Bill Swick's One-A-Week Single-Note Studies: 36 Studies in First Position: A Sequenced Series of Guitar Studies to Improve First Position Reading

The One-A-Week Single-Note Series is assembled by the author to assist students of the guitar to read and play single-note studies written for the guitar. For a student to benefit from this first book, it is necessary to be able to read all of the notes in the first position and/or have a clear understanding of reading tablature.Designed for students to play one study a week once they have learned the notes in first position. The 36 studies are ideal for a school year with four quarters and nine weeks in each quarter, or 36 weeks for the school year. All studies may be performed in the first position. The studies are carefully sequenced, becoming slightly more challenging each week.This series is ideal for teaching sight-reading. To perform these exercises, an individual will need to be able to read all of the notes in the first position on all six strings or be able to read tablature. The first six studies are in the key of C major or A minor with no sharps or flats in the key signature. The keys get gradually harder adding one sharp or one flat up to two flats and three sharps. Rhythms are mostly straight eighth notes. These studies are ideal for weekly playing tests.As the title suggests, the best result from using this series comes from learning only one piece per week and learning each of the pieces in the order in which they appear in the book. The end result after 36 weeks is a strong skill for note recognition and finger placement for the first position on the guitar. Read more