It doesn’t mean that 100% of the time one chord will be followed by another, but there are many scenarios where it’s almost guaranteed what chord will come next. Why is this important for sight reading? Well because if you know how music is constructed, you’ll be able to guess what comes next. It’s also about how those chords work together. Yes, learning chords is part of music theory, but there is more to it. Music theory is basically the study of how music is made. Now that you can read notes and chords fluently you’ll need to understand music theory as well. Once you get the basic chords memorized, your sight reading ability will increase dramatically. Buy a hymnbook and read through it every day. For pianists, hymns are a great way to become familiar with basic chords. In the same way although there are 4000 chords possible you can get by just fine with a small fraction of that. You can live life just fine with around 20,000 words. There are about 180,000 words in the dictionary, but you don’t need to know them all. If you take every practical chord available, there are likely around 4000 playable chords. When you compare music to language, you’ll find there are much fewer chords to memorize than there are words in the English language. Just like you see a word written down and you say that word, you don’t need to sound it out. You’ll see a C Major chord and you’ll play a C Major chord. If you’re familiar with a chord, you don’t have to look at each individual note and make sure you’re playing it right. Sight reading chords work the same way that language does. If you saw the letter “C”, would you need to run through the alphabet before you knew what letter it was? Of course not. If you are new to music, you need to make sure you can identify notes on the page like you can identify letters on a page. This seems obvious, but it’s the foundation of a good sight reader.
If we understand each component of a good sight reader, we can work on those skills individually.
To become a good sight reader you must have a combination of many different skills. If you’ve ever looked at the music before, it’s really not sight reading. When you open a piece of music for the first time and read through it, you’re sight reading.
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