How to really use the Real Book / Guitar Sight Reading 101

[@noahjustice1347]

Rotem is teaching me how best to open to a random page

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Lolz

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

1. Pick a random page and comp using Shell Voicings (R 37) 1:10 2. Read the melodic rhythms and sing or clap along one line at a time. 2:30 3. Read Melody 3:35 4. Sight Read Basic Chord Melody 5:10 5. "Take the chord apart" play each chord as intervals 6ths 3rds 10ths etc. 6:29 6. Open up a random page and take a solo while you comp for yourself. 6:25 7. Play a section a few times then play it without the score. 8:25

[@SirWilliamTambourine]

Instant subscribed. This channel is a goldmine

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Thanks!!! 💚

[@GlennMichaelThompson]

Lately I've seen videos that have been against using the Real Book and/or fake books in general. They have a couple of valid points; one example is that the original Real Book (1st edition) have some of the wrong changes. But personally I used the first edition with a good teacher i studied with way back when I was a teenager. I've since picked up several other fake books including newer editions of the Real Book. I've learned so much by using them in the ways you suggest as well as a few other approaches. Using the Real Book every day for years increased my knowledge in so many positive ways. Been playing and teaching music for over 40 years now and still get a lot of mileage from this and other fake books. Great lesson, and it's great to hear you endorsing its use rather than trashing it as I've witnessed others do lately. Keep up with your excellent lessons here on youtube. Best regards from Montréal, Québec, Canada. - Glenn✌😉

[@lafnbuddha]

L, Z

[@taltalonix]

בדיוק מתחיל להיכנס לג׳אז וזה ממש עזר לי. תודה רבה!

[@rockguitarmodes]

There’s some great advice here on using the Realbook. One thing that I think is really vital is to hear some famous versions of the tune you are trying to play. I appreciate you’re working at something different here, reading, shell voicing practice etc. Imagine how easy all those charts would be to play if you’d listened and heard every one of those tunes from an early age: all the rhythms, chord changes and melodies would already be internalised

[@Shek2112]

Hi Rotem , just wanted to let you know the audio in your videos recently have been excellent. You are a great teacher 👍

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Thanks! I'm trying 🙏

[@MilesMetviner]

amazingly helpful video, thank you!

[@usinganear]

3:55, caught you playing that D a quarter note too short!! Tsk tsk!! 😅 You are so much better than I am, obviously just messing around with you.. Your playing is incredible!

[@RobertHayes-tu5fp]

Great stuff! The other really useful thing is to try and sight read with a metronome.

[@russlgtr]

Thank you, this really is what I have been looking for. The real vocal book is also a great thing for me. So great to have the words as it well. I believe chords and melody are the same, why not have the words also, I thought. Even more magic happens when you find a singer or sing it yourself 😎

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

🙏

[@andrevilaca6469]

you might not believe, but your videos are helping me a lot on bass, I started 15 years ago on guitar (due to burnout) switched a couple years ago to bass 4 strings, then 5, and maybe 6 in the near future

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Oh awesome!!

[@amitleshed]

You’re the man Rotem thanks a lot 🙏

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Thanks Amit 🤘❤️

[@scottwesner1706]

Rotem do you have a particular volume of Real Book you recommend? Thank you

[@blacksun2158]

Bought the real book recently, and this were some real good tips !!

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Yasss

[@grinpick]

I've got a wide array of Real Books. I've had them for quite a few years. I go to them maybe two or three times a year to get a lead sheet for a particular song (no, never a random one.) Your very good lesson made me realize that those books are a resource that I need to make better use of. Well done. Thanks.

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

🙏💙

[@yoshephjazz]

Eres la mejor academia para aprender guitarra jazz y lo mejor GRATIS, gracias infinitas por tu tiempo y dedicación, me encantaría oír uno de esos estándares de jazz tocado por ti completo. De nuevo gracias infinitas

[@merenco]

Thank you Rotem! Just bought the Real Book again (!) and thought what a great source it is. These tips are very helpfull, hopefully finding my way (back) to jazz again.

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

❤️

[@Roger_L.]

Really good video, thanks for your sharing!!

[@patrickhay2561]

Dude I feel like I've been waiting for this video. My Real Book got beat to hell in college, then lost when I moved to NY. A few months ago I got lucky and found a mint one for $2 at a thrift store. Looking forward to diving back into it!

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Oh fire. Where at? $2 (!) I wanna get some too lolz

[@patrickhay2561]

@@RotemSivanGuitar Virginia Beach, VA. Also got 2 Jamey Aebersolds, a Stevie Ray Vaughan tab book (all $1 each), and a camera tripod for $2.

[@yamacorsoglu827]

Thank you so much for this very very helpful lesson Rotem !

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

❤️

[@pieceoffake7443]

This is one of the best lessons I've seen on your channel. Great practical advice

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Thanks David

[@MCM686]

This is awesome, I wonder what chord book you can recommend to have my fingers memorized so the progression is more subtle and smoother?

[@hearpalhere]

Thanks for the tips. I'm barely able to read music at all much less sight read but I am learning and having fun. I just started learning from a real book too and this is quite useful.

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

🤘

[@GuitarBluesHury]

Lightbulb! thanks!

[@enharmonic77]

haha! Pissed myself laughing when you kept opening at a random pages till you found a good one

[@jimmydim2212]

thanks Rotem this was very helpful. I had to join a song on the spot once and could not follow the real book page!

[@cbolt4492]

Superb info

[@juan.asensio.musica]

This is great advice. Thank you Sir.

[@camposmusic]

Nice!

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Fantastic ideas Rotem. Bit of trivia by the way. In Nigeria where my family come from there is a common name: Rotemi. That was what i first thought of when I saw your name.

[@rocketrmz5403]

I was looking for a video about this‼thank you

[@pyschointellectual]

I love you bro freaking randome page 😂. Hahah you made laught today best guitar lesson i remember ahaha😅

[@frankvaleron]

Wonderful insights

[@guatemala3d]

Amazing video! thanks for doing this! Just a question, what is that rope type wrapped into your guitar neck? I´ve seen similar approaches in other players, is that to avoid string vibration? helps with tone?

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

It's to avoid sympathetic vibration from open strings mainly

[@9.w4v]

so fantastic

[@carlos_tbg8]

"Random" page! 🤪 Great tips! Thank you

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

🧚‍♀️

[@netosku]

Amazing!

[@discobacon5160]

You are a master teacher. Thanks a lot for this content :)

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

🙏🙏🙏

[@julianoshoufany1569]

Thank you

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

❤️🧚‍♀️

[@VitalBigras]

Helpful !

[@Panagiotis_Anagnostopoulos]

Hello, i really like your content! Love your sound most of all! Just wanted to ask, is there a specific reason that you dont "follow" the musical values written? For example in 03:49 or in 05:18 you never played eighth notes. Im new to Jazz thats why im asking, not trying to play it smart or smth.

[@BaThienFlute]

thanks

[@juliobonnemaison9179]

Nice... What reverb do you use, and what settings?

[@lv6750]

Great video!

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

💙🙏

[@andrewgilbert4246]

😂 good one Rotem... I have some way to go to be able to site read, know the rhythm etc. but good stuff. Thanks

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Thanks Andrew! Yas!

[@clayfung5994]

Thanks Man! Finally I've reason to open the real book rather then play along app

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

:) yas!!

[@paolobiancucci]

bravo

[@mickbaranko7733]

Can't wait to give it a try! I found out about shell cords in your video and got The Real Book. It is a little intimidating. You brought some perspective! Thanks!!

[@anneleenenmax6425]

♥️♥️great!!

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

😘

[@davidestes9971]

Any idea why the chord changes in my real book are different than yours? Mine is the sixth edition and in “I Could Write a Book” mine goes two beats per chord like Cmaj7, A-7, D-7, G7, E-7, A-7, D-7, G7 while yours goes Cmaj7, A-7, D-7, G7, Cmaj7 (for 6beats), G7 I’m confused

[@jef159]

3:12-3:15

[@saepiumv3813]

Fantastic thanks! Can someone recommend me a good book to link the notes to the position on the guitar fretboard? I know some piano so I can sight read (slowly) but I don't know where the correct place on the fretboard is to play these notes.

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

The Q is what music you're trying to play as well. See what's your style is demanding and go from there

[@johnnyguitar_34]

What is that block just below your pickup, I could guess, but why? Thanks for the lesson by the way. Have you discovered Buddy Fite. The album I liked of Buddy's a lot was the one called "Tasty" his version of willow weep for me spot on. About his playing, Buddy was a Pedal Steele player for quite some time which I think explains his Right hand. Technology , I forgot here is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2SzqGuDjtyZrsU&start_radio=1&rv=u3Pw8MYwfxc&t=0

[@arthurcharron3601]

Hi rotem, do you know where I could find a book like yours! #bible;) great video thanks you!:)

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Online!

[@Sulli03.]

You should try to make it so we can see you strumming the strings.

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

On it

[@dudeman5303]

I think calling it the bible of jazz is going overboard. It's seen as a solid introduction to jazz but serious jazz musicians will judge you quite a bit if you show up at a gig and play versions of standards from the Real Book. Its more the "training wheels" of jazz, and I mean that metaphorically but that is literally what it is. It's a great starting place and you can get solidly good with repertoire using it in plenty of ways, but many of the versions in it are still inaccurate when going over the majority of jazz artists' music, especially the original black jazz artists, because most of them didn't give any sort of publicly released sheet music, they wanted people to learn by ear and transcribing it themselves. That resulted in bad transcriptions from the berklee college students who made the Real Book, they were never given legal rights to release the sheet music for many artists, and often times they were transcribing the wrong versions(they'd do some more contemporary versions) and not the originals so they'd often leave out important hooks and have them in wrong keys, white jazz artists mostly gave up their own sheet music for the book and had released sheet music already but this resulted in all the original jazz artists from the black community not having accurate excerpts in the real book. And, so to truly get their songs correct you have to transcribe them by ear, and if you're out in the jazz community people will definitely judge you if you're playing songs directly out of the real book and are playing the wrong stuff. People expect you to learn the originals and they'll test you on it when they jam with you too, they'll know exactly what's going on if they say play a song and you don't play it in the original key, and they will assume you aren't a serious musician. In the jazz community, using the real book isn't looked down on in early stages, but it is looked down on if you don't lose those "training wheels" and learn the correct version/original through your own hard work in transcription. So anyone getting the real book should keep this in mind when using the real book, if you intend on being a serious/professional jazz musician make sure you are aware of this, if you're just learning this stuff to learn it it's no big deal though. This is just food for thought if you're going to go into the professional jazz communities.

[@thepostapocalyptictrio4762]

Do “ professional” jazz players actually like Jazz? I ask because the amount of snobbery and gatekeeping I see is atrocious and it’s slowly killing that which they supposedly love. The Real book is fine. It’s a good start. Is making your own transcription a good skill and help you as a musician? Absolutely I agree with that, but you need new people to come into an art to keep it alive and the Real Book helps with that.

[@michaelenns8872]

How do you even read the harmonics??? I can't tell if there is a 7 or a 9 written and so on. Some of the harmonics don't make sense ...

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Lol. Yea...

[@dylanwilliams259]

Random spot when talking about how jazz has a lot of repetition, proceeds to cut scene and a new page is up.. hmm cheating lmao love you anyways

[@giordanocriscenzo7735]

Man!great !!

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Thanks brother! How are ya?

[@giordanocriscenzo7735]

@@RotemSivanGuitar i m ok bro

[@Digitalpapii]

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[@ClbnaVGM]

"Random page"... :))))

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Lol

[@dianesmith2555]

Why the rubber band, on your guitar???????please?

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

For feedback

[@gtrmusic69]

It's only sight reading the first time you read something. After that it's reading.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Take a shot when you hear the words "random page".

[@johnbrown8388]

I don't understand that guitar.

[@jodyguilbeaux8225]

i heard the first 3 chapters were really written by moses............................just kidding

[@NassosConqueso]

Random or ... pseudorandom? 😝

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

Lolz yep...

[@Kyrelel]

OK, Guitar Sight reading 101, huh ... Give the book to someone who doesn't know how to read music and ask them to name a few chords ...

[@theprogrammerrolandmc3039]

How do you find a jazz guitarist go to the local homeless soup Kitchen 🤣

[@salort2934]

I don’t know what Mike Pence is doing there. I’ll be willing to vote for the first Indian president, he’s more American than the rest.

[@hakeemahmadjamal7403]

Real jazz niggas don’t need the real book 😤😤

[@RotemSivanGuitar]

💜

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

loool

[@MrAllright2]

Cheating! no random choice at all!