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Reading sheet music - book suggestions?


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Been trying to figure out how to read sheet music for guitar, searched the net and the whole deal... still dont get it.

 

Im looking for a very simplistic book on how to read sheet music for guitar (Sheet Music For Dummies? ;)), any suggestions?

 

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You could try Single String Studies for Guitar by Bruce Arnold. You start out playing just on the low E string, then the A, D, etc. At the end you combine them all together. It's about as basic as you can get.

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I would suggest Music Reading for Guitar by Musicians Institute....great book...took me about 1 1/2 months to finish it. You'll learn the 1,2,3,5,7,12 positions along with everything about sheet music itself. Really was a great book....

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Originally posted by cookie2

... any suggestions?

 

 

Well, the thing is that the difficult thing about reading music is to be able to read rhtyhm. To read the pitches is relatively easy and you'll get it soon enough. if you can read and understand what I mean when I say that a C major chord consists of the notes C E and G then you can read the same thing spelled with dots on lines, it's very simple.

 

To read rhythm you need to start out simple. I remember that I read things that had a consisten rhtyhm. Actually it was Arlen Roth's book on slide guitar playing. The rhythm stuff is easy in that one, just basic 8th notes and a shuffle rhtyhm,. A triplet here and there, but since it was shufle this was easy too.

 

You need to get a book with tunes that you know. A childrens' book with songs you've sung when you were a kid perhpas. You have a brain, you can figure it out.

 

If you want to be able to sight read really well that's another thing. But you still have to start out by understanding the simple things.

 

One thing that I've found very usefull lately is to have a program that you can write music notation on. Then you can write something and check if you got it right.

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