Of course, the elderly can learn guzheng
Benefits of learning guzheng for the elderly:
1. Enhancement of physical coordination.
In the practice of guzheng, the left and right hands move together, but also pay attention to each other, and at the same time develop the left and right brain, but also exercise the coordination ability.
2. Cultivate moral character
Music can develop intelligence and cultivate moral character. When people appreciate or play guzheng, they can let their emotions be sublimated in it.
3, the growth of literary knowledge
Guzheng playing not only has the technique, fingering skills is good, only have a deep foundation of traditional culture, understand the cultural background of the era, know the author in the making of this music when the idea and the emotion to be expressed, in order to will be a good performance of the essence of the guzheng.
Expanded information:
Position of playing the zheng
Position of playing the zheng is vertical, plate, kneeling, sitting and so on, and the sitting position is usually dominated.
Sitting koto playing posture: the koto is placed on the koto stand or the piano table, and the piano stool is placed on the right side of the koto (i.e. near the head of the koto). When you sit, your body is close to the right end of the koto, about 15 centimeters away from the koto. Both legs are naturally separated under the koto frame, with one foot in front of the other. The upper body is upright, the arms are loose, the elbows are bent on the strings of the koto, the wrists are relaxed, the fingers are naturally spread out, the head is slightly bent down, and the demeanor is natural and generous.
Playing the zither hand shape
Playing the zither emphasizes the natural hand shape, i.e., the relaxed hand shape with both hands hanging down naturally when one is standing. According to the needs of playing, the big finger is slightly spread and the fingers are naturally bent in the shape of a half-clenched fist. This relaxed natural hand shape is not only displayed in the static state, but also presented in the process of playing; not only is the basic form of the right hand playing the strings, but also the basic form of the left hand pressing and playing the strings.