Playing method of flute

Playing a flute is the sound made by blowing air into the hole of the flute with your mouth. The main points of blowing it are as follows:

Lips close naturally. Hold both ends of the flute with both hands, the flute head with the left hand and the flute tail with the right hand. Place the blowing hole on the lower edge of the lower lip and blow air at the blowing hole.

When the breath rushes out, only a small gap is allowed for the breath to pass through, and it becomes an air column to be blown obliquely below the blowing hole. Its principle is like blowing a pen cover.

In order to make the breath escape without pushing the lips, the muscles of both cheeks must exert force to keep the breath outlet small.

The sound blown out should be pure and avoid air noise.

Practice in front of the mirror often, and realize how to aim at the blowhole, so that the pronunciation position is correct and impartial, and the breath becomes a flute. [4]

Phonetic category

Flute belongs to the woodwind family. The expressive force of flute is very rich. It can not only play a long and sonorous melody, but also show a vast and broad artistic conception. At the same time, you can also play cheerful and gorgeous dance music and melodious tunes. Can play chromatic notes such as staccato, vibrato and sliding; Can also express different emotions; Whether you play a slow and peaceful melody or a fast-jumping melody, you can appreciate its uniqueness. In addition, the flute is also good at imitating all kinds of sounds in nature, bringing the audience into the artistic conception of flowers and birds or mountains and rivers.

Modern flutes are divided into two schools: the northern school uses techniques such as vocalization, polishing, sliding and splitting, while the southern school uses techniques such as vibrato, striking, overlapping and vibration. In addition, after decades of continuous practice by a large number of musicians, a series of special techniques have been created, such as cyclic ventilation, cyclic spitting, kneading, package blowing, roaring, punching, flying fingers, seven-degree kneading, whistling and so on.

The style of Nanpai flute is elegant and beautiful, and the flute they use is mainly Qu Di. Qu Di's pipes are long and thick, with rich and soft timbre, clear and mellow, melodious and euphemistic, which are mainly popular in the south of China.

The style of the northern school flute is vigorous and rough, and the flute they use is mainly bangdi. The pipe of the bangdi is short and thin, and the timbre is high and bright. Mainly popular in northern China.

The following briefly introduces several commonly used flute skills:

Tremolo (tr): For example, the vibrato of 6 is equivalent to playing 67676767, and 6 is before 7.

Virtual vibrato: a kind of vibrato in which the finger does not completely cover the sound hole when shaking (pressing half hole).

Boeing (W): A short trill, also called ripple, which means that the finger jumps quickly above the main note.

Overlap (again): For example, the overlap of 6 is equivalent to 7 17 6. 6 is the tonic, and 7 17 is equivalent to polyphony, which is a decorative sound, also called summoning sound.

Gift sound: the decorative sound appearing at the end of the sound will indicate the pitch of "gift", also called gift-giving sound.

Typing (D): Quickly "tap" the next hole of the tonic with your finger. Also known as leading sound.

Vomiting (TK): The technique of gently spitting with the tip of spit, including single spitting (T), Shuang Tu (TK) and triple spitting (TKT or TTK), is a staccato technique.

Slip: the process of moving between notes is "slip", including sliding up, sliding down and re-sliding. With the help of finger movement, the sound hole is slowly opened or closed, resulting in a singing-like effect (referred to as sliding sound), or with the help of breath control, a soft effect (air sliding sound) is produced.

Cracking sound: similar to the bird's call, each finger rises and falls rapidly at the same time, and with the sudden sound (heavy spitting sound), it creates a special sound effect. Flower tongue (*): a technique that uses the natural and continuous vibration of the tongue to create the density and graininess of notes.

Calendar sound: rapid scale progress similar to piano arpeggio. When it's fast, it can imitate bird calls. There is a diachronic sound.

Strong sound (>): similar to heavy vomiting, it mainly uses the breath of "shout" to spit out the sound, which has the function of emphasizing the sound.

Pause: obvious staccato, repeated pronunciation with the tongue.

Tongue sound onset: Generally speaking, when playing the first range of Legato or notes without Legato, the pronunciation of the tip of the tongue is moderate (slightly lighter than light spitting), similar to the action when making "Ti" sounds, and these sounds are blown out very clearly and definitely.

Laryngeal sound: similar to the acoustic effect of the flower tongue, but different from the flower tongue is that the drooping uvula vibrates in the throat. The pronunciation is coarse.

Overtones (. ): the sound blown by the same fingering is different from the octave relationship, and the strength is between two octaves, which is an over-blowing.

Flying: a playing method in which one finger or several fingers (at most three fingers) of a hand are driven by arm force to quickly wipe left and right on one or several sound holes. Can produce a strong sound breaking effect.

Calendar sound: a sound that rises or falls rapidly step by step from low to high (upper calendar sound) or from high to low (lower calendar sound), which is called "calendar sound". It is required that the fluctuation of fingers should be clear and decisive when playing, so that every sound you experience is very clear and smooth, and it looks like going up and down the stairs quickly step by step.

Abdominal trill (-): Use the strength of the abdomen to control the breath to fluctuate like waves, fast or slow, big or small, so as to express emotional excitement.

Flower tongue: Flower tongue is the tongue skill of bamboo flute, similar to the bow shaking of erhu and the rolling of plucked instruments. Bouncing the tongue is a sound-breaking effect produced by the airflow hitting the tongue and making it roll, which is generally called "snoring" by the people.