i totally suck at sight reading; even if encountering some relatively easy pieceS, i found it extremely hard to handle...this could be a fatal disandvatage when it comes to AUDITION...can anyone help? And here's the situation, i can play all the major scales, but still get freaked out when working with music pieces that have F# major(or G major), and maybe A and D major....any advice?!

Since you've already recognized which keys give you special difficulty, work on them more. FInd pieces that are written in those keys and learn them, and work the related scales even more. The more you sightread and become familiar with scales and arpeggios in all their various forms, the easier it will become to sightread well.

yeah, practice's prolly the only way out, i thought as much... but anyhow, i tend to memorize the individual rather than pay attention to the key signatures...i cant get rid of the habit,maybe i just have a bad memory...i know my question may sound a bit stupid...but ...

Sight reading is also a part of the education in flute playing. It means that you must dedicate time daily to this subject exactly like you do to another topics, like tone color, intonation, vibrato, etc.
There are books that might help you on this, generally collections, with various peaces and excerpts.
Practicing certain keys may help, but in my opinion this kind of work takes time to show results, and for this reason, pacience is needed.

good work :-)

Zevang

My teacher told me when sightreading, it helps never to finger the piece before you play it. Just hear the rhythm in your head and then play. Also, think up devices to help you remember what the rythm sounds like. Such as using the sound AP-PLE to remember eighth notes, and repeat those in your head. I normally use fruit sounds. If you ever get nervous, Bananas are suppossed to help calm nerves (i dont know if thats true but it is said to be). HOpe this helps

In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with fingering through a piece. Afterall, music is more than just rhythms, and it never hurts to get the notes in difficult passages under your fingers before you have to put the flute up to your mouth. Eventually the fruit names for rhythms will probably become obsolete. You'll get to know what a rhythm should sound like without having to find appropriate words to match with it. As for the banana thing, there's no scientific reason for bananas to work, though for some, the placebo effect probably comes into play. The B vitamins that are supposed calm you are in minute amounts somewhat like the tryptophan in turkey (if you eat enough, sure...you'll get drowsy, but the sheer amount of turkey (or bananas) you'd have to eat to get a noticeable effect just isn't practical. Not to mention that the potassium in the bananas acts like a mild stimulant for your nervous system, which could actually ramp up nerves. If a banana helps you, by all means eat one before performing, but don't necessarily expect the desired effects.

the only real cure for frazzled nerves is to be prepared, and you don't know if you are prepared until you are on stage and your fingers are trembling and yet everything comes out beautifully, or if you take an 18 hour plane trip and have to play a few hours after and can still do it.

Sightreading will strengthen this and give you more confidence, so take all the good advice you get here and get better and better at it.

thanks u guys, all in all, this sight reading thing is solely based on practising and practising, as well as practising, i guess there'd be no shortcut to it lol...ill try my hardest!v!

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