When playing the Sheng, hold the Sheng bucket with the palms of both hands, insert the middle finger and ring finger of the right hand into the horseshoe-shaped gap of the Sheng seedling, and press the holes with 7 fingers (4 on the right hand and 3 on the left hand). Each finger is responsible for several pressing holes. The finger movements must be sensitive and the pressing holes must be tight.

The playing skills of Sheng are divided into finger skills and intraoral skills. It can play single notes, chords, erasures, glides, pauses, tongue twists, tongue exhales, vibrato and throat sounds. It is more difficult to play vibrato on the sheng.

The Sheng is a wind instrument, but it is pronounced through the vibration of copper reeds, so it has a mixed tone of reeds and pipes. The treble is crisp and transparent, and the middle and bass are beautiful, full, soft, and easy to play with. Acoustic fusion of other instruments.

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The techniques of traditional Sheng and improved Sheng are the same, and the techniques of improved Sheng are based on traditional Sheng techniques.

The playing skills of Sheng include: pauses, appoggios, skips, double vomiting, triple voicing, broken voicing, colorful tongue, mouthpiece, vibrato, polyphony, multiple harmonies, etc.

The flower tongue is divided into fine flower tongue, thick flower tongue, explosive tongue and other types. "The cadenza and cadenza are the best opportunities to show off your personal skills," a famous Japanese conductor once said. The most obvious ones, such as cucurbit flute, Bawu, bamboo flute and other wind instruments, all use the sheng technique - double spitting, triple spitting, etc.

The Sheng’s playing skills are the richest among all wind instruments. As the originator of reed instruments, the Sheng’s skills have not only greatly enriched the expressive power of wind instruments, but also actively promoted world music. effect.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Sheng