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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 drawing a triangle from the dot on the 9th fret to the pair of dots on the 12th to make a yield sign. Now each fret is unique: 1st: beside…
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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 under the neck, the space that creates and the way that improves the angle that it puts your fingers in. Watch the video below to see how much easier it…
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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 Great Eastern Songs concert in March and ready to rock out for you with songs of Voodoo Dolls, Airtents and Pipelines From The Sun 683 Washington Ave Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (Prospect & St. Marks)C to…
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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 you’ve actually listened to the present one. When you do this the most remarkable thing usually happens: you relax. It makes playing so much easier and more enjoyable. You improve…
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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 bit WITHOUT CHANGING THE METRONOME…. Feel that tense, rushing feeling. Slow back down to the beat… Feel that smoothness. Now slow down just a tiny bit… Feel that sluggish pull.…
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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 the risk of not hearing what we are doing well. If you’re caught in the trap of “WRONGNESS” try this: For now, rather than going for what’s ‘right’, go for…
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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 your mind can be free to emphasize the cool parts of the music when you perform. If you hate it, try this: Every day set a timer for 3-8 minutes.…
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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, but you don’t really react to it? You just keep playing and notice everything? That is a very aware, flexible, and non-judgmental state of mind. Be aware that you can…
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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 up in awkward positions because we’re trying to hold it and play it at the same time, sidelining a lot of our energy and attention. With a strap you can…
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