Sight Reading Mastery: A resource for all guitarists (PDF)

Description

Sight reading mastery is the single largest barrier for most guitarists in engaging with countless compositions and arrangements. Over a decade of experimenting with getting people to sight-read fluently on the guitar created this book. The biggest challenge to any sight reading endeavor is to have immediate access to where the note is on the guitar at any given position. The exercises presented in this volume are a direct outgrowth of this problem in systematically organizing a solution.

What’s In The Book?

There are 130 practice sheets for sight reading. These practice sheets begin in an open position and continue through the twelfth position. Taking into account practicing all twelve keys, this amounts to 1,560 possible exercises based on key. If you did one a day it would take over 4 years to play them all. That’s a lot of sight reading and a lot of getting to know your fretboard!

What’s Not In The Book

You will not find any information on beginning to read notes on the guitar. This book takes for granted that you can find where basic notes exist on the instrument. It also expects that you can locate them with the corresponding position on the musical staff. You will also find that there are no time signatures, key signatures, or rhythms given. The book also discusses an explanation of how to approach practicing these exercises.

Sight Reading Mastery Testing Grounds

A variety of different students who play many different genres over the past decade tested these exercises. Even my oldest “guinea pig” who is almost 90 has attested to their benefit. I hope that you find this as a lifelong aid in the quest to become as proficient a guitarist as possible. It’s time to put to rest excuses for being a poor sight reader. This book seeks to fill the note-reading gap for classical, jazz, rock, and any other guitarist looking to hone their sight-reading mastery skills.

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