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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

by 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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Performance / Point of View / Tone
Feel the Space Between the Notes

Feel the Space Between the Notes

by 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 you’ve actually listened to the […]

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Beginner / Ear Training / Point of View / Practice / Tone
Picture of cat in a suit saying sounds good

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

by 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 the risk of not hearing […]

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Point of View / Practice / Tone / 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
Snail Guitar

Why Practice Guitar Slow?

by 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 should be doing. We are […]

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Beginner / Point of View / Practice / Tone / y

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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