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The Online Guitar Store - Reading Studies for Guitar
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Berklee Press Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 787
EAN: 9780634013355
ISBN: 0634013351
Label: Berklee Press Publications
Manufacturer: Berklee Press Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 1979-06-01
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Studio: Berklee Press Publications
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Editorial Reviews:
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A comprehensive collection of studies for beginners to improve their reading and technical ability. Covers: positions 1 through 7 in all keys while introducing scales, arpeggios, written-out chords, and a variety of rhythms and time signatures.
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Summary: Too Tough for a Beginner
Comment: I got this book along with the Modern Method for Guitar. But it's just too difficult to figure out how to properly use it. As I become a better player and reader, I can see how the drills in this book will be good practice.
I give the book 3 stars for now and will update the review if I find in 6 months that I really can use the drills in this book.
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Summary: Great sight-reading workout
Comment: This is a great book for developing eye+finger+fretboard co-ordination...There are exercises in all keys (ouch!). The best thing is make sure you READ the intro by Leavitt, ie play the pieces without stopping - and dont play too fast - thats not the point of the book. One thing I'd like to have seen was maybe more rhythmic variations. BUT there is another book (Melodic Rhythm studies) so there you go. This is a real old-school reading book, I recommend it.
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Summary: Gets to the point
Comment: Lots of music to read. The book is designed in a way that will produce results.
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Summary: Good for note reading, bad for rhythm reading
Comment: The reading exercises cover the gamut of scales and key signatures. The book is very good for solidifying your finger-eye connection for notes. The weakness of this book is that nearly all the reading exercises are rhythmically simple, mainly constant streams of eight notes. It would have been a stronger book to include more complicated rhythms, with rests. The other William Leavitt book, "Melodic Rhythms for Guitar," covers some of this. But MRfG's weakness is that it's too jazz centric, written primarily with 8th notes, rather than 16th notes. Where are the 16h notes? There should be another volume of one of these books that addresses rhythms more comprehensively.
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Summary: Just Like "Modern Method", Challenging and Rewarding
Comment: Simply put, if you want to become a competent sight reader, you need to have this book. This is the book that truly solidified my sight reading skills, and I can't recommend it enough.
The sight reading starts on page 2 or so, with a brief introduction by Leavitt. The reading sections begin in open position, then progress through positions through VII.
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