sightreading for guitar

Hi, trying to make a real go of reading at the minute.

however, I keep hitting tunes that are written (as an example i will
use the key of c)



c c c eflat d dsharp cc

...... and the e-flat then d-sharps mess me up totally as they destroy
the continuity when they are one bar after the other , also the
dreaded f-flat or c-flat will knock me out.

these are NOT isolated incidents, it seems that a lot of realbooks are
like this.

Is it me or have the transcribers got it badly wrong ,,,,I mean its
tough enough without these enharmonic spellings..


example 1,,,,,, chuck sher real book 1 page 37 "bouncing with bud" a-
section bar2 g-flat bar 4 f-sharp.....

then in b-section a D-SHARP in bar 6 ... ITS IN THE KEY OF B-
FLAT ...SURELY ITS E-FLAT DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also page319 (same book) " simple samba" page 319 f-sharps in b-
section g-flat in d-section

etcetcetc,

these has to be errors, who can read songs at this speed with
enharmonics like this?

Please dont tell me that it somehow matches the chord progression
spelling, we are talking about reading here.









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