Typical playing methods of Jiangzhou drum music

Typical playing methods of Jiangzhou drum music

Jiangzhou drum music is mainly based on playing flowers, with instruments such as boards and gongs. Its playing methods can be summarized into more than ten kinds, such as drum heart, drum edge, drum nail grinding, drum pestle rubbing, drum ring rubbing, drum skin rubbing, drum pestle rolling and drum stand. The performance is vigorous and broad, magnificent and powerful, and it is known as "the earth shakes and the mountains shake" and "the acoustic shock ten miles away". Jiangzhou drum music takes drum as the core, which makes body language and drum music vocabulary complement each other, integrates culture into drum music and shows culture with drum music.

Jiangzhou drum music

history

Jiangzhou drum music has a long history, standing in the pre-Qin period, innovating in the Tang and Song Dynasties, thriving in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and innovating today.

The drum music of the State of Jin, which gradually spread from the pre-Qin "Dingtao culture", was handed down from generation to generation in Jiangzhou, creating the art of drum music-Jiangzhou drum music. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Shi Kuang, a musician in the State of Jin, strongly advocated "those who smell drums enjoy it", which was appreciated and recognized by the monarch. Therefore, the drum music of the state of Jin had a great influence at that time, which was famous all over the world and spread widely, and there was a saying that "Qin Zheng Jin Drum".

Common musical instrument-flat drum