First, the basic action:
1, Standing posture: People who play waist drums need to maintain a stable standing posture. Keep your legs shoulder-width apart and your center of gravity sink. At the same time, keep your body balanced.
2. Hold the drum stand: put the waist drum stand behind your back, hold the drum stand with both hands, palms outward, and naturally relax your arms.
3. Beating: Beat the drum surface alternately with the left and right hands to form a rhythmic beating sound. When drumming, the drum surface should be kept straight, and the hitting force should be even and stable to ensure the clear and tidy sound effect.
Second, waist drum tutorial
1. Tighten the drum surface: tighten the drum surface of the waist drum hard to ensure better sound effect when knocking.
2, learn the basic knocking method: tap the drum surface of the waist drum with your fingers and palms, pay attention to be uniform, not too different. Have a strong sense of rhythm, not light or heavy.
3. Practice one-handed hitting: first practice one-handed hitting, learn to master the rhythm with both hands, make your fingers sensitive, accurately hit the drumhead, and achieve the requirement of clear sound effect.
4. Practice knocking with both hands alternately: learn to knock with both hands alternately to avoid fatigue caused by knocking with one hand. The left and right hands should be coordinated and orderly, with a sense of rhythm.
5. Practice dance coordination: You can practice dance coordination when knocking at the door in a safe situation, and cooperate with the rhythm of music to make the whole performance more vivid and interesting.
Matters needing attention
1, pay attention to the safety of the practice environment. Playing the waist drum requires a certain amount of space, so you should pay attention to the safety around you when practicing, especially the possibility of personal injury caused by the rebound of the drum surface.
2. Pay attention to body posture. Playing waist drum requires a stable posture, ensuring the stability of the drum and avoiding physical fatigue and injury.
3. Pay attention to the order and time of practice. When practicing, you should gradually increase the difficulty in order, and don't exercise too much at the beginning, causing physical discomfort. Don't practice too much, which may easily lead to hand muscle fatigue or wrist sprain.
4. Pay attention to personal protection. Due to strong knocking, hands need to pay attention to protective measures. You can use gloves or bandages to avoid hand injuries.
5. Pay attention to protecting musical instruments. Waist drum is a percussion instrument and needs protection. Put your hands flat between the drum head and the drum stand. Don't hit the drum surface with nails or hard objects to avoid scratching or damaging the instrument.