Guqin, as a musical instrument, has certain commonalities with other musical instruments in practice, but also has its own distinct personality. I will organize the methods of practicing Guqin as follows and share it with piano friends.

1. Familiar

Before learning a qin piece, it is best to choose the version that you want to learn, and you can hum it all the time.

Second, analyze the structure of the music

Learn the background information of the music and understand the artistic conception of the music. While groping for the score, it is necessary to clarify the clauses and breaths of the music, the paragraph structure of the music, and the expression relationship between the paragraphs.

Three, back

The surface of the guqin only has the "logo" point, and there is no fixed "fresh". Therefore, if you don't look at your left hand when you play the guqin, it is not easy to press the correct pitch. Leaving the sheet music, you can focus on the left hand.

Fourth, check the fingering

After learning the fingering, to the stage of memorization, check the left and right fingering several times. The fingerings on the spectrum are generally scrutinized and reasonable. Because the playing speed of the guqin is much slower, many people who play the guqin do it arbitrarily with the right fingering. This kind of long-term irregularity will definitely have a difference in the effect of playing the guqin.

5. Determine the number of exercises

Usually I ask students to compose a single piece. You must practice more than 200 times before returning to class. This is more effective for learning. If you can practice three to five hundred times, then the proficiency of general performance can basically be solved.

6. Counting Beans

This method is very good and has been promoted before. Put a bottle of soybeans (both black beans and red beans) about 500 grains. Every time you play it, you throw a bean into another bottle. When the bottle is empty, the song is basically completed. Of course, I also often encourage students to draw the character "Zheng". One straight character five times, one hundred straight characters have become.

Seven, circle practice

Gong Yi first proposed the concept of "circle practice" in his "Guqin Performance Method". Guqin music starts from the loose, enters the tune, and gradually increases to the high music section. The technical difficulty of each section varies greatly. For fast passages, it is necessary to spend more time to strengthen the practice. For the difficult phrases in some passages, circle them to further strengthen the practice, so that the skill control of the whole piece can be balanced. If someone said that they practiced the piano for two hours today, they were practicing the song over and over again from beginning to end, and the effect of such practice would definitely not be good. I think if you practice a piece for an hour, then at least 40 minutes should be devoted to circle practice of difficult passages or phrases.

Eight, variable speed exercise

Based on the principles of "fast music and slow practice" and "slow music and fast practice". Some fast passages in the qin music are often in tune, and the technique is more difficult, so you must practice at a slower pace. Just like "Ji Chang learns archery", slowing down the speed is to amplify each note in the slow speed, strengthen the training of each note, and increase the coherence between the tones. Speed control ability training. Start practicing at a tempo that can control the entire passage and each tone, and gradually accelerate until you reach the tempo you need for normal performance. This is not enough, but also to continue to speed up the practice. For example, in the fifth paragraph of "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms", I will ask students to practice back and forth between 50 beats per minute and 100 beats per minute. There are fast and slow practice skills, which have a great effect on improving the stability of the performance speed. .

9. Blind practice

After the music can be practiced thoroughly, you can practice "blind playing", that is, the eyes do not look at the left and right hands and the piano. Blind playing is a very interesting method for guqin. It will be very unaccustomed at first, but if you keep practicing, you will gradually get used to it. When playing blindly, the grasp of the emblem and chord positions depends on the feeling, and it will be more attentive when playing blindfolded. If a piece of music can be played accurately, imagine that the probability of problems during performance or normal performance is very small.

10. Mindfulness practice

You can also practice without the piano. I often lie in bed and play the piano with my mind. The method is to bring out the appearance of the piano and hands in my mind, let the melody ring in my ears, and practice from beginning to end. First of all, this method has great benefits for further notation and skilled fingering, and secondly, the processing of music will also be improved, and it is easier to think of some things that have not been thought of when practicing the piano.