Beginner Guzheng Introductory Score

Gu Zheng Grade 4 Examination Repertoire

"Autumn Thoughts on the Dressing Table", "The Fishing Boat Sings in the Evening", "Fishing Song", "Song of Yanbian", "Little Flying Dance", "Liu Yang River", "Flowers on the Brocade", "Wind Swinging on the Bamboo", "Backwards Riding Donkey", "Spring Seedling", "August Osmanthus Blossoms All Over the Place"

Guzheng Grade 5 Examination Pieces

"Oriole", "Little Neon", "The Warblers Sing", "The Oriole", "The Little Neon", "The Orioles", "The Bird's Nest", "The Birds of the Sea". Oriole", "Little Nishang Song", "Xiangshan Drum Shooting", "Zhaojun's Complaint", "Shandandandan Blossoms", "Liaonan Love", "Hometown Lovers", "High Mountains and Flowing Water", "Little Girl Picking Mushrooms", "Dongting New Song", "Autumn Thoughts", "Eight Panels of Henan"

Guzheng Grade 6 Examination Pieces

Suwu Thinking of Homecoming


She Shan Tea Song, Four Seasons Tune, Lotus in the Water, The Great Eight Panels, Flowering Water, Lantern Festival, Three Plum Blossoms, Harvest Drums and Drums, Splashing Water, Cherry Blossoms, Cloud Celebration

Guzheng Grade 8 Examination Pieces

"Spring to Lhasa", "Butterfly Loves the Flower", "Dance of the Dong People", "Bao Leng Tune", "Chen Xing Yuan", "The House of the Fallen", "Jasmine", and "The Miraculous". The Fall of the Courtyard", "The Fragrance of Jasmine", "The General's Order", "Guangling San", "Sifan", "On the Banks of the Ili River", "Sorrows of Yashan", "The Milky Way and the Blue Ripple"

Guzheng Grade 9 Examination Pieces

"The Song of the East China Sea Fishermen", "The Sea Green Takes the Swan", "Chen Xingyuan and the Fans", "Mountains and Flowing Water", "The Little Sisters of the Prairie Heroes", "Mukham". The Prologue and Dance", "Celebrating the Year of Abundance", "The Sun is Red on Jinggang Mountain", "The Four Harmonies", "Tears of the Jiangnu Lady", "The Iron Horse", "Tatar Dance"

Guzheng 10th grade examination repertoire

"Fighting the Tiger on the Mountain", "The Ballad of the Flowers and Blossoms", "Running on the Steel Water", "Fantasia", "The Fugue of Qiandzhong", "The Liu Qingniang", "The Running of the Forest", "Four Pieces of Jinjin", "The Running of the Night", "The Running of the Sword" and "The Running of the Sword". p> Learning Guzheng is a talent, interest is the best teacher, no interest in learning anything can not raise the spirit, will only waste time. Therefore, to learn guzheng, you must like it in your heart, so that you can learn it better.

The second thing to recognize is the guzheng

The guzheng is a very ancient Chinese stringed instrument, a plucked instrument. The guzheng has a beautiful tone, wide range, rich playing skills, and considerable expressive power. The structure of the koto consists of a panel, a zheng code, strings, a front yue-shan, string pegs, a tuning box, a foot, a back yue-shan, a side plate, a sound outlet, a bottom plate, and a string piercing hole. The shape of the koto is a rectangular wooden box, the string holder "koto pillar" can be moved freely, one string, one tone, according to the pentatonic scale arrangement, the most commonly used specifications for the twenty-one strings.

A good koto is a difficult thing to learn without a good koto, and it is very difficult to learn a good koto without a good koto. Buying a koto is recommended to choose a large manufacturer, so that all aspects are guaranteed. Dunhuang, Yumeier, Zhuqiao are good choices. Dunhuang, guzheng tone bright and more suitable for fast-paced repertoire. The tone of the koto is bright and suitable for fast-paced music. The tone of the koto is excellent with high and low notes, and the more you play, the more flavorful the tone becomes. The Zhuzhu guzheng, with its long aftertone, is especially suitable for slow tempo tracks.

The third thing is to have a good teacher

The guzheng, as a kind of musical instrument that is not so easy to learn, is very difficult to rely on self-study alone, so you need to find a good teacher. The teacher must be authoritative and professional, if not professional, laying a bad foundation, it is very difficult to correct it later.

How to choose a teacher? Look at the teacher's hardware and software, academic background and teaching level, the first choice of major conservatories Guzheng professional teachers, the second choice of major colleges and universities in the Department of Arts Guzheng professional and conservatory of music teaching professional Guzheng direction teachers, generally do not recommend choosing the teacher who has not gone through the orthodox, standardized music-related learning and just how many levels of the Guzheng exam. A good professional teacher ensures that you can learn standardized fingering, techniques and music processing, and not take a detour.

Fourthly, you should organize your time wisely

Guzheng practice is a process of practice makes perfect. Make sure you have 1 to 2 hours of practice time every day. For beginners, don't let your fingers feel too much pain and don't tire yourself too much or you will lose interest. If you enter the intermediate stage, then make sure you have more than 2 hours a day.

For the advanced stage, if you still want to improve, you can 5 hours or so this is not a strict rule, depending on the individual situation. This is very important, most of the kung fu in the hand, the optical does not practice even if you have a high talent can not play a wonderful music.

Fifth, the basic skills of the guzheng should be solid

It is recommended that at the beginning of the practice, pay attention to your sitting posture, hand shape, and then start practicing fingering (e.g., hooking, wiping, pinch, up and down glissando, vibrato), and practice left and right-handed, and if you feel that there is no reference and standard for such practice, you may want to buy a copy of the book, "Daily Fingerings". If you feel that there is no reference or standard for such practice, you may want to buy a copy of "Daily Fingering Exercises" and practice accordingly. After practicing the fingering, you can then practice the exercises, or music, and each time you practice, the basic skills should take up one-third or more of the time.

Summarize: No matter what you do, persistence is the key. I hope everyone can achieve success in guzheng learning. Play the strings toward the inside of the koto

Small handful └(谱子上下方托，上面抹标记)

Hand shape: the right hand clenches the fist and then naturally unclenches it, with the palm bone protruding out, and then plays the rest and the wipe at the same time, i.e., it is a handful. For example, the big finger is placed on alto 5, and the index finger is placed on alto 2 (one string away), and played at the same time.

Action points: play a small handful of fingering, the big finger must be relatively hard with the index finger, "TO", "wipe" at the same time touching the strings, at the same time to release the strings, pay attention to touching the strings after the tiger's mouth is rounded. (i.e., the small joints of the two fingers are fully bent, with the feeling of picking up beans)

└⌒(谱子上下面托，上面勾标记)

Hand shape: the right hand after clenching the fist naturally loosened, the palm bone protrudes, and at the same time play toto and hook, that is, for the big handful. For example: the big finger on the soprano 5, the middle finger on the alto 5, play at the same time.

Action Points: Like the small handful, the large handful also requires two fingers at the same time relative force, "TO", "hook" at the same time touching the strings, at the same time to release the strings, pay attention to touching the strings after the tiger's mouth is rounded. (i.e., the small joints of the two fingers are fully bent, and there is a feeling of grasping a leather ball)

The basic fingerings of the left hand are: upward sliding tone, downward sliding tone, vibrato

Left hand vibrato and sliding tone basic hand shape

Upward sliding tone The right hand strums the strings and then presses the strings with the left hand, so the tone is upward sliding

The hand shape: the left hand half clenches a fist with the heart of the palm downward, and the three fingers of the forefinger, the middle finger, the ring finger and the three fingers are aligned together, and lightly placed on the strings, the big finger, the little finger, the big finger, the little finger and the little finger. The strings of the instrument, the big finger and little finger naturally relaxed put good, the whole left hand is a bit like the number six gesture, in order to maintain the basis of the hand shape, press the strings down. The first to play and then press the so-called "upper slide".

The main point of the action: while the right hand is playing the string, the left hand is on the left side of the scale, pressing the tone to the pitch of the next string, and utilizing the rest of the tone to make the whole process of upward glissando as a whole.

Downward sliding sound↘ Left hand presses the string, right hand plays the string, left hand presses the string so that the sound slides down

Hand shape: the left hand is like a half-clenched fist, palm down, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, three fingers together, gently placed on the strings, the big finger and little finger naturally relaxed and placed, the whole left hand is a bit like a number six gesture, in the maintenance of the basis of the shape of the hand, downward pressing the strings. First press and then play the so-called "down tone".

The main point of the action: the left hand in the `left side of the code first press the tone to the pitch of the next string, and then the right hand to play the string, when the right hand is finished playing the left hand slow release, the use of residual sound to make the sound of the high to low connected to the whole.

The upper and lower glissandos require a lot of listening, practicing, and comparing, and then letting go when the aftertone has passed.

Vibrato﹋g is also known as chanting. It is a gentle vibration of the strings that causes the sound to tremble.

Hand shape: the left hand is half a fist, palm down, index finger, middle finger, ring finger three fingers together, lightly on the strings, the big finger little finger naturally relaxed and put, the whole left hand is a bit like the number six gesture, in the maintenance of the hand shape based on the uniform ups and downs of the strings, press, loose.

The main points of the action: shoulder, arm, wrist relaxation, with the power of the forearm through the wrist to drive the fingertips down to the strings, and then the upper arm, wrist lift, hand and wrist relaxation, so that the strings to restore the original pitch. The amplitude of the left hand vibrato must be even when going up and down. (Look for the feeling of shooting a ball)

Maintenance of the guzheng

Maintenance of the guzheng seven practices

1, the instrument should be avoided as much as possible to avoid the use of the environment in the temperature is too high or humidity is too large or placed, not to mention in the sunshine or rain, so as to avoid the body of the body open gel and the acoustic quality is affected.

2, the humidity suitable for koto maintenance is 50%-70%, less than 50% is easy to cause koto crack, higher than 70% water content, resulting in the sound of the piano muffled, tone is not bright. Small cracks in the koto can be slowly penetrated with 502 glue.

3, the location of the koto is also a good idea, you should avoid placing the koto in the sun under the sun, wet under the rain, can not be placed in the wind or next to the heater. Don't put it in the kitchen or easy to contact with the place of grease and smoke, the adsorption of grease and smoke will directly affect the tone of the instrument.

4, the best temperature of the occasions where the koto is used is 20℃, and the temperature is generally kept at 16-28℃.

5, koto strings should be often wiped with a dry cloth to remove dust and prevent rust. When not in use, you can use the piano cover to cover it.

6, koto in the movement must be gently held and put, do not violent collision, will cause damage. The transportation should be packed carefully and well-padded with foam.

7, the koto panel has a small code print goods depression treatment method, with a wet wool. Towel on the depressed parts, so that the deflated bubinga rebound up. General small marks do not affect the koto tone.