Reddit mentions of Julio S. Sagreras Guitar Lessons: Books 1-3 (English and Spanish Edition)

Try 'Sight Reading For Classical Guitar' by Robert Benedict -

Level I-III and

Level IV-V

Also, Trinity College's 'Sound At Sight' books are very useful for practice -

Grade Initial-3

Grade 4-8

I also find Julio Sagreras's First, Second and Third Lessons In The Guitar very useful for both sight reading and developing my right hand technique.

If we're talking about the white and red book with spiral binding here...

It really helped my sight reading and right hand techniques. Helped my sight reading significantly too.

Below are some links I really like for beginners books. Copy pasta from another post I did

First two are beginners books. The third one is one I used pretty heavily to teach you hand techniques, especially for the right hand. Help you learn different patterns and finger movements. Took me forever to find it on Amazon but it's awesome.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0793526272/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VA5WMPNKD6HVPG4R4141

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0793543681/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_36?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2Q2B4NZZQ9KEG6WCDV5R

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0786627239/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_of_24?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DH1SGFCDSDFGT56VZQJ2

The Sagreras studies are collected in two books here's the first one. As for improvising, learn a few Spanish sounding pieces and figure out the chord progressions. Then make up your own melodies over top. Yes, improvising is that simple, no, you won't come up with something amazing the first hundred or so times you try it. If you really want to get good enough to work professionally, get yourself a good teacher. And I'm not sure what version of Recuerdos you're looking at, it's essentially a tremolo study and doesn't really change much at all.

There are probably a number of things you will have to do... The most important one is to let go of your ego (the thing that is going to be discouraging you) and practice practice practice.

There are a number of resources... /r/guitar and /r/guitarlessons will be able to give you many more suggestions than I will be able to, but I do know that something you will want to look into is...

Guitar Lessons Books 1-3, by Julio S. Sagreras

You'll need an instructor, or the ability to read music to take advantage of the book, but don't let that discourage you. If you want to play Flamenco, classical and other obscure technical styles, that is going to be a part of it. Practice practice practice. :)

http://www.amazon.com/Mel-Julio-Sagreras-Guitar-Lessons/dp/0786627239/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405638008&sr=8-1&keywords=Julio+S+Sagreras


check out this book, it may be along the lines of what you are looking for. If you look inside the book on amazon you can see that in the early lessons it shows you which string underneath/right hand fingering and other notation. It does have quality music in it especially in book 2/3. This is a collection of books 1-3 for $20 in one bound edition.