Rock Star Creates Unique Instructional Guide To Guitar Soloing

March 20, 2012 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
A unique online guitar resource for improving guitar solos was released today by Rhapsody Of Fire guitarist Tom Hess and Firewolfe guitarist Nick Layton.

Most guitar players have access to countless guitar lesson websites each time they search the internet. Most of these guitarists end up copying guitar solo ideas from these sites, but do not understand how to create their own. This leads to a lack of creativity in their soloing.

In response, Tom Hess has teamed up with guitar player Nick Layton (Firewolfe) to create "Master Guitar Soloing Now" in order to help other guitar players learn to compose professional quality solos. In this online resource, Hess emphasizes practicing "guitar phrasing" (how one decides to play specific notes on guitar).
"You can't name a single 'great' guitarist who wasn't a master of guitar phrasing. Different guitar players may have strengths or weaknesses in other areas, but all the great players have mastered phrasing. This is the ONLY universal truth among the greatest guitarists", says Tom Hess, co-creator of Master Guitar Soloing Now.

Hess goes on to say: "Why are there very few instructional materials on how to improve your guitar phrasing? The answer is simple:

1. The overwhelming majority of guitar instructors simply have not developed great guitar phrasing skills themselves.

2. If a guitar teacher does have great phrasing skills, they often find it very difficult to teach guitar phrasing to others in a manner that is easy to follow… so they end up teaching other ideas instead.

3. Most guitarists who don't have great guitar phrasing struggle with understanding 'what' they must do to get better at it. If they actually run into a guitar teacher who attempts to teach phrasing, the teacher usually says "play this melody like me, because it sounds nice". Once the guitar player can play that melody just like the teacher can, the student still hasn't really LEARNED anything about how to get better in his or her guitar phrasing. This means that when the guitarist plays another melody, the phrasing will not be any better because the phrasing is only copied from the teacher's playing without getting a true understanding of 'how' great guitar phrases are made."

For more information on Tom Hess and Nick Layton's resource for improving guitar solos, visit http://tomhess.net