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Tommy Tedesco's book; "For Guitar Players Only" has a section on sight reading for the guitar.
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01-08-2013 03:06 PM
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My Dad was a music teacher and I started on another instrument when I was 8. So, yes. That's almost forty years of reading. However if it's a really tough chart I have to shed it, you know, some bop thing with a lot of syncopation.
Guitarists are usually terrible readers because you don't need to read to get to a certain level on the instrument. Sadly, it sometimes becomes a poser instrument. Present company excluded.
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I sight read very well on a few instruments. Probably weakest on piano. I cover lots of vocalist duo gigs and usually don't have any problems transposing while sight reading, melodic or harmonic, some are physically more difficult than others. The difficulties are when I don't have the technique to cover what someone has notated.
I have medium talent....but put the organized time in with organized fingerings on neck... I don't need to watch my hands and also organized sight reading techniques.... Being able to recognize melodic and rhythmic figures so I'm always ahead enough while sight reding to also be able to also watch dymanics, articulations and general road map.... And what's also very important... I'm listening to the rest of the players...we're playing together, locked in.
Sight reading is a very mechanical skill, great ears are very helpful.... But you don't need creativity, at least not much, just development of the skill.
Reg
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Originally Posted by ChrisDowning
To practice my stacked chord reading I use to read out of hymnals. Four fingers, two bass clef, two treble clef. Great for the brain.
Reading in the studio can take on all forms as I note in this blog post...
Pro Guitar Secrets: Reading for the Studio
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Originally Posted by Dave70
Tommy Tedesco used to write a monthly article for Guitar Player and would share a sheet or two that he'd worked on in the studio, so it was great to get an understanding of what session work was really like and the music you would be expected to play. A lot of that Guitar Player material is in the book. The book went out of print for a while when the Amazon price went up to about $60 for a secondhand copy - came back in print after a few years absence.Last edited by ChrisDowning; 01-09-2013 at 07:25 AM.
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Originally Posted by ChrisDowning
See some clips here...
The Wrecking Crew | Movie | Tommy Tedesco, Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine, Don Randi, Glen Campbell, Earl Palmer
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Yes, but not sight read. I muddle through Real and Fake books.
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You can quickly get the melody when you read, then you have something to improv with too, as well as play the tune the right way. Not being able to read is like driving a car at night with the headlights off.
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