Before starting guitar wisdom I have played guitar for about 2 years. I can play about 30 songs successfully (meaning play the song on Spotify and jam along with very minor issues issues such as maybe dead noting every once in awhile). But I am starting this and have been stuck on the first exercise for sight reading for over a week. I have learned to read music on piano over a decade ago and remember it being fairly easy. But on guitar I am stuck at 60 bpm and cannot make it through the first exercise in the book. Is this normal? or am I missing something fundamental here? I really want this and practice for about 2 hours everyday, playing songs I know or learning new ones. If I just need to stick at it until it clicks I am more than willing, but I just need to know if there is something I doing completely wrong here.
Hi, That's how it was for me too. I was doing 15 min per day and it took forever and a day to get through the first pages. :)
Thank you for responding! :) I just got through the first exercise today! Very exciting moment ha! Its good to know that it just takes time. I was pretty concerned that I was doing something wrong.
Jean-Michel Moreau
I always think to my self, as long as I keep going, a little each day and appreciate the the most minuscule of wins... then I can't help but improve. You can do it :)