Week 2 · 12 min

Read without restarting

By the end, you can finish a short first reading within the allotted beats.

Start at the circled note · Full tablature

Before this lesson

Play both bars, following the numbers from left to right.

3 min · 44 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 48 BPM — The first bar has four attacks. The second fits six attacks into the same four clicks.

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In bar 2 the notes come in pairs on beats 1 and 3. One note fills each of beats 2 and 4.

Play both bars and count the rest without losing your place.

3 min · 44 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 48 BPM — All eight beats pass once and the rest keeps its place.

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Bar two starts on open string 2. Beat two is silent.

Scan an unfamiliar tab with your eyes, then play it just once.

3 min · 40 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 44 BPM — You reach the end of both bars in eight clicks without restarting.

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Use miniature 2 for this first attempt. Locate the starting string, the eighth notes and the rest before the count-in.

Replay the miniature you have just read and hold the opening note of bar 2 for two beats.

3 min · 44 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 48 BPM — All eight beats pass once and the rest keeps its place.

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The opening note of bar two lasts two clicks. The rest takes beat three.

You pass when your first reading takes 8 beats at 44 BPM without restarting, then you replay the 2 bars at 48 BPM.

I treat every 1 as a string number.

Find the line before reading the fret number.

I give each eighth note a whole click.

Speak both halves of the beat before playing bar 2 again.