Learn the guzheng. The guzheng is one of the oldest plucked instruments in China. According to research, the guzheng was widely spread during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It has a history of more than 2,500 years. Since the Qin and Since the Han Dynasty, guzheng has gradually spread from northwest my country to all parts of the country, and has been integrated with local opera, rap and folk music, forming various genres with strong local styles, including Henan Zheng, Shandong Zheng, Chaozhou Zheng, Hakka Zheng, There are six factions of Zhejiang Zheng and Inner Mongolia Zheng, now referred to as the North and South Schools (the following schools can be divided into North and South schools, while the modern Zheng schools are mainly divided into North and South schools, mostly south of the Yangtze River and north of the Yangtze River). Their music and performance Each method has its own characteristics. Shandong Zheng is mostly directly related to Shandong Qinshu and folk music. Most of the tunes are in the palace mode, composed of eight large boards. Its playing style is pure Chaozhou Zheng: it is spread in the Chaozhou area of ??Guangdong. It has a special music structure and a unique playing method. It is characterized by the smooth and gorgeous right hand and the unique pressing and sliding of the left hand. The method of adding flowers is delicate, subtle and unique. The main tunes include "Chongliu", "Lightliu", "Liuwu", "Reverse Line", etc. Among them, the music in the "Chong Liu" tune is more euphemistic; the music in the "Light Six" tune is fresh and lively; and the music in the "Huo Wu" tune is lingering and sad, with very distinctive tunes. Artist Zhejiang Zheng: Wulin Zheng, popular in Hangzhou area. It is closely related to Jiangnan Sizhu, and its music is mostly transplanted pipa music. To me, guzheng is an ancient musical instrument with beautiful tone and easy to learn. In recent years, it has been loved and enthusiastic by more and more people. The art of guzheng has gone from being rare to rare and popular, and has gone from popular to popular. Towards a commendable improvement, it has gradually penetrated immeasurably into the vigorous promotion of quality education. I think that in order to deeply study this musical instrument with rich expressive power and distinctive artistic personality, we should divide the guzheng into "learning, practicing, playing and talking about the guzheng" to improve it. "Learning the guzheng" does not mean how to learn to play the guzheng, but it talks about the role that the guzheng plays in learning and improving overall quality, which cannot be underestimated. Because the study of music can subtly enhance people's perception of beauty, and can promote the improvement of observation, memory, imagination, thinking and interpersonal communication skills, as well as the ability of self-mental control. If you learn a musical instrument, you can also improve your finger movements through repeated movements. Training to improve movement coordination and balance. Due to the guzheng's string length, shape, wooden structure, large sound box and other instruments, its pronunciation is elegant, soft and pleasant to the ear. Therefore, when playing the guzheng, the flexible string-plucking movements such as hooking, kicking, holding, splitting, wiping, and picking with the fingers of the left and right hands, and the endlessly changing string-pressing movements such as rubbing, pressing, and sliding with the left hand can also achieve what can be achieved by learning other instruments. intellectual development effect. There are many historical stories contained in traditional music. Example: "Fishing Boats Sing Evening" is a classical style work. It quotes the famous line "Fishing Boats Singing Evening, ringing the poor Pengli Coast" in "Tengwang Pavilion Preface" by Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty. It depicts the scene when the sun sets in the west. The fishermen work happily and row back to the boat, singing about the harvest. Its traditional style and long meaning prove that guzheng art has a long history and rich cultural heritage. For example: "Lin Chong Runs at Night" is also a piece with a storyline. It is based on: 1. Being framed and recalling the past with a lot of emotions; 2. Being forced to go up the Liangshan Mountains and being anxious and running at night; 3. Strong winds and heavy snowfall; numerous difficulties and dangers; 4. Confidence to break through dangers. The four plots of "running to Liangshan a hundred times" run through the whole song and are extremely expressive. The modern work "Eight Scenes of Chang'an" is based on the poems and paintings of Qing Dynasty scholar Zhu Jiyi. Describing the places of interest around Chang'an not only makes it easier for learners to understand and master the ideological content expressed in the music, but also enables learners to learn many words and applications. It can be seen that the art of guzheng not only has the same characteristics as other musical instruments, but also has unique advantages and the connotation of comprehensively improving cultural quality. Therefore, we learn guzheng to comprehensively improve our cultural literacy. When it comes to practicing Zheng, I think it is particularly important to learn effective learning methods. In order to learn any musical instrument well, learners must master and use an effective learning method during practice. This is even more important for learners who have completed elementary and intermediate levels. Of course, learning guzheng is indispensable without the guidance and advice of experienced professional teachers, as well as persuasive demonstrations and incentives. However, in most cases, learners with a certain foundation practice without external help. of. Therefore, whether practice is effective depends largely on whether you can teach yourself. What is a good way to learn? 1. Arrange practice time reasonably (the starting point and the key) (1) Set time and place: Because human physiological functions are often controlled by the biological clock, training at time and place can cultivate the excitement of feeling music at a time Habit. This allows practitioners to quickly enter the state, thereby saving time and being efficient. (2) Continuously: Continuously attending classes and practicing is the only way to always maintain a positive attitude towards learning. When intermittent learning and practice continue, a "warm-up" process is required to re-enter the state. This kind of learning can only waste a lot of time and greatly reduce the effect and function of learning an instrument. 2. Clarify the purpose of practice. If you want to practice in a time-saving and effective way, you must clarify the purpose of practice. Practicing aimlessly for several hours without making any progress will not only make you distressed, but will also make you doubt your ability and lose your self-confidence.

Therefore, before practicing, you should think about it quietly: What are the technical difficulties of this exercise? What problems should be solved? What prompts did the teacher give during class? What is the ideological content that the music wants to express? Then according to your ability and the time you practice this time, you can solve as many problems as you can. Only in this way can practice be valuable. 3. Combining sight-reading exercises with memorizing notation exercises. When we learn a piece of music, we must clearly understand whether the piece that has been played countless times is correct. Repeating mistakes can only form bad habits that cannot be broken. "Sight-reading practice" is to play every note and every rhythm accurately. "Practice by memorizing musical notation" is to express the music freely and confidently with "confidence in mind". Therefore, sight-reading exercises are indispensable in learning to play instrumental music. When you first learn a certain piece of music, after you have passed the silent practice before practicing, you can start to practice sight-reading carefully. When the music can be played completely in visual notation, you can start practicing by memorizing notation. In order to ensure its accuracy, after you can perform from memory, you should practice sight music again to find errors and correct them. 4. Combining slow practice with fast practice. When practicing fast-paced passages and phrases with more complex techniques, it is necessary to practice with slow practice that slows down the speed by one or two times. It is also an effective training. method. However, when practicing music with uncomplicated techniques, it would be inappropriate to blindly use the slow practice method without considering the specific situation. Because doing this for a long time will not only cause the practitioners to lose the ability to correctly understand the music, but also gradually weaken their initiative and sense of music performance. The correct practice method is to combine slow practice with playing at the original speed. In the early stages of learning a new piece, once you have completed the fingering and rhythm, you must consider the correct speed requirements. Then practice some more complex musical phrases slowly. After confirming the correctness of the fingering and coordinating the movements of the left and right hands, you should start practicing at the original speed. Only by playing at full speed can we truly understand the music, discover the shortcomings and technical problems, and find the areas that really need to be practiced slowly. Remember, when practicing, you should focus on the difficult points, practice the easy-to-make mistakes carefully, and practice slowly and fast together. 5. Practicing the trembling skills of the left hand that cannot be ignored. During the practice, the pronunciation effect of the left and right hands on the strings is obvious, and the mistakes made are easy to detect. Therefore, the focus is generally placed on the right hand, but the pressing of the left hand must not be ignored. Trembling skills. In guzheng playing, the "rubbing, pressing, and sliding" of the left hand is its "soul". "Rhyme and auxiliary sounds, and the rhymes complement each other" are the characteristics of guzheng music. The quality of the left hand pressing the strings, to a large extent It determines the artistic level of a guzheng player. Without the use of the left hand to press and vibrate, the guzheng music will be bland and lose its luster. Therefore, you must carefully consider the left hand trembling technique during practice and cannot ignore it. 6. Don’t underestimate the performance of “simple” music or passages. In some zither music works, the skills are very simple as soon as you look at the music score, so it is easy for people to ignore the practice of it, but often these seemingly simple pieces are just right. It is a repertoire with unique style and full of charm, so you need to pay more attention to it. Since these pieces of music are generally relatively slow, when practicing, you should not only master the left-hand massage technique that expresses the style characteristics, but also pay attention to the accuracy of its rhythm and the presentation of syntax. , the purity of the timbre, and the control of strength and weakness. Therefore, when learning this kind of music, the focus of practice is just different from those fast and vigorous technical exercises. What is more important is to strengthen the analysis of the style and expression techniques of the music. Example: Especially ancient songs, such as "Out of Water Lotus", "Fishing Boat Sings Evening", etc. 7. Pay attention to the training of etudes. In the learning of guzheng, people often only pay attention to playing a few pieces of music, but ignore the training of etudes. This problem is very prominent, I also have this problem. With the continuous development of guzheng art, higher requirements have been placed on the strength, speed, technique and performance content of the playing. The training of etudes has inevitably become an irreplaceable and important means for us to improve our performance skills. Because etudes are generally targeted, through repeated and specialized exercises of a certain individual item, certain playing skills and methods can be learned, consolidated or improved. In addition, training etudes are usually purely technical exercises, without the burden of melody and music performance, so you can better grasp the technical requirements and achieve high efficiency. 8. Reviewing the past and learning the new helps to continuously improve 3L Many people who learn guzheng, including me, have a very serious "monkey breaking the corn" phenomenon. They learn the next piece but lose the previous piece. This kind of learning is not worth the gain. In the learning process, we should regard reviewing some classic repertoire as an important means of continuous improvement. This will not only accumulate a large number of performance repertoire for us, but also train and improve our memory ability. What's more important is that through review, you can gain new experiences and understandings in those old repertoires, thereby continuously improving your performance skills and understanding of music. 9. Adjust your mental state and learn to practice passionately. The purpose of practicing is to play, and there is a big difference between playing and practicing. For example: when you practice at home, you can correct your mistakes over and over again. If you practice, it will be completely different when you perform on stage. There is no chance to regret it. Because people who perform on stage will be very excited inside, they will be much more nervous mentally and physically than during normal practice.

Music that has been practiced very well in daily life is often full of wrong notes due to nervousness. Therefore, in addition to working hard to create performance opportunities on stage, we should also pay attention to adjusting our mentality when practicing complete music and imagining that we are playing on the stage. , such practice can keep the spirit in a state of excitement, increase confidence and improve the effectiveness of practice. For me, during the several years of guzheng learning, the interaction between teachers and students has been very great. Students cannot blindly wait for the teacher to teach and learn rigidly. This will only make them dependent on the teacher, not good at independent thinking, and passive in learning. While listening to the teacher's opinions, you should be good at discovering problems yourself and enhancing your sense of self. Also, playing skills are an essential ability for learning an instrument. Therefore, after you have a certain foundation in playing, you should go back and check what shortcomings you have in your playing skills. Pay attention to targeted training with etudes and improve them. You should also study music theory seriously while learning the piano. Knowledge, familiarity with various notations, music terminology, cultivating music reading habits, and enhancing the sense of rhythm and psychological induction of music. Only by combining learning in this way can we make breakthroughs in guzheng and make continuous progress. When getting started, you must first find a teacher or at least someone who understands to teach you before you get started. Don't blindly teach yourself. It is easy to follow the gestures and it will be difficult to change them after they are finalized. .

It depends on how long you have been practicing every day for half a month and what kind of music you practice. It also depends on your personal qualifications. If you insist on it for more than 8 hours a week, you should be able to practice the first-level song "Fengxiang Song". If you can practice it for more than 5 hours and half a month, it will still be good. It's almost a first-level song, "The Fishing Boat Sings Late". The fingering is relatively simple, but there is an allegro from slow to fast at the end. Beginners will definitely not be able to play it for half a month, so after about 5 hours and half a month, I can play the Adagio part similar to the fishing boat. I'm completely confused. People who don't understand can still do it, but experts will know the level once they hear it. You can also find some modern music scores to practice like "One Cut Plum" and "Fruits of Midsummer" which are simpler but don't have finger-wagging vibrato and may not be in place in various situations. It may make the song more monotonous