Lately, I’ve been using William Leavitt’s Reading Studies for guitar. I’m on a mission to improve my guitar reading skills and I can already feel the improvements.

I studied several years of classical guitar training and although I always managed to read the pieces I needed I was never satisfied with my reading speed. Too slow, especially when there were position changes involved. Therefore have started using this book, which offers lessons for every fretboard position in progressive difficulty level. I’ve jumped directly to the 5th position since the other ones are easier but I have to admit that after doing the whole thing for the second time my guitar reading is definitely improving. My goal is to be able to read comfortably so that I don’t have to stop every note or chord even if very slowly. My target is that in order to learn new songs it’s important to be able to read at a reasonable speed otherwise learning new stuff becomes a very painful process and we get disencouraged.