Sight Reading For Guitarists Book Level: Grade 1-2+ 'Sight Reading for Guitarists Book' focuses on what effective sight-reading should truly encompass. Featuring easy notes and rhythms, this book presents one hundred melodies in a methodical, imaginative, and enjoyable manner, concentrating solely on single-line melodies in the first position. These melodies can be introduced to students almost from their very first lesson, with the complexity increasing progressively to cater to higher-grade students as well. While aimed primarily at grade 1-2 players, more experienced guitarists may also find value in attempting to play the studies in higher positions. With 60 pages of engaging content, this book is an essential resource for developing sight-reading skills on the guitar. Contents Includes: IntroductionHints on using this bookCounting the rhythms usedin this bookPiece # 1 - # 100 are in first position with no notes higher than fret four and are single-line melodies, i.e.: no more than one note at a time is played. Notes used in this book are whole notes, half notes, dotted half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and dotted quarter notes. Apart from one or two ‘atonal’ examples, all the music has been kept in the keys of C major, G major, D major, A minor, E minor and B minor in 2/4, 3/4 or 4/4 time. Accidentals are used in the first part of the book with key signatures introduced from number 64 onwards
