It's very simple. As long as you can play the simple gadget "pen cover", you are already talented enough to learn the flute! Now, please believe in yourself first, and then cooperate with the following instructions and methods. Playing the flute is the sound produced by blowing the breath into the hole of the flute with your mouth. The essentials of playing it:
1. Close your lips naturally, hold both ends of the flute with both hands, hold the head of the flute with your left hand, and the tail of the flute with your right hand. Place the blow hole at the lower edge of the lips, and blow towards the mouth hole. gas.
2. When the breath rushes out, only allow a small gap for the breath to pass through, and make it become a beam of air and blow diagonally toward the bottom of the blow hole. The principle is the same as blowing the pen cover.
3. In order to prevent the lips from opening when the breath comes out, causing the breath to escape, the cheek muscles must be strong to keep the breath outlet small.
4. The sound blown out must be pure and avoid air sounds.
5. Practice often in front of the mirror to learn how to align the air holes so that the pronunciation position is correct and impartial, so that all the breath turns into flute sound.
Playing the flute requires attention to posture. This is not only a matter of performance image, but more importantly, it is to adapt to the physiological characteristics of the player, give full play to skills, and better express the music content. Mr. Zhao Songting, a bamboo flute master of the Southern School, once put forward an oral rule on the essentials of posture in his book "Flute Art Spring and Autumn": the wind gate should be straight, the flute body should be flat, the head should be straight, and the chest should be straight. Use your thumb and little finger to support each other, don't let the flute and willow shake gold. An egg can fit between the tiger's mouth, and the hands will be more flexible if the joints are comfortable. The six fingers should be pressed tightly into the holes, and the fingers should be relaxed into an arc shape. There are specifications for the ups and downs, and unnecessary movements are thrown away. The strength of my mouth follows my will, and the thickness of my tone depends on my heart. With arms spread forty-five, the blue dragon and the white tiger can do everything. Avoid artificiality in your performance posture, be serious and sincere. (Qinglong and Baihu refer to the left-handed person holding the flute, called Zuo Qinglong, and the right-handed person, called Youbaihu.) In addition, it should be noted that "the little finger lightly touches the flute body" is the need for holding the flute, and it is also the need to add sound holes in the future. Beginners' fingers Be sure to position yourself well. "Relaxing the fingers" is also the key point. It is most important to avoid stiffness of the fingers when holding the flute. Stiffness means lack of flexibility. Regarding the sitting or standing posture, it is generally necessary to turn the body slightly to the right, face forward, look straight ahead, raise the chin slightly, straighten the chest naturally, relax the abdomen, and naturally separate the feet into a small figure eight shape. Holding the flute is actually the same whether it's left or right. However, due to the widespread use of Boehm flute internationally, the structure of the instrument is always facing right. Therefore, it is better for beginners to hold the flute on the right side, and there is no problem for those who are used to holding the flute on the left. In addition, Mr. Zhao also has a secret for breathing essentials, which is slightly related to posture: Don't move your shoulders up and down, and expand your chest and abdomen at the same time. Blow slowly and flatly to relax the whole body, so that the abdominal muscles do not need to be idle. Blow hard and blow hard downwards, and blow the Dantian with strong force. Use both mouth and nose as needed, and avoid making any sound when breathing. Don't inhale until there is no air, always have some remaining air. Strong but not noisy, weak but not weak, exhale evenly and flow long. Finally, remind yourself to develop a good habit of using your flute to treat others, and never use your flute to treat others.