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How to Practice Sight-Reading on Guitar (methods and tips)


https://classicalguitarshed.com/sight-reading-guitar/ Learn music faster, Play nice with others, Browse more music, and advance as a musician. Sight-reading is a skill worth practicing, and this video shares a couple of thoughts to get you rolling.

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31 thoughts on “How to Practice Sight-Reading on Guitar (methods and tips)

  • I've never seen a guitarist even here on youtube who sight read an intermediate-pro level of music that they've never seen before. Can you demonstrate it please? Thanks!

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  • ALWAYS be reading at least a bar ahead of what your playing. That's how to actually accomplish it. Then you can actually start to consider phrasing, tonality, etc. If you're reading what you're playing as you're playing it there's no hope.

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  • That was very interesting! Just the opposite of what I would have expected. Been learning sight reading a little over a month. The reading of the interspersed chords definitely slows me down!

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  • My instructor gave me these exercises that have all kinds of accidentals and syncopated notes. I'm dying and I think I'll tell him this is too challenging.

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  • Is it important to learn chords just by the notes on the staff? In jazz they just write the name of the chord and you play which is simple. But do advanced guitarists learn about that and sight read it?

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  • I'm not able to have a guitar right now but this is helpful to keep my brain up to date

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  • Hey, so I'd like to start with a daily routine on this 4:07, because I just see the point. It makes you more useful as a guitarist, for you can start playing stuff instantly. Where can I get a sort of generator of sheet music which will just generate sheets which I have to play? Or doesn't this exist?

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  • anyone interested in my mini book note reading can email me patrickdisimone@@t its only 6 pages long thus far.

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  • I've been playing 46 years and I "forgot" to read 30 years ago. I'm trying to learn again and this is really great advice

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  • What has helped me the most is working in sight-singing. Looking at the sheet and hearing a note in your mind before you get there helps tremendously.

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  • This is incredibly hard for me to allow notes to be missed. It makes my head hurt. Sight reading is another skill. Reading a part for keeps is a different thing in my brain. Keeping moving. Whew. So hard. But it gets easier. I just have to try and not fall off completely when I get mixed up.

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  • Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. They have helped me greatly. Please don't ever stop.

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  • to keep sight reading in good shape ,you need  to practice everyday for the rest of your life if you work in the music business.
    I used to work as a studio musician recording for many years
    suddenly I quit, and I keep playing in concerts with bands
    and then solo singer guitar player, but after 25 years I went in to the reading again
    honest I could not read 5 notes on tempo, the only thing I never forgot was the notes in the guitar , cause I play the guitar every day ,but I  was able to read the chords on tempo.
    also my vision deteriorate in 25 years, when  your vision make you feel uncomfortable ,with some kind of sore in your eyeball, is hard to keep going,worst  if you stop practicing.

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  • if I want to learn a piece of music , with a normal difficulty , can I memorize it slowly and practice it then be able to perform it and use the sheet to keep the rhythm neat and make sure I don't miss any note ?thank you

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  • I like the point about the goal being to keep playing, even when only playing about 60-80% of notes. Very helpful.

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