Post by guzhenglover on Mar 10, 2008 3:57:36 GMT
Just wanting to be sure how nao3 â® should be executed. Should it be something like: pressing the LH finger on a string and, after the corresponding RH finger plucks the (same) string, the LH finger moves up from a given point (say, the 8th hui point) to the right (say, to the 7th hui) and back down to the left, doing this several times, each time halving the length of "travel", so to speak, until the LH finger is back to the spot we started out with? This is the way I've been doing nao3 â® e.g. in yi4 Gu4 Ren2 ÒÚ¹ÊÈË, and my teacher hasn't said it's wrong.
The alternative, as I saw it the other day on a VCD, is that the LH finger moves down from a given point (say, the 8th hui point) to the left (say, to the 8.5 hui point) and up to the right (say, the 7.5 hui point), doing this several times and travelling past the 8th hui each time, each time halving the length of "travel" and kind of making a circular movement, so to speak, until the LH finger is back to the spot we started out with.
Which one of these do you use? Or do you use an entirely different approach that you consider to be THE "correct" way? I know that some people are really fussed over this, whilst others are told to be fussy because their school of qin playing makes rigorous demands on how nao3 should be executed (and I am not making a judgement here as to whether it is good to be fussy...I simply want to know what people think about the proper way of executing nao3, that's all...)
The alternative, as I saw it the other day on a VCD, is that the LH finger moves down from a given point (say, the 8th hui point) to the left (say, to the 8.5 hui point) and up to the right (say, the 7.5 hui point), doing this several times and travelling past the 8th hui each time, each time halving the length of "travel" and kind of making a circular movement, so to speak, until the LH finger is back to the spot we started out with.
Which one of these do you use? Or do you use an entirely different approach that you consider to be THE "correct" way? I know that some people are really fussed over this, whilst others are told to be fussy because their school of qin playing makes rigorous demands on how nao3 should be executed (and I am not making a judgement here as to whether it is good to be fussy...I simply want to know what people think about the proper way of executing nao3, that's all...)
