This article carefully excerpts and organizes the guzheng playing quotations summed up by Professor Zhao Manqin for decades of educational experience. They are all the essence and heartfelt words of the famous guzheng masters.
The scientific method of playing is not only to achieve the best performance, but to achieve the best performance easily.
It is the highest purs...
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If "heavy hair and light follow" refers to a brief summary of the control and change of the intensity when playing the piano, then "playing and following" can be regarded as an important means or the only way to pursue the change of musical tone. The timbre of the zheng music is closely related to the material and wood of the instrument itself, the manufacturing process, and the individual lite...
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There are two basic methods of playing the guzheng, which are the lifting method and the adding method (the pressing method). The difference between the two lies in the direction of movement, sound quality and sound effects.
The finger-lifting direction of the finger-lifting method is from diagonally downward to diagonally upward, or it can also be generalized to lift and play towards the...
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During the Han and Wei Dynasties, the art of guzheng achieved great development. Guzheng has become one of the important accompaniment instruments in Xianghe Song. People play the zither and slap their legs, humming "woo woo song", which has become a popular form of people. Many literary craftsmen did not hesitate to write and ink, and left many famous chapters for the zheng. Ruan Yu and Fu Xua...
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The most important way to learn guzheng and stick to it is to set your own mentality!
In fact, it is not lack of time, busy work or insufficient economic conditions that defeats me to persevere on the road of learning guzheng, but that I have retreated in my mentality. For example, if you are learning guzheng now, and you have signed up for a remedial class, maybe after the guzheng class ...
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There are many factors that influence when we should change strings, the most common being poor feel, poor tone, and rusted strings.
But in fact, one day, when you find that your strings are always out of tune, or even begin to rust, this is already the limit state of the strings, and it has caused trouble for your usual piano practice. In this case, you should have earlier Be aware and r...
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The first is the position, our correct sitting position should be in the position of the head of the guzheng, not the middle position. Specifically, our right shoulder should be in a straight line with the front beam of the guzheng (Qianyueshan), so as to ensure the comfort of playing.
The second is the choice of chair. If the chair is too high, we will often bow our heads w...
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In guzheng playing, shoulders, arms, wrists, and fingers are the main moving parts. This article briefly describes the functions of the muscles in the above parts in playing, the principles of stretching and shrinking, the playing postures and the playing methods as follows:
1. Shoulder
The shoulder movement when playing the kite is mainly realized by the deltoid outside the...
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It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning, and the same is true of learning musical instruments. At the beginning, you have to memorize the complicated and difficult music theory knowledge, and each key of each instrument and the corresponding sound of each string are different. More troublesome!
For example, the popular national musical instrument Guzheng has 21 strings. A...
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When playing the guzheng, many people get more experience and experience in slow practice. When reading and playing the score, they should pay attention to the time mark and the notation identified by the author on the score to express the music. The style of rhyme, there are different versions of the same piece, this is also a big challenge for those who practice the zheng, but it is often fou...
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