How to drum the northeast folk yangko?

The traditional music of Northeast Yangko is mostly 2/4 beats, and there are also 4/4 beats or 1/4 beats (water board). The beat stress is not necessarily in the first beat of each bar, but sometimes appears in the middle of the bar (the third beat of 4/4 beat) or the last beat.

There is also a rhythm processing that is also very distinctive. The slow blowing of suona is combined with the tight hitting of percussion instruments. Suona plays the long sound of "wave" (usually played by the technique of "breaking the power"), with traditional ventilation, and percussion instruments are accompanied by various drums or improvisation. This combination of tight playing and slow playing makes the atmosphere of Yangko performance warm, emotional and artistic.

Northeast Yangko is humorous in form and unique in style. The vast black land endows it with primitive and unrestrained spirituality and amorous feelings, which combines pungent, humorous, quiet and steady, and gives full play to the warm and simple, rigid and flexible personality characteristics of the people in Northeast China.

Steady waves, waves, stalks, stalks, stepping on the board and twisting the waist are the biggest characteristics of Northeast Yangko. At the same time, a variety of "flowers in the hands", bright and elastic drums, heavy blows, pretty, quiet, steady and beautiful rhythms are all characteristics of Northeast Yangko.

Every major festival, people will spontaneously organize yangko performances and competitions. The costumes of the Yangko team are rich and colorful, mostly opera costumes. You can judge the characters from their costumes, including Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand in The Journey to the West, and White Snake and Xu Xian in The Legend of the White Snake. Accompanied by the warm, cheerful, humorous and exciting tunes played by gongs, drums, cymbals and suona, they set off briskly.