Each exercise in this group (and Scales 1-4) should be played in both seventh and first positions. Jump to seventh position without looking at the fretboard (remember: “first finger E on fifth string)”, read and play the exercise in seventh, then jump to first position and play it again. All while looking only at the exercise music.
Going on to the next exercise, switch the order. Read it first in first position, then in the seventh. This alternation will share the novelty and discovery of sight reading across both positions (you can only truly sight read music once).
Once you've mastered first and seventh positions, e.g. when you're moving on to fifth position, you can come back to these exercises in Group A and play them in any of the in-between positions. Look for exercises with a low complexity score in a particular position. Technically, if it's playable in both first and seventh, its playable at any of the positions in-between.
This is how to finger the notes that positions I and VII have in common:
These notes are well contained on the staff, making them easy to identify visually by line/space, and are common to a lot of guitar music, Only two require a ledger line; one you already know as middle C and the other is its sibling B just below (on staff and on fretboard).
Scale 1. For your first five notes.
Scale 2. The classic single octave diatonic scale (memorize).
Scale 3. The octave in thirds (memorize).
Scale 4. Rise and fall to each scale degree (in bold). Takes concentration.
The boxes below automatically keep track of which exercises you've seen in this group (you get a white star for each exercise you visit). And clicking on a box will take you to that exercise (you can see the exercise number by hovering over a box and looking at the url displayed). So all this lets you pick up where you left off in your last session, or go on to some random exercise you haven't seen yet. Courtesy of your browser history.
