Many students who have studied or are studying cucurbit flute courses may find a problem. At the beginning, they found that their playing skills of cucurbit flute improved rapidly, but after a certain period of time or reaching a certain level, they felt that their skills were stagnant. Hard to improve. There are also various reasons for this situation. After comparing my own learning experience with many classmates who have studied cucurbit flute, I found that the simple objective reasons are like the usual courses, housework and work are busy, and I can't spend a lot of energy to practice. , which is often the most common problem in the process of learning cucurbit flute. The subjective reason boils down to not paying enough attention to basic exercises.

Basic exercises (basic skills) mainly include qi, fingers and tongue. Among them, the basic skills of finger exercises are often easily accepted by friends who are beginners in cucurbit flute. For example, many beginners can take the initiative to practice all kinds of live finger etudes in various cucurbit flute textbooks. The second is the practice of tongue. Such as: all kinds of single vomit, double vomit and three vomit exercises. However, most beginners tend to ignore basic breathing exercises. However, I think the correct use of breath is the most important thing to improve the performance of cucurbit flute. Today, I would like to talk about my own understanding and opinions on how to correctly apply the breath and improve the playing skills of cucurbit flute, and hope that friends will discuss it together.

1. The relationship between breath and music timing

The influence of breath on the time value of music is mainly manifested in: first, when it is continuous, that is, there is a resting place, and the breath is not interrupted, which makes the music lack jumping and vitality, and lacks expressiveness because of its blandness; second, when it is not continuous, it should not be The disconnected place disconnects the ventilation, which disrupts the continuity and smoothness of the music; the third is that the timing of long notes and quarter-dotted notes is not accurate enough. Some friends do not know how many beats they have played when they reach the long note, or they have a sense of speed, but they will drag when they reach the long note, so they feel that there is no sense of rhythm, or it is not enough. The beat cuts off the sound, which affects the expression of the musical connotation. No matter if the note is played short or long, it should not be. Music is the art of time, and a certain note should be played at a certain time. This is a general music law.

How to correctly use the breath to play music accurately? On the one hand, we need to strengthen the training of long tones, which is an exercise to increase lung capacity and breath stability. During long-tone training, it is necessary to blow the sound as long as possible at a moderate volume, and pay attention to the stability of the breath. Generally, the breath should not be less than 10-15 seconds, and it can reach more than 30 seconds. On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the sense of rhythm, speed, and various rhythm patterns (such as eighth note, sixteenth note, eighth dotted, quartered dotted, triplet, first sixteen after eight, first eight after ten Sixth, the training of small segmentation, large segmentation, continuous segmentation, etc.), if conditions permit, the metronome can be used as a tool to influence and correct our mental speed and rhythm feeling.