In recent years, learning Zhongruan has become a new fashion for middle-aged and elderly people to study music after retirement. However, due to various reasons, many middle-aged and elderly people have many common deviations in the learning process, which are roughly as follows:

1. Deviations in ideological understanding

First, they are reluctant to invest in buying a better piano: due to the frugal living habits developed over the years, most middle-aged and elderly people are reluctant to invest in themselves, and it is more common to spend a few hundred yuan to buy a low-end piano. Low-grade pianos have poor resonance due to their cheap price, difficult and insensitive pronunciation, resulting in poor fret intonation, difficulty in pressing the sound, inaccurate sound, sliding wire or fret, and degumming of strings.

Correction: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." It is recommended to buy a mid-range piano with a price of less than 1000--2000 yuan. The advantages are that the production is exquisite and the quality is good, which reduces the trouble of post-repair, the pronunciation is sensitive and the resonance is good, and the more you listen, the more you want to listen, which can stimulate the enthusiasm for learning the piano.

The second is reluctance to invest in finding a good teacher: I think I can buy books, discs and other materials for self-study if I know a little bit of musical notation. As a result, I cannot grasp the timing of singing notation, and the rhythm length is “willful” and “casual” not standard. The basic postures and angles of grasping and picking, etc. are not standardized, which will seriously affect the performance of the music. Once the wrong self-learning method is fixed and formed into a habit, it will be too late when you find out that "no matter how you play it, you can't play it well, and it doesn't sound good", it is difficult to correct, and it is too late to regret it.

Correction: Among us ordinary people, the kind of musical genius who can "get it right at a glance" and "get it right at one point" is rare after all. Therefore, beginners must not overestimate their self-learning ability, and humbly find a teacher with professional performance and teaching experience, and start learning for one to two years (about 50--80 lessons) to lay a solid foundation before self-study. The advantages are: learning the common sense of music theory, accumulating the experience of notation without taking detours, practicing the piano in a scientific way, and making no mistakes in the performance method, which can improve the efficiency of piano practice with half the effort, bring you to the learning goal as soon as possible, and walk on the performance stage to stimulate the enthusiasm for learning.

It is very important to correct the thinking and understanding: middle-aged and elderly friends have passed most of their lives, and they don’t know who will come first between “tomorrow” and “accidents”. Many people’s music dreams cherished by teenagers can only be realized in old age, and they don’t “be better” for themselves. , Don't be "ruthless" with yourself, I'm afraid time will be bad. Therefore, we must do what we can, and be willing to be a little bit, so that the road to the realization of the dream of the elderly is impartial and does not leave any regrets.

2. Deviations in playing the piano

The correct posture of holding the piano not only affects the appearance, but also affects the improvement of the left and right hand playing skills. Common deviations are:

First, the left hand holding the piano is not standardized: ① the back of the piano cavity is too close to the chest and abdomen or too far from the chest and abdomen; ② the piano body is upright close to 90 degrees or less than 45 degrees down; The first joint is easy to collapse when the finger is pressed...

Correction: ① The right side of the back panel of the piano cavity is close to the right chest and abdomen, and the left side and the chest and abdomen must maintain a space of about 30 degrees to ensure the maximum resonance effect of the piano box; ② The headstock and the piano bar should be kept at about 60 degrees to the body on the left side of the face The angle is the best, (the central axis of 90 degrees represents the straight line of the human body) ③ The thumb of the left hand should touch the left half of the back of the piano bar lightly; ④ The left finger should stand upright when pressing the strings, and the first joint should not collapse.

The second is the deviation of the picking with the right hand holding the pick: ①The grip of the pick is too tight; ②The angle of the pick is wrong; ③Use the forearm instead of the wrist to play and pick; The performance of the pick and round is not standardized...

Correction: ① The ring finger and little finger should be relaxed when holding the pick; ② The contact angle between the pick and the string should be kept at 90 degrees as much as possible; ③ The forearm and wrist must have a certain degree of flexion and extension; ④ The strength of playing and picking should be balanced. The force of the bullet is a natural downward force that is relatively stronger, while the pick is a reverse force, and the force is relatively weak. It is necessary to train the strength of picking to be consistent with the strength of playing; ⑤ If you can properly handle the sparseness and density of playing, picking, and round during practice, it will add color to the music. Otherwise, no matter the eighth note or quarter note It sounds uncomfortable to play the same way.

"The sunset is infinitely good, but it's only near dusk." Middle-aged and elderly friends should avoid mistakes and detours in learning Zhongruan. The best way is to let go of their "identity" and ask professional teachers humbly. If a teacher has hands-on, face-to-face guidance and demonstrations, these deviations in playing the piano can be avoided. be corrected in a timely manner.

3. Deviations in practice habits

Without proper guidance from teachers, self-learners often have only half-understood knowledge and form some stubborn and hard-to-change bad habits. Common deviations are: ① Don’t pay attention to basic exercises, rush to play songs without understanding the basic things such as playing, picking, and wheeling; ② Don’t pay attention to singing music first, and play music when you bring it, resulting in chaotic rhythm and unstable rhythm. The phenomenon of "playing the piano indiscriminately" is the norm; 3. It does not pay attention to the practice habit of "keeping at least 1 hour a day", often fishing for three days, two days of drying the net, and one exposure to ten colds; There is a difference), jumping forward, the mentality of "eat fat in one bite" leads to irregular performances, forming habits that are difficult to change, and so on...

In life, "talents" who "learn without a teacher" are rare. In the process of self-learning, what he thinks is correct often differs greatly from the standard performance. Therefore, if you want to play Zhongruan well, you must have a professional teacher who teaches hands-on and face-to-face teaching, so as to avoid detours and deviations.