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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

Creative Smooth Jazz ( Lee Ritenour Style ) - Guitar Lesson Here you can learn a few creative tricks how to play a creative smooth jazz guitar in the style of Lee Ritenour or others. The trick is to have a few rhythm figures together in a really secure way that you can start to play around with them in a creative way and you can start to move motives and ideas around those rhythm ideas. Creative Smooth Jazz.pdf Creative Smooth Jazz.gp creative smooth jazz.mp3

This is a spontanious recording which I have done between the video shoot of a guitar tutorial and a online guitar lesson. It's a rock guitar ballad in the ballpark of Gary Moore or Joe Satriani and I am improvising the color " dark blue ". If you want to give yourself a try on this dark blue guitar ballad - here's the tutorial :

This is a spontanious recording of Snowy White's " Midnight Blues " - Somehow I was in the right mood for it. It's a first take recording and picked up the vibe of the moment. If you want to learn this track as well and download this backing track check this tutorial :

Here I play a wonderful bluesy version of the song " What A Wonderful World " by Louis Armstrog. I already did a few other version of this guitar cover, but I really love this bluesy vibe with slight distorition and I brought in the color " indigo " into this arrangement to make it more emotional. If you want to learn this sond yourself please check this tutorial here : Learn more about the healing power of " Indigo Music " here :

Easy Guitar Pro Licks - Slow Rock In this tutorial I talk about slow rock and how to play a professional sounding cool guitarsolo with only 3 guitarlicks. The licks are very easy to play. I am showing you them first and then how you can create great variations with bendings, vibrato and accelerated vibrato at the end of the long notes you are playing. Every position on the fretboard has its secrets and tricks - so I talk with you about that. Beside that I show you one show-off guitar lick where you can push your guitar solo to a cool pro level and the good news is, it’s not so hard to play. I also talk about the playing philosophy - it’s more important to play intense then perfect. Therefore I give you some cool instructions and ideas which can help you to do that. Easy Guitar Pro Licks - Slow Rock.pdf Easy Guitar Pro Licks - Slow Rock.gp easy guitar pro licks - slow rock.mp3

This is a cool summer blues recorded as an original in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy Studio's. If you want to learn this tune or download the backing track you can go here :

I really love blues rock guitar played with a drop D tuning. The key of D has this really deep and strong vibe which gives blues rock the right punch. This is an original which I recorded after I recorded a blues rock guitar tutorial which I love to share to you guys. There is a tutorial available where you can learn this riff :

Princess Of The Dawn ( Accept )- Guitar Lesson Here you can learn the riff and the other parts of the rhythm guitar of the song " Princess Of The Dawn " by Accept. Princess of the dawn ( Accept ).pdf Princess of the dawn ( Accept ).gp princess of the dawn.mp3

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

This is now my latest CD " Spanish Guitar Improvisation " I have collected different recordings I did on the spanish guitar to one CD because I want to highlight this kind of guitar playing in my musical expression more. My most important guitar teacher Juan Martinez at music university always told me that I should focus on spanish guitar because he thought my musical expression is really natural and great. ( His words not mine ) and in fact the recording " Flamenco Guitar " on this CD which is an older recording broke all my records in download and streaming stores and also on soundcloud. I think it made like over 500K streams in total. Beside this track there are some track on this CD which I recorded but never released. I hope you will enjoy it. Here you can listen or download the CD in the service of your choice : https://orcd.co/gomjznb

I was jamming a bit in the sudio today and thought I give it a shot and just record since I loved to jam to this track here. But for once it's not a track of mine - see below. You can give it a try yourself. It's in D minor and you best play the D aeolian scale to this track.

View File Technical Exercises ( Chords, Modes & Patterns ) Minor Scales Here you find the diatonic chord progression in the key of C minor and G minor. This is a real working sheet for you to learn : The diatonic chord progressions ( minor scales ) The chords with root on the A and E string The attached modes The intervals of the modes Please take your time to learn all parts in this working sheet by heart. Learn the chords and the attached modes. The modes are 3 note per string patterns to make the whole thing easier to understand. It's not needed that you learn to play the scales fast, but learn then with the intervals which are displayed at each of the patterns. Submitter admin Submitted 07/16/2021 Category Theory & Exercises  

Here you can learn all guitar parts of the song " Play That Funky Music White Boy " by Wild Cherry. Play The Funky Music White Boy.pdf Play That Funky Music White Boy.gp play that funky music white boy.mp3

View File Technical Exercises ( Chords, Modes & Patterns ) Major Scales Here you find the diatonic chord progression in the key of C and G. This is a real working sheet for you to learn : The diatonic chord progressions ( major scales ) The chords with root on the A and E string The attached modes The intervals of the modes Please take your time to learn all parts in this working sheet by heart. Learn the chords and the attached modes. The modes are 3 note per string patterns to make the whole thing easier to understand. It's not needed that you learn to play the scales fast, but learn then with the intervals which are displayed at each of the patterns. Here you find a tutorial related to these exercises : Submitter admin Submitted 07/04/2021 Category Theory & Exercises  

Corona Blues - Guitar Instrumental This is my contribution to the #coronabluesproject which I started on my other YouTube channel. Check out the tutorial if you want to join this project as well. I would point my version a bit in the range of Gary Moore, Rose Tattoo ( an australien band from the 80's ), AC DC and many cool blues players more.

Guitar Secrets - Offbeats This is a full tutorial to learn everything you need to know to master offbeats. This tutorial is for any playing level if you never really worked on offbeats in specific. Offbeats.pdf Offbeats.gp

Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios Many guitar players would love to work with arpeggios but how is this exactly done ? There are many ways to do this. In this tutorial I show you a very comprehensive way to start to work with arpeggios without pushing your technical limits to the impossible. I am using a track with the chords Am / F G , showing you how you can work with a simple arpeggio pattern and how you can work with it. Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios.pdf Guitar Secrets - Arpeggios.gp guitar secrets - arpeggios.mp3