The Art Of Accompaniment On The Guitar Volume 3: How to read music on the guitar

This book, and its predecessors, are directed at all forms of accompaniment in which

the guitar is the key harmonic element but principally when supporting the human voice.

The guitar is most often heard accompanying song from the earliest recorded melodies

to the present day. The previous volumes dealt with the simplest forms of playing an

harmonic accompaniment (chords) and evolved to cover more complex styles so that

good guitarists could make their own decisions and arrangements. The books can be

used as a guitar tutor, and I have taught many pupils using this system, but to complete

that process we must tackle how to read music on the guitar. This final volume is intended

to show how that skill may be learnt and developed. It's easier than you think yet at the

same time more complicated, but definitely worthwhile. You may be tempted to give

up in the early stages, don't worry it gets easier. Guitarists can rarely read the way an

orchestral player can but we don't need that level of skill to approach and understandguitar music better and as a result play it better.