Got any tabs for that? 😂

You're one of the best guitar teachers on KZfaq. Straight to the point, entertaining and informative.

"the action is way too high" I say that all the time when I try guitars at a music store.

well if you're a classical guitarist sight reading is something normal and gets easy after some time *cough cough 1-2 years

Learned to sight read at age 11, my guitar teacher used “Alfed’s basic guitar method” I did a couple of grades of classical guitar and enjoyed sight reading, ended up playing drums in crap school bands and sort of giving up. Years later I see the video, regret it all and find myself reaching for my credit card 🙄 Can still read music though 40 years later. Cheers Tyler 👍

As a semi-professional classical guitarist, I absolutely love sight reading and never knew this was a problem for guitarists until college.

I just got an ad saying why I shouldn't use guitar lessons on KZfaq lmao

I love how the Berklee press has never changed their formatting, font, or anything. Since ever.

Another great video! I love to watch your videos. Keep up the good work! Cheers!🤘🏻

There's a program called Band-in-a-box that lets you put in any chord progression you want in any style you want. You can also set it to generate written melodies or solos to however difficult you want. Great for sight reading practice because it generates a different solo every time and you never develop any memory of what you're playing.

I love this channel. So much helpful content, so much funny and original content, so many awesome licks!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, i've been trying to sight read for a while and i've even considered going to another guitar school, but thanks to you i can finally make relative sense of sheet music, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Just ordered it! Thanks for the recommendation! This is something I've been wanting to try for quite a while now

William Leavitt's books are really good, they changed significantly the way I play and I approach the guitar now. I already have the 3 volumes of "A modern method for guitar", the ones on the background of your last videos, and they are really worth it, to say the least. I did not know the existence of the one you are showing now, I will purchase it immediately! Thanks for the video, very good indeed. Greetings from Catalonia!

Always making my day a tiny bit better...you rock!!!

Music is Win, great video as always. May I suggest you a topic for another video? I know that your main interest (for the sake of this channel, at least) it's guitar and guitar techniques but maybe showing us more on you, for example, sight reading "live" or transcribing some riffs or even composing something would be at least very interesting (and could be very funny too, knowing your "verve") at best a great source for inspiration. Hope this doesn't sound silly. Sorry if this sound very confusing but English is, obviously, not my first language. Keep up the good work. Thanks a lot.

Hey man I thoroughly appreciate your encouragement. You are truly a great guy and deserve reverence, honor and respect from all of us commentators at KZfaq.com. Sorry if my English is bad Peace from kyrzikstan

I know both treble and bass clefs but never been good at sight reading like just seeing it for the first time and just play through it! I will buy the book and give some try! Thanks for making me a better guitarist and musician!

I just started learning guitar. I kind of enjoy learning sheet music. I guess tabs are easier but everything feels equally hard so I’m primarily focusing on modern methods for guitar & hal leonard books

I can sight read violin, as I was a violinist first. But in all honesty, while there are some similarities between the two, I cannot really read guitar sheet music. -Ace

Ok I feel like learning to sight read is like learning a new language

i will recommend practice with violin exercises reading books, saxophone, flute ,clarinets too , to improve speed reading, by the way i had that Berklee book many decades ago

We do sight reading in Music Theory class. It's kinda fun but it also lets me know how much I gotta practice and learn the notes in bass cleff...

You are trying your best at the technicalities. Kudos.

I love my squier, because I don't feel worthy of touching a real fender

Hey do you think you can do a video showing some of the books that helped you with Theory, Chords, etc? I think that'd be a good vid when you get a chance

The Leavitt book is an excellent one to work through: all 12 keys and difficult rhythms. Too many people insist on being guitarists instead of musicians purely because it is too difficult - that is really the only reason. Music is a never ending lifes' work, no one will ever master it and trying to take the easy way out in any aspect of it will not lead to better understanding just basic instant gratification. Does sight reading replace using ones ears? Absolutely not - ears are most important thing - however if you really want to understand your fingerboard and communicate with other musicians you need to know what the notes are. We need to get on the same page with other instruments so we can all speak the same language. Frankly guitar notation is already behind because it is printed on the treble clef up and octave where it should be on a grand staff where it sounds. It does not share the range with a violin as much as it does a cello and SATB choir.

Music Is Win, is steadily becoming my favorite channel on KZfaq. So much info here, thanks so much. So glad I subbed to this.

Been looking for something like this. Thanks

I want to see a video of a guitarist sight reading a piece they've never seen, do they seriously just look at a sheet and then play it? That is insane. I just saw a pianist do it, just mindblowing....

i remember those books 40 yr ago, you need to be motivated to practice 4 hours first sight reading everyday, you never know when music directors will call you for a jam session(they call like that to test your reading abilities and many more thing about your playing )

Leavitt's books are excellent, but I learnt to sightread from David Oakes book 'Music Reading For Guitar'. Oakes studied with the late, great Tommy Tedesco (who played countless sessions in the 60s and 70s), who was one of the best sight readers in the business. I'd definitely start wth Oakes book and THEN move to Leavitt. Why? Well, I think that its a tendency amongst guitarists to are ahead and try and learn too much too soon. Oakes book is more graduated and easier to digest in small chunks.

So I bought the book. How well are you with reading the chords? It surely helps with learning the fret board. The chords are pretty challenging.

I learned how to play the piano so that I could learn how to sight read. It worked. It's easy on the piano. And it's the best instrument for learning music theory. Then it makes it a lot easier to understand and also sight read for the guitar.

I'm glad i stumbled across your vid i haven't really read anything in 40 years its going to hurt

I think I'll stick with tabs (sorry for bad German)

are these sight reading exercises similar to the sight reading sheet they'll give you at the berklee audition?

im in middle school, and jazz band try outs are coming soon. Ive never learned how to cite read. Your video helped

I went through the Wm. Leavitt books 1,2 and 3 during the mid 70's. Great material . This book, I don't remember, but it looks good.

Can you show how to play a few of these exercises? To get how to read the rhythm. I feel when you look at a page with other quarter notes, it's harder to analyze and keep up.

How do you know to get to each position?

I always wondered how do you know where on the neck should I play the notes when I'm sight reading. I always get confused because of it. Can anybody help me with this issue?

Hey Tyler, Thanks for great videos, I was wondering what do you think of periphery? like or dislike...

I always to go staples, get them to slice off the binding on a book like that and getting a coil ring put in place. Then you can open the book flat on a music stand. Otherwise, you face the horror of trying to play your guitar and hold the book open with only 2 hands.

Great video! Should guitarists practice sight reading with a metronome?

there's a great one from MelBay aswell, meant a book for the same

Hey Tyler I think you should try "the try n not to headbang challenge" love ur work keep sherding\m/

I got this book, I just opened five minutes ago, and I was expecting better quality on everything, I wish I can return it, if you are thinking about getting it, I would suggest you to look another opcion

:-) SIGHT READING!!!!! Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist....SIGHT READING! :-) No, it´s important and great. Theory at allis kinda fun to me. And it pushes me further. Your explanations in your courses are great.

I got the book but there wasn't any explanation of what to do or how to read the notes, what should i do, i need help

I’m fine until the notes goes below the last line and then I’m lost

I feel like the easiest to remember is intervals on the guitar "oh im on an f the next note is a 5th up" play a fifth shape on the guitar then do it with all the notes and u become a master

Music is Win can you shortly tell us what 'position' means here ? Is it same as positions of the scales when learning CAGED or 3NPS ?

If the notes for chords are on different octaves then how does it show on sheet music? I cannot find it anywhere. Regular piano chords show as a triad but with guitar It does not seem you can take that same approach???????

What if you don’t read music at all? Or only read rhythms? Would you still suggest the same book for someone new to reading music?

hay man, whats the best type of practice for you to get better at shredding?, thanks

Is it possible to get the book as a PDF/eBook? I can only find the "Advanced" one as eBook..´:/

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I got the book but I don't understand how it works. It doesn't use the CAGED positións, does it? I only see the open strings first position. Can you learn to read music using the whole fretboard with this book?

How did they know when to..connect the notes together? I mean, when the length you play them gets shortened and you play them in succession, i guess ;p yeah.. how do they know that? Since for scales.. the notes are played at the same pace, right?

on the second volume on the first page he says it's position 8 and then gets you to play a B which is in position 7, I'm kinda confused...

Great video!

Great video, thanks for the tip. Have ordered the book. Great app, for those that want to learn? Sight Reading Factory...

I learn classical guitar, the first 2 or 3 months I have to struggle with this thing as the new language of music. Nevertheless they wouldn't throw you a sheet once you already know how to signt read. We are not in the orchestra that need to stare at those notes during the concert. The sheet ia just a way how we play for not deviating from the original one. Once you hear the song you know what it sounds and read the notes when we are get confused about what we are going to play on the next line.

I am learning classical guitar, I know the basics of reading notes. However, I find myself slow when I read from the sheet and play at the same time. Are there any helpful techniques that allow me to play while reading from the sheet without pause? Thanks

As much as it would probably benefit me to learn this, it would also probably cause my insanity and eventual demise

can good sight readers read and play very wierd rhythm n long song which is completely new to him on a minute or hour or day or week,does sight reading really means to read and play new song on stage live i don think so,

I definitely don't think that guitar is the hardest of all instruments to sight read on. As a guitarist, its definitely not the easiest, but we should respect other musicians and how hard of a time they have it too! Developing a sense of superiority can be a dangerous road to walk. Accept and love the challenge you have chosen to take, but appreciate the grind of others of a parallel path.

Question: second position = first finger on the second fret, and so on?

Sir, I love your video tutorials. One thing that bugs me and I think most of the "intermediate" guitar players (idk if I used the right word lol) is that how, u masters of guitar just hold the guitar, and something instantly comes up in your mind, and u start playing it without a stop in a series. I mean, we all know scales and all. HOW TO ACTUALLY PLAY WITH CREATIVITY? Wanna make a video plz? Anyone with same problem here plz comment the same ny replying.

guitar grimoire exercise book is better has tabs with notes through and through for major and minor pentatonics

Could you suggest a book that has the same scales without music notes and sight reading?

Yo, I know this is an old video, but I recently joined Tomo Fujita's course and got A Modern Method For Guitar Vol 1 to learn reading. I think I saw you had volume 2. I know you learned with Tomo as well, what would you consider the differences?

When I first got the real book, I know it's time for me to seriously tackle sight reading x_x

I wish that they had digital copies of these books, and then I'd put it on my ipad pro and stick it magnetically to the music stand.

much better to use reading studies i and ii as a workbook in conjunction with modern method 1 & 2. if you just want to sight read then skip the songs and exercises, and use MMFG to learn the 5 patterns. much more systematic.

PLEASE REVIEW MODERN METHOD FOR GUITAR

I don't think the Leavitt reading studies is the best place to start if you don't sight read at all. Instead, I would recommend going through a bunch of beginner books for classical guitar (for example, Frederick Noad's "Solo Guitar Playing"), and after a few of those, William Leavitt's Modern Method For Guitar books. The Leavitt books start you off reading the full range of a position right away, but I think it is more helpful to go through a few baby steps and building up to it a few notes at a time...

When you said “sight reading” I had to pour a drink like they do in the old movies to steady their nerves

So I had to watch a commercial to watch an infomercial. Thanks!

What is the book called?

i can read guitar sheet music i just cant and dont think its that important to sight read and play at the same time as an advanced player you can just read the sheet music and analayze it practice it like any other song and that will obviously do no need to sight read on the spot like pianists??

do they have one for bass

The start of the video got all my hairs up and tight, I was never so traumatised in my life.

You guys should try the game Rocksmith, pure sight reading game

I've never seen a guitarist sight read a music even here on youtube. Can you demonstrate sight reading a piece you've never seen before? Thanks

Sold.

why not just sightread on piano (and other instruments) and use tabs on guitar?

can someone explain to me what a position is please? I know first position refers to open strings or whatever but how about second position or third? thanks

im just gonna ask this, what if there is cheese ib the way of the learning! i mean if you drop some cheese on the manuscript paper and dont know where to go what then?!?!?! are you up the proverbial "shits creek"?!?!?!

I've got a "modern method for guitar nr. 1" from william leavitt. if you wanna learn sight reading AND how to play jazz then buy that one too! :D

Comes with CD?

What is that jazz song at the end?

I guess this sort of thing might work for some...for me, never. I learned to sight read by sight reading pieces I wanted to learn.

you're really so cool and funny sir!

What about piano?

The Leavitt book assumes that you can 'read' music, but not sight read yet. So before you do anything, you need to learn time and key signatures and note rhythm values. If you don't know how to play eighth notes, you can't read them by sight. The Leavitt book actually isn't great for sight reading in general - I got it through my local library system and looked at it. The rhythms don't vary enough - half of sight reading - so it's really a book just for getting to know the neck rather than sight reading. Sight reading involves playing music you don't already know the first time, without ever hearing it. Leavitt is more about finding the notes on the strings. Also, you can play Leavitt's exercises to learn to get around the neck, but if you've already played an exercise and you know how it goes, then playing it better does'nt help you sight read. It's good for your playing, but it's not sight reading.

I completely agree that if you're going to commit to learning guitar, you should do the same for sight reading. This video is not going to make people want to sight read though. Showing notes but offering no explanation on how to identify them or demonstrating how to play them isn't really helpful. What does C major mean? What does relative minor mean? What does the first and second position mean? This is the same as taking a copy of Alfred's Level 1, handing it to a student and saying, "just do this!" I get it, I'm sure it's all explained in your subscription package. I just feel this does more harm than good for beginners.

Whats a position?

Agreed100%. If you want to ever play with other musicians (say horns for example), Tabs and chord charts will only get you so far.