Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34217 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Great tool for all!
The guitar reading workbook is a great tool for any guitar player interested in learning to read and notate music. The book starts from the very beginning with the basics and progresses through to advanced topics. I like the fact that it includes various excersises in both music notation and reading. I think the book is great and very well organized, I plan on using it for all of my students and guitar classes.
The guitar reading workbook will be a great teaching tool for any guitar instructor as well as a great learning tool for students.

helps guitarists to be true professionals.......
The ability to write and read music notation is essential for any "serious" musician, particularly the guitarist. Virtually every instrument other than guitar requires fluency in the language of music, to include music reading and the concepts of rhythm, intervals and other facets of music theory. Acquiring this fluency can be a daunting task for guitarists because, unlike other instruments, one can 'get by' for a long time playing the guitar using just a few chord forms, one or two scales and little or no formal training.

However, entering music school or executing well in a studio environment without the ability to sight-read music is virtually impossible. Most music colleges -- like it or not -- require sight-reading ability, along with knowledge of music theory, as prerequisites to the entrance audition. So where does a guitarist who wants to get "serious" go for these important skills?

Barrett's material, studied in conjunction with a competent teacher, will help prepare a guitarist to enter music college or become a music reader skilled enough to function in a professional/studio setting, goals well worth pursuing for the professional guitarist. These clear, concise, well-presented and often humorous(!) workbooks fill a big gap in a guitarist's essential musical education and I recommend --and use--Barrett's workbooks on a daily basis in my teaching practice. They work well for my students and have more than prepared a number of them.

the map of life for guitar players
all i have to say is that this book is amazing i called it my self the map for biginners or for any guitar players in the world, i remember the first time i open this book it was like around 8:30 at night and i was so tired well let me tell you this book was like a coffee in the morning woke me up right away i could not put it down it was so simple and easy to read and understand everything , i've been reading a lots of guitar books in my life and for some reason i never get the clear picture for example how to find each note on the guitar it has been always hard for me, well now with this book i can find it with my eyes close honest to god just amazing and iamGuitar Reading Workbook so greatful to have it with me it is totally my secret map yeah