How to learn to play the waist drum

The method of playing the waist drum:

The dancers wield the mallet to hit the drum with a fierce force, whether it is up to hit, down to hit or wrap around the waist to hit, both hands should be the drumstick to throw away. But although the hard but not barbaric, appear to be upright and thick, fierce force in the still do not lose its sense of finesse.

When doing kicks and jumps, whether it is big kicks, small kicks or stomps, there should be a "brute" strength. The rhythm is cheerful and difficult, which represents the rough and bold style of the waist drum and its vigor and spiciness.

The drumming and turning is the key to the performance of the waist drum. In the dance, all squatting and kicking movements must be turned around, and the turn around must be fierce, especially when doing air jumping and landing squatting, turning around and starting a set of action combinations, it is necessary to be in a fixed beat, and the use of rapid and fierce in order to complete the changes and connection of the action.

The waist drum is a percussion instrument. Shaped like a cylinder, slightly thin at both ends, slightly thicker in the middle, the drum is about 34 centimeters long, both sides of the skin. Drum frame has a ring, with a silk belt hanging in the waist, playing the drumsticks in each hand, accompanied by dance movements. Waist drums are very popular in folklore, people jumping waist drums, change formation, or walking or in a field while dancing and knocking. It is also used in folk dance.

The waist drum was first popular in Shaanxi, and later developed popularity throughout China. In the form of performance and skills, the changes are extremely rich in folk popularity is extremely widespread, is a form of performance of the people's pleasure. In recent years, waist encouragement has been in many large and medium-sized cities in the residents of the rise, its main self-entertainment, but also a rich amateur life.

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