



Needless to say, it's a fairly slow and laborious process to translate from the paper into something I can play. I know the basics of sheet music I can work out the melody if I sit down for a while, muttering mnemonics under my breath and counting frets up the neck while picturing a piano keyboard to figure out where there's a half step between notes instead of a whole step (not to mention trying to work out the rhythm very slowly by counting "one-ee-and-a two-ee-and-a" and getting lost a lot of the time because the rhythm doesn't sound right at that slow a pace). He has a lot of good tips for how to practice and drill chords, and scales, but he doesn't have much information on how to learn to read sheet music. I'm learning guitar right now, mostly from Justin Sandercoe's free online lessons, starting from the beginner's course.
