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Category: Technique

How To Use a Metronome to Practice Guitar

How to Play To a Metronome? Do it Wrong!

by 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 bit…. Feel that tense rushing. […]

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Practice / Rhythm / Technique
Star Trek Guitar Strap - guitar lessons

Why Use a Guitar Strap?

by 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 up in awkward positions because […]

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Beginner / Gear / Technique / z
a guitar pull-off should be a POP-off

Guitar Pull-offs Were Named Wrong

by 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, it’s just that if you […]

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Practice / Technique / Tone
Play Guitar with Your Fingertips - Guitar Lessons Brooklyn

We Don’t Really Play Guitar With Our Fingers

by 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 this weird use of our […]

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Beginner / Practice / Technique / Tone / y
Difficult-Guitar-Chords

Playing Tough Chord Changes on Guitar, Method 2

by 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 (that’s like pressing pause while […]

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Beginner / Chords / Practice / Technique / y
Looking at Hands Playing Guitar = Thinking

Looking at Hands While Playing Guitar = Thinking

by 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 often watch our hands because […]

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Chords / Point of View / Technique

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
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  • 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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