The fingering of the pipa is divided into left and right hands. The right hand has fingerings such as flicking, picking, clipping, rolling, double flicking, double picking, dividing, hooking, wiping, pressing, buttoning, whisking, sweeping, wheel, half wheel, etc. Skills such as virtual pressing, string twisting, overtone, push, pull, chuo, and note. Various chords and chords can be played. It is widely used in national bands and various local operas and folk art accompaniment. Famous pieces include "House of Flying Daggers", "The Overlord Disarms", "Sunshine Moonlight Night", "Spring Snow White", "Moon High", "Spring Rain", "Yi Dance Music", "Zhaojun Out of the Forbidden City", "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" , "Big Waves Washing the Sand", "Flowering Party", "Flying Flowers and Emeralds", "Swan", "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain" concerto "Prairie Heroes and Sisters" and so on.

1. Left fingering

na, dai, and cuo are pronounced with the left finger, so they are also called imaginary sounds due to their weaker volume. The virtual sound is in contrast to the real sound played with the left hand. In terms of volume, the real sound is stronger and the virtual sound is weaker. If the organic combination of virtual sound and real sound is properly used in some parts of the music, it can add contrast to the volume of the music. This method of combining virtual and real sounds is most commonly used in traditional Pipa music. Now, we will introduce the playing methods of smashing, banding and slamming respectively as follows.
(1) Press
na, also known as "beating", "printing" and so on. The method of playing the slam is that in the movement of the knuckles, the finger end takes the position to strike the string body on the phase, so that the slight sound, the smashing and the previous tone are mostly upward.
(2) Belt
Band, also known as "take up", "with sound", "release" and so on. The method of playing the band: after the right hand pops out the previous press tone, then make a left-inward or outward pluck on the phase fret, and then leave the string body to bring a weaker or slightly stronger tone. The band and the previous tone are mostly performed in a downward direction.
The sound that is brought up can be divided into scattered sound and pressed sound. When you bring the scattered sound, you must turn the button to the left inward or outward to bring out the empty string scattered sound. When starting to press the tone, the last tone of the descending must be pressed on the phase grade with the index finger (or middle finger), and then the action of the belt is performed.
(3) Buoy
Lei, also known as "scratch", "move", "grab", "stick" and so on. The method of playing Biao: Press the string body on the phase fret with the left finger, and use the middle finger or the ring finger to scratch the string below the pronunciation (for example, when pressing the string with the left middle finger, use the ring finger to scratch the string). This is the method of pressing the sound ; For example, when the empty string is scattered, you can choose a more convenient finger to scratch the string among the index, middle and name fingers of the left hand. Most of the strings are played on the same string.

2. Right fingering

The flicking and picking classes include flicking, picking, clipping, rolling, double flicking, double picking, tickling, touching, flying, and double flying, and flicking and picking are the most basic and important fingerings in the right fingering. Other right fingering methods such as clipping, rolling, dividing, pressing, hooking, wiping, tickling, flying, etc., are all derived from playing.
(1) Play: touch the string with the fingernail end of the index finger of the right hand (usually with the end of the fingernail on the adjacent side of the thumb), and pop the string to the left to pronounce.
(2) Picking: touch the string with the end of the right thumb nail (usually the fingernail on the outside of the big finger), and pick the string to the right to pronounce. Playing methods of other fingerings of the pick class:
(3) Clipping: It is to play and pick on the strings to make continuous and even but not fast movements. Each beat is based on the speed of the rhythm of the tune. Generally, there are four tones, and some or two.
(4) Roll: The method of playing is the same as that of clipping. But in terms of speed, it is twice as fast as the clip, that is, each beat is based on the rhythm of the tune, generally making eight tones, and some making sixteen.
(5) Picking: It is to pick out the string to the left with the middle fingernail.
(6) stroke: stroke the string to the right with the flesh of the middle finger.
(7) Double play: It is to pop the two adjacent strings to the left at the same time with the fingernail.
(8) Double pick: Use the thumb nail to pick two adjacent strings to the right at the same time.
(9) Fly: It is to use the nameless nail to fly the string to the left.
(10) Shuangfei: It is to play the string on the left with the forefinger, and the string on the right with the thumb nail, and it must be continuous and continuous. Wheel finger is the cycle of the five fingers, and it is the main method to obtain long notes when playing the pipa.

3. Ways to play the ring finger

1. Wheels

When the erhu and other stringed instruments play long notes, the "long bow" can be pulled to obtain continuous long notes. When a flute and other wind instruments play a long note, they can blow a continuous long note in one breath. When playing long notes on stringed instruments such as the pipa, the fingerings such as "wheel" or "roll" and "shaking" are used to form a long note by using the fast single notes of the same phoneme. A long note played with a longbow and one breath is an uninterrupted long note, and a long note with a wheel or rock, in the middle of the long note, there are countless short intervals.
The positioning of the wheel fingers: take the index finger of the right hand as the first, the second finger of the middle finger, the third of the ring finger, and the fourth of the little finger, one by one in the forward direction (front left); Claim a round. This five-finger cycle of playing fingering is called ring finger. When turning the fingers, the time interval of the five fingers hitting the strings should be uniform, and the sound should be uniform.
There are two ways to play the wheel: one is called "lower out of the wheel", which is to use the small, name, middle, and index fingers of the right hand to pop out in sequence to the left, and then move the thumb to the right. Because it starts with the little finger to make the wheel first, it is called "the next wheel". In the Qing Dynasty, the Zhejiang School used this method. The advantage is that the pronunciation volume of each finger is easy to be similar; the disadvantage is that the volume is generally weaker. The other is called "upper wheel", which is to use the thumb or index finger of the right hand to start making the wheel. The Zhili School of the Qing Dynasty used this method. The advantage is that the pronunciation is generally stronger; the disadvantage is that the pronunciation of each finger tends to be different. Since most of them adopt the method of "up-rounding", we mainly focus on introducing the upper-rounding. Scratching, brushing, sweeping, and skimming are all fingerings in which four sounds (or three sounds) are pronounced at the same time.
When playing chords or chords, this type of fingering is mostly used, and it is often used at the accent and climax of the music. Swipe, brush, sweep, swipe, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, including sweeping three strings, brushing three strings, rolling two strings, rolling three strings, rolling four strings, Lin, and hanging. They are all fingerings in which four sounds (or three sounds) are pronounced at the same time. This type of fingering is mostly used when playing chords or chords. This kind of pronunciation is strong, easy to make intense and powerful performance, can highlight the stress and strengthen the rhythm, therefore, this kind of fingering is often used at the stress and climax of the music.
The wheel finger is the most basic, most commonly used and the most difficult to learn fingering in the pipa. There is usually a saying: once the wheel finger is learned, half of the pipa is learned.

2. Sweep

a. Draw: Use the right index fingernail to quickly play the four strings from the winding string to the sub-string to the left.
b. Fu: Use the thumb nail of the right hand to quickly play the four strings to the right from the sub-string to the winding string.
c. Sweep: Line up with the small, name, middle, and index fingers of the right hand, and swipe from the winding string to the sub-string to the left rapidly like a sound.
d. Skimming: Line up with the small, name, middle, and index fingers of the right hand, and skimming from the sub-string to the winding string to the right like a sound.
e. Swipe the three strings: Use the right index finger to quickly play the adjacent three strings from right to left.
f. Scrub the three strings: Use the right thumb to quickly pick the adjacent three strings from left to right.
g. Rolling the second string: Use the thumb and index fingers of the right hand to make continuous and rapid picks on the adjacent two strings.
h. Rolling the three strings: Use the thumb and forefinger of the right hand to make continuous and rapid picks on the adjacent three strings.
i. Rolling the four strings: Use the thumb and index fingers of the right hand to make continuous and rapid picks on the adjacent four strings.
j. Pro: Use the thumb of the right hand to pick from the substring, the middle string, the old string, and the winding string one by one to the right.
k. Hanging: Use the index finger of the right hand to wind the string and the old string, middle string and sub-string pop out one by one to the left.

3. Tick the categories

a. Hook: Touch the string with the flesh of the right thumb, and hook it to the left.
b. Wipe: Touch the string with the right index finger and wipe it to the right.
c.Zhi: Use the right thumb to hook and the index finger to rub.
d. Points: Use the thumb nail of the right hand to pick to the right, the index fingernail to play to the left, and the two fingers to touch the strings at the same time to pronounce.
e. Buckle: Use the right thumb to hook to the left, while the index finger flicks to the left.
f. Hook: "Hook" is also known as "hook". In actual performance, there have been various combinations. Each group of two tones is the most primitive performance form of hooking, and the other types are derived from the second tones, and among them, the four tones in each group are the most common.
Two-tone hooking: The first tone is to hook a string on the right with the thumb, and the second tone is to rub the left string with the index finger. Most of them are repeated continuously. It is traditionally called "hooking", commonly known as "small hooking".
The four-tone tick, there are various forms of playing methods, and the names are not consistent. Here we mainly introduce the commonly used "phoenix nodding": the first tone of tangzi winding, the second tone of index finger playing the string, the third tone of index finger troweling, the third tone The four forefingers play the strings, most of which are repeated continuously.