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Qin tablature and playing technique   中文   目錄
Learning to play the qin
Including techniques and materials		 學彈絲弦古琴
Traditionally a student simply copied the
teacher, and did not look at written music
Available information currently includes the following:

  1. Teaching Historically-Informed Qin Performance (my teaching principles and syllabus);
  2. The beginner's melody Xianweng Cao (Transcendent Venerable One);
  3. Its predecessor Caoman Yin (Strum Silk Prelude);
  4. Qin notation and playing technique, with further links (see especially the Hand Gesture Illustrations).

In 2002, Guangzhou Dongtian Culture Enterprise, as part of their Dongtian Music Classes series, published a 5 VCD box-set showing Prof. Wu Zhao teaching qin. I don't know if it can be ordered from their website. There are also instructional VCD / DVD sets by other players (see Christopher Evans, Guqin Teaching Materials . To my knowledge, all use metal string qins.

 

 

 

 
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