Sight Reading Mastery for Guitar: Unlimited reading and rhythm exercises in all keys (Learn guitar theory and technique)

Great book. Much needed info and easy for those who are intimidated by music reading. I was!

I’ve avoided learning how to read music and forgot most of what I learned when I was a kid learning piano. That was many decades ago. I usually learned guitar songs by ear like many others, but realized how wonderful it would be to translate those symbols on a page to music on my guitar. Just starting, so this book is the perfect resource for me! There are many exercises and words of inspiration to motivate me. The audio samples help assure me that I’m on the right track! Joseph is mindful of advising you to pace yourself and be patient so it’s not overwhelming. Great advice!

This is a useful and unique sight reading methodology because it separates pitch and rhythm reading. These are two different challenges and because of the way this book is presented it allows me to focus specifically on note reading practice.Every key is covered.Rhythms are covered later in the book but I can’t comment on that part because so far I have been only practicing the note reading studies.Another unique aspect is that the exercises are intentionally free of melody. This prevents you from learning by ear and keeps your mind focused on the task of actually reading. It also means that these exercises can be used repeatedly because unlike with more conventional etudes you won’t be memorizing or getting bored with contrived melodies.All the exercises are very much focused around the staff lines. I would’ve liked to have more material that drilled the ledger lines but overall this book is rigorous and challenging and suits my requirements well.

First of all, I have officially doubled my sight-reading speed in only 6 days using this. That sounds like a cheesy marketing statement but it's true. I just had to post a review of praise.I was starting to generate my own pages of totally random notes in Finale to practice sight-reading... but then I wondered if someone had already done this. Found it right away on Kindle, bought it, and am using it every night.Thanks to the author for putting this together. I love it!-Carl.

I was never that convinced that knowing how to read music was that important. I mean as long as you know how to read Tab it's all good right? Wrong. As soon as I started getting more and more into jazz guitar and discovering the likes of George Barnes I quickly discovered that a lot of that music doesn't exist in tablature notation. You have to be able to read music to learn to play it. This is a great book with lots and lots of great exercises to give you a solid understanding of how to not only read the notes on the stave, but then to translate it to the fretboard. Thoroughly recommended.

Thankfully, I'm a pretty good reader of notes. However, this book still provided me with comprehensive drills to develop my note-reading skills. The book is easy to understand and progresses naturally and methodically toward mastery in learning the fretboard.

I bought this book to refresh my sight reading skills. Admittedly, I thought it was going to be like all of the other books that I've read on the subject that just re-packaged what everyone else teaches. Was I wrong. Mr. Alexander does a great job of breaking down every aspect of sight reading in a fresh way, I was almost excited to work through the exercises. It's a great book for developing or honing this important skill.

The exercises are not arranged progressive according to difficulty but are instead mixed, which makes it hard to progress through the book.