Do you think I want to recommend a piece of music to everyone, and if you learn this piece, you can turn from an amateur guqin enthusiast to a senior guqin master? Then you are wrong! On the contrary, what I want to share today is how to break through the bottleneck period in the process of learning Guqin and make your piano skills take a big step; let each piece you play have a quality from "b...

The subtracted notation method only indirectly records the sound of the strings, but does not record the rhythm. Is this notation method scientific? "Subtraction notation" is a unique notation method of Guqin. It directly records the fingering of the left and right hands, indirectly records the string sound, and does not record the rhythm of the music. Using this method of notat...

I often hear senior pianists say "playing the score", so what is playing the score? "Taipu" is a common saying among qinists, which means to record the melody of a piece of qin music that did not have the rhythm of the banyan originally recorded, and then set the beat to record the melody, so that the piano player can play according to the score. This whole process is called "pl...

Some qin masters do not approve of composing new songs on the guqin, saying that it is enough to inherit the tradition and play the old tunes. Is this right? The root of this idea is that Guqin has more than 3,000 traditional pieces that can be learned or notated. At first glance, the task of creating new pieces does not seem very urgent. But looking at the historical periods si...

Why does the guqin have such a strong vitality in national instrumental music? Why does the guqin have so many collections of qin books but not other musical instruments? First of all, the vitality of Guqin is inseparable from its audience. In ancient times, the audience of guqin was mostly literati and doctors, and the literati advocated the "Three Lis" (conservation of merit, ...

How to use overtones on a guqin? Today, I will share with you the specific steps of the positive harmonic tuning method. The tuning method of the positive tune (F key), after tuning, the dispersion of the seven strings from the first string (gong string) to the seventh string (wu string) is 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 1= F. First prepare a whistle or tuning fork with standard ton...

What are the ten precepts and ten virtues of guqin playing? Tian Zizhi, a great qin master in Song Dynasty, recorded the ten precepts and ten virtues when playing the qin in the "Sounds of the Ancient Times". There are ten precepts for playing the piano: The head must not be wrong. Sitting is a must. Tolerable. Indispensable. Don't listen to your ears. Can't see evil. Hand...

The ancients often said that when playing the piano, the left hand should "enter the wood according to the order". How should we understand this sentence? "Pressing the order into the wood" is a literary exaggeration, a description that requires us to press the strings with a certain degree of strength when playing the piano. Press the strings firmly and forcefully when picking up points,...

The ancients said that when playing the qin, the right hand should "be about to break the string". How should we understand this sentence? "Playing to break the string" is also a literary exaggeration, a description. It's not that we're making loud, loud noises, or that we're looking for an aural shock. It is to make us sound strong and powerful, such as the sound of bells and c...

It is often heard that the Guqin should not make "many masturbation sounds". What does this mean? The word "fan" is originally "fan", which is an ornament on the horse's head. "Shuowen Jiezi Note" said: "'Complex', Ma Mao (sound hair) is also decorated." In terms of "complexity" here, it means "many and trivial". The word "prostitution" is regarded as too much, too much...