Suona playing methods

The common playing techniques of suona are as follows:

I. Fingers: finger vibrato, finger slide, leaning, finger beating, finger vibrato, finger padding, finger buckling.

Second, tongue: spit (single spit, double spit, triple spit, triple chord), flower tongue (dry dulcimer, water dulcimer, dense dulcimer, small tongue dulcimer, slow dulcimer), the top of the tongue.

Three, qi: cyclic gas exchange, gas glide, spray glide, gas break, gas top, gas bitter, gas arch, gas trill.

Four, lips: xiao tone, lip glissando (pursed pressure).

Fifth, the teeth: teeth shaking tone, teeth slide tone.

VI. Throat: guttural sounds.

Supplementary: in suona music, the use of different playing techniques can form different musical styles, and certain morphological features in folk music around the world also rely on playing techniques to realize. Certain special techniques create special effects, the most basic are finger, tongue, air, lips, four categories, and sometimes also use the teeth and throat.

Performance style of suona:

Suona is often used as a leading instrument or combined with gongs and drums, and it is suitable for the performance of warm, joyful atmosphere and majestic, magnificent scenes, especially suitable for the performance of bold, spicy tunes, and it is a very expressive musical instrument to express inner thoughts and feelings in a profound and delicate way.