Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes plays LIC bar in Queens, NY. March 11, 2020
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ONLINE Voodoo Doll Video Premier
Online Premier of the music video for Voodoo Doll by Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes
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Voodoo Doll Video Premier
Premier of the music video for Voodoo Doll by Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes
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Best Way To Hold A Guitar Pick? You Be The Judge…
Experiment 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.
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Best Way For Singer-Songwriters To Draw Attention? Play Quietly
Cast 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.
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Learning Tough Guitar Solos = Eating An Elephant
How to learn difficult guitar solos: Break it down into small pieces and then “tape” one small phrase to another, one at a time.
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Tab Reading Made Easy: The Basics
Article with tips on how to make reading guitar TAB easy.
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How To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear
Use Your Short Term Memory To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear.
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How To Instantly Find Any Fret on the Guitar Without Counting
Just take a Drive Down The Fretboard! Imagine the 3rd, 5th and 7th fret dot markers as the lights of a traffic light. Then imagine […]
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How The Thumb Guitar Trick Really Works
Why 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 […]
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Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes at The Way Station
The 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 […]
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Feel the Space Between the Notes
Play 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 […]
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How to Play To a Metronome? Do it Wrong!
No joke. Try it: Set the metronome to a slow, comfortable pace. Play just one note on each beat. Then speed up just a tiny […]
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Guitarists, Rather Than Going for What’s ‘Right’…
Music is so much more fluid than we often treat it. When we get caught up in whether we are playing it “right”, we run […]
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Don’t Like Repetitive Guitar Practice?
Repetition is one of the most effective tools in learning music. Yes, it can be boring, but it helps you memorize the technical stuff so […]
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Hypnotize Yourself With Your Guitar
You 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, […]
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Why Use a Guitar Strap?
So you can bring the guitar into your comfort zone. We often approach the guitar as something we need to wrap ourselves around. We end […]
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Should I Practice Guitar on Vacation?
In my book, vacations are ways to get out of our daily grind so that we can relax and bring more enjoyment into our lives. […]
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How Do I Help My Kid Play Guitar?
Best 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 […]
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Don’t MAKE Your Kids Practice Guitar 30 Minutes a Day
But 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 […]
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Guitar Pull-offs Were Named Wrong
They 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, […]
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We Don’t Really Play Guitar With Our Fingers
We 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 […]
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Guitar Game: Improvise With Your Name
Bored 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 […]
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Practice Guitar Every Day? Yes. And no.
A 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 […]
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Why Practice Guitar Slow?
Well, you may have heard several reasons, but this is my favorite: To witness what you actually do instead of what you think you […]
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What is a Guitar Chord, Anyway?
In the beginning there was cacophony, and it was good. But not everybody thought so. Several hundred years ago, Christian monks discovered how to play […]
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Playing Tough Chord Changes on Guitar, Method 2
Yeah, 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 […]
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Learning by Ear From a Recording
It 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, […]
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Mistakes in Guitar Practice Are Good News
They 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 […]
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Looking at Hands While Playing Guitar = Thinking
And thinking is often too slow for playing. Now, obviously, we have to think and occasionally look at our hands when we play. But we […]
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Interview on Talk Music Talk
A 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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