Daughter's interest in guitar

These two days, my daughter suddenly became interested in playing guitar. She finishes her homework early every day, gets dozens of minutes of free time, and then picks up the guitar and begins to explore. For a child with a piano foundation, it is relatively easy to know the relationship between the pitch and position of the guitar. It wasn't long before she played Little Star on her guitar.

But she is always reluctant to start with etudes in a down-to-earth way and wants to play music on the guitar. I won't stop her from doing this, but I will still tell her that playing scales and chromatic scales is to get familiar with the phoneme relationship on each string. If you can practice scales and chromatic scales, you will be more capable of matching notes with specific positions on the guitar when playing music, and you can find different sounds more accurately and quickly. If you can practice basic etudes well, you will be familiar with the fingering rules of guitar playing. In simple and targeted etudes, we can pay more attention to whether the timbre is beautiful, whether the sound is clean and noiseless, listen to the sound and control the finger movements. The plucking of the right hand can't have redundant movements, can't touch the vibrating string, especially can't touch another vibrating string next to it; Press the strings hard with your left hand, otherwise the sound will not be full, and even the beat phenomenon will occur when the strings vibrate.

Practicing guitar is actually the same as practicing other musical instruments. Practicing guitar is also mental work, not physical work. After each movement, if you can compare it with the imaginary sound effect and adjust it in the next movement, and gradually approach the clean, accurate, full and beautiful sound effect, such practice can quickly be appreciated by the beauty of guitar instruments, and can also enhance your confidence and promote your further improvement.

Daughter's personality is unwilling to be bound, but she likes to try and explore actively. When I was a child, I learned to ride a bike. After I taught her the technical essentials, I helped her ride it twice, and she was basically able to ride it by herself. The same is true of learning roller skating. She doesn't want to sign up for class, be guided by the teacher, study according to the teacher's requirements, but explore by herself. After putting on roller skates and protective gear, with the support and guidance of adults, she will soon be able to skate independently. However, due to the lack of formal professional guidance, her roller skating movements have been very irregular, not as standard and beautiful as the students in the roller skating class. On the other hand, she can't learn many technically difficult movements by herself, so her roller skating level stays at the level of running in circles, and roller skating has become a tool for her to feel as fast as lightning.

From the perspective of happiness, my daughter has gained great happiness in cycling and roller skating, and she still likes riding a bike on her way to school every day. There is nothing to do but worry about his safety. After all, she won't take roller skating or cycling as her career. Then go back to playing the guitar, and we can look at it with the same attitude. She plays the guitar just for fun. She can play music if she wants, and it doesn't matter if she doesn't play scale etudes. If she is willing to play guitar for a long time, there will always be time and opportunity to solve the problems of timbre and technique step by step, and one day she will be able to play her favorite music accurately and beautifully. If she can't practice guitar for a long time, then she can get happiness from the current guitar, even if the tone is not clean and pleasant, after all, she is happy at present.

If we can get rid of utilitarianism and goals, it is not difficult to learn musical instruments from a happy perspective. Moreover, if children can learn in happiness, they will gradually correct their technical problems, improve their game ability and get happiness at a higher difficulty. Of course, this way is by no means a way to train professional musicians, but a way to train amateur musicians, so that children can feel the beauty of music through their own performances.