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Here I talk about my experience of the guitar journey out of over 30 years of learning, playing, teaching and being in music all my life. If you have any comments or you want to talk in detail about your guitar jouney please open up your blog here :

Here you give you some important tips about practicing guitar. Disziplin and regularity and joy of playing are the key to success. Here you find instructions on how to open up your own blog and write your practice plan and to get a review :

Guitar Secrets - Slow Blues If you want to know the secrets behind a decent and sophisticated sounding blues guitar solo then you need to watch this tutorial here. I show all you need to know beginning from tricks for proper timing and the standard opening guitar licks and how you can make your blues guitar talk the way it is needed in slow blues.

Guitar Secrets - Minor Smooth Jazz In this guitar secrets tutorial I talk about minor smooth jazz. I am giving you a whole bundle of ideas how you can work out on a typical minor smooth jazz chord progression. In this case I made it pretty simple for you. This is the chord progression I have used : Fm7 / Fm7 / Db7 / C7alt First I show you the chords I have used and then I give some really deep insight how to play a great lead guitar over this progression. So the first step is to analyze what kind of modes can be played over each of the chords. For beginners in the smooth jazz topic it's the F minor blues scale which can be used over the entire track. To follow the chords you can use a simple trick by just playing the bluenote ( B ) on the Db7 chords and the E on the C7alt chord. These are guide tones so you match pretty well to those chords. For more sophisticated soling I do an analysis for you and give you a 2nd possibility for each chord. This is called modal interchange. That means you can select the mode which you like more or you can mix up the different modes the way you want to make your soloing sound more interesting. I give you some short tips on the secondary modes on how to make your mode sound more interesting by using upper structure triads. That's a great way of working out the sound of any selected mode. At the end I give some instructions how to work out the modes with a distorted lead sound. Here are the modes to each chord : Fm7 Fm Blues Scale F Aeolian F Dorian Db7 Fm Blues Scale Db Lydian b7 C7alt Fm Blues Scale Fm harmonic minor C Phrygian Nat. 3 C altered Scale At the end I play a full sequence for you to give you some inspiration. Minor Smooth Jazz - Fm.pdf Minor Smooth Jazz - Fm.gp minor smooth jazz fm.mp3

Here I give you the main tips you need to know if you want to be successful throughout your entire learning guitar journey. If you want a review on your personal practice plan please open up your own blog :

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. Here you can download the file which comes along with this tutorial :

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. Here you can download the file associated to this tutorial :

One of the most requested topics out of 30 years of teaching is the topic " how to gain speed on the guitar " in order to play fast runs. In this tutorial I will have a realistic and sustainable look on this topic. I will focus especially on the tasks which are needed on jazz and smooth jazz guitar playing techniques. So I will show you some exercises for patterns, modes in combination with ear training and theory. You can do all those tasks at the same time. This is the only possibility to save some time. This tutorial is a " Must Have " for any aspiring jazz guitar player. If you want to download the technical exercises I am talking about please follow the links below : If you need any further professional advice on this topic please book a privat skype meeting :

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 If you want to share your story of your guitar journey please write it below :

Here you can learn all you need to know about arpeggios. What they are, where they come from and how to use them the easy way in the first part. In the 2nd more insane part you learn some patterns and tricks to really work out arpeggio's the crazy and insane way. The 2nd part is also for those who just want to get to know the notes of the arpeggio's. You don't need to take the exercises to speed. In the last part I talk about how to use the patterns with sweep picking technique. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all players who want to take their playing to the next level. Here you find the exercises which are associated to this tutorial :

Here you learn everything you need to know to enrich your guitar playing with modes. This tutorial is a " MUST HAVE " for all guitar players who want to start to open their playing to the full scale of music. Here you can download the exercises associated to this tutorial : If you have any questions please ask here :

Here I share all my knowledge about clean guitar sound settings in all genres. If you want a personal review on your playing technique and your sound settings please book a private online guitar lesson here :

Guitar Secrets - Vibrato The vibrato is probably the most important technique of expression when it comes to guitar playing. In this tutorial I show you all you need to know about vibrato techniques with all fingers, different sound settings and different genres. The vibrato with bending is also a very important technique which I show you here. If you have never done these exercises before make sure you do - whatever your current playing level is because your guitar vibrato defines you voice of expression on the guitar. This is a MUST HAVE - Guitar Lesson. In this tutorial I have worked with the following backing tracks :

Rock Guitar Secrets - Tight Timing If you want to play a really good and tight rock guitar your timing is very important. Here I will show you how to practice the basic figures in rock guitar by also including your body. Feeling the beat with your whole body makes your timing get up to the precision level of 100%. Pay close attention to my instructions and if you are an experienced player and you have never done this before you also should go back to the basics to reach the 100% precision level. Also practice the same exercises in different tempos. In this tutorial I am using 95, 85 and 105 bpm. Here you can download the tabs with the exercises and 3 backing tracks in the tempo's 85,95 and 105 :

Guitar Secrets - Distortion Here you can learn everything you need to know on how to get a great distortion sound when playing rock guitar. The tricks and secrets I am showing you here are more important than having really expensive guitar equipment because a great sound with distortion is created on the fretboard. This is a " must have " tutorial which every guitar player should watched and tried at least once. Yoiu can download the backing track I have used here :

Guitar Secrets - Lydian Mode Here I will explain to you all you need to know about the lydian mode. This includes how the lydian mode is related to the normal major mode and how you can change the major mode to lydian mode. I also explain to you how you can work with the upper structure chords which are defined to the lydian progression which defines the lydian mode. Then I show you how you can use this knowledge in your soloing and at the end I'll play a little bit for you to get some inspiration for the lydian mode. This knowledge works for all genres even if I am showing it in a pop-rock environment.

View File Guitar Secrets - Lydian Mode Tabs & Exercise Backing Track Lydian Mode Tabs & Exercise Backing Track Here you find some exercises to understand and practice the lydian mode on guitar. The lydian mode in fact is the IV step in the diatonic chord progression and is a major mode. The difference between the normal major scale and the lydian mode is only one note. It's the #4 interval. So the lydian mode contains the following intervals : 1 2 3 #4 5 6 7 . The files are showing the connection out of the chordprogession and also the upper structure triad relations. You can practice this with the attached backing track. This works for any genre but when it comes to jazz you also need to adapt the genre specific figures. Submitter admin Submitted 02/15/2022 Category Theory & Exercises  

Rock Guitar Secrets - Palm Muting The Palm Muting Technique is a very important playing technique in rock guitar. Especially when you play with high gain distortion sound settings. In this tutorial I show you the technique of palm muting, how it is done, how you add pinch harmonics and how you can use this technique in your rock guitar solo. I show you 3 licks in detail and then some ideas how to use them in your whole solo.

Guitar Secrets - The Magic Of The Long Guitar Notes To play a really impressive and emotional guitar solo the long notes or the ones which make the magic of the guitar playing. In this tutorial I'll show you how you can work on controlling the dynamic shape in long notes and creating really intense guitar parts just by controlling the space and tone on the long notes. Even these exercises are easy to play from the technical side if you never have done them before they are challenging. So I make this a must-have series to outline the importance of controlling the long note in your guitar playing. The Magic Of The Long Guitar Notes !.pdf The Magic Of The Long Guitar Notes !.gp composing chapter 1.mp3

Guitar Secrets - Emotional Softrock If you want to carry a instrumental softrock tune over 3 minutes you need to learn to create a theme, make variations of the theme and interact with the arrangement or in short words you need to make music and let your guitar sing in a way which touches the hearts of your audience. You love such songs from artists like Gary Moore, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and many others. The system is always the same. I share with you my experiences of many years of professional guitar playing and professional composing. Playing live is also composing - I call it instant composing.

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