The article takes the author's own teaching experience as an example, from the perspective of music education, expounds that parents should act as the teacher's assistant in the process of accompanying their children to practice the piano, use scientific methods to correctly guide their children, and always pay attention to their own words and deeds to their children. Set an example and be friends with your child, etc.

As the king of national musical instruments, the erhu is known for its long history, complicated techniques and rich artistic expression, and has always been loved by the people. In recent years, the country has vigorously promoted quality education, and many parents have paid more and more attention to the cultivation of children's musical quality. Learning Erhu is considered to be one of the ideal ways to develop children's intelligence and quality.

Learning erhu can not only promote the healthy growth of children's body and mind, enhance their musical literacy, but also exercise children's perseverance to overcome difficulties and develop good study habits. And make children learn the national musical instruments, at the same time, increase the experience and understanding of the national music culture. All these have caused a "erhu fever" in the country in recent years, and many parents have signed up their children to learn erhu, expecting their children to be successful in school and perform on stage as soon as possible. However, once you start learning, the gap between reality and dreams gradually becomes apparent. Erhu is one of the most difficult musical instruments to master in national instrumental music. Learning erhu is not an easy task. Parents have to take their children to the teacher's house to learn the piano every week, and they have to urge their children to practice the piano after returning home. There is no doubt that parents play a vital role in the process of children's piano learning.

Learning Erhu, without the participation of parents and teachers alone, children's learning may be twice the result with half the effort, and it is difficult to achieve success. Children basically follow the teacher to study for one lesson a week, and the rest of the time is spent practicing under the supervision and guidance of their parents to digest the learning content. Parents are their children's tutors and are an important and essential factor in their children's success. Therefore, in the period of children learning piano, especially in the early stage of learning, the role of parents is almost decisive. However, many parents do not understand music, and often feel at a loss when teaching their children to study, especially when the teacher returns to class unsatisfactory for several weeks, parents are generally very anxious, but do not know how to effectively help their children.

So, how can parents play an active role in erhu teaching? The author, as an erhu teacher and a parent of a child who learns erhu, combined with his own teaching and training experience, try to make the following briefly.

1. Acting as a teacher's assistant

The cooperation of parents and teachers is an important factor for children's progress. Some parents think that if they buy erhu for their children and hire a teacher, they will be fine, and even often ask others to pick up their children to and from get out of class. This approach is completely wrong. Usually children have poor self-awareness, and their comprehension and memory abilities are limited. Only relying on the teacher's tens of minutes of teaching in class, the child cannot fully understand the teacher's requirements, and it is even more difficult to grasp the key points of learning, or even remember. The homework assigned by the teacher, etc., so many of the teacher's requirements depend on the parents to help the children to implement them after returning home. Parents’ after-school guidance to their children is actually an extension of the teacher’s classroom teaching, which requires parents to follow their children to pay attention when the teacher returns to class, and carefully record the performance essentials, difficulties and solutions of each piece, so as to properly guide their children after class. practise.

Especially in the early stage of children's learning, parents' understanding of the teacher's requirements and intentions is very important, because in the beginning of teaching, it is not so much that the teacher is teaching the child, but it is the parent who is teaching the child. Therefore, especially the parents of four or five-year-old students should communicate more with the teacher in advance, and learn from the teacher what may happen when the child is learning the piano, and what parents need to do when the child is learning the piano. Before you have the corresponding thought and action preparation, read the relevant books in advance, and do enough desk work.

We often hear parents say this to their children: "Mom and Dad know nothing about music, neither can play the piano nor sing. In the future, when learning erhu, you must hurry up and practice consciously." Such words show that parents are learning and understanding many misunderstandings. It should be said that most parents do not know much about music, but their understanding and comprehension are stronger than their children's. Although parents do not know how to play the piano, they should take notes when the teacher is teaching their children, and actively guide the children to practice according to the teacher's requirements after class, such as prompting the children to use scientific and standardized hand shapes for their left and right hands, and how to move the bow with their left and right hands. , and exercises at different speeds and strengths.

In addition, some parents did not understand the content and requirements of the teacher's class clearly, and were embarrassed to say it. It is necessary to know that parents do not know the content and requirements of learning, and do not know how to supervise and guide children to practice correctly after class according to the teacher's requirements, which will easily make children learn detours, affect their learning progress and interest in learning, and be detrimental to children's progress. In returning to the class, if parents do not understand something, they should take the initiative to ask the teacher to demonstrate it again or say it again. Only when the problem is clearly understood, can we guide the children to practice correctly and effectively after class. Parents should also communicate with teachers about their children's after-school piano practice in a timely manner to help their children progress together.

2. Helping children with scientific and correct methods

It is another important job for parents to help children arrange piano practice time scientifically and reasonably, cultivate children's independent and good study habits and correct and effective piano practice methods.

First of all, it is necessary to arrange the children's piano practice time reasonably. The stories of some performers becoming famous and starting a family have made some parents think that the longer they practice the piano, the more they will gain, and let their children practice for three or four hours or even more time in one sitting. This is actually a misunderstanding. Usually children can concentrate for a short time, so it should not be too long each time to practice the piano, grasp it at about a quarter of an hour, and then let the children play for a while, and then continue to supervise and guide them to practice. Repeating so many times, constantly consolidating, deepening memory and improving efficiency, not only ensures sufficient time for practicing the piano, but also ensures the quality of practice, and the child will not feel that the burden of practicing the piano is too heavy.

Secondly, we must cultivate the habit and ability of children to learn independently. Parents should accurately grasp the children's living habits, grasp the children's living conditions and laws, choose to practice the piano at the time when the child's mental state is better, and fix it as much as possible, so that the children can practice the piano autonomously and actively at this time every day. On the contrary, when children are easily tired and busy, they should not be forced to practice the piano, otherwise it will kill the children's interest and ability to practice the piano.

In addition, we often see that when a child is practicing the piano, parents help to turn the score, read the score, and tune the sound, etc., and they almost do not help the child to play the piano. The direct result of this is that it is easy to develop children's inertia and dependence, because parents have long replaced their children's brains with their brains and replaced their children's hearing to distinguish music. In the long run, children will have a lot of dependence. Once they are separated from their parents' help, they will feel very uncomfortable and often feel at a loss. Slowly they will lose their original ability and the actual practice effect that should be achieved. I can't remember the teacher's request, and I won't practice after class. Therefore, parents should never replace their children with reading music and thinking when they are tutoring their children. They would rather spend a long time guiding and finding solutions than rushing for success and letting their children practice the piano without thinking. As everyone knows, the thought process is often more important than the result. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate children's habit and ability of independent thinking from the beginning, and not let children be in a state of passive learning.

Finally, we must pay attention to scientific and effective methods when practicing the piano, because scientific and effective methods can achieve twice the result with half the effort. The main methods are as follows.

1. Urge children to pay attention to basic skills training. The learning of any musical instrument is inseparable from the mastery of basic skills, and solid basic skills are the basis for children to perform perfectly in the future. In the process of learning erhu, parents should guide their children to pay attention to the practice of scales and intonation, slow longbow, changing the handle, and vibrato in daily practice.

Scales and intonation: Unlike pipa, piano and other musical instruments, the erhu has frets and keys, and intonation is more difficult to master. Therefore, the practice of erhu intonation is particularly important and needs to be strengthened. Parents should remind and help children to pay attention to the phoneme and finger spacing when practicing scales, pay attention to the relationship between the major second and the minor second, that is to say, handle the finger spacing relationship between the whole tone and the semitone. Pay attention to the scale practice of each key.

Slow Longbow: Erhu is a bowed stringed instrument in national instrumental music. Bowing is very important for the sound of the instrument and the performance of the music. Parents should try to understand the methods taught by the teacher in class, help children master the correct method of holding the bow, and the right hand should be relaxed and the shoulder should be lowered. Elbow, emphasizes the coordinated movement of the upper arm, forearm, wrist and fingers, and urges children to be flat, straight, even and stable in the practice.

Changing the handle: When a child plays the traditional first position (upper position) of the erhu, the intonation can generally be completed well, but when it reaches the second position or higher position, the intonation is often not guaranteed. To solve the problem of intonation of changing bars, it is necessary to strengthen the practice of changing bars. For beginners of erhu, it is necessary to pay attention to and strengthen the practice of changing hands to solve the problem of intonation. Only by really paying attention to and strengthening the practice of changing bars can we ensure the intonation in the performance of the music, and then make the music beautiful and beautiful.

Kneading: Kneading is one of the important and most commonly used techniques in Erhu performance. It is necessary to practice pressing and sliding techniques in combination with stylistic etude fragments, and then apply the techniques to different styles of music.

2. Practice in sections. The music has a certain depth and length, but in the process of practicing the music, children often pull to the back, and the impression of the front has faded. Sectional practice can make the child's mind concentrate and leave an impression on each piece of music. You should not practice from beginning to end over and over again, and you will not get a deep impression after many times, and your technique will not be consolidated. Therefore, when practicing the piano, parents should help and guide their children to develop a good habit of practicing in sections.

3. Practice overcoming difficulties. The teacher's teaching is always simple and step by step, and each piece has different emphasis and difficulty. Every time you learn a new piece, you are overcoming one or more new difficulties. If the difficulties are not overcome, the integrity and expressiveness of the music will be destroyed, and the learning will not achieve the goal. Some children always like to go through it over and over again from beginning to end. When they encounter difficulties, they get stuck, and they do not solve them well. They practice from beginning to end again and again, and as a result, a piece of music is pulled down and stuck everywhere. Therefore, for practice songs, you should first take out the difficult points mentioned by the teacher and practice them repeatedly, and focus on attacking until they are completely broken.

In addition, different rhythm, beat, speed, intensity and other transformation exercises should be used. In a word, the practice of the piano should also pay attention to methods and efficiency, so that the usual practice of the piano should become a valuable labor.

3. Set an example for children

Parents are their children's enlightenment teachers, and they are also the teachers who have the deepest influence on their children's life. Parents' daily speech and behavior are examples of children's imitation or learning. In real life, some parents have unstable school hours and often ask for leave because they are busy and have no time to pick up and drop off their children. This often creates the illusion that learning erhu is not important and can be learned or not, which directly affects children's interest and motivation in learning. Especially in the early stage of learning, the persistence and guidance of parents affects children's enthusiasm for learning.

Some parents spoil their children, and when their children don't practice the piano well or don't want to go to class, they obey their children and ask the teacher for leave. In this way, children will find various reasons not to go to class as long as they have not practiced the piano well. Over time, learning will be abandoned halfway. Perseverance is important in learning the piano, and parents should set an example to help and supervise their children to develop good habits from the very beginning, set a strict schedule, and practice the piano regularly. Parents should remind their children that daily down-to-earth practice is the key to future success, and let them know that playing the piano is an important part of their daily life, not an extra task. If you encounter special circumstances, you must make it clear to the child beforehand, and make up as much as possible afterwards.

When some parents practice the piano with their children, they chat and make phone calls for a while. Just imagine, how can such a child be able to concentrate? Children are hyperactive, easily distracted, and have a short time to concentrate. Parents should strive to create a quiet and good environment, try to keep their children free from external interference when practicing the piano, and improve their performance. Practice efficiency. In addition, it is best not to put toys that children like to play with or other things that are easy to attract children's attention in the piano practice room, so as to avoid distracting attention during piano practice and disturbing the mood of children practicing piano. In a word, parents should strive to help their children develop good study habits in daily life and create a harmonious atmosphere suitable for learning, so as to better educate and guide their children. good influence.

4. Become friends with children

In erhu learning, some parents often blame their children when they practice the piano, especially when they fail to return to class well, and even corporal punishment. This approach is completely wrong. It not only makes the children feel disgusted with learning erhu and fears their parents, but also makes the children lose confidence and eventually lose interest in learning the piano. Why don't parents give their children some encouragement and praise? Replacing harsh words of reproach with more appropriate words of praise will have unexpected results. The language of praise is like sunshine to children, bringing brilliance and vitality. On the contrary, ruthless commands often cause children's resistance and rebellious emotions. Psychologists believe that only when children think that learning is fun, can learning have unexpected results and can always maintain children's interest in learning. Therefore, when guiding children to practice the piano, parents must calm down, consciously accompany their children, replace constant urging and blame with common learning, and cultivate children's calmness and consciousness of practicing the piano.

This requires parents to make friends with their children, or at least become their children's friends when practicing the piano. Parents should not use their majesty to urge their children to practice the piano every day. If conditions permit, they should arrange a period of time to practice piano, sing and play games with their children. deficiencies, and work with your child to address them. In this way, children can develop the habit of consciously practicing the piano and cultivate their interest in practicing the piano. Therefore, when parents practice the piano with their children, they must put down the air, regard themselves as their children's friends, and study happily with their children.

Epilogue

Teaching and learning go hand in hand. In the learning process, first of all, parents should correct their attitude, clarify the purpose, and recognize that the purpose of learning piano is to let children experience beauty, discover beauty, and create beauty in the learning process, and exercise their habit of using their brains and thinking diligently. Secondly, stories of musicians should be often told to children, and children should be guided to learn to listen to, feel and love music, and learn music actively, instead of being "learned to learn piano" under the scolding of parents. Thirdly, children should be brought to listen to various concerts, so that children can be exposed to various wonderful music, feel the style of different musicians, broaden their horizons, improve their literacy, and stimulate their interest in learning. Parents should also improve their own musical literacy and make progress together with their children.