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- If sight-reading chords is your Achilles Heel, then just do that for the next week.
- Never do the same exercise over and over, as that's not what sight reading is about. Do it a few times and move to the next exercise
- Set at a metronome at a reasonably challenging speed. Always try to look ahead. Don't try to perfect it. If you mess up, keep going and maintain the pulse and rhythm
To reiterate, sight reading isn't about getting every exactly right. If you do, then great; but mainly it's about training you to read on the fly and improving your ability to keep things together regardless of how many mistakes you make. In other words if you played three out of four bars wrong but maintained the rhythm and pulse, then you did good. Make sense?Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
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You could also try attacking the problem from the other end. For each key, write out on manuscript paper (real or virtual) the scale harmonised in 3rd, 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths, and the main triad and tetrad chords. If you can do this as flash cards, so much the better. Then pick them out at random and work out the different places you can play them on the guitar neck.
This way, when you encounter a chord written in standard notation, it will probably already be familiar to you.