What's the best way to silence a guitar player? Give them sheet music. Do you wanna be another statistic in that cruel joke? You owe it to yourself to get at least a basic understanding of standard notation because it's the traditional written language of music.
Once you know how to read music, the only person who can take that ability away from you is yourself if you're not consistent with using it.
While it has a strong learning curve, sheet music gives you the best way to interpret music using theoretical analysis in a way that's far superior to chord diagrams and tabs. Plus, it'll give you the power to play music meant for other instruments and give you another way to communicate with other musicians in a band. Today I'll show you a friendly exercise for metalheads to dip their toes in the pond of sight reading. We'll be covering how to read the notes A, B, and C, as well as the rhythms. Then, we'll put all the pieces together in a super fun, thrashy, haunting metal riff.
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