Teach yourself the guzheng

Watch more videos, not just listening. If you have the chance, learn a few lessons on basic skills.

Teaching materials for beginners generally use "Introduction to Guzheng" and "Basic Guzheng Tutorial". After you have a little basic knowledge, you can add "Daily Guzheng Finger Sequence Practice". When choosing a piano, you need to listen to the playing. The sound quality also depends on the material of the piano, as well as the region. If you are not familiar with it, you can choose a brand of piano; I recommend you a website called Tadpole Music Learning, which has a series of supporting videos on these teaching materials. If you have any questions about learning, you can also If a teacher gives an answer, you can go and see if it is helpful to your study.

I personally feel that it is not impossible to learn by yourself. The key is how much you have learned.

Have you mastered the basic skills of arpeggio and remote fingering?

I used to learn guzheng like this. Because I don’t want to enter a music school. Just be amateur. The high school entrance examination and college entrance examination are very stressful. Just study for a while. Let it go for a while~~

I personally think it will be after level 5 or 6. Most of the songs can be learned by yourself. I searched online for music information and techniques. There are many guzheng teaching videos on the Internet. CCTV also has programs dedicated to teaching guzheng. Classes are held on separate days. Very good too.

After all, level 5 is a watershed. After level 5, if you encounter special skills, you can just find a teacher

But if the level is relatively low, it is best not to teach yourself

Because it is very important to get started with the guzheng instrument. Ah, if the fingering, hand shape, and basic skills are not in place at the beginning, it will be very detrimental to future performances. After all, everything is difficult at the beginning

I started self-study after level 6. Now you can play level 8 music. I would like to give you some advice as a lesson learned from the past. I hope it can help you~

I would like to add that there are still many disadvantages of self-study. As far as I am concerned, the first is the issue of basic skills. Most self-study students have not received formal and systematic training. Even if they have mastered the postures There is no problem with the hand shape, but most of the basic skills are not very strong, including insufficient strength of the fingers, and the sound is not solid and weak when playing the piano. The knowledge of music theory is not enough, the rhythm of music is not absolutely good (except for those who have studied vocal music or other musical instruments), and the same song cannot be played at the same speed from the beginning to the end (unless it is marked on the song to change speed), there is no deviation at all, and the time value of each shot cannot be strictly adhered to, and it is easy to rush or delay the shot. When sliding up and down and pressing notes, the pitch cannot be completely in place at once. Although as far as I am concerned, my ears are pretty good, but there will still be slight deviations. The second is the issue of relaxation. First, let’s talk about finger shaking. Because I have not received formal training, I just rely on my own feeling. Although there is a sound effect similar to finger shaking, I have not paid attention to the essence of finger shaking, which is to relax the wrists and shoulders. It's not enough, which makes long-length finger-wagging very difficult, the arms are sore, and the string crossing is unnatural and stiff. Even if I subconsciously pay attention to relaxing, the density of the finger shaking is not enough, and it is easier to get nervous when sweeping. Although the sound effect of my sweeping is there, I still don’t know whether the sweeping I am playing is real. That's right, it's a headache because it feels a little strenuous. Let’s talk about the allegro, because to make the allegro fast enough, you need to relax well. If you are nervous, you will not be able to go fast, and the sound will not sound good. However, because you have not mastered the key to relaxation, you will always lose your temper every time you play the allegro of a song. Either I can't get up to speed, or I'm playing vaguely and can't hear clearly. Now I feel a lot of psychological pressure when I play long swing and allegro, which makes me play even worse. The third problem is sight-reading. Since I have not trained myself specifically in sight-reading and am used to playing the piano by memorizing music scores, my current sight-reading ability is not good (mainly because I cannot play accurately without looking at the strings). Now I am doing I have done some training (such as playing the piano without turning on the lights at night), but the results are not great. I am thinking of asking teachers of ancient music for some advice. Since I have a clearer understanding of myself, I am not a genius, and the idea of ??learning guzheng well through self-study is really undesirable. Therefore, I am about to end my self-study career and want to continue step by step with professional teachers (of course Except for those who entertain themselves).

The above are the problems I encountered in my self-study experience. I hope to give some inspiration to friends who want to self-study. During the self-study process, be careful to avoid these shortcomings of mine, and consciously strengthen strict training. I believe that everyone will learn better than me. good.

My friend bought a piano but didn’t find a teacher. She worked on it behind closed doors at home, making frequent mistakes. I tried to persuade her frequently, but she just didn’t listen, so I wrote this article to explain what talent is and what it is. He is a genius. What kind of talent can be self-taught without a teacher?

Talent: Have a feeling for music, enjoy listening to wonderful concerts, be emotionally affected by music, have a certain sense of pitch and rhythm, and can gradually improve under correction, basically completing the teacher's requirements or effectively Implement guidance. If you study hard and practice hard, you may become a professional performer.

Genius: Can be emotionally affected by music and can control the emotions the music wants to express, thereby affecting the emotions of others. He has a strong sense of pitch and rhythm. When he hears the melody, he can imitate it immediately and it is almost the same. His ears can easily distinguish the differences between different performance versions and the wrong notes in the master's performance. Your own performance also requires the timbre and expressiveness of each note, and you must be able to read the music and play the correct timing and intonation of each note. If nothing unexpected happens, he will become a master.

Perhaps one in 20 people has some sense of music, or at least the pitch is passable, but if there is only one genius in 2 billion people, it is a great blessing for mankind.

This shows that art is such a cruel thing. If God doesn’t give it to you, don’t dream about it in your life.

Geniuses can be taught by themselves, but just forget about talent.

If you can’t get every note correct, you can’t teach yourself. Because that will give countless opportunities for deep-rooted mistakes. There is nothing more difficult to solve than deep-rooted mistakes. What’s terrible is that you often feel that you are playing correctly, well, and accomplished. The reality is that many talented people are full of loopholes under the guidance of teachers, and many people are unable to perfectly perform a piece of music in their lifetime. Music is not something to be taken for granted. There are countless kinds of expressions, but the music score is there. If the initial hardware does not pass the test, the rhythm and timing are wrong, and to be stricter, if there are too many mistakes, it will not be the original song. So what is the performance?

Don’t talk about video teaching. When I used to teach a student, I couldn't even bother correcting her mistakes by holding her hand for gestures and using both hands to correct her mistakes for a hand shape. The video is close-up again. The teacher can't give you the right remedy for your unique mistake. How to solve it? Even the power point is not right, how can the sound quality pass the test? What’s even more ridiculous is that now some people can’t change their hand shape for decades, but they are still going around giving out discs to teach people, are they going to teach a bunch of people like her? As a digression, whether the point of exertion is correct is also related to talent. It only counts in the category of body language, but it is still within the larger scope of art. If you can't even achieve the most basic timbre, how can you talk about performance? I often see some people (especially those in the folk music industry) shamelessly showing off their unique flaws, telling a lie a thousand times before it becomes the truth, and becoming the target of others to follow and imitate. Most of the time, blind imitation will not end well. Without a qualified teacher, you will know it but not know why, and you will not understand the basic reasons and rules. It is a waste of time and energy, and it is better not to learn.

I advise every friend who is not a genius to find a good teacher and study hard and practice hard. Look at the piano in front of you. They are all carefully selected in a forest. The wood that came out had to grow for countless years before it could be cut and processed. It went through complicated processes one after another, consuming countless people's hard work, time and sweat. When they finally appeared in the world as a piano, they They are all eager to play a swan song that has never been played before or since! They also have talents and are talented people!

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Let me report the current situation of my friend live. She finally couldn't stand my constant nagging and insinuations, so she took a few regular classes recently.

Yesterday she complained to me: My front finger was all in vain. I had to stand up my fingers, but now I feel tired after playing twice! What can we do? Waste of so much time...

I immediately gloated unkindly: Who told you not to listen to me! What did you do earlier?

Actually, what I am most worried about is not that she is wasting time. People are like this. They always have to hit a wall before they change. It is normal not to listen to advice. I really feel sorry for that piano (I deliberately provoke her) , haha, I’m bad too)