Articles on Guitar Sight Reading
There are many great articles on guitar sight reading online, but some of the most helpful information for someone looking to master sight reading on the guitar would be to learn how to recognize the basic intervals in notation. This guitar article will talk about how to learn these intervals and apply them to sight reading.
When learning to sight read more than one note at a time on the guitar, it helps to know the intervals so that you do not actually have to read each note as you come across them. To understand why this is true, you must realize how the human brain works to process information. This is something that more music articles should focus on.
The human brain can only work with a certain amount of information at once. Just like how you group tallies in groups of five, notes should be groups together into single units to make them easier to see. When you come across a guitar chord you do not want to have to read all of the different notes. There is not enough time to do this while playing.
To be able to process this information quickly enough, it helps to know the intervals in your mind so that you don’t just see a bunch of notes, but a group of intervals that you recognize. You should do this with chords as well, so that when you come across a chord, you know what it is just be the shape, and then all you have to do is see what the root note is.
December 23 2009 12:56 am | Guitar Sight Reading