Ep72 Should You Learn How to Read Music?
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Should guitar players learn how to read music? In this free guitar lesson, I discuss the pros and cons of reading standard musical notation. I talk about where your time might be better spent and how professional guitarists use their sight-reading skills.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 72 of the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host |
| 0:24.6 | Desi Cerna so today we're going to talk about reading standard musical notation |
| 0:30.0 | should you learn how to read it is it not really useful to a guitar player who's playing popular styles of music like rock? |
| 0:37.0 | I'm going to get into those details. I'm going to talk about whether or not you should learn how to read music when you're first getting started, |
| 0:43.6 | whether you should save it for later, what the benefits might be to you that go beyond |
| 0:48.8 | just reading music that perhaps you haven't considered. Lots of stuff to talk about here. |
| 0:53.6 | It's gonna be a long podcast. |
| 0:55.8 | Once again, I have taken the audio out of a video |
| 0:59.2 | that's posted on YouTube. |
| 1:01.2 | So you can listen to that audio here, or you can go over to my YouTube channel |
| 1:05.1 | Desi Cernic Guitar and you can watch the video. All right before we get started I |
| 1:10.4 | want to remind all of my podcast listeners to go to my website guitar music |
| 1:14.6 | theory dot com answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send you |
| 1:19.0 | free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level. I'll help you to determine |
| 1:25.0 | what level you're at right now and what you should be working on in order for |
| 1:29.9 | your playing to take shape and in order for you to move forward with your |
| 1:33.7 | playing so enroll in a free course now at guitar music theory.com you should be able to |
| 1:39.6 | click on a link in the podcast show notes. Greetings guitar engineers. I'm Desi Cerna and in this video I want to take some time |
| 1:58.0 | to talk to you about whether or not you should learn how to read music. |
| 2:03.5 | So I get a lot of questions from people |
| 2:05.3 | that are either just beginning with guitar |
| 2:08.4 | and they ask me if they should learn |
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