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Guitar Lessons in Queens & Brooklyn
  • Bryan Wade's Ghost Notes

    Ghost Notes at LICbar

    Bryan

    Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes plays LIC bar in Queens, NY. March 11, 2020

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  • Picture of Voodoo Doll Video by Bryan Wade

    ONLINE Voodoo Doll Video Premier

    Bryan

    Online Premier of the music video for Voodoo Doll by Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes

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  • Voodoo Doll music video by Bryan Wade's Ghost Notes

    Voodoo Doll Video Premier

    Bryan

    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…

    Bryan

    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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  • Singer-Songwriters can cast a spell with their guitar to get noticed

    Best Way For Singer-Songwriters To Draw Attention? Play Quietly

    Bryan

    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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  • Guitar Practicing Tips

    Learning Tough Guitar Solos = Eating An Elephant

    Bryan

    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 Tips 1: The Basics

    Tab Reading Made Easy: The Basics

    Bryan

    Article with tips on how to make reading guitar TAB easy.

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  • Ear With Music Tattoo

    How To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear

    Bryan

    Use Your Short Term Memory To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear.

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  • Learn to Find Any Fret on the Guitar Without Counting

    How To Instantly Find Any Fret on the Guitar Without Counting

    Bryan

    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

    Bryan

    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 Live

    Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes at The Way Station

    Bryan

    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

    Feel the Space Between the Notes

    Bryan

    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 Use a Metronome to Practice Guitar

    How to Play To a Metronome? Do it Wrong!

    Bryan

    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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  • Picture of cat in a suit saying sounds good

    Guitarists, Rather Than Going for What’s ‘Right’…

    Bryan

    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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  • Springsteen-Bored-by-Repetitive-Practice

    Don’t Like Repetitive Guitar Practice?

    Bryan

    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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  • Pic of Shambhala Great Eastern Sun

    Hypnotize Yourself With Your Guitar

    Bryan

    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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  • Star Trek Guitar Strap - guitar lessons

    Why Use a Guitar Strap?

    Bryan

    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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  • Practice Guitar on Vacation

    Should I Practice Guitar on Vacation?

    Bryan

    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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  • Picture of woman listening

    How Do I Help My Kid Play Guitar?

    Bryan

    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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  • Frustrated with learning guitar?

    Don’t MAKE Your Kids Practice Guitar 30 Minutes a Day

    Bryan

    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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  • a guitar pull-off should be a POP-off

    Guitar Pull-offs Were Named Wrong

    Bryan

    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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  • Play Guitar with Your Fingertips - Guitar Lessons Brooklyn

    We Don’t Really Play Guitar With Our Fingers

    Bryan

    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

    Bryan

    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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  • Uncle-Sam-says-practice-every-da

    Practice Guitar Every Day? Yes. And no.

    Bryan

    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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  • Snail Guitar

    Why Practice Guitar Slow?

    Bryan

      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 Are Chords?

    What is a Guitar Chord, Anyway?

    Bryan

    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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  • Difficult-Guitar-Chords

    Playing Tough Chord Changes on Guitar, Method 2

    Bryan

    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

    Bryan

    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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  • Mark Twain-Accident-Invention-Quote-for-Guitarists

    Mistakes in Guitar Practice Are Good News

    Bryan

    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 Playing Guitar = Thinking

    Looking at Hands While Playing Guitar = Thinking

    Bryan

    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

    Bryan

    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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I help Guitarists who want to build their skills & confidence so they can play what they want to play, the way they want to play it.

Bryan Wade's Ghost Notes

Ghost Notes at LICbar

Picture of Voodoo Doll Video by Bryan Wade

ONLINE Voodoo Doll Video Premier

Voodoo Doll music video by Bryan Wade's Ghost Notes

Voodoo Doll Video Premier

Best Way To Hold A Guitar Pick? You Be The Judge…

Singer-Songwriters can cast a spell with their guitar to get noticed

Best Way For Singer-Songwriters To Draw Attention? Play Quietly

Guitar Practicing Tips

Learning Tough Guitar Solos = Eating An Elephant

Tab Reading Tips 1: The Basics

Tab Reading Made Easy: The Basics

Ear With Music Tattoo

How To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear

Learn to Find Any Fret on the Guitar Without Counting

How To Instantly Find Any Fret on the Guitar Without Counting

How The Thumb Guitar Trick Really Works

Bryan Wade's Ghost Notes Live

Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes at The Way Station

Feel the Space Between the Notes

Feel the Space Between the Notes

Bryan named Best of Lessons.com

Bryan Wade named Best of Lessons.com in 2018

Long Island City Queens Studio –

Clinton Hill Brooklyn Studio

Fun Lessons for Kids, Too!

Fun Kids Guitar Lessons in Long Island City Queens and Clinton Hill Brooklyn  NYC

Tips & Tricks

  • Ghost Notes at LICbar
  • ONLINE Voodoo Doll Video Premier
  • Voodoo Doll Video Premier
  • Best Way To Hold A Guitar Pick? You Be The Judge…
  • Best Way For Singer-Songwriters To Draw Attention? Play Quietly
  • Learning Tough Guitar Solos = Eating An Elephant
  • Tab Reading Made Easy: The Basics
  • How To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear
  • How To Instantly Find Any Fret on the Guitar Without Counting
  • How The Thumb Guitar Trick Really Works
  • Bryan Wade’s Ghost Notes at The Way Station
  • Feel the Space Between the Notes
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