An exhaustive and complete guide to leaning to read notes on the guitar. This text was drawn from all the best of William Bay's 'Modern Guitar Method/Expanded Version,' 'Mastering the Guitar' and 'First Lessons/Guitar' books. If you want to master note reading on the guitar fingerboard, this is the book for you. / Guitare / 140 pages / niveau : Débutant / Partition - Format: 11 X 8,5

Carefully devised by established authors Nick Walker and James Longworth Guitar Basics - Sight-Reading introduces beginning guitarists to sight reading in a fun and unintimidating manner. This step-by-step guide to sight reading offers bite-sized exercises and specimen pieces to help young players improve their sight-reading and general musicianship skills. Short and approachable exercises ideal for use in individual and group lessons when time is of the essence. Unintimidating approach develops players? skills gradually over time. Bespoke advice and practical tips that will helpprepare students for the Grade 1 sight-reading tests (ABRSM and Trinity).

For Guitarists - Book II-Book Two of Routes To Sight Reading by Chaz Hart covers sight reading in six of the most popular keys and the first eight frets of the fingerboard. It is uniquely designed so that it can be used effectively by either electric acoustic or classical Guitar players. It leads on from the best-selling book one in this series by explaining how to read more advanced rhythms such as syncopation triplets 16th notes and ties. Using this book will not only improve your Guitar sight reading skills it will also help you expand your knowledge of the fingerboard.

Sight-Reading For The Contemporary Guitarist is the absolute ultimate guide to music for rock blues and jazz guitarists. The book starts by teaching one how to sight-read music on each single string right away. It includes a reviewing of basic standard music notation multi-position reading odd time signatures chord charts and TAB. Sight-Reading For The Contemporary Guitarist is also very uniquely organised by key with fingerings for all major scales.

Kick-Start Your Reading Skills Now!-A simple straight-forward fun system for learning to sight-read on the guitar. Essential Skills For Sight-Reading Guitar concentrates on rhythms and phrasings most commonly heard through decades of guitar playing. You'll begin to learn what you need to know not everything there is to know. This book places a strong emphasis on reading rhythms because good rhythm is fundamental to music. The first section covers all rhythmic values and combinations. Next melodic figures are presented in the context of scales and key centers. Over 80 examples are performed on the included CD.

Following on from his hugely successful JustinGuitar.com Beginner’s Course and his songbooks for Guitar celebrated guitar tutor Justin Sandercoe and his friend and sessionguitar master Dario Cortese have created a detailed and comprehensive guide to reading music notation for guitarists. This book has been specially created for any guitarist who wants to learn note reading be theybeginners or more advanced players who have neglected this part of their musicianship. It starts with the very basics of written music and progressively introduces notes on each string one at a time until all notes in the 'openposition' (first five frets) of the Guitar have been mastered and up to 8th note rhythm subdivisions have been learned and applied. Also covered are sharps flats key signatures accidentals repeats and more. Each step includespractical exercises handy tips and tricks and a simple repertoire for students to put their reading skills into practice. Volume 2 will introduce the student to notes further up the neck position shifts and more complexrhythm subdivisions. Expected mid 2017.

A fresh approach-'Guitar Sight-Reading 2' aims to build on the sight-reading skills learnt in book 1 and provides a wealth of more challenging examples so that the pupil may gain even greater confidence when approaching any new piece of music for the first time. Tunes progress to include keys from 2 flats to 4 sharps using a variety of styles.

Following on from his hugely successful Justinguitar.com Beginner’s Course and his songbooks for Guitar celebrated Guitar tutor Justin Sandercoe and his drummer friend alsocalled Justin (Scott) have created a complete progressive and easy-to-follow guide to mastering rhythm reading. This book focuses on learning how to read (and play) rhythmic notation an often overlooked part oflearning how to read music and of great benefit to most guitarists. It is aimed at beginner to intermediate level and will help students to write read and really understand rhythmic notation which has the added benefit ofimproving the students sense of rhythm and time in all aspects of their playing. This book contains an extensive series of gradually progressive practical exercises for students to work through and detailed lessons to help themmake easy and solid progress to rhythm mastery!

These melodies are what all sight-reading should be about but usually are not. They use easy notes and rhythms in a most methodical imaginative and pleasurable way concentrating on single-line melodies in first position only.This book has one hundred melodies which could be introduced to the student from almost the very first lesson and as the melodies get progressively more complex the book will be useful for higher-grade students. Although thebook is aimed at the grade 1-2 player more experienced students may also find it useful to try playing the studies in higher positions.

This volume contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for the ABRSM Guitar exams at all grades. Includes specimen tests for the new sight-reading requirements from 2009.

A fresh approach-This book provides an approach based on self-learning and recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns. It contains 228 carefully-graded pieces which are orginal tunes rather than abstract sight-reading exercises and six sections beginning with open strings. Each section begins with solos and concludes with duets and accompanied pieces to aid ensemble playing. Accompaniments are provided for both guitar and piano. Suitable for Preliminary up to grade 4 level players.

William Bay introduces his popular and creative method for teaching Guitar to young children in Children's Guitar Method Volume 3.From the very beginning it integrates chord playing with notereading the student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is methodically and carefully introduced. The design features Ron Wheeler's colourful cartoon artwork makingthis book not only a great learning experience but a fun and entertaining adventure as well. Includes access to an online video which has a duration of 31 minutes.