Can Guqin be self-taught? The answer is yes. But if you want to learn well, self-study is not recommended. After all, there is a teacher who leads the way, and it is not easy to deviate; if you just entertain yourself, self-study is also possible.

1. I love guqin from the bottom of my heart

It is said that "interest is the best teacher". If there is no real interest, it is generally difficult to persevere. If it is just to add elegance or pass the time, once frustrated, it is easy to lose interest, and it is difficult to persevere in learning and comprehend the true meaning of art. After all, it is a gradual process from piano skills to artistic conception.

2. Set up a willingness to study well

Make up your mind to study well and work hard for it. If you just take the attitude of trying it out, you will usually quit and give up in the middle of the day. Especially in the process of self-study, you will often encounter many difficulties and obstacles. If you do not have the will to persevere, you cannot study in depth.

3. Practice diligently

Learning Guqin is a skill training, which requires diligent practice, repeated practice, hard practice, uninterrupted practice, and the time of practice varies from person to person. That is to say, if it is calculated as not less than 7 hours a day, it will take at least 10 years, and it will take at least 10 years. If the daily practice time is reduced, the total amount will remain the same, and the number of years will be extended. Like boiling water. As long as the water is boiled, even if it is cooled, it is still "cold water". And only boiled water to 60 degrees or 70 degrees is never boiling water.

Fourth, imitate the recording, learn the rhythm

Mr. Cheng Gongliang, a guqin master, said, "It is best to imitate the teacher completely when you first learn. The traditional teaching method requires this. The teaching method is that teachers and students sit and play the piano. This will imitate the teacher's things as accurately as possible, and the fingering will be as accurate as possible. , speed, genre style. There’s a lot of truth to that approach.”

Train rhythm imitation ability and simple spectrum reading ability. Rhythm and pitch are the two major elements of music. Since it is self-study, if you don't have the ability to read music, you can only imitate the rhythm of the music from the recording or try it out from the music score. And many skills on the guqin cannot be marked on the sheet music. At this time, imitating by recording is the only way.

5. Objectively select textbooks, and avoid miscellaneous studies for beginners

The theories and methods of learning the piano are not the same, and each has a system. Under the condition of limited literacy of self-learners, they cannot absorb them separately, let alone distinguish the pros and cons. If you mess with your studies, you will only ruin yourself.

Here I recommend the "Guqin Playing Method" edited by Mr. Gong Yi. This book has detailed instructions, reasonable schedule arrangement, and scientific fingering training, which is convenient for self-learners to get started step by step. In addition, you can also learn together with Teacher Gong Yi's newly published "Introduction to Qin Music" (DVD), with video explanations and demonstrations, so that self-study is easier to imitate. Of course, you can also choose some good guqin teaching video tutorials, such as the teaching videos of teachers such as Dai Xiaolian and Li Xiangting, Tianyiqin Tea's "Guqin Primary Fingering Online Course", etc. Among them, Tianyiqin Tea's Guqin teaching course is provided by Zhejiang School. The teacher's demonstration, with detailed fingering, music theory, culture and other knowledge explanations, is a good introductory tutorial.

6. Learn to understand the cultural knowledge of Guqin

"There are four sentences in learning the qin: the left hand is chanting, and the right hand is serious and slow. It is generally difficult to say, and the person must be a reader." , aesthetics, literature, art, etc. are closely related. To quote Mr. Xu Lisun, a guqin master: "Be well-trained, read a lot of Gu Ji, be open-hearted, and make a sound that is extraordinary..." If it only stays at the technical level, it is no different from skilled workers such as playing cotton and iron.

7. You need a guqin

If the economic conditions are good, of course, you can buy a better piano. If it is normal, you only need to buy a 3000 or 4000 yuan for beginners to practice. If you want to buy a piano, you need someone who understands the piano to help you choose it. Now the Guqin market is mixed, and it is easy to be deceived if you don’t know how to buy a piano. Much reliable.

If the funds are really insufficient, you can choose to rent a piano. Now the most cost-effective rental is "Guqin adoption", after all, you can have a practice piano without spending a penny. There are many adopters now, but Tianyiqin Tea is a relatively large-scale and reliable one. After all, after two years of operation, some people have successfully returned the Qinqin and refunded the money. At least after the sale, people have no worries.

8. Systematic piano learning plan

Learning Guqin is a step-by-step process, so it is very important to formulate a systematic learning plan. First, learn the eight methods of the right hand, and then learn to press the notes with the left hand. Xian Wengcao and other small pieces, and finally practice the piano piece by level according to the level of the piece. Don't be too ambitious and greedy for more. The big and small pieces are even more wonderful. For example, although the series of "Shen Ren Chang" and "Mountain Residence Song" are not high, they have a profound artistic conception. They can be regarded as masterpieces in the music, and their artistic value is higher than that of some large pieces. much more. Self-taught guqin can also be learned well by being eager to learn, good at learning, happy learning, and hard training.