How to play sheng?

When playing sheng, hold the sheng bucket in the palm of your hands, insert the middle finger and ring finger of your right hand into the horseshoe-shaped gap of Sheng Miao, and press the point with 7 fingers (4 fingers of your right hand and 3 fingers of your left hand). Each finger is responsible for several pressing holes. Finger movements should be sensitive and pressing holes should be important.

Sheng's playing skills can be divided into fingering and oral methods, which can be used to play monosyllabic, chord, fricative, sliding, stuttering, tongue twisting, rubbing and guttural sounds. It is difficult to play vibrato on the sheng.

Sheng is a kind of wind instrument, but it is pronounced by the vibration of copper spring, so it has a mixed timbre of spring and tube, with crisp and transparent high notes, beautiful, full and soft bass, which is easy to be integrated with other instruments.

Extended data

The traditional sheng is the same as the improved sheng, which is developed on the basis of the traditional sheng.

Sheng's playing skills include: pause, leaning, jumping, three spitting, breaking spitting, tongue painting, mouthpiece, vibrato, polyphony, multiple harmony and so on.

Flower tongue can be divided into fine flower tongue, thick flower tongue and bursting flower tongue. A famous Japanese conductor once said, "Where there are scattered boards and colorful flowers, it is the best time to show your personal skills". The most obvious wind music, such as cucurbit silk, bawu and bamboo flute, all use techniques such as sheng and Santu.

Sheng's playing skills are the richest of all wind instruments. As the originator of the reed instrument, under the influence of Sheng's skills, it not only greatly enriched the expressive force of wind music, but also played a positive role in promoting world music.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-sheng