|
|
The Online Guitar Store - Sight Reading for the Classical Guitar, Level I-III"
|
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $12.69
Your Save: $ 0.26 ( 2% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780769209746
ISBN: 0769209742
Label: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 43
Publication Date: 1985-03-22
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
Studio: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
Daily sight reading material with emphasis on interpretation, phrasing, form, and more.
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Sightreading book
Comment: This book is a systematic, progressive group of studies that will help any aspiring classical guitar student develop important skills in sight reading and counting different rhythms. You won't regret this buying this book if this is what you are looking for.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sight Reading for the Classical Guitar: Level 1-3
Comment: While not exaxtly a classical guitar beginner, I nevertheless noticed that my rate of progress was not matching my hard work in diligently practicing. My teacher knew that I was working hard and one day when she noticed my frustration she told me to get Sight Reading for the "Classical Guitar: Level 1-3" and, same title, Level 4-5. I did and immediately discovered what I had not sensed or heard...or understood what my teacher had been gently telling me.
Quoting from the Foreword of this book, "...it is important to develop facility in reading, recognizing the notes, as well as the bar positions in which to play them, the fingerings, the rhythmic patterns, and any markings of interpretation (dynamics, phrasing, articulation, etc.)."
The beginning guitarist, and even those more advanced, must develop skill in these facits if real progress is to be made.
The excercizes are mostly one-line, easy to read--even melodic--compositions that you will know when you have played them correctly. I particularly like the brief, direct, no-preaching comments the author makes. The book provides a thrifty, interest-keeping tool that now occupies a significant part of my daily practice routines. And, my progress is getting back on schedule.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Benedict offers a thoughtful and articulate text that is useful for beginners and learned guitarists alike!
Comment: I ordered this book in the hopes that it would be useful not only for my students but for myself as well and it really does deliver. This text, Level I-III, assumes that the student has at least a basic knowledge of music theory but not so much that it's useless for beginners. It starts out with simple diatonic exercises on the first string, a great departure point and a common starting point for many generations of guitarists.
Just as it states on the cover, Benedict emphasizes dynamics, interpretation, phrasing and form almost right from the start. This wide scope permeates the lessons and lends a lightness and freshness to the lessons that keeps the student wanting more. The pacing of the exercises is carefully constructed and there are no big jumps in difficulty, which is great. Equally useful is his addition of random rhythm patterns at the end of each level. With all the emphasis on tone production, dynamics and interpretation, students (and teachers) often neglect their rhythmic mastery and with Benedict's inclusion of these random rhythms and his even-handed approach, one is sure to learn something no matter their experience level!
There haven't been many books that have made my list of instructional essentials but this book and the second volume have proven to be indispensible to myself and to many of my students. The fact that this book just happens to make you a better sight-reader in the mean time is a testament to its transparency and usability. Highly recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Useful to have, and easy to use
Comment: Not a bad price, and not dispiritingly difficult either. Purpose-written guitar sight-reading material is hard to find, good to have this and the companion Level 4-5 book to work from.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
