For a pipa player, it is very important to master and use the playing technique, technique and timbre of the left and right hands, but it is far from enough to concentrate on or stay on this level. Because music is an advanced state of human language, like language, it has long and short clauses of sentences, changes in cadence, and the structure and integrity of expressing a central idea. With...
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To reduce the noise in pipa playing, the pressing of the left hand must be firm and accurate; pay attention to the depth, strength and position of the plucking of the right hand, and the smoothness of the nail itself.
Noise in lute playing is inevitable. No matter how clever a performer is, in the process of playing, there is more or less noise, but when he (she) plays, the nois...
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How Pipa players show their stage performance style, performance level and their own style is the concrete embodiment of Pipa players' comprehensive musical quality and performance skills. It is not a pluralistic art that can be accomplished by one-sided knowledge. Even mature pipa players often have a serious impact on the quality of pipa performances on stage because they can't find the feeli...
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In the actual performance process, we have been in the process of coordinating all kinds of contradictions. Play hard and relax. How to coordinate effort and relaxation in the process of learning to play Pipa is the most important part of the whole learning process.
1. Force
What is force? Force is muscle contraction, which is muscle tension. The more tense the muscles are...
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The reason why some pipa students often make messy and rough noises when they rotate their fingers is due to the inaccurate position of the left fingers and the irregular flexion and extension of the right fingers. So how to avoid the noise of the wheel fingers?
First, the position of the left finger to press the strings should be appropriate. If the fingertips are pressed on th...
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The rhythm is neat, the sound is bright, the strength is appropriate, and the pipa ring finger effect is clear and granular, which are the essential characteristics of the pipa playing art. For beginner pipa students, the most annoying thing is that the pronunciation of the ring fingers is bumpy and straight, there are no lines on and off, the pronunciation is dim and inconsistent, and the fing...
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The wheel finger is another important fingering in the right fingering, and there is hardly a song that does not use it. There are many fingerings composed of wheel fingers, such as belt wheel, sweep wheel, full wheel and so on. Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Regret" described "big pearls and small pearls falling on a jade plate" is not an artistic exaggeration, but refers to the performance o...
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Diandiao is the most basic and important fingering in the right fingering, and the name of the word pipa also comes from Diandiao. "In front of the push hand, it is called loquat (that is, playing), but when leading the hand, it is called loquat (that is, picking)." Some other fingerings and group fingerings of the right hand are derived from flicks.
The most common mistakes in ...
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What are the Harmonic Skills of Pipa? About the harmonic skills of the pipa, I will share with you today.
(1) How are overtones produced?
The sound of the whole string is the loudest, which is called the "fundamental sound"; the sound produced by several equal parts is called the "overtone". There are overtone points at 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 1/5 of the strings. The principle ...
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What should be paid attention to when learning Pipa? I would like to share some advice for beginners of Pipa.
The first point is that when you are just starting to learn pipa, what grade of pipa should you buy? Some people think that the expensive one is good, but this is not the case. This mainly depends on the individual's financial ability, and it is completely fine ...
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