Pipa is the first plucked instrument, and it is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia. Pipa has a variety of playing skills, and the ring finger is one of the most difficult skills. Today, I will introduce the skills of the pipa ring finger.

Pipa Wheel Finger Techniques

This technique is one of the more difficult to practice among the common fingerings of the pipa, and it is also a characteristic technique of the pipa. It is often difficult for beginners to achieve an average of 5 finger strength and speed. Before learning the wheel fingers, you should start with the practice of scoring, single and double hooking, and ring finger exercises. In these exercises, every finger must be practiced, especially the ring finger and little finger with poor strength and flexibility. The purpose is to ensure that each finger does not have uneven strength and speed when playing with the ring finger technique.

The correct way to use this technique is to keep the palm loose, each finger should point to the left panel after popping out, and the front two joints of the fingers are straight. It should be noted that every time you put out a finger, the big finger should follow it down, which makes it easier to pick it up. When it hits the ring finger and the little finger, the fingers do not need to be stretched out, but should be retracted inward to make it appear "fan-shaped". shape. In this way, the sound of playing is clean and powerful, and it can better reflect the granularity of "big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate" and the timbre of beads that are round and jade-like.

The above are some of the author's experience in performance and teaching for many years. There are deficiencies and deficiencies. I also hope that you can criticize and correct me, so as to promote the author to make continuous progress.

Improve wheel finger strength

The fingers have considerable strength and endurance, which is the fundamental basis for playing the pipa ring finger well. Since our hands belong to the unfinished oil meridian part in the human body structure and are in a state of micro-force, and the Pipa Wheel Finger requires four fingers to pop out and move with small joints, which increases the difficulty of the Wheel Finger. So how to solve the problem of finger weakness? Practice has proved that the first is to have a national standard wheel finger shape. The hand shape of the wheel finger is the same as that of the bouncing hand. It should form a half-clawed fist. The small joints of the fingers should be bent and isolated. The fingertips of the big finger and the index finger should be pinched together. The tiger's mouth is circular, and the right upper arm is natural. Sagging, the angle of the right forearm and the back of the hand forms a plane with the lute panel, maintaining the natural readiness of the round fingers as a whole. The second is to slow down the speed of the open string wheel finger practice. Because only slowing down and practicing chakra is the scientific way to solve the fundamental problem. We can start from the index finger, and then the middle finger, ring finger, and little finger pop out in turn; we can also start the plate from the big finger, and then pop out from the index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger. The time between fingers and fingers should be as fast as the sound of the second hand of the clock moving.

The correct method requires to hold the fingers halfway, and then rely on the strength of each finger joint to pop out one finger and one finger, that is, jump out one by one. , Do not swipe across the string with four fingers at the same time. In order to control the speed and exercise the intrinsic potential of the fingers, you can use the method of silently reciting numbers to control the time of the fingers, such as: one (big finger) two (index finger) three (middle finger) four (ring finger) five (little finger), five (index finger) four ( Middle finger) three (name finger) two (little finger) one (big finger) circular finger practice. **For the first time, the big finger lifts the board, and when returning, the index finger lifts the board. After each finger has finished playing the string, you should quickly relax and return to the ready state of half fisting from the straighter finger shape. The third is to create conditions to simulate wheel finger practice. That is to leave the pipa to practice the ring finger, because only on the pipa to practice the ring finger, the time is short and the limitation is large. Therefore, if you want to expand your practice time, you can practice your ring fingers anytime, anywhere. If you are walking, you can use the left side of the front of the jacket to make the strings, pinch the lower end of the front with your left hand to tighten the front of the shirt, and use your right hand to practice fingering on the front of the front. As a string, you can practice your right wheel fingers without affecting your study and dining; then you can use the corner as a string, as long as you pass by the corner, your right hand should not miss the opportunity to practice several times on the corner line. Persistently in this way, it will reach the level of going crazy. If you don't practice the wheel finger, your fingers will be itchy. Over time, the inner strength of the five fingers of the right hand and the wheel finger technique will gradually strengthen unconsciously. Improve the pure ability of wheel fingers

Some pipa students often produce messy and rough voices when they rotate their fingers, which is caused by the inaccurate position of the left fingers and the irregular flexion and extension of the right fingers. So how to avoid the voice of the wheel fingers? First, the position of the left finger to press the strings should be appropriate. If the fingertips are pressed on the large upper ends of the phase and frets, the distance between the phase and frets is far away, the contact between the string body and the phase and frets is not solid, and the strings vibrate and sway and rub against the phase and frets after playing, and a loud noise will be emitted. ; If the finger presses on the top of the phase and the fret, which hinders the vibration of the string body, it will produce a hoarse sound. The correct pressing position should be at the upper end that is very close to the phase and fret, and the lower side of the finger is close to the upper edge of the fret. When the right hand is turning the finger, the left hand must press firmly, so that there is no contact between the string body and the phase fret. There is no room for the strings on the upper end of the phase and frets to move in the morning, so that a clean, bright and full-grained sound will be emitted. Second, the gesture of the right wheel finger should be correct.

The main reason why the fingers touch the strings left and right is that the small joints of the fingers are stiff and mechanical, lack of elasticity, unnatural in retraction, inflexible movements, the fingers are not retracted in time, but continue to straighten and operate and the movement is too large to touch other strings. noise made. The correct ring finger gesture is that the right finger will return to the half-fist ready state immediately after playing the string. When playing the string, the small joints should have a feeling of pressing the string, which can better use the elasticity of the string to rebound the fingers, so that the fingers naturally Return to half fist position. The wrist should be rotated slightly up and down with the wheel fingers, and its strength should be balanced with the force of the fingers.

If the strength of the wrist is greater than the strength of the fingers, it will cause the fingers to expand the range of motion and hit the strings to produce noise. After the big finger picks the string, the middle joint should be retracted immediately, not always straight. The specific operation of the big finger is to lower the head when preparing to pick the string, raise the head when picking the string, and keep the hand and tiger's mouth in a circular state, so as to prevent and eliminate the A chance to touch the strings. The third is that the fingers of the left hand should be tightly combined with the strings. It is necessary to develop a good habit of pressing the strings with the fingertips. The advantages of pressing the strings with the fingertips are that the strength is concentrated and soft, and the striking area is small, which can give full play to the elasticity of the middle and small joints of the left finger. The relationship between the two is tight and solid, and the string body is controlled in a stable state, and the sound of gold and stone that is clean and clear, full of particles and full of particles will be emitted after the fingers. Fourth, the position of the right hand wheel finger touching the string should be appropriate. When the fingers are rounded, the strike points of the five fingers should be concentrated at the half point between the 32nd fret of the pipa and the bergamot, and the strike points (that is, the strike distance) of the big finger and the little finger should not exceed 0.5 cm up and down. , so that the sound of the fingers will be firm, uniform, and bright.