Guitar Reading Workbook: A Basic Course in Music Notation for Players of All Levels

by Barrett Tagliarino

Learn to read standard music notation on the guitar with this easy step-by-step book! Great for beginners or more-experienced "by ear" players who want to start reading, it explains notation reading in detail, relating notes on the staff to guitar fingerboard diagrams and tablature. Practice routines and over 100 written exercises (with a complete answer key included) help you steadily and painlessly develop from an absolute beginner into a real reading and writing musician. You'll learn to recognize larger patterns as you progress, working with scales, chords, arpeggios, key and time signatures, chart directions, and complete rhythmic vocabulary from dotted whole notes down to tied sixteenths. From the author of The Guitar Fretboard Workbook and Chord Tone Soloing.

Genres: Music

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful, especially when paired with the author's Guitar Fretboard Workbook. (I'd recommend doing them concurrently; they reinforce each other well.) Completing this book was a huge step for me to get beyond basic chords and start building true competence. Recommended!