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    Sight-Reading For Guitarist

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    This document provides tips for improving sight-reading skills on guitar. It discusses why sight-reading is important for musicians and recommends practicing sight-reading everyday rather than learning pieces. The document offers advice on getting familiar with scales, transcribing music, and learning chord patterns and time and key signatures. It provides exercises and tips for recognizing patterns, anticipating difficult sections, writing fingerings, and practicing in groups. The goal is to make sight-reading easier and more predictable through daily practice.

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    This document provides tips for improving sight-reading skills on guitar. It discusses why sight-reading is important for musicians and recommends practicing sight-reading everyday rather than learning pieces. The document offers advice on getting familiar with scales, transcribing music, and learning chord patterns and time and key signatures. It provides exercises and tips for recognizing patterns, anticipating difficult sections, writing fingerings, and practicing in groups. The goal is to make sight-reading easier and more predictable through daily practice.

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    This document provides tips for improving sight-reading skills on guitar. It discusses why sight-reading is important for musicians and recommends practicing sight-reading everyday rather than learning pieces. The document offers advice on getting familiar with scales, transcribing music, and learning chord patterns and time and key signatures. It provides exercises and tips for recognizing patterns, anticipating difficult sections, writing fingerings, and practicing in groups. The goal is to make sight-reading easier and more predictable through daily practice.

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    Sight-Reading For Guitarist

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    Roberto Kuhn Versluys
    This document provides tips for improving sight-reading skills on guitar. It discusses why sight-reading is important for musicians and recommends practicing sight-reading everyday rather than learning pieces. The document offers advice on getting familiar with scales, transcribing music, and learning chord patterns and time and key signatures. It provides exercises and tips for recognizing patterns, anticipating difficult sections, writing fingerings, and practicing in groups. The goal is to make sight-reading easier and more predictable through daily practice.

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    Sight-Reading

    for Guitarist
    RCS Guitar Summer School
    Guitar and Harp Department
    Roberto Kuhn
    Why learn to read?

     Important part of every day life for musicians


     Develops fretboard knowledge (ability to play in different positions and with
    different fingerings)
     Makes learning pieces easier
     Part of Trinity and ABRSM exams
     Helps in aspects related to composition and arranging for the instrument
    How to practice sight-reading?

     Reading music everyday, not learning rather reading excerpts or pieces at


    your level of musicianship
     Getting familiar with scales and arpeggios in the first position (especially
    grades 1 – 6)
     Transcribing/arranging music
     Improvising and composing
     Learning chord patterns
     Knowing and adapting quickly to different key and time signatures
    Crash Course: Time Signatures

     Divided into three: Simple, Compound and Complex


     Simple: beat can be broken down into two 2/4, 4/4, 3/4 (beat is a crotchet)
    Giant Steps
     Compound: beat can be broken down into three 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 (beat is a
    dotted crotchet)
    Gigue
     Complex: asymmetrical 5/4, 7/4, 7/8 not used in sight reading for ABRSM
    and Trinity, rarely used in guitar repertoire (beat is a mix of crotchets and
    dotted crotchets)
    Balkan Miniatures
    Crash Course: Key Signatures

     How to know in what key we are?


     Two main modes in music Major/Minor
     Amount of sharps and flats determines what key we are in
     As a rule of thumb:
    Go a semi tone higher from the last sharp: you get the major mode
    Go to the penultimate flat: you find the major mode
     Minor mode is a minor third below the major mode
     Use the first and last notes and any unusual sharps or flats to determine the
    key
    Exercise

    As a rule of thumb:
    Go a semi tone higher from the last sharp: you get the major mode
    Go to the penultimate flat: you find the major mode
    Tips

     Always look ahead, whenever there is a rest or a long note don’t stare at it
    rather look ahead into what is happening:

    Exercises:
    Pattern recognition

     Recognise patterns to make reading easier and more predictable

    Exercise
    Recognise Difficult Corners

     Single out difficult parts and practice them before reading the whole
    excerpt or piece

    Exercise:
    Write Fingerings

     In difficult sections write right hand and left hand fingerings for complicated
    patterns or sections:

    Avoid string crossings when possible

    Use intuitive and simple fingerings


    Group Exercises

     Divide students into groups and after 2 min of reading we will play together
    the following exercises:
    Final Thoughts and Materials

     Add sight reading to your daily routine


     Practice sight reading not learning a piece
    Materials:
     Joining the dots
     Sight reading books (ABRSM/Trinity)
     Modern Method for Guitar (Berklee Jazz/Rock)
     Enjoy playing guitar bookings 1 – 2
     First Class Guitar

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