Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hi all,

I have been working on the sight reading series for about a week now and have a few questions about how to best practice sight reading. In the video, Tomo recommends that we practice the piece, and then record ourselves playing it. My issue with this is that when I practice one piece over and over until I play it to my liking, with no noise and perfectly on time, then I end up memorizing the piece instead of sight-reading it. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to overcome this issue, or if it is ok that I end up memorizing the piece? I feel like it wouldn't be ok to memorize it because my goal is not to learn the piece itself but to learn how to sight-read using the piece. Or should I try to learn the piece?

Thank You,
Nathan Touchet

Thank you so much for sharing!

First of all, good job!

You need to practice 10 minutes to ... a little more but it will take some time.
90 days straight everyday. So point is you don't want to do too much in one day!

Record yourself is only way to understand your progress & only way to improve!

Yes! Almost memorize.... that's okay because you are learning!
So don't over think. Gradually you will see your progress.

A few week... just learn any duet or etude super slowly and no noise so you are learning muting technique!
I use this book to fix John Mayer's picking technique!

Thank you.