Shortcut to Reading Sheet Music for Guitar

Shortcut to Reading Sheet Music for Guitar | Read Guitar Lead Sheets

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In this video I show a shortcut to reading sheet music for guitar in the context of jazz guitar lead sheets.
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💬 LESSON DESCRIPTION:
Carsten, a student in one of my courses, reached out yesterday asking for advice on how to get started reading sheet music for guitar from jazz guitar lead sheets.
I do have some lessons on reading chord changes, but I realized that I haven't talked about reading melodies from guitar lead sheets yet in any of my videos.
So I decided to make this week's lesson on exactly that because I have a really effective method for it.
I didn't read a single note of sheet music until about ten years into playing guitar.
Once I realized that it was important to me it felt like it was too late.
I had to find a way to "catch up"... So I did.
I used the approach in this lesson, and it worked!
I'm totally okay with calling this technique a shortcut (because it's so much faster to get off the ground with it than other methods), but really it's just focused, targeted, and efficient.
If you've ever been frustrated by reading sheet music for guitar or by reading guitar lead sheets, then this lesson is for you.
Leave me a comment and a thumbs up if this video helpful.
Thanks for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your week :)
- Jared
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⏱ VIDEO CONTENT OUTLINE (WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS):
0:00 - About this video on reading sheet music for guitar
0:59 - Why is it so difficult to read sheet music for guitar?
2:28 - The shortcut and why it works
4:40 - Example #1 - "Bright Size Life"
7:28 - Example #2 - "Almost Like Being in Love"
8:20 - More examples
9:09 - Commentary
9:54 - Play any jazz chord with just 8 shapes (FREE PDF)
10:46 - Outro

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@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

→ Get my FREE Method Booklet - Play any jazz chord with just 8 shapes → bit.ly/3msntbe

@TheForeverchanges 2 ай бұрын

This approach makes a lot of sense. Appears to be a good compliment to just memorizing notes on the fret board. Thanks again for another great video

@tylerbehrends3304 6 ай бұрын

Dog I had to read through Reddit for like a week to kinda figure this out on my own… you a real one for this

@jolu1621 Жыл бұрын

Wow. I guess this vid is in the top 3 of all tutorials i ever watched . Thank you 👌

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks, Jo! So glad to hear that :) ~~ Cheers, -Jared

@douglasXwilliams 5 ай бұрын

If i could give 1000000 LIKES for this video, i would. It is that amazing and arrived (for me) at the perfect moment. Thanks!

@colingardiner6516 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Nice to know I've settled in the same spot to read. Cheers

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Colin! :)

@seanwholey6190 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! I've always found melody lines in sheet music so confusing and intimidating. Now I'm actually interested to learn reading and have a plan to begin

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, Sean!! ~~ Cheers, - Jared

@daveb9551 Жыл бұрын

Again an excellent lesson.

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Dave! 🙏

@jimnelson4273 Жыл бұрын

This is a great idea!

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so, Jim! Cheers :)

@colingardiner6516 Жыл бұрын

Hi Jared. This is just great. Thanks so much. I've been able to understand the treble clef and the notes but Isolating a region on the guitar 🎸 is so helpful. Thanks a ton and Merry Christmas to you

@stuartarnold4495 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jared, never quite got to the point of wanting to try. Now you have really made life interesting, i’m not into improvisation or lead guitar but this is a lot more into the direction I like to go. Thanks.

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that this is in a direction you're interested in, Stuart. Thanks! :)

@markgoodwin5306 Жыл бұрын

This reminded me. It was a a few weeks ago I started in on All The Things You are, trying to figure out where I wanted to start the arpeggio improv. I wasn't being real strict with it, if I hit a flat 9, whatever, guess I'll make a diminished out of it. Anyway, I had listened to multiple versions because I like to do that and I ended up hitting notes that are actually in the songs melody without that intention haha. I knew right away and thought that was pretty cool.

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Haha, fantastic! Love it. thanks for sharing, Mark :)

@arturobarny9918 8 ай бұрын

Excellent we are going to read music more fast with this methodt

@YoshiTRoN1 Жыл бұрын

Wow. I never thought to add limitations. I relate to what you said about starting to read music for guitar later down the line. Luckily I have experience reading for saxophone from highschool so I’m not going in totally blind. I was dreading the thought of having to go through a bunch of volumes just to have clarity. But this seems to be just the solution I needed. I’m sure at some point I’ll end up going back. I would like to go through a modern method for guitar which requires multiple positions. But for now this will do. Thank you so much!

@donindri Жыл бұрын

Looks like a great system. There should be a law that requires any guitar teacher to reveal in the 1st lesson each octave of C major for the 1st 12 frets from lowest to highest and where each note is duplicated on other strings and frets. Like your reading system here this would go a long way to reduce confusion for anyone learning guitar. Thanks for posting.

@davidkelly1220 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@QBRX Жыл бұрын

Cool. A bit more than what I need right now though.

@boulila Жыл бұрын

Thnks a lot

@markzucco9252 Жыл бұрын

So how do I know to use the G on the 4th String when there are other G’s on your scheme? Although you eliminated options near the neck and up the fretboard, you still have more than one note to choose what note to play or start with?

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Thanks for asking Mark. There's only one note option per pitch within any one octave. So there's only one guitar note option for every possible note location on the sheet music. The lowest G would be below the music staff, the next G up would be the second line on the staff, the next G up would be the note on the top of the staff. Of course it takes time to get used to which note represents which fret on the guitar, but the principle remains that there's one option per note location on the staff. I hope that helps, but please let me know if I can help with any further clarification. -Jared

@ifoundtvvlog. Жыл бұрын

I Subscribe you sir thnk you for this video 😊😊

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Welcome and thanks! :)

@markzucco9252 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jared! There are more than one option for each note even with this truncated version. How do I know I’m choosing/starting on the right note?

@chrishurd9753 Жыл бұрын

I think maybe you are confusing note names with pitches. Although note names are repeated, each note listed is a separate pitch. For instance the D note on the A string at fret 5 is an octave lower than the D note on the G string string at fret 7. Same note name, but their pitch is an octave apart. On the written music the lower D would be written in the space below the bottom line of the score. The higher D would be written on the second line from the top of the score. Maybe a simpler explanation is, if you play all those notes sequentially you will find you are playing a chromatic scale, and every note will sound a different pitch. Hope this helps.

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Hi Mark, thanks for asking. Chris's response is correct. I hope that helps. I also responded to your other comment asking about this with additional clarification. Regards, -Jared

@soundguitar Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris! Great explanation

@dennisferrell3662 Жыл бұрын

This is really good, but you assume that we can look at a note on the staff in the key and instantly know that it’s, for example, an F#, or a G, or whatever. From the title of the video I thought that was what you were going to teach. Could you please do a video on how to identify notes on the staff, in different keys? I realize that knowledge may be so fundamental that it’s too far beneath your target audience, but after 50 some odd years of playing I can assure you that many of us guitarists don’t know how to do this.