When students go to Berklee School of Music, they HAVE to learn to read - or they're out. And I think the main way they learn, and the main way I learned, is by working with Bill Leavitt's
A Modern Method for Guitar, Volume 1. This stuff is dry and boring maybe, but you must remember: it's teaching you to read music for guitar. Leavitt wrote this music as a means of teaching students to read in the first five positions,
in one semester. Put in the work and the results are guaranteed.
Greensleeves is a beautiful song, but it wasn't written for teaching people to read guitar music! The exercises in Leavitt's books WERE. Each builds on the previous one, and the first one is ridiculously easy. Half notes, I think.
Volume 1 now comes (optionally) with a DVD - 14 hours of a Berklee instructor, playing the duets with you, so you always have someone to urge you on. A great investment, and you WILL learn to read. The DVD version is about $23 at Amazon. Here's the link, hope this helps you finally nail it!
Amazon.com: A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1: Book/DVD-ROM Pack (Method (Berklee Press)) (9780876390696): William Leavitt, Larry Baione: Books
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