Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes plays LIC bar in Queens, NY. March 11, 2020
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Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes plays LIC bar in Queens, NY. March 11, 2020
Read moreOnline Premier of the music video for Voodoo Doll by Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes
Read morePremier of the music video for Voodoo Doll by Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes
Read moreExperiment with a guitar pick’s angle to find the best way to hold it. It effects how easy the pick is to use and what sound you get out of it.
Read moreCast a spell on your audience with a sense of personal intimacy by using dynamics. Use silence between notes, simplicity, low volume. Just like when you speak quietly to a friend they pay more attention to hear what you’re saying. It’s like a secret for their ears only.
Read moreHow to learn difficult guitar solos: Break it down into small pieces and then “tape” one small phrase to another, one at a time.
Read moreArticle with tips on how to make reading guitar TAB easy.
Read moreUse Your Short Term Memory To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear.
Read moreJust take a Drive Down The Fretboard! Imagine the 3rd, 5th and 7th fret dot markers as the lights of a traffic light. Then imagine […]
Read moreWhy do they say to lower your thumb? The truth is, it’s less about the thumb and more about the way that moves your palm […]
Read moreThe Way Station Friday, May 17th at 8:30 Featuring Ricky Ortiz on BassJesse Wallace on Drums Come out this Friday night for some Friday Night Music! We’re hot after our […]
Read morePlay a note, or chord, and just listen. Meet that note. Look it in the eye. Hear its personality. Don’t move to another one until […]
Read moreNo joke. Try it: Set the metronome to a slow, comfortable pace. Play just one note on each beat. Then speed up just a tiny […]
Read moreMusic is so much more fluid than we often treat it. When we get caught up in whether we are playing it “right”, we run […]
Read moreRepetition is one of the most effective tools in learning music. Yes, it can be boring, but it helps you memorize the technical stuff so […]
Read moreYou know when you’ve been playing for about 45 minutes and you start to notice every little detail, everything you get right and get wrong, […]
Read moreSo you can bring the guitar into your comfort zone. We often approach the guitar as something we need to wrap ourselves around. We end […]
Read moreIn my book, vacations are ways to get out of our daily grind so that we can relax and bring more enjoyment into our lives. […]
Read moreBest school? Best guitar? Practice every day? All helpful. But not if your kid doesn’t want to play. Kids who do well are in families […]
Read moreBut do have them play something every day. It’s the “every day” part that does the trick. Kids get discouraged when they have to do […]
Read moreThey should have been called “pop-offs”. I don’t mean any disrespect to the great Pete Seeger who brought us modern tablature and named the pull-off, […]
Read moreWe play with our finger TIPS. I know that seems obvious, but we often don’t do it. If we spend some time getting used to […]
Read moreBored with playing the same predictable rhythms when you’re improvising? Break it up using the rhythms in names. Say these names aloud and feel the […]
Read moreA player asked me yesterday if he could postpone his lesson a week because he didn’t get to play much that week. Of course, that’s […]
Read moreWell, you may have heard several reasons, but this is my favorite: To witness what you actually do instead of what you think you […]
Read moreIn the beginning there was cacophony, and it was good. But not everybody thought so. Several hundred years ago, Christian monks discovered how to play […]
Read moreYeah, it’s a killer. Try this: Don’t strum all the way to the moment that the tough chord should be played and then changing chords […]
Read moreIt can be tricky. Try this: Pause the playback immediately after you hear the note/chord you’re listening for. Then, listen to your short term memory, […]
Read moreThey show you where you can improve. If you try to avoid them you won’t know where where to focus your practice. The trick is […]
Read moreAnd thinking is often too slow for playing. Now, obviously, we have to think and occasionally look at our hands when we play. But we […]
Read moreA few weeks ago I sat down with boice from the weekly podcast Talk Music Talk and chatted about how receptive listening can benefit musicians […]
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