BASIC INFORMATION
Title: Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method Book and Video Series
Lead Author: Chelsea C. Green (American University in Cairo) / @cgreen
Rebus Project Manager: Zoe Wake Hyde / @zoe
License: CC-BY
Target Audience: Individual guitarists, music teachers and their students
Subject: Music / Guitar Performance
Target Release Date: Winter 2018
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method Book and Video Series teaches guitar players from all musical backgrounds to understand, read and play modern staff notation in real-time. The Keep Going Method is designed to impart the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for sight-reading with efficiency, fun and encouragement. The skill of sight-reading is difficult to develop, primarily because it is traditionally taught inefficiently, which this book seeks to address. Further, students encounter high levels of emotional discomfort in the beginning stages of skill acquisition. All types of guitars apply: electric, steel-string and nylon-string.
Each unit contains brief descriptions of musical symbols, play-along duet exercises and compositions, encouragement for the learner and methods for self-assessment. The series contains 20 units that start at the beginner level and progress to the intermediate/advanced level. At the completion of the series guitarists will be able to sight-read most rhythms, pitches and other notations relevant to guitar notation. The series also features 30 original duet compositions, of varying styles, created exclusively for this series!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The content for this book is currently underway, with the first units expecting to be available for review towards the end of July.
Once the content is ready to go, we’ll need help with:
- Peer review & other feedback
- Formatting in Pressbooks
- Accessibility checks
- Promotion and adoptions
If you might be interested in helping with any of these tasks down the road, please comment below and we will be in touch when the time comes!
RECOGNITION FOR CONTRIBUTORS
This project couldn’t happen without your participation. All contributing authors will be credited prominently in their chapter, the book, the metadata and promotional materials. All editors, reviewers and other contributors will also be credited.
RELEVANT RESOURCES
Related research:
- Joyce Eastlund Gromko, “Predictors of Music Sight-Reading Ability in High School Wind Players”, Journal of Research in Music Education 52 (2004). http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2307/3345521
- Marjaana Penttinen and Erkki Huovinen, “The Early Development of Sight-Reading Skills in Adulthood: A Study of Eye Movements”, Journal of Research in Music Education 59 (2011). http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022429411405339
TWEET THIS PROJECT
Want to help create an #opentextbook that teaches sight reading for guitar? Find out how to contribute here: Project Summary: Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method Book and Video Series - Sight-Reading for Guitar - Rebus Community
CURRENT PROJECT TEAM
@cgreen, @zoe, @apurva, @bali, @n-aboulmagd, @zorkani … and you?