Basic techniques of playing pipa

Some pipa playing techniques are as follows:

1. Playing a single tone: tap a string with the index finger or thumb of your right hand to pop up a single tone.

2. Finger sliding: Hold down a string with the index finger or thumb of the right hand, and the fingers of the left hand slide over the string from low to high, resulting in a sliding sound effect.

3. Transfer sound: A continuous sound effect is produced by rapidly switching fingers between different strings.

4. Cut off the sound: press the string gently with the fingers of the left hand, so that the string stops vibrating at a certain position to achieve the effect of cutting off the sound.

5, vibrato: When playing, fingers of the left hand quickly press the strings, making the strings vibrate back and forth at a certain position, resulting in vibrato effect.

6. overtone: the left hand gently presses a certain position, and the right hand simultaneously plucks the strings to produce a special overtone effect.

Although these skills are not difficult, they need constant practice and mastery to play beautiful pipa songs. At the same time, we need to pay attention to the control of the timbre and volume of pipa, and grasp the strength and rhythm of playing.

Introduction to Pipa:

The first plucked instrument is a plucked string instrument. Made of wood or bamboo, the speaker is semi-pear-shaped, with four strings on it. Originally it was made of silk thread, but now it is made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon. The neck and the panel are provided with "phase" and "product" to determine the phoneme.

When playing, it is an important national musical instrument that can be solo, accompanied, ensemble and ensemble.

Pipa, a traditional plucked instrument in China, has a history of more than two thousand years. The earliest musical instrument called "Pipa" appeared around the Qin Dynasty in China. The word "Jue" in the word "Pipa" means "two jade collide and make a pleasant knocking sound", which means that it is a musical instrument that sounds by bouncing the strings.

There are many schools in the history of modern Han nationality music in China, such as Shanghai School (Pudong School), Zhejiang School (Pinghu School) and Wang School.

Pinghu School's performance is literary and martial, and Wen Qu is exquisite, often accompanied by virtual soothing movements to enhance the lingering sound. Wu Qu pays attention to imposing manner, giving priority to the following rounds ("your legend" uses the last round). Pinghu school of pipa has a considerable influence on the formation of various styles of pipa today.