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The news feed also includes updates in my personal professional blog where I share some useful background information about guitar practicing strategies, composing, music business or anything else.

I will do a livestream this afternoon on my TikTok channel. Don't exactly know what I will be playing but I can tell that I will do a longer livestream and probably focus on jazz guitar and touch technique.

You find my tiktok channel here - you can of course also subscribe there :

Going Live on TikTok at 16:45 Zürich Time with " HPCrazy Guitar & Farbmusik "

I will do a Blues Guitar Livestream on TikTok around 16:40 Zürich time today.

Here's a new blog entry related to my search for proper sound and mic settings - this time it's the search for a modern emotional jazz guitar sound :

 

Tonight at 8PM Zürich time - from a new location :

Alte Ref. Kirche Urdorf, Switzerland

 

I started composing again a few months ago. Now it's time to pitch the pieces again. I'm currently reading the pitching list of the agency in LA where I'm under contract - there's Final Destination 5, Sons of Anarchy, Pretty Little Liars, Orange is the new Black and many more - since I'm now working on cinematic pieces in the Hans Zimmer or Harald Kloser style, there's material to send in again.

The quality of the livestreams from the Farbmusik concerts from the churches I play was not really good due to the very low light settings during the concerts. In the room itself the effect of the colors together with the low light settings was great but the livestreaming camera was not able to fullfill a good task and the image of the live broadcasts always have been blury and reminded of old webcam movies. I am changing the setup for the livestreams now and I hope that already at the concert on Nov. 1st the livestream comes in the usual professional quality.

We reached 50K subscribers - I made a little show to celebrate that together with you guys. Thanks for the ongoing support over the years.

 

I have decided now to more and more switch from the " HPCrazy " identity to my real life name " Hanspeter Kruesi " - well in Switzerland it's written " Hanspeter Krüsi " pull more and more all my products and identities which have been summing up over the years to this website.

So the links to the HPCrazy Academy will now all be : https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com instead of https://www.hpcrazy.com/club.html

I noticed that the main page gets shared more then the previous landing page so this makes total sense.

The bigger task will be to get the Farbmusik tied up to this page since the idea of the Farbmusik in fact is the name which already says everything. There is also an english version available https://www.colourmusic.org but I found it cooler stay on the geman name also for the international communicate. Therefore an english version is available on that website https://www.farbmusik.com/eng

It's quite a task to pull together everything - and I'll do it step by step

A also started with pitching my music to LA music libraries again - here's a first attempt :

https://www.taxi.com/my/artist/songs/4APZQUk4Qa6RBRxeES6AsQ-the-storm-is-coming

Check out my new blog entry about Guitar Playing Injuries and how to prevent / treat them. There is also a mental tip included and I will start to also make some tutorials about eartraing and mental exercises for guitar playing.

 

A longer phase of discipline, blockades and continuous work on a vision ( Saturn - Sun transit ) is coming to an end these days. In particular, I had the idea that I wanted to give the jazz, smooth jazz, fusion segment a personal playing style and guitar sound. The problem I had always seen was that jazz guitar and smooth jazz guitar often had little emotional expression. I have now set out to completely redefine my playing technique and sound so that these genres can be played emotionally and with a personal vibe. After another of many tests today, I can say that I have achieved the goal I set myself and will now continue to play these genres on the guitar much more often. :-)

I have been doing a lot of strategic analysis since january 2023 and here are the current strategies which I am planing to work on durning 2025 :

1. Focus on building more on this community here. The goal was to bring together all different types of things I am doing on one website. It was really a challenge because it is a lot and it shall not be confusing for user. But the main topics will be the HPCRazy Guitar Academy and the new music which is coming now.

2. I have restarted the pitching of music into the TV and movie syncing business. The competition is extremly high but thats a way to go and I have already been successful in the past still getting royalities from that time every month. BTW this also help to finance this whole system here which still is on economic weak feet.

3. Live Playing - That part I have been neglating a lot in the past 20 years because I was too busy. But I can say the the work on the Farbmusik Concerts slowly starts to pay off and the audience which started from nearly 0 is growing a bit each time. And I also formed a new band for the HPCrazy Guitar Show. More news is coming in the future.

4. Beside the synching business I will start to release more music to my different brand but the main brands will be Farbmusik and HPCrazy.

Now here comes the new strategy for the HPCrazy YT channel :

The past 1-2 years where there to fill up all the beginners, basic and intermediate sections in order to have full courses available. That was of course not too popular because I did not target the popular themes but I wanted to have a complet online guitar academy.

The next courses will be the advanced levels - which is again not really the most popular ones. I will proceed but on a slower pace.

Now the focus on the HPCrazy YT channel will be to get more interactive with the community and with creative, colorful new things and I will start to do livestreaming performances out of the studio again in order to strenghen the community.

Rome was not buildt in one day and despite the perception of some of the users. This website is only run by me. I don't have a team helping me so all always goes step by step. Not to forget the technical part of running such a website.

But in short words - now it's time for creativity again - I also will make a new channel trailer. The old one has to be replaced.

Not ready for this level but always review..looking forward to all of it.

On 4/10/2025 at 12:35 PM, Greg said:

Not ready for this level but always review..looking forward to all of it.

Don't worry 😊the regular tutorials will be on the usual easy - intermediate level and the basic jazz guitar course is still not finished - there is still quite a lot missing before we can proceed to the intermediate level.

Hey guys, Due to many strategic changes I have been extremly busy in the past weeks - but slowly I am back to normal work routines. I noticed that I did not anwser any comments on YT anymore. Now I'm back.

And I also took like 2 days off and went into the swiss alps. This picture is taken on the Julierpass in Switzerland.

We have lots of material to work on so enjoy the time whenever you can!

On 6/14/2025 at 12:39 PM, Greg said:

We have lots of material to work on so enjoy the time whenever you can!

I will take some more time off this summer don't worry. I need a bit of a rest. I have been working so much recently.

Hey guys, as you might have noticed I am going back to the old style teaching - were we are not talking about licks to play but tips and tricks and some advice to work on your intuitv playing abilities.

Due to the hot and nice weather here in Switzerland I will take some time off and today will be no tutorial :)

As it should be! :)

Guitar Night on August 1, 2025, will open with a bluesy version of the Swiss national anthem in light of current events, followed by a mix of neo soul, blues, New Orleans blues, jazz, as well as 70s Gilmour, Led Zeppelin, funk, and a few classic rock songs. The main colors are red, orange, and blue. It starts at 7:00 p.m. live on YouTube on my Guitar Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Dvw2HionXmI?si=bdcRKb40nLD9QNlA