Guitar Sight Reading and Music Transcription
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 to be able to identify the notes on an instrument to know what is being played, and being able to sight read music is also important if you want to notate it. So guitar sight reading can help in this regard as well. Plus, once you can notate music yourself with the guitar, you wont have to pay money for a music transcription service.
The guitar can be a great instrument to use for transcribing music, but you need to be familiar with guitar sight reading to be able to do this. You need to know where the notes are on the fretboard and how to write them down in music notation, and guitar sight reading will make you familiar with both of these aspects. The reason why transcribing music with the guitar can be so helpful is that you get practice identifying notes by sound, identifying rhythms by sound, notating those notes and rhythms, and learning to play what you are transcribing. It is a very complete form of practice.
Guitar sight reading can be the key to learning how to transcribe music with the guitar, and both of these practices together can really improve your guitar playing and your understanding of music in general. Yet another reason to not overlook guitar sight reading.
June 13 2009 05:41 pm | Guitar Sight Reading