johnyere

I recently bought Berklee's Modern Method for Guitar to practice sight reading, and a few pages in im already having trouble sight reading the chords...

what can i do to make this process easier?

food1010

Practice. That's it.

Studying diatonic harmony will help you recognize patterns, but ultimately it just takes time.

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British_Steal

Learn your common chord shapes and your drop 2 chords

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johnyere

so im assuming that this is one of those things that you'll learn with practice and practice alone...

Hail

uh, that's pretty much what learning is

practicing and assessing and understanding the information until processing it is second-nature

there's not a short-cut for learning calculus or to do parkour or wikihow would be a hell of a lot less stupid of a site, so why would it be any different with music?

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ibanez1511

slow down. I believe sight reading should be fluent. To do this we need to be able to practice at a variety of tempos.
%download lilypond from www.lilypond.org
%and copy and paste the following for sight reading chord study in open position
\version "2.14.2"


}
\relative c' {


< c e g c e>2
< c e g c e>4
< c e g c e>4
%2
< a e' a c e>8
< a e' a c e>8
< a e' a c e>8
< a e' a c e>8
< a e' a c e>4
< a e' a c e>4
%3
<d a' d f> 4
<d a' d f> 4
< g, b d g b g'>4
< g b d g b g'>4
%4
< c e g c e>2
< g b d g b g'>4
< g b d g b g'>4
%5
<c e g c e>1


}

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HotspurJr

It's sort of a cheat, but with the diatonic chords, if you know your key, all you have to do is recognize the root of the chord, because a diatonic chord will be three notes stacked on adjacent lines/spaces in the staff.

Well, with the basic voicings, at least.

AeolianWolf

that doesn't really work, because chords played on guitar often do not have the root in the bass.

the ones in the berklee modern method book are no exception.

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