When practicing the guzheng wheel finger, the ring finger, middle finger and index finger are naturally bent, tightened and aligned. The first joint of the big finger is attached to the side of the first joint of the index finger. , middle finger, and index finger to strike the front string in turn.

The ring finger, middle finger, and index finger can be played at a point on the string with a slight slant, and the sound will be more even and powerful. After popping up, the three fingers should not be raised too high, which is not aesthetically pleasing and will affect the speed of recycling.

It should be noted that when the fingers are hitting the strings, the fingers are slightly inclined to the right, the three fingers should be sure to hit a point on the same string, and the wrist should also be rotated slightly.

The fingerings to be learned at the beginning of the guzheng are hooking, holding and wiping. After practicing the basic three fingerings, you can practice hitting, splitting, tickling, picking, lifting, flower fingering, shaking finger, arpeggio, harmonic, percussion, rubbing, The fingerings such as big pinch, strumming, scraping, small pinch, vibrato, glissando, and four-point, among which hook, hold, and wipe are the most used and the most basic fingerings.

When playing the guzheng, you need to wear fake nails. The strings of the guzheng are very hard. If you don't wear fake nails, you will be easily injured. The nails should be worn vertically when wearing, and be careful not to affect the movement of the joints when wearing them.

Guzheng also has many finger shaking methods, such as thumb shaking, index finger shaking, middle finger shaking, two-tone shaking, three-tone shaking, sweeping shaking, buckle shaking, etc., which can be used flexibly according to different songs when playing. Among them, thumb shaking is divided into supporting wrist shaking, staking shaking, hanging wrist shaking, and fast supporting and splitting shaking.

The basic skills of guzheng require practice of sitting posture, hand shape, knowledge of music theory, development of musical sense, fingering, fingering sequence, techniques, skills, identification of different timbres, etc.