Advanced Guitar Sight Reading?

[Trippled]

Hi,

I'd like to try and really work on my sight reading but all I've got to know till
today are books for beginners teaching playing on the C major open position,
which I feel is so irelevant and limiting, I really want to get to play classical pieces
and I'm wondering, even if I bought a book for clarinbet or flute, how am I going
to know how to place arppegio shapes, higher octave scales on the fretboard?

If anyone here has this type of knowledge I'd be really happy to know what you do.

Daniel.

[giannifive]

This is what you want:

Amazon.com: A Modern Method for Guitar - Volumes...
Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar (the Berklee books).

[Helter Skelter]

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The books linked above look pretty good. I don't know if you've actually taken any classical guitar classes or just looked at books, but the books my professor used always told us (in the beginning) which finger to use for which string when a new complex chord shape was encountered. After a while, the books will assume you're getting a feel for how you should be making the shapes. If you're not, the book will suggest you practice. If something weird came up later on in isolation, it just told us what to do. The books also taught all kinds of scales and modes, so it definitely wasn't irrelevant. Once you can read in one scale, you can read in any other so long as you understand the differences the scale change causes.

[giannifive]

Originally Posted by Helter Skelter

The books linked above look pretty good. I don't know if you've actually taken any classical guitar classes or just looked at books, but the books my professor used always told us (in the beginning) which finger to use for which string when a new complex chord shape was encountered. After a while, the books will assume you're getting a feel for how you should be making the shapes. If you're not, the book will suggest you practice. If something weird came up later on in isolation, it just told us what to do.

The Leavitt series I mentioned does this really well.

[Trippled]

Well I do have vol 1, it's fine, I actually discovered today they actually show the second position by the end of the book, the thing is that I'm kinda tired of playing these excercises, I know I'm suppoused to learn step by step but honestly if I can read most of the stuff on this book pretty good can't I start practicing on some more simple classical pieces? What am I going to study in the next books?

It's hard to be motivated with these books.. there's such a huge gap between my technical level and between the stuff there.

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Yep. You can always add a few pieces. I don't know where you are as far as classical, but start with some Gaspar Sanz.

[elq]

I MUCH preferred this book to the Leavitt series - Amazon.com: Music Reading for Guitar (The...
The author starts with the 5th position which makes a lot of sense for most music reading, unless you want to spend the next year playing simple classical guitar music.


Edit:
Doh. I just read that you want to play classical pieces. Ignore my advice then

[Trippled]

Well id like to play classical stuff but more in the sense of how you'll play on a flute or violin, not on a classical guitar. Kinda like what shawn lane and paul gilbert does if you saw their vids playing classical pieces.