How can I point the "stuff" I do in guitar class to improving music reading? Nearly all guitar skills can "point" towards music reading in one way or another. Fingerpicking is no exception.
1. Have students spell the C chord CEGCE and notate it vertically as a block chord. For beginners you may notate it for them. Do this on the left side of a stave.
2. Circle the bass note. This represents the "thumb" (p)
3. Draw a bracket connecting the top three notes. These will represent the fingers (i,m,a)
4. Draw the stems and beams for the ascending arpeggio. (More advanced students will not need you to draw the stems and beams.)
5. Students add the noteheads (from the block chord on the left). Be sure they spell the arpeggio C-G-C-E.
6. Do this for the chords in a song you are working on.
7. Read and loop the arpeggios.
8. Play the song.
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