Today, I will share with you some tutorial articles about the commonly used cucurbit flute techniques. This tutorial is about glissando, doubling, hitting and appogling. It is a very practical cucurbit flute tutorial. I believe it will be helpful to friends who learn cucurbit flute!

portamento

Portamento - is an important traditional skill in cucurbit playing. Appropriate use of portamento can make the melody of the cucurbit flute more sung and the expression more delicate. The performance of portamento is accomplished by the speed of the tone and the speed of the finger movements. It is an effect produced by gradually opening or closing the sound hole with your fingers (moving up or down slowly to the desired sound position), and you can play up and down from the beginning of the barrel to the last sound hole. 1. Portamento: from a lower note to another higher note smoothly, the method of playing is to wipe the fingers from the lower sound hole to the higher sound hole sequentially from right to left, and gradually open each hole. When playing the upper portamento, the breath should be matched, the mouth strength should increase from small to large, the air door from large to small, the tone from slow to sharp, and from thick to thin. 2. Glide: From a higher note down to a lower note, the playing method is to wipe the finger from the higher sound hole from left to right in sequence, and gradually close each sound hole. When playing the glissando, the coordination of breath is that the damper increases from small to large, the tone of the mouth increases from large to small, and the tone of the mouth changes from sharp to slow, and from thin to thick.

duplication

Duplication——It plays a decorative role through one or several sounds. This technique is relatively common. The performance of duplication is mainly through the agile movement of fingers, and the sound hole and adjacent or spaced sound holes are pressed quickly and accurately. a bit. In the use of duplication, a very short decorative tone is usually added at the beginning of the phrase and between two melodies of the same degree. It is similar to appoggiance, but has no obvious appoggiance effect. Its actual sound is just a more decorative sound. for the prominent native sound. This technique is relatively common in national wind music. Although it is not clearly marked on some traditional scores, it can be used flexibly in actual performance. Generally speaking, too fast and exciting music is not suitable for use, and it is mostly used for slow and melodious passages. The fingers should not be raised too high, and the movements should be fast and flexible. Duplication is the overlapping of several sounds, which plays a decorative role. There are several types of duplication, such as doubles, thirds, and fourths. In terms of hearing, the main tone is the main tone. The decorative tone is not heard, but the original tone is enriched. .

beat

Hitting - is the lower second that appears before the second of the same two notes, that is to say, hitting is mainly used when playing the same pitch continuously. The difference between it and the double sound is that the double sound is placed on the second or third degree above the original sound, and the method of playing the sound is to tap the natural sound hole with your fingers. This technique is also more common. In the use of the sound, it is a technique used in order to distinguish the same sound when dealing with the same sound. Use your finger to hit the sound hole of the same sound. It is faster to press the sound hole with the fingers of the blowing and beating sound than the double sound. When pressing the closed sound hole, the finger action must be strong. If the finger presses the sound hole slowly and weakly, the effect of double sound will appear.

Appoggiance

Appoggiance - If the dominant note is a simple note, the appoggiance should account for half of the duration of the dominant note, and if the dominant note is a dotted note, the appoggiance should take up 2/3 of its duration. When practicing short appoggiance, the finger movement is required to be very fast, and the span of the basic note should be adjusted accordingly. If the note span is small, the breath needs to be smooth, and if the note span is large, the breath needs to rise or sink quickly.