audition who was able to play that solo note by note. Shortly before Micheal Jackson died it was Orianthi who was able to play that solo and got the job. So it is worth having a look at this solo even though it's probably too hard for many players out there. I never tried it because I am not into Eddie Van Halen style and you need to have those skills to master that solo. But however this solo is worth a look and to give it a try.

To download the file for free you need to hit the " Join " Button of the Guitar Students Club.

Concerts

On monday I will do my last piano concert in the small church of Seegräben in Switzerland. If you are nearby you might want to pop into the concert. After that concert I will continue the concerts with piano and guitar. The concert will also be broadcasted live. If you love it please support it with a donation.

I will start with the HPCrazy Guitar Nights again. I thought I would make it in a bar in Zürich but the conditions there did not feel right to me and so I will continue to search for possibilities. One idea is to make it at a small venue here in Egg ZH in Switzerland and invite other players and my students to join and to start to have a great Guitar Community feeling once a month. I need the contribution of helpers which can be my students or other volonteers. We will see what comes but in the meanwhile I just make them as livestream from the HPCrazy Studio's. The first one will be on Sept. 22th. More information will come - which topic, which guitar, which venue and so on.... but if you love the idea you can support it with a donation here.

New Song

Generel Information

During the summer break there was not so much going on. If you feel like you want to support the HPCrazy Guitar Academy with a premium membership please make a premium membership upgrade if you are not already a premium member. There are currently 400 premium members needed to get on a healthy economic basis.

Here you can see the current number of premium members : LINK

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/

That's all for the moment. I wish everybody a nice summer holiday break. There are still like 2-3 weeks remaining to relax a bit.

Best

HP

[admin]

Here is now the Sept 23 newsletter :

Blues

New Age Blues Guitar :

Here I talk about a really cool blues guitar style as seen on artists like Cam Cole or Dan Mudd by using really retro equipment and dirty distortions and a bottle neck for a really cool new age blues guitar sound.

Old Love ( Eric Clapton ) :

Here you can learn the rhythm guitar of Eric Clapton's tune " Old Love '' and I will share some insight on how to play the typical slow hand guitar style which made Eric Clapton the guitar player most of us know.

I am happy to announce that this video went quit viral on YT and reached over 11000 views.

Rock

This was the month of some really " MUST HAVE " tutorials in the rock genre.

Rock Guitar Timing Bootcamp

Here I am going through all basic exercises which you need to master if you want to have a good rock guitar timing with a precision level of 100%. Before you can not play the basic timing signatures of whole, half, quarter, 8th and 16th notes you can not get deeper into complicated rhythms and expect to be precise. This tutorial and bootcamp is for all players who have never done the rock guitar timing bootcamp before. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all players who want to get a perfect timing.

Basic Rock Guitar Licks

In this tutorial I show you 7 easy rock guitar licks which from my personal view are the most important rock guitar licks which you need to know to get comfortable in any rock lead guitar situation. They are shown in the key of Am in the 1st position of the minor pentatonics. This tutorial is a must have for any rock guitar player.

This tutorial is currently going viral on YT with over 6000 views in 24 hours.

Jazz

Straight, No Chaser ( Jazz Blues Guitar )

Here I show you the theme of " Straight, No Chaser " by Monk. Beside this I show you the chords you can play to this typical jazz blues in the key of F and at the end of the tutorial I give some tips on how you can achieve a monk or miles style phrasing in your improvisation.

Acoustic Guitar

Beautiful Acoustic Guitar Chords - G

Here you find a wonderful selection of chords in the key of G which are using a proper voice leading technique and some wonderful openstring settings. Makes your chords in the key of G sound fresh and beautiful.

Here you can listen to my version of this wonderful song in the color " Blue ". As you can see this song represents the color blue in ways of open mind, peace and open skies. The key of the song is G which is like in most cases the color " blue ".

Very Important Insights

Guitar Secrets - Learning - Enjoying - Mastery

Here I share my thoughts and concepts of learning and playing guitar for beginners, intermediate - professional guitar players. I wished my guitar teacher had gave me that insight. These tips represent my personal view and professional opinion and if they don't resonate with you that's fine too.

There are these chapters available :

0:07 Introduction
3:26 Learning
7:37 Enjoying
16:27 Mastery
24:53 HPCrazy Guitar Academy

Guitar Nights

I am starting in Sept. again with regular " Guitar Nights ". They will be broadcasted live into the internet. Just tune into the event for more information about each upcoming Guitar Night.

Personal Notes

I am currently doing a lot of technique exercises with Mrs. Blue. This guitar has really some much more dynamic possibilities in the expression of the pure sound then any other guitar I experienced in my professional career and this opens up a world which I always wanted to explore. I always used a lot of delay effects in my guitar sounds in order to make the sound more rich and wide but with this guitar I want to put it first to it's pure sound and so I am doing mainly exercises and practice work with a simple Fender Deluxe amp with a 2*12 cabinet and spring reverb.

I studied jazz guitar but somehow in my professional life I drifted away to blues and rock and I must say that my guitar soul is in blues and rock guitar but I also loved jazz a lot. But what I always thought is that the typical jazz guitar sound lacks in emotional deepness as you would find in blues. So I want to make my jazz guitar style get this really bluesy vibe but with jazz material. There are some guys who play jazz in a blues fashion by adding blues licks and blues lines. But I would like to have jazz lines but with the emotional touch of typical blues guitar. And that's what I am currently working on a lot. The great thing is that I think with this guitar I will get where I always wanted to be in jazz guitar. My goal is to present the first results of my work on the guitar night of the 22th of Sept. - so if you are interested save the date and tune into the livestream then.

... my goal is to combine a fusion of traditional jazz guitar in the style of Kenny Burell, for example, with the funky style of George Benson but with a bluesy / rocking expressive tone of Scott Henderson, for example. Is a lot of work for the fact that jazz is not necessarily a popular genre. Anyway, the goal is to present such a program to my community at my Guitar Night on Sept 22 ( online ). Plus influences and sections with Stanley Jordan and Joe Pass style.

Technical Updates

I have updated the community guidelines according to the new laws in the European Union. The main task it to make your privacy transperant on this website. Well there was not much to change. Your data will not be used for any marketing tools execpt the newsletter which you can opt out anytime in your personal account settings.

Check the exact information on point 6 in the updated community guidelines.

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/guidelines/

Please also check the updated " BEST USE " video where you can learn how to get the best benefit from this website :

So that's all now

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Best

HP

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Here's now the October 23 newsletter : 

Blues

Basic Timing Bootcamp : This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all blues guitar players who have never done this before. Here you learn the basics of proper and perfect timing in shuffle blues guitar.

 

Drop D Blues Rock Guitar : Here I show you some really cool blues rock guitar licks which you can use with a drop D tuning on your guitar. Works great in a classical 60's trio formation like Cream, Jimi Hendrix or Rory Gallagher did.

Advanced Minor Blues Guitar : Here I give you some advanced tips and tricks to play on a regular slow minor blues by following the chords and using modes. This way you can expand the possibilities of your expression and sound in minor blues.

 

Rock Guitar 

Advanced Rock Guitar Jam : Here I share some tips and tricks on how you can create a great rock guitar improvisation in any jam session situation by just using this chord progression.

E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / E5 / G A / E5 / G A / E5 /

The trick is to work on different levels of intensity in your tone, expression, playing and sound. Even the things which are played seem to be easy. You need to have your things a bit together to be able to create the vibe in your playing as described.

Rock Guitar Secrets - Easy Arpeggio's : Here i give you some instructions on how to work with arpeggio's the easy way. You use the normal chord shapes of the E, A, C and D type chords as orientation and this gives you the grid to play along with the target notes of any major or minor chord.

Jazz Guitar

Basic Jazz Guitar Improvisation Concept : Here I teach my basic jazz guitar improvisation concept where you can lay the foundation for all future jazz guitar improvisations. In jazz it's all about time and space and therefore you need to train your abilities to master time and space while playing the guitar. Once you have your foundation you can get creative and free in your expression on jazz guitar. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " !

Touch Technique ( Guitar Tapping )

Guitar Tapping - Basic Chords : Here you find the basic exercises for chords if you want to enter the amazing world of the " Touch Technique ".  This technique is basically adapted from piano playing and expands the possibilities of expression of the guitar dramatically. These basic tapping guitar exercises are quite easy and here you learn how to create either major or minor chords with the tapping technique and how to groove with this technique like a piano or percussion player.

Guitar Tapping - Basic Chord Rhythms : Here you find a summary of exercises for the double handed guitar tapping ( touch technique ) where you can work out basic chord rhythms. These exercises are basic exercises taken from basic left - right hand independence exercises from piano playing. There are basically 2 types of exercises. You have those where you do ostinato figures with the left and right hand and make combinations and figures where you do independant figures of the left and the right hand. The selected chord progression is Am / Am / G / G . A very simple progression which includes both types of chords. There is an audio file added that you can hear how the tabs should sound alike.

HPCrazy Guitar Nights

With the HPCrazy Guitar Night on Sept. 22th I started a new journey in my artistic and educational work which I have been doing over many years now. I have been focused mainly on the educational part of my guitar journey and the creatic part, especially the life playing part, has always been neglected due to being too busy with too many different things. This will change now - I will take the live-playing from the last place in the priority list to the first place and the second one will be the education of course. But this shift in priorities will have an impact in the education part as well. I also want to share in random video's my thoughts, findings, tips and tricks which I am working on during my journey which is starting now. So beside the regular educational content you will find some random talking out of the box video's which might also be in your interest. My goal is to get a small guitar community rolling and having a space for people who just love guitars and guitar music. Every journey starts with a first step and so it will be on Sept. 22th.

Here you can watch the HPCrazy Guitar Night of Sept 22th

Don't miss the next Guitar Night on Oct. 20th - you'll find all information about it here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/events/

Farbmusik Concerts

About a year ago today, I decided to seriously pursue the creative part of my profession again. Until then I had always done my color music live concerts on an extremely puristic equipment. Guitar and an acoustic amp with a bit of reverb - the rest playing technique. Then I had a vision of an expansion of the sound spectrum and it has indeed now gone a year until this arrived more or less as thought. New equipment had to be installed, everything had to be tested. Then the new guitar can be added, which also took more time as thought. But now about 1 year later the vision has become real. Tonight the original color music concept is now implemented. Piano and guitar in all colors and facets. It is quite a challenge I have to say every time, but now the thing stands as it once was - only crucial sound enhancements have been added and the color music journey 2.0 can now begin.

Yesterday was now the first full color music concert with complete concept and the now mature new guitar sounds. I am especially pleased that even people who do not play guitar notice that this guitar has an extremely emotional and deep sound. That was the goal and now we are working on improving the organization and promotion and now new pieces and sounds will be added.

Watch the past concert of Sept. 29th here : 

The next concert will be on Oct. 28th - you find all information here : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/events/

These were now all news from my side. As you guys can see I was really busy. This month I did a lot of practice work on the guitar in order to really master my new guitar Mrs. Blue and I can say I am back now. In fact it took me one year after my long break to get back to my normal playing form. Way longer then I thought. But it's not only that I am back - I went to the next level of sound and expression on the guitar which makes me really happy. 

Thanks guys for all your support in these times. You make this all work with your contribution. 

If your premium membership has expired please make the upgrade again even you are not a regular user of this website and help to keep the work going. Here you find all information about the organization of your premium member account. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me. 

Best

HP
Dr. Pink
Mrs. Blue

[admin]

Here's now the November 23 newsletter : 

Blues

Advanced use of the mixolydian mode : In this month I made 2 tutorials on the advanced use of the mixolyidan mode. I am showing licks and also possibilities to make combinations with the minor and major pentatonics.

For the fans of minor blues I made a tutorial where I teach you how to make combinations with a minor blues riff and lead guitar.

Rock

Month of the modes : In this month I made 2 tutorials about the use of modes. On is an easy introduction on how to use modes in a tune and the other one talks specific about the dorian mode in a rock guitar envirement.

Jazz

Advanced tutorials : I've made a tutorial about one of the most iconic jazz guitar tunes " Midnight Blue " by Kenny Burrell and a tutorial which teaches you the advanced use of modes in a simple progression by using the " modal interchange " method which is very common in jazz.

 

Month of the modes

This month was very much focused on modes. They are the tools to really make great music and expand your playing on a way more expressive and creative level. If you still have difficulties in understanding modes and the theory behind it, I strongly recommend that you work yourself through the theory first.

or you make yourself familiar with the theory of the diatonic chord progression which explains you how to analyze a chord progression and how to proceed modal interchange.

Your Tutorial Requests !

I am always struggeling to find good ideas for tutorials. Somebody requested that I do " Carlos Santana " again. That's a great suggestion so you can await some Carlos Santana in the upcoming time. If you have some other requests and ideas please let me know and post your request here :

Special Member Offer !

If you are a student of this or my local students community and you are located in Switzerland I can make you a great offer. Bodo from moon-music.ch who is a good friend of mine is offering some very limited offers for my students were you can get selected high quality guitars for a dramatic discount. This offer is only available for students who are able to pick the guitar up themselfs. The current offer is this guitar here. If you are interested please write me a PM.

Social Media

I have opened up a new Whatsapp Channel were students and followers can get instant messages which you probably will not find anywhere else. I will use this channel to share information which is also time sensitive so it might makes sense to join the channel. This might be spontanious livestreams or other things. You find it " HPCrazy Guitar Academy " here : https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va8KMMk8F2p8XY39eB3Q

or use this QR code

New Payment Gateway

Many of you have contacted me to ask if there are other possibilities to pay for your premium membership or other services then by using PayPal. I finally installed a new payment gateway where you can just pay with your credit card without the need to have an account somewhere. Here you can read more about this new and great feature here in the academy. When you make a payment now you find the new gateway as " Credit Card ( Stipe ) ". That's the name of the service I have connected to this website. It does not work in all countries worldwide but it's a great first step to solve this problem and more and more countries are included in Stripe.com.

New concerts ( livestreams )

Since I have decided to take my creative powers back to the center of my work. I am restarting my career as a live performer with 2 concepts. The one concept is the Farbmusik Fullmoon Concerts held in the small church in Seegräben ( Switzerland ). There I perform my unique concept of improvising colors on piano and guitar and people can experience the colors with the music and the light. During the concert I have a small controller where I can select the color I will improvise next and people can wish any color they want. The concerts are also broadcasted live but due to the low light settings inside the church you don't see so much but you still see the color and the audio quality is good. The next concert is on Nov. 27th - if you are around near Seegräben Switzerland you can also be part of it in the small growing live audience.

and the 2nd concept are the HPCrazy Guitar Nights which I started again 2 months ago. This is currently only a livestream from my studio even there was a small live audience there each time. So if you are near Egg ZH ( Switzerland ) and you want to join in the small live audience send me a PM. The next concert is on Nov. 24th.

and please support my work with a donation even if you are only a viewer of the livestream. There is in fact a lot of work behind all of this which keeps me very busy on a 7 day week. I also started to compose and record again. This will also go into the concerts. Here a most recent work. A very dark ambient guitar tune called " Black Hole "

Thats all for the moment. That's for your attention and thanks for your support here on this small but growing community. If you love my work please support it with a T-Shirt, a premium membership or a donation.

There is now a T-Shirt shop on my YouTube Channel. There you find them :

https://www.youtube.com/@Hpcrazy/store

Here you can make your premium membership :

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/subscriptions/

and here you can make donations :

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/clients/donations/

Best

HP

[admin]

Here's now the Dec. 23 newsletter.

First of all I want to introduce you the brand new amazing feature here on this website :

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.

For the german speaking members here :

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Ihr könnt euere Blogs auch gerne in Deutsch schreiben. Das ist für mich als Schweizer natürlich kein Problem und ich weiss dass einige Nutzer aus der Schweiz und Deutschland hier in der Akademie vertreten sind.

To open up your blog just go here :

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/blogs/

New Academy Award - Jazz Guitar Intermediate

The next classification test is now available in my Guitar Academy. Jazz Guitar Intermediate - the requirements to pass the test are described there. The purpose of the classification tests is that online students as well as regular " live " students have a guideline where they stand with their guitar playing, what the requirements are to be able to pass at a certain level in a certain genre. This should motivate but also channelize. Nowadays you can find masses of information on the subject of guitar and guitar learning everywhere on the Internet and in my practical experience, most students are overwhelmed by the flood of information and they overtax themselves or have unrealistic short and medium-term goals. The placement tests are intended to counterbalance this. The whole system as it stands now is the sum of my experience from over 20 years of professional online education and the construction of this system, which is now slowly becoming complete, has taken around 4 years. Now it can start - the combination of online Guitar Academy and live lessons, concerts, music and and and.... I think there are very few such complete online education systems on the Internet - here every level is catered for, from beginners to budding professional guitarists.

Read more here :

New free download - Basic Chords

Whenever a student enters my room and wants to learn guitar from the very beginning I always say the same thing : " First everybody needs to learn the basic chords on guitar . If you practice regularly on a daily basis you can make the basic chords in a fluent way in 3 - 6 months in order that you are able to play any simple song as you can see in this example. The really big mountain to climb is the barré chord. That one might take 6 months or more till you can play that one fluently in a simple song. To get the barré chord done you first start with the barré replacement chord. You have to figure out how you need to place your finger in a way that all strings are sounding. Normally a beginner is able to get 4 strings sounding at the beginning. This will improve with practice. Once you can do the barré replacement chord then you can move on to the barré chord.

Playing the simple songs pay attention to the proper down - and upstrokes and also notice that the last upstroke of a bar is an empty chord. This helps you to make the chord change fluently.

To fulfill the described tasks in the estimated timeframe you need to practice this daily and do each exercise 3 times. Once you pass this threshold then your fun on guitar can start.

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and now let's go to the tutorials of this month. This month was the time of the guitar courses and so you find what you want in the genre of your choice :

Blues

This blues guitar course takes any guitar player from the beginner to the intermediate level. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for any blues guitar beginner.

Here are the chapters :

0:07 Introduction
1:53 Chords & Form
6:56 L-Form
8:31 Shuffle vs Straight
11:28 Blues Riffs
15:15 Scales
20:27 Improvisation ( Question / Anwser / Resolution )
29:20 Final Notes
32:12 Appendix

I also reacted to a fan request to have more acoustic blues tutorials - and so here we are :

Rock

Here we have 2 full courses which take you from the total beginner to a solid rock guitar player. If you are a total beginner watch the Beginners Course first and once you are ready you move on to the 2nd course. Basic Rock Guitar.

if you finished both courses you are ready for the Rock Guitar Intermediate Award :

 

Jazz

And here is the last entire course I recorded this month - Basic Jazz Guitar

It's hard to define what exactly the basics in jazz guitar are since Jazz is an advanced genre but here I found a way where even beginners can enter the world of jazz with only basic theoretical knowledge and still sound great.

and here is a quite advanced tutorial where you learn on how to use alterations properly.

More Guidance in Tutorials

The blog section now will allow me to give more guidance in the learning process here on this website. Like 2 years ago I started with the tagging system here, where you can find the content which matches your playing abilities best. Here once again the current tagging system to remember :

BLUES

blues guitar easy
blues guitar intermediate
blues guitar advanced
blues guitar masterclass

ROCK

rock guitar easy
rock guitar intermediate
rock guitar advanced
rock guitar masterclass

JAZZ

easy jazz guitar
intermediate jazz guitar
advanced jazz guitar
jazz guitar masterclass
jazz guitar standard
smooth jazz

ACOUSTIC GUITAR

nylon guitar
steelstring guitar
beautiful acoustic guitar chords
beautiful spanish guitar chords

ARTIST STUDIES

Gary Moore
Joe Satriani
Stevie Ray Vaughan
ZZ Top

MUSIC THEORY & EXERCISES

music theory
theory exercises
technical exercises

But I will give more guidance to your learning in the future. It is also a bit upon you guys to talk about your difficulties in learning and practicing. I can give you more support to find the right tutorial which matches your current needs in your current guitar journey. Also I want to give more guidance so that you guys can achieve your goals in a faster way and what is really important is that you avoid mistakes which are very time consuming to fix.

Final Notes

Thats about what got changed in the past 4 weeks. The blog feature is the really big step to a better learning experience to you guys out there. I decided to make this feature available only for Premium Members because I want to help those students who really want to learn guitar and are commited to guitar playing with this new feature. It's now upon you guys to participate and continue your guitar journey with more guidance and help from me or the premium member community.

I will also make more expert blog entries where you guys can get more insight to my knowledge about music and guitar playing which might give you more ideas of paths you can go or to give you guys some inspiration.

Here you find my blog :

That's all now - was a lot and I mean A LOT of work

HP

[admin]

Hey guys,

first of all - HAPPY NEW YEAR to your all

I wish you a great life and guitar journey in 2024.

Here are now the latest updates :

Blogs

There is a new feature available in the Academy since the beginning of Dec. 23. This gives you the opportunity to have your own account here on this website and share anything you like. You can have as many categories in your blog account as you like and you can share anything you like. One really great feature is that you can share your pracitce plans and routines to me or the community to get a feedback or some suggestions what you can work on since there are so many lessons available here on this website.

You find the blogs here :

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/blogs/

Here you find some technical information if you have difficulties to open up your own blog :

I will also enlarge my service to the community by sharing some really exclusive content to the community in my blog :

 

Community Interaction

I am glad that the community starts to interact more now here in the academy. The main idea in fact was always that you guys can use this community to interact with eachother. Learning from the experience from others is in fact an important thing on the ethernal guitar journey.

You are all free to comment anywhere you want. You can open up your own topics in the Students Club if you hit the " Join Button " or it's also possible to make any comments on any blog post.

Check out the topics in the Students Club here :

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/79-topics/

or check my latest blog entry about " Playing Fast Guitar "

or maybe you want to share your " Next Year Objectives " here :

or the current discussion here in the latest tutorial. John from Carmal IN is sharing a really cool story :

now lets move on the the latest tutorials :

Blues

Easy Blues Guitar Solo : Here I show you how to create great and easy blues guitar solo's over the entire fretboard. All you need to know are 3 minor pentatonic positions and follow my tips.

Slow Blues Guitar - Timing Fundamentals : Timing is 50% of music and in slow blues it's probably rated even higher. So here you can learn how to get an organic timing and how to build great timing automatisms that you can play freely on any slow blues and sound great because your timing works.

Rock

Ueber Blues Rock Guitar : Here I give you some cool ideas to play a really cool ueber blues rock guitar riff with a drop D tuning + give you some ideas how to play a wild solo by using the phrygian nat. 3 scale.

And by the way - I upload my version of this track on Tik Tok - I had only 20 followers. This got me nearly 10K views there. I might upload that version soon on YouTube.

Precise intermediate rock guitar : This tutorial is for all intermediate rock guitar players who want to work on their timing and precision in playing. This is a " MUST HAVE " for all rock guitar players.

Jazz

Secondary Dominants : Here I teach you the theory of the " secondary dominants " in major and minor chord progressions. If you are into jazz guitar this tutorial is a " Must Have " even it might seem to be hard to understand at the start. Once you got the trick is really easy - like riding a bike.

with that tutorial comes a really important working sheet which helps you to get familiar with Secondary Dominants :

Music and Outlook 2024

When I remember back to the beginning of 2023 things all seemed to be working nicely and smoothly but the alogherithm of YouTube has changed during this year and new uploads are getting new viewers only for a few days and then they don't get rated to much anymore in the archive. That made my traffic go down approx. 20-30 % even though the content I am uploading is high quality. So I decided to give more energy to this community with the goal to make it more independent from the pressure from the algorithm of social media platforms. That has the big advantage for you guys that I don't need to focus all the time on popular themes which are supported by algorithms and I can focus on offering you guys a perfect online guitar academy which also covers the really important themes. You can take the " Secondary Dominant '' tutorial. This is so important if you want to play a great jazz guitar but it's not a popular theme at all.

Also digital music distribution which change by the beginning of 2024. Spotify will not pay artists any royalities anymore if you don't reach at least 1000 streams per submitted track. I feel I don't want to support this anymore. I still think about this - but probably I will also pull the full artistic work to this website here and only upload limited music to digital platforms. And again this has the same benefit that the music has not be limited in it's creativity by the algorithms of digital streaming platforms.

I will try to find a middle way in this but the desicion is made to try to find an offramp.

You can support this new concept for your own benefit by sharing this website to your guitar friends.

So these were the latest news here - thanks for supporting my work and being here in this community and the high quality work will be continued.

Best

HP

[admin]

Hey guys,

we already passed one month in the new year and here are the latest news and developments from this website here :

HPCrazy Guitar Academy

I have been building up this community by the end of 2019 and this community represents the BEST OF THE BEST out of 25 years of professional online education. The main quote of this academy that there are no shortcuts on the guitar learning journey and we face the reality. The academy shall help you to achieve your goals and get a lot of joy out of this journey. So here is now the new phase :

Courses & Search Tags

One of the main problems out there is the overwhelming amount of content everywhere and it is hard to keep track or to focus on specific topics. Even though there is a lot of content out there, there is no system which gives students the opportunity to search for courses, for content of their interest and to share what one is working on to get individual suggestions on how to optimize the learning process. Now the HPCrazy Guitar Academy offers exactly that. You guys might have noticed that the learning concept here is different then to traditional courses or teaching methods. And it starts from the very beginners - pro's.

So here is what we got :

The Beginners Course - it takes all students from the first step till the point where you can choose the genre you like :

once you finished this course you can continue with any intermediate topics you like. You can either check the Blues Guitar Intermediate, Rock Guitar Intermediate oder Jazz Guitar Intermediate Course or any tutorial which is marked with the search tags with " intermediate " or " easy "

Here you can check out which search tags are now already available :

You can find an overview of this great new section either in the main navigation or the HPCrazy Students Club or directly here on this link :

https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/forum/84-courses/

now here comes the next great new feature which help to get you guys the optimal and individual learning experience :

Blogs

The blogs is a feature which shall start to get this community running and that you can start to share your personal story, your personal problems and experience on your guitar journey to me and the community. Interaction with other students and also the tutorial is important to canalize your efforts to the best and joyful benefits. Here you can view the new video about the blogs and the courses and find all information about this great new feature here :

I also start to write my personal blog where I share some really unique thoughts to the community. You find it here :

The main goal of all these new features is to empower the community. The more the community is activ the more benefit and fun you get out of your guitar journey and I am here to help. There is already a lot of content available now we can start building up the community. Check out the blog which already 3 members wrote :

Jim
Peter
Volker

or you can participate the community like Jeff or Edguardo is doing.

and now lets move on to the new tutorials :

Blues

If you want to follow chords in blues with adaptiv double stops then voicing leading is the right technique to fulfill the task. Here you show you some examples of how you can follow the chords in a simple blues guitar progression with Bb7 / Eb7.

Here I show you guys a very cool straight blues guitar riff with the following chords : E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 / B7alt I show you how you can create a cool vibe by switching between the E minor pentatonic and the mixolydian modes of E7, D7 and A7.

Rock

Here I show you how to take a classic rock guitar riff with E5 / E5 / D5 / A5 and extend it to several stages of expression and sound. The key for cool stuff in music or any art is different stages of expression of the same simple thing.

Here I show you a very cool rock guitar riff which is played with 140 bpm. So you need to have your things a bit together to master this riff. I give you a lot of tips to play precise and to simulate a detune guitar effect with a special vibrato. At the end I give you a few tips to master the lead guitar on this specific riff.

Jazz

Here I show you 3 mixolydian jazz guitar licks which represent the main 3 concepts of using the mixolyidian mode in any jazz guitar setting.

Practical Music Theory

Here I teach all you need to know about harmonic minor. The beginning of the tutorial is for everybody who wants to play harmonic minor and the 2nd part is only for those who understand the concept of modes and diatonic chord progressions.

Nearly 100% of the guitar players who are interested to start working with modes come from the pentatonic. Here you find an easy way to convert your pentatonic patterns into the mode of your selection. You need to know the minor and the major pentatonic and then you are ready to go. The trick is that you know your pentatonic patterns by heart and also the intervals which are played in the patterns. To move from the pentatonic patterns to modes you just need to add 2 more notes. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all players who are sick of playing pentatonics all the time.

Here I show you in detail how to proceed and in practical use how to start working with modes.

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Farbmusik

Hier erläutere ich im Details das Konzept der Farbmusik. Es ist angelehnt an Therapiekonzepte etwa aus der Kinesiologie oder der regulativen Diagnostik nach Dr. Klinghardt. Grundsätzlich ist es ein Konzept welches ein multidimensionales Erleben von Farbe mit Musik und Licht ermöglicht.

This video is in german but I translate the text here for you :

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Here I explain the concept of color music in detail. It is based on therapy concepts from kinesiology or regulative diagnostics according to Dr. Klinghardt. Basically, it is a concept that enables a multidimensional experience of color with music and light.

Upcoming Livestreaming Concerts

Don't miss the upcoming livestreaming concerts :

 

and this one - if you are from Switerland you might want to come to Seegräben and attend in person

So that was all now - as you might notice. Again this was a lot of work. It's all for the community here. Lets get it started now.

HP