Professional Guitarist Releases Online Guitar Solo Training Resource

    CARY, IL, March 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Rhapsody Of Fire guitar player Tom Hess has announced an online guitar solo training resource designed to help guitarists compose professional guitar solos.

It is common for many guitarists to search online for guitar lessons, videos, and tablature to learn how to solo on guitar. As a result, these guitar players often simply copy the guitar solos of others, but never learn how to make guitar solos for themselves. This is considered to be a problem for the majority of guitar players.

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 absolutely MUST focus your practice and guitar playing time on improving your guitar phrasing. Because THAT is the best course to improve and master your guitar soloing... and it's also the fastest way to see the greatest improvement in your overall guitar skills. Yes, for sure, other things in your guitar playing are important too, but developing great guitar phrasing is the single most important thing you can do to become a great guitar player and musician", says Hess. He continues: "You can't name a single 'great' guitar player who wasn't a master of guitar phrasing. Different players may have strengths or weaknesses in other areas, but all great guitar players have mastered phrasing. This is the ONLY universal truth for the top guitarists."

Hess briefly answers the question: "If guitar phrasing is such an important thing to learn, why do so few people actually know about it or teach it?"

He replies:

"It is really quite 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."

To find more info for Tom Hess and Nick Layton's online guitar resource on how to compose professional guitar solos, go to http://tomhess.net.

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