In all fairness, reading music on the guitar and related instruments is much harder than saxophone, piano, and most other wind and brass instruments.

In school, I learned on saxophone, which is relatively easy to read music with. Transferred the skill to keyboard and guitar/bass, but the guitar/bass is the one I'm slowest at. I can sight-read simple music as long as the hand position doesn't change. On the guitar, anything more than that I have to woodshed. On the sax, I can sightread most music, and need the woodshed on the trickiest ones.

But, the guitar has another advantage, so savor this one.

If I change keys on the sax, piano, or other wind/keyboard instruments, in the new key the fingering is entirely different. Which is why we practice our scales and arpeggios in 12 keys.

When I picked up guitar, and the song went from C to C#, all I had to do was move my hand one fret closer to the bridge. Same fingering!!! Hey, do you want to change keys on this song again?!?!?! laugh laugh laugh

I was gigging on the road in the late 1960s and the 1970s during the free love and pre-AIDs era. I had a lot of fun with a lot of gals who told me they were on birth control (but could have lied). I'm not getting my DNA tested. laugh

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