How to play the sheng?

When playing the sheng, the palms of both hands hold the sheng bucket, the middle and ring fingers of the right hand are inserted into the horseshoe-shaped slit of the sheng, and seven fingers (four on the right hand and three on the left) are used to press the holes. Each finger is in charge of several holes, and the fingers should be sensitive and the holes should be pressed tightly.

The techniques of the sheng are divided into finger techniques and intraoral techniques, which can be played in monotone, chord, smear, glissando, staccato, florid tongue, huoling tongue, vibrato, and guttural techniques, etc. It is difficult to play vibrato on the sheng.

The sheng is a wind instrument, but it is pronounced through the vibration of copper reeds, so it has a mixture of reed and wind tones, with a clear and transparent treble, and beautiful, rich and soft middle and low tones, which are easy to blend with the sound of other instruments.

Expanded Information

The traditional sheng and the modified sheng have the same technique, and the modified sheng technique is based on the traditional sheng technique.

The techniques of the sheng include: staccato, leaning, skipping, double spitting, triple spitting, broken spitting, flower tongue, throat tongue, vibrato, polyphony, and many kinds of harmonies.

The floral tongue is divided into fine floral tongue, coarse floral tongue and explosive floral tongue. "A famous Japanese conductor once said, "The best time to show off one's skills is in the flurries, the florals. The most obvious wind instruments, such as the hulusi, bawu, and bamboo flute, use the sheng's techniques - double and triple spatula.

The sheng is the most versatile of all wind instruments, and as the originator of the reed instrument, the influence of the sheng technique has not only enriched the expressive power of wind music, but has also contributed positively to world music.

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