If you’re just learning guitar, getting started with playing solos might seem daunting. It’s a big change to go from strumming chords to your favorite songs, to playing lead lines. The best thing is to start out easy, but not too easy. The more you challenge yourself, the better a guitarist you’ll become. Just remember to take everything in bite size chunks as you’re learning. To help you get started with solos, I’m recommending a couple that I’d learn if I was just getting started - one from three different genres. The feeling of learning and playing lead is amazing. Let’s get into it.
Being an Ernie Ball player for over a decade has allowed me to get an idea of how their strings have progressed and how they hold up. When I heard Ernie Ball was releasing an "unbreakable" version of their strings called the Paradigms, I knew I had to review them.
In this review I compare the Ernie Ball Paradigms to a standard set of Slinkys. Check out the audio examples and decide for yourself!
Guitar Pro 7 is here. In this review I show you some of the guitar specific features Arobas has added, why this version is easier than ever for songwriters, how the look and feel of the program has received an overhaul, and why it's the right choice for guitar players who want a fully featured songwriting program that won't break the bank.
When researching great apps in the App Store, I try and look for them to meet at least two criteria. First, the app has to have some real functionality to me, and not just take up space on the phone or tablet's internal drive. Secondly, I look for great design. If an app passes the first test and it's something I use on a daily basis, having it look good is icing on the cake.
With Thomas Grapperon's Chord! he covers both bases.
Students always ask me how to get their guitar videos noticed on YouTube. If you're doing any speaking at all, it's SO important to make sure your voice can be heard clearly. In this post I'll show you 3 easy ways to get your voice quality pristine, so that your guitar video can really shine. Let's do it!
My main goal for Chasing Sound is to show you that you can learn guitar no matter what stage you're at in life, and no matter how old you are. I've talked to so many of you through email and elsewhere, and you've given me great feedback on what you're struggling with.
There's already a ton of inspirational and informative posts on the site, and you should also consider signing up to our free Six String Sunday community (sign up in the sidebar). But, for those of you who are just starting out, you need to know what you need to know.
Which is why over the next few weeks I'm going to be tagging certain articles with B2B, for back to basics. These articles will be great if you're just starting out, if you've played for a while, or if you're advanced but want to fill in some knowledge gaps.
Once I'm done with all of these articles I'm considering publishing them as one e-book, but I am also figuring out a way to make a "roadmap" that guides you along the path in a logical way.
We're going to be going over a number of topics like:
And so much more that I think is essential to any guitar player's toolkit. Stay tuned to the website and on social media for each installment. You'll never have to wonder where to start again.
If you want to reach out to me about a particular topic you're trying to learn, feel free to contact me on Twitter, Facebook, or by e-mail (Brian@ChasingSound.com).
