http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com Free Articles and Exercises for Guitar Music Sight Reading Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:41:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the subject of practicing guitar sight reading again, one of the most important parts to keeping up a practice routine and not getting burnt out on sight reading is to make sure that you are practicing reading music that you enjoy. This means not only should it be at ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/guitar-sight-reading-practice-philosophy/ If you are looking at this site, it is probably because you want to learn how to, or get better at sight reading on guitar, and there is one key piece of advice I can offer: practice consistently. If you are trying to improve your sight reading, it has to ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/consistency-in-guitar-sight-reading-practice/ 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 ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/articles-on-guitar-sight-reading/ There are many parts of the guitar that can be upgraded in order to improve the quality and look of the instrument. More players should take advantage of this because it can be an easy way to have a better instrument without paying a lot of money for a new ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/upgrading-parts-of-the-guitar/ The benefits of guitar sight reading have been covered here in detail, but they can be more than just musical benefits. Along with all the ways that learning to sight read can impact your playing and understanding of music, it can also affect how much money you can make from ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/how-guitar-sight-reading-can-make-you-more-money/ It may not be obvious, but there is a type of effects pedal that can help you learn sight reading on the guitar. Everyone knows about the overdrive, distortion, and multi effects pedal, but this is one that has a slightly different function. The pedal I'm talking about is a ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/using-guitar-pedals-to-help-sight-reading/ Sight reading can be a very important skill for music composers just like it is for any other types of musicians. This is because it has many benefits beyond being able to read music. Learning to sight read on guitar will help you learn the fretboard in a much more ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/guitar-sight-reading-for-music-composers/ There are two main types of chord sight reading that you will encounter as a guitar player. The first, and most common for most styles, is reading chord symbols and names written above notated parts or just as a chord sheet by themselves. This is by far the easier situation. ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/sight-reading-chords-on-guitar/ One beneficial aspect of learning guitar sight reading is that you will gain practice playing without looking at the guitar fretboard, which is something you have to do while sight reading effectively. This is an often overlooked aspect of playing guitar, which is a very visual instrument. Even though you ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/guitar-sight-reading-playing-without-looking/ Guitar sight reading can lead to an understanding and ability to perform music transcriptions, which themselves can be an important practice tool. Transcribing music is the act of notating music that is heard, and can be a very challenging excercise. But in order to do it at all, you need ... http://sightreading.guitarsphere.com/guitar-sight-reading-and-music-transcription/