It took me quite a while to learn but I’m actually fairly good reader now. I had to learn because I’m in a swing band that expects you be able to play tunes you have not heard before. I went through a basic instruction book 1 Hal Leonard? Mel bay? Not sure which but they are basically the same. The I started with a real book and I went with tunes from the American songbook, Tunes like " all of Me ", Satin Doll, pick tunes that are mostly quarter notes, and eighth notes and in the key of C, F, G, D Bflat, put a metronome on really slow maybe 50 bpm at first and work on it for 10 minutes a day at the start of you practice but not so much that you can’t stand it.
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