When playing Sattar, the player sits cross-legged on many seats, puts the piano box upright on his left leg, holds the piano in his left hand and presses the strings, and holds a ponytail bow in his right hand to play the main strings. The resonance strings are not played, but only play the role of acoustic resonance to enhance the volume and enrich the timbre.

Due to the longer piano bar and wider pitch, the left hand is often dominated by the index finger, and the middle finger and the ring finger are used to press the strings, and the little finger is used less. They are used to pressing the strings with their index fingers.

Satir is the main accompaniment instrument for Uyghur folk artists to sing "Twelve Muqam", which is pulled and sung by the lead singer, so the tuning of the lead strings is also determined by the singer's voice.

Commonly used bows are slurred, split bow, long bow, short bow, pause bow, jump bow and broken bow, etc. In the musical life of the Uyghur people, the satir has become an inseparable stringed instrument.