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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Has serious flaws but a good effort by the authorBy DrumblerIf you are a beginning sight reader this book is not the best. A negative with this book is that the exercises advance too quickly with more complicated rhythms. The author tells you to spend many weeks practicing two pages of rhythms in the beginning of the book. Only then are you advised to go further. This is all well and good but its better to combine learning rhythms and sight reading notation. Who wants to spend several months playing rhythms on a single string? Once you get into the next chapters the exercises focus on a key at a time in various fretboard positions. You are given only a couple exercises in each position. In the first key presented which is C; you are shown positions all the way up to the 14th and 15th position. He also inserts more complex rhythms while introducing new positions at the same time which is too much to learn at once.Can this book work? Yes; but there are much better options. I suggest Leavitts Modern Method for Guitar Volume 1. MMFG1 has about 20+ pages just on the key of C in first position. Much more thorough.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Sight-Reading for the Contempoarary GuitaristBy JanioThis is a great book. It is the most complete book of sight-reading Ive ever seen. There reading assignments in virtually all positions of the instrument.6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Great book; but riddled with typosBy Cody ClarkeIve been playing guitar for about 7 years; primarily using tablature for reading music. Basic knowledge of reading rhythms in standard notation. I wanted to be able to learn how to read standard notation; with the goal of being able to sight-read it. This book was right up my alley.The first few exercises will make you feel like an idiot. I felt like a little kid struggling with music that seemed so basic. This was a GOOD feeling though; because I really was starting from square one. I was learning a lot. But then I started to get confused; and it wasnt my fault.This book has MANY typos in it. Not grammatical; just every so often in the tablature and examples. A mistaken fret number or note here or there; a mislabeled interval. Im not even that far in and Ive seen three big ones.Its a shame; because the exercises in the book are great; and though Im not done with the book yet; Im absolutely progressing as a sight-reader; as well as with my knowledge of the fretboard. I hope this book is re-released with the typos corrected. In a music book; there should never be any typos. A single note where it shouldnt be could really confuse a reader.
