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New Guitar Techniques for Sight Reading by Arnie Berle — 10/10

If you’re serious about learning the guitar fingerboard and becoming a fluent reader, New Guitar Techniques for Sight Reading by Arnie Berle is one of the finest guitar-reading books ever published. While many sight-reading methods focus almost exclusively on reading notes within fixed positions, Berle takes a much more complete and practical approach to navigating the instrument.

This book not only develops traditional position reading but also teaches players how to read horizontally across the neck, a critical skill that many guitar methods overlook. Berle introduces common guitar-friendly shapes and musical structures, including intervals such as thirds and sixths, broken chord patterns, and melodic movement that reflects how real guitarists actually play.

What makes this book special is that it teaches you to see the guitar as a connected landscape rather than a collection of isolated positions. The exercises are musical, logical, and highly effective for building fingerboard awareness. Whether your goal is reading notation, improving fretboard knowledge, accompanying singers, playing in ensembles, or becoming a more complete musician, this book delivers.

Simply put, this is one of the fastest and most thorough methods available for learning to navigate the entire guitar neck through reading. It remains an overlooked classic and deserves to be rediscovered by a new generation of guitar players.

10 out of 10. This book absolutely deserves to be reprinted.

What should a serious guitar player be working on in 2026?

In this Career Prep Edition of Boomer Guitar Sessions, Rod Goelz breaks down one of the most important subjects in all of music: CHORDS.

Whether your goal is to become a professional musician, play in a band, write songs, teach lessons, or simply enjoy a lifetime of music-making, your chord vocabulary is one of the greatest investments you can make.

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A small town.
A young guitarist.
A legendary song.

The torch gets passed one generation at a time…

From the groove of Steve Lukather…
to the fire of Eddie Van Halen…
to the spirit of every kid daring to pick up a guitar and dream bigger.

This isn’t just a cover of “Beat It.”

This is the next generation stepping forward.

Hailing from York, Pennsylvania, Daniel dives deep into every layer of this iconic track. First, he locks into the tight pocket rhythm guitar work originally crafted by studio icon (and TOTO guitarist) Steve Lukather. From there, he fearlessly tackles the unforgettable guitar solo made famous by Eddie Van Halen.

But he doesn’t stop there.

The rest of the performance is Daniel’s own creative reinterpretation of the melody — blending feel, phrasing, and imagination in a way that would make Joe Satriani proud.

Daniel represents the next generation of guitar players: students unafraid to study the masters while developing their own voice at the same time. We hope his performance inspires more young musicians to dig into the great works of electric guitar history… so that one day, it’s their music inspiring the generations that follow.

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Steve Cropper: I cared about intros to songs. I got to noticing, listening to the radio a lot that DJs would talk up until the singer started singing, no matter what instrumental was on the front. If it was two-minutes long, one-minute long, or 10-seconds long they would stop talking when the singer started. I thought, "I'm gonna give 'em something they can't talk over."

I can give you an example. Eddie Floyd and I knew we had written a pretty good song with "Knock on Wood." Could not come up with an intro. I looked at Eddie and said, "Eddie, I wonder what 'In The Midnight Hour' sounds like backwards. He said, "I dunno, play it!" So I did. That ended up being in the intro to "Knock on Wood." "In The Midnight Hour" you follow the dots down, "Knock on Wood" you follow the dots up. It's the same thing.

Corbin Reiff Interview
Photo: in a London studio in 1967 while recording with Booker T and the MGs Pictorial Press Ltd

The imposters are among us… “Welcome to the new age”….

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What separates guitar players who know riffs… from those who can actually use riffs in real music?

In this episode of Boomer Guitar Sessions, we break down the Rules for the Riff—a practical, no-nonsense system for learning, playing, and owning guitar riffs so they become part of your musical vocabulary.

Most players memorize riffs like lines off a script… but the greats—like Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, and Jimi Hendrix—internalized them, adapted them, and turned them into a language.

That’s what this lesson is all about.

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