On Tao Di's playing essentials and skills

Whether it's a six-hole or a twelve-hole Tao Di, the play is the same. Tao Di is a simple and easy-to-learn musical instrument. As long as you grasp the gist and play loudly, everyone can play Tao Di well. The following is my compilation of Tao Di's playing essentials and skills. Welcome to reading.

Tao Di's playing essentials and skills

A, breathing and blowing method:

Although Tao Di is not a very gas-consuming musical instrument, it is necessary to adopt a correct way of breathing so as not to harm the body for a long time. All playing musical instruments or singing adopt abdominal breathing. Generally speaking, I breathe by chest breathing. When inhaling, the chest will expand and the abdomen will contract. When exhaling, the chest will relax and the abdomen will recover. Abdominal breathing is just the opposite. When inhaling, the chest will not change much, but the abdomen will bulge and the diaphragm will rise. When exhaling, the abdomen will contract and the diaphragm will drop. This is to avoid hurting the ribs with the chest, which is different from our general breathing method. Practice more and you will get used to it.

Second, the blowing method:

Blow gently, not too deep or too shallow. About a little outside the front teeth. Don't gnash your front teeth, but block them with your tongue.

Third, the tongue method:

Tongue movement should be coordinated with your exhalation. When exhaling, the tongue that originally blocked the mouthpiece will immediately retract. When the breath is about to end, immediately block it with your tongue, which will contract and release like a piston. It feels like you are making a "two" sound, but there is no sound. As soon as you exhale, the airflow remains constant, and ordinary beginners will have a phenomenon of changing from weak to strong, which is not possible. In addition, some people will bulge their cheeks when playing. This is because they put air in their mouths and then spit it out. The correct way is to spit it out directly from the abdomen, so avoid the phenomenon of bulging cheeks.

Fourth, fingering:

Beginners often use their fingers too hard because they are nervous, which is easy to cause sore hands. You should always remind your fingers to relax. If you are too tired, you must rest before practicing. When you press the hole with your finger, you should use the place on your stomach. You shouldn't press them straight with your fingertips. Your fingers should be slightly bent. Novices will flatten their fingers because they are too hard. This is not correct. When the finger is put into the hole, it should be lifted with the strength of the knuckle at the root of the finger, not with the second knuckle. The whole finger is a bit like grabbing something.

Five, Tao Di's posture:

Tao Di can blow standing or sitting, but no matter how you blow, you should raise your head and clap your chest, and don't lower your head just because you look at the music. When playing, don't hunch your shoulders, naturally open your arms at 45 degrees, and Tao Di is at 3045 degrees with your body.

Improve Tao Di's self-study ability

At present, most students are in the state of self-study, so it is more important to improve their self-study ability.

The best way to improve self-study ability is to think more, especially when encountering problems. Some friends are diligent, but they are too dependent on their teachers. They want to ask the teacher questions they don't understand. This is normal on the surface, but they unconsciously give up thinking deeply about problems they don't understand. Many problems can be solved by thinking and pondering on their own. Even many questions have direct or indirect answers in textbooks, but they don't understand because they haven't read them carefully. Therefore, when you encounter a problem, you should study it yourself first, at least you can find several possible answers or explanations. If you can't solve it, ask someone else. If the problem does not affect your play, you can put it on hold for the time being. Maybe you will come to a conclusion slowly with the improvement of your level. In short, thinking hard and seriously is the best way to improve self-study ability.

Develop good practice habits

1. When learning a new work, you should first read the practice tips or performance tips carefully. These text descriptions are the analysis of the key points and difficulties of music. When you can solve the key points and difficulties in music, the rest of the music will be very simple.

2. Music can't be fully expressed by music score and words, and even the detailed music score can't describe the details and charm of music. Therefore, "listening to songs" is the most intuitive way to learn, and you should listen to the original demonstration more in the process of contact.

3. When choosing the practice tracks, it is best to start with the tracks that you are interested in and can do technically. When you meet a difficult place, you should practice it again and again by yourself. Of course, you can also "bypass" or simply simplify the connection first, and then play according to the original score after the level is improved.

4. Try to use metronome in practice, especially for friends with weak sense of rhythm, so as to cultivate a stable sense of rhythm.

5. After playing an etude basically, you can practice at three different speeds: slow, medium and fast. We can arrange exercises according to the ratio of 4:4:2. That is, four times slower, four times medium and two times faster. Three different speed exercises are very effective practice methods, which should be adhered to for a long time.

6. When there are no mistakes in quick practice, you can practice accompaniment.

7. Be able to recite some nice and classic music scores. After memorizing the music score, you can concentrate on the emotional expression of music and enrich the expressive force of music. Long-term adherence to memorizing music, memorizing more songs and enriching your own songs. Once you have a chance to perform, you can easily pick up Tao Di to play.