Brian Sutich
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Brian Sutich
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3 Easy Solos For Beginner Guitarists

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.

3 Easy Solos For Beginner Guitarists

Six String Sunday (June 20th, 2021)

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!

This week’s issue is jam packed with new guitar stuff! Rush’s Alex Lifeson has a more affordable signature guitar coming out, Phil McKnight shows us the essential tools he uses to set up guitars, someone plays “Sweet Child O’ Mine”…with their feet. Ya can’t make this stuff up.

Also just yesterday I did my first livestream for Chasing Sound on YouTube. If you caught the stream live, thank you! If not, I'd love to have you for the next one. Use this link for the replay, and make sure to subscribe to Chasing Sound so you know when the next one is coming up!

The Chasing Sound Livestream

Thanks to the folks who made it out to the first Chasing Sound livestream. I didn't think I'd have much to talk about, but at the hour and four minute mark, thought otherwise! I also have a lot of great ideas for the next stream.

If you were unable to make the first one, you can check out the replay below. I'd love to have you join the next live stream, and ask questions. Make sure to subscribe to Chasing Sound on YouTube, so you never miss when the next live event is coming up. I'm excited to do another one soon!

Six String Sunday (June 13th, 2021)

How’s it going folks? June has been insanely busy over here, but one thing that always lets me be creative and relax a little bit, is writing this newsletter. I’ve been writing it for years, and it makes me so happy that there’s so much new guitar stuff each and every week. If you were to tell 16 year old Brian that there’d be so many new albums, lessons, gear to lust after, and more, I wouldn’t have believed it.

Six String Sunday (May 23rd, 2021)

Hey everyone! Welcome back to your regularly scheduled dose of guitar goodness. This week guitars went missing, and were found, we took a look at 10 future prog legends, learned about new gear like the Final Fantasy guitar, and so much more. I’m glad to be back with a full edition of the newsletter, after giving you a more bite size one last week.

Before we get into it, can you do me one favor? I’m looking to develop new and exciting lessons for Chasing Sound, so I’d love to know what you’re working on. Hit me up with a reply to this email or on Twitter if you’re reading this on the web - I’d appreciate it a bunch! Alright, let’s get into those links.

Six String Sunday (May 16th, 2021)

How’s it going this week? Hope you’ve been getting some good, guitar playing time in! I’m writing this week’s issue on Thursday, May 13th, and tomorrow’s my birthday. Each year around this time, I take a one week break from the newsletter. But I didn’t want to leave you with no links at all - so here are some of the coolest things that have popped up in my inbox and across YouTube.