Sightreading is a secondary thing, but easy Originally Posted by hubert Join Date May Location california Posts It's not nonsensical-it's merely how guitar players communicate when they live on the planet Neptune I worked on that book a long time ago. I don't think I got thru the last pieces either. The book has a very structured programed course for sight reading, I liked that. However I didn't enjoy playing the music, I think he made the notes in the excercises kind of random to make it a challeng for sight reading.
What I like to do for sight reading is go thru books of fairly easy classical repetiore. I just sit down and read like I'm reading a book. For me the music is very enjoyable to play. If you know the classical grading structure, I'll attempt sight reading pieces up to level 4. Check out the Delcamp classical guitar forum, they're are hundreds of pieces from level 1 to level 4 and hundreds more level 5 and up and they're free.
Posts 24 Original Poster. Thanks fep. I stepped away from it for a couple of days and am thinking I am going to move along those lines you suggest. I just felt like it was a "final exam" of sorts. I explained it my wife that is was as if I had been taking a course in Spanish and the final was in Italian.
Well, maybe not that drastic, but you get the idea. I think sharpening my reading via classical pieces might be the way to go. I was taking Howard's seminars in LA when that book came out and a number of people in the class pointed the problem out to him we all had the book. He hadn't realized how much material he omitted between the course proper and the last two lessons. As it turned out, that omission got Howard involved in starting the Guitar Institute of American, although he didn't hang around long.
We had an organizational meeting as a followup to the seminars. So, it ain't just you! Thanks Bluesguy. I feel much better now. As a side note - what a great opportunity to have studied with Roberts. I appreciate you sharing this. It was definitely a cool experience. And intense I do not know if the missing material was added to subsequent editions. I could only find a first early? I feel like it has helped my sight reading quite a bit in that it helped me understand the process and presented some very practical exercises to illustrate each step along the way.
I would consider myself a mediocre reader now, but I can hobble through a moderate-level piece with my dignity intact. The unfortunate thing about it is that it is fairly hard to find and usually expensive when you do find it.
Someone cough, cough should make this more readily available. Join Date Jul Posts Violin books might help? They're inexpensive Mazas, Kreutzer, Wolfhardt, are some of the authors. They have a manilla cover, thin, around 30 pages.
The way the etudes outline melodies with a melodic use of the "vanilla" notes and follow with variations is a good way to learn to play in key while stretching it's boundaries. Lot's of repetitive rhythm teasers in there too. I got my first guitar at ten years old and started lessons with my best friend's mom, Howard Roberts' wife!
Doug told me his dad played guitar, but we were more interested in model cars, bicycles, and flooding the Roberts' backyard because mud was so fun! If only I knew Join Date Jan Location geelong Posts As usuall you can go through these books a dozen times but it still means you have to continuing on reading music. Its a never ending fundamental to do and a lot of people give that up cause its so important and demanding to do in the real world of music.
Charles Colin NYC has some great sight reading books Mel Bay Join Date Mar Posts 3. Hope this helps somebody, but the way I learned was to sit down one day and really pin down C major - A minor, so I knew it in my sleep. Since then I try to learn bits and pieces the same way, identifying the problem, breaking it down. Same with learning any piece of music, learn a few bars at a time, keep adding, when you get to a tricky part slow down and work on it more.
You will get there, and the more you do it the better you will get at getting there. Join Date Jun Location los angeles Posts 1, Thanks for the insight Wolf. That does make quite a bit of sense ie "what not to read". Recently I have been finding myself naturally doing it and I stopped myself from doing it thinking that I was "cheating".
Hopefully, it is just a sign that I am making some progress. Sight-reading is now part of my daily practice routine.
Lately I have been reading out of a Rubank clarinet method book and it seems to be helping. Join Date Jun Posts The nonsensical planet of Neptune! This trademark will very likely be one of the basic technical moves treated in this book. This volume is an invaluable aid to the guitarist who wants to incorporate the sounds and techniques of Howard Roberts into his own playing as I did.
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