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There are many playing techniques in the long-term development of guitar. This paper analyzes some basic techniques commonly used in the left hand of folk guitar, such as striking strings, hooking strings, sliding strings, etc., so that the guitar playing effect is more abundant and flexible. The left hand is usually called the technical hand, which is responsible for pressing various strings. Whether the fingering can be pressed in place quickly and accurately has a great influence on the fluency of the whole guitar performance.

A compelling performance

Striking strings is also called "striking strings" or "hammering strings" in many cases. Look at the first half of the picture. In guitar notation, percussion is represented by an English letter "H" plus a circle, which is the abbreviation of "Hammer-on" in English, which means knocking. Two chords must be operated from bass to treble. Generally, second, second and third chords are commonly used. On the guitar, two notes are adjacent, separated by one and separated by two.

The specific playing method is: first hold down the first note with one finger of the left hand, then play with the right hand, and then tap the next note with the other fingers of the left hand to make a sound. The right hand only needs to play two notes once, and then the left hand strikes the pronunciation. For example, the first player plays the 4-string empty string with his right hand, and then taps the 4-string 2 with a finger of his left hand, holding the string down and making a noise.

Hook string playing?

Hooking a string is the opposite of hitting a string. From treble to bass. Look at the middle of the picture. It is represented by an English letter "P" plus a circle in the score of Guitar 6, which is the abbreviation of English Pull Off. Play it like this: first, hold down two notes with two fingers at the same time, and the right hand will play, then one finger will hook the string at the back, and the other finger will hold down in front to make a sound, and the right hand will only play it once. For the first string hook in the middle part of the above picture, first hold down the two strings with the left index finger, then play the strings with the right hand, and then hook the strings with the index finger to make sound. Hook strings are often used in combination. If a note is decorated with two oblique notes, it will be played with a fast hook string, as shown below.

A slippery performance

Sliding in the score of guitar 6 is represented by an English letter "S" plus a circle. Sliding refers to playing one note, sliding to another note, and using the same finger with your left hand. Sliding sound can be divided into upward sliding sound and downward sliding sound. In this way, sliding up means playing the lower notes first, and then sliding to the higher notes with the same finger without leaving the strings. In flat note, the higher note is played first, then the finger does not leave the string and the same finger slides to the lower note.

Headless gliding and tailless gliding. This is a relatively flexible sliding tone, headless sliding finger, which does not specify which tone to start and slides to the specified tone to stop, and is mostly used to slide from bass to treble. On the other hand, the tailless glide starts from the specified notes and ends at any fret, which is mainly used for the treble to slide to the bass. This kind of sliding sound generally has a large span, usually more than 5 or 6 pieces. It is most commonly used in electric guitars. The left hand playing the electric guitar moves back and forth quickly on the whole guitar fingerboard. Many times it is a long-span headless and tailless sliding sound, which looks cool. Look at the expression of guitar music in the picture below.

The sound effect of the sliding sound is very delicate and beautiful. Only stringed instruments can play timbre, but piano, keyboard and wind instruments can't play sliding effect.

The application of hitting, hooking and sliding in guitar solo

In the process of actual solo, hook strings and sliding notes are often used, which are also used casually. At the beginning of each phrase, there is often a decorative tone with a slant before the first tone, and the notes are played by sliding. At the end of a phrase, when the last note is long, it will also be modified with a sliding tone.

Pay attention to the duration of the performance when playing the hook. Look at the middle of the picture. The first kind of glide is to add a forward pitch (decorative tone) in front of 5. The duration of the glide is included in this 5, and the total duration of * * * is 1 beat. Generally speaking, in this case, the rope should slide quickly. The second slide, take a beat of 3, and then slide from 3 to 5, and one * * * is 2 beats. In this case, you can't slide the string quickly, but play it according to the tempo of the music. The same is true of hook strings.

Learn how to strike strings, hook strings and slide notes to make guitar playing more vivid and emotional.