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Sight Reading Guitar Music: Faster way for frustrated Guitarists: Part 2

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In this 2nd part of sight reading made easier at the guitar we will employ octaves. This will reinforce our familiarity with the notes in the 5th position, frets 1 to 8. This way we can assure ourselves that our fingers will know where to go when seeing the notes on music manuscript paper. This is essential so that we can just fret the notes without having to look at the finger board and decide which finger to use.

Example 1: C to C octave. Close your eyes and visualise this as you pretend to finger those notes on the guitar fretboard:

Feel the 4th finger to the 1st finger

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Now do the same, but, see it in music notation: C to C octave, Feel the fingering as if you are actually touching the guitar strings and say the names of the notes to yourself.

4th finger to the 1st finger

As you do this you will familiarise your mind, fingers and sight with where to fret.

Now let’s do the same with the other simple octaves from the A minor pentatonic scale.

4th finger to the 1st finger

NOW: 3rd finger to 1st finger

3rd finger to 1st finger

The octaves in 5th position. Frets 1 to 8

The octaves give concrete knowledge of the notes in this 5th position and which fingers to use. This way we can read the music and not panic or fuss about looking for the notes or which fingers to employ. For example when we see a note of D

We can be assured that all we need to do is fret with the “First finger” on the 5th fret of the 5th string.

Or up an octave=”3rd finger ” 4th string 7th fret

In the next part we will look at 4ths, 5ths and arpeggio shapes in this position.

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Guitar Sight Reading : Faster way for frustrated Guitarists: Part 1

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Many guitar players find learning sight reading at the guitar laborious, boring and intolerable! The reason being that many guitar players don’t have a grasp of the notes on the fingerboard.

But, many wish to go to music school or do studio work or tour with famous artists. The need to sight read music suddenly becomes very apparent and essential in order to reach the required standard.

The question is always the same. Is there something that I am already familiar with that will help me speed up the process?

Luckily the answer is a big resounding YES!

The one thing most guitar players do know very well is the A minor pentatonic scale. This gives you many of the notes of the 5th position. Not only that but you will know the fingering like the back of your hand.

The next thing is to move away from the actual guitar and see, hear and feel the notes in your mind and see the notes on the guitar fingerboard and how the look in music notation.

For instance how to does the note A on the 1st string 5th fret look,

How does the note C on the 1st string 8th fret look in music notation

When visualising also “Feel” it in your fingertips and your whole hand,

Now “Fill in” all the rest of the notes in 5th position from frets 5 to 8.

Now visualise them by moving up or down in semitones going across all the 6 strings from the 5th position frets 5 to 8.

For Instance: 1st string=C B B flat A. 2nd string= G F sharp F natural E etc as we see in the notation below.

Now apply this to all six string of the guitar.

One more thing to realise is that the notes on the 1st string are the same as the notes on the 6th string but in a different octave. This in turn cuts down the amount of notes you need to learn.

This is just part 1 of this method, but it is a simple way to get started because you will already have a firm grasp of this scale and position on the guitar. Once you fill it out with the rest of the notes you will start to see patterns, arpeggios, 4ths and one 3rd [Guitar’s Tuning] and most obviously and importantly octaves as they will connect the other positions for you as you progress.

As you become aware of all of this sight reading at the guitar doesn’t seem so daunting and it all starts to make a lot more sens.

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Author: Clifford Martin Musical Artist: Guitar Gti

Modern Music Theory

Clifford Martin is a trained classical musician and composer. His 1st study being piano and composition and a deep study into the meticulous world of modern music theory. He also studied jazz piano and jazz drums privately. Clifford later came back to the guitar and studied in the jazz fusion style of John McLaughlin and Al di Meola. It was at this point that he put all of his years of learning together into one musical form This website is a sort of cataloging of ideas and musical concepts for exploitation and development in the arts of musical composition and improvisation. What started out as a jazz improvisation site has grown into a full blown, harmony, timbre, pitch and rhythm library. Peace, Enjoy!