What is the best age to learn guzheng?

It is recommended that children start learning guzheng after they are six or seven years old.

To learn how to play the guzheng, beginners need to receive strict aural training to sing and listen to the pentatonic and septatonic scales in various keys on the one hand, and at the same time, they need to work hard to learn the tuning method of the guzheng.

Traditionally, the commonly used playing technique is to pluck the strings with the four fingers of the right hand, namely, the big, forefinger, middle, and ring finger, to play out the melody and master the rhythm. Because the condition of the hand has a certain influence on learning the zither, it is difficult to master the guzheng if the fingers are not fully developed at too young an age, so it is recommended that children start learning the guzheng after they are six or seven years old.

Expanded Information:

For children aged five or six, when they are first learning the guzheng, parents and teachers should not rush their children to make progress in playing skills. It is also very important to cultivate good playing habits at the beginning, home how to improve the interest of young children in learning guzheng. Interest is the source of learning.

To make young children learn guzheng well, the first thing is to cultivate young children's strong interest in learning guzheng and skillfully and appropriately use the young children's competitive psychology; and pay attention to overcoming the young children's dependence on the psychology of learning guzheng, and on the basis of this, according to the material and determine the method of playing the zither.

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