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More thoughts. Picking up on what Ken is saying about not looking back and trying to do a redo on a note, you can work with this in practice. You can do it slow, with a metronome, honoring the vow that you will never play a wrong note, but you will not necessarily play every note. A wrong note will ring out as a klinker that turns on a flashing red light over your head. In a recording session, a wrong note is very bad news, I would imagine. On the other hand, if you don't play every single note, who will know? Another method is to pick very difficult music and set a very fast tempo. Try to grab notes when you can, but keep moving in sync with the metro. It's a little like picking off the notes as they go by. It's not music at all, if you do this. But you are using this to work on a specific skill that you will need as a professional. I used to do this with Beethoven violin sonatas (they go down to a low G an octave higher than the guitar's low G). You find that notes on the first bar are easier than other beats. Notes on the beat are easier than upbeats. When you encounter a section of triplets or 16ths or 32nds, get that pulse running in your head before you get to that music. Classical players do that all the time.
Lastly (maybe), try reading away from the guitar.
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