I’m learning and recording one guitar solo every week for a year.
Each week I break down what the solo taught me about phrasing, technique, tone, groove, and musicianship, and share the backing track I used to learn it.
One email a week. New solo, lessons learned, and a backing track to play along with.
52 Solos in 52 Weeks
One solo. Every week. For one year.
I’ve played guitar for years, but I want to become a more intentional player: better phrasing, better rhythm, better note choices, better feel.
So instead of just practicing scales and exercises, I’m studying great guitar players one solo at a time.
Every week I:
- learn a new solo
- recreate the backing track
- record a performance
- study what makes the solo work
- write about what I learned
- share the backing track so you can play it too
Latest Solo
Solo #1
Black Velvet – Alannah Myles
What this solo taught me about playing in the pocket
I expected the challenge to be learning the notes. Instead, the biggest lesson was the groove underneath them.
Recreating the track forced me to pay attention to the triplet feel, the way the solo sits behind the beat, and how much phrasing depends on the rhythm section.
Learn Along With Me
Every week I send out the newest solo and the most useful thing I learned from studying it.
Subscribers get:
The Performance
See the finished solo.
The Lesson
What the guitarist is doing that makes the part work.
The Practice Notes
Techniques, phrasing ideas, tone discoveries, and mistakes I made.
The Backing Track
The track I created to practice and record the solo.
Free. Once a week. Unsubscribe anytime.
Why 52 Solos?
For a long time, my guitar practice has been pretty easy to predict.
Pick up the guitar. Noodle around. Play things I already know. Maybe learn a lick. Put it down.
That’s fun, but it isn’t a great system for getting better.
So I’m giving myself a constraint:
Learn, record, and publish one complete guitar solo every week for a year.
Some will be easy. Some will be uncomfortable. Some probably won’t sound as good as I’d like.
That’s part of the point.
I want to find out what happens when you spend a year deliberately studying the playing of 52 great guitarists.
And I’m documenting the whole thing here.
The 52 Solos
01 – Black Velvet
Alannah Myles
Playing in the pocket
02 – Coming Soon!
[Artist]
[Biggest lesson]
03 – Coming Soon!
[Artist]
[Biggest lesson]
Each solo page can include the video, article, lesson, gear and tone notes if relevant, and a backing-track signup.
Hi, I’m Jeremy.
I’m a guitarist, builder, and lifelong learner.
I’ve played guitar for years, but this site isn’t about pretending I’ve mastered it. It’s about deliberately getting better and documenting what works.
Right now that means learning 52 guitar solos in 52 weeks.
After that?
I’ll find another project worth pursuing.