Many people ask, how to learn Guqin for beginners? Can you teach yourself?

It is best to find a good teacher to guide your learning when you are getting started with Guqin. Some teachers teach beginners to practice fingering first and then play the music, and some teachers teach beginners to play the music directly and practice fingering in the music. Both methods can be used, and there is no essential difference. But personally, I prefer to let beginners learn some basic fingerings first and then learn piano music. Such as the right-hand eight methods and the left-hand chanting, yao, chuo, note and overtone exercises. Strict training of these basic fingerings can lay a good foundation for future piano learning. Just as Peng Zhiqing said in the preface of his "Tongxin Pavilion Fingering Analysis Micro": "Fingering is the beginning, the foundation of real qin learning". Learning qin music directly without a little fingering foundation may increase the interest of beginners at the beginning, but it may not be a good thing for future development.

对于初学古琴的朋友，是不建议自学的。因为古琴的各个方面都是自成体系的，如记谱法、指法、跌宕的弹法等等。初学者只靠自己摸索，在没有老师指导的情况下，很难对其准确理解掌握，会走很多弯路。更麻烦的是，有些如基本指法错误，一旦形成习惯就很难再更改。所以，初学古琴还是要有老师指导为好。特别是在入门阶段，这一点显得尤为重要。随着基本指法和琴曲学习的增加，自身的程度也在提高，在打下良好、坚实的基础之后，才可以逐步自学一些琴曲。