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Post by huiming on Oct 12, 2007 19:58:16 GMT
Ello, all ! I'm new on board is it easy to learn guzheng without teacher , only with books, VCD  If you must choose between the erhu and the guzheng, what would be your choice? i live in France , there's no teacher  thk for your advice |
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Post by davidmdahl on Oct 12, 2007 22:04:05 GMT
I don't think that it is easy to learn any instrument, but it is harder without a teacher. I think though that it is at least possible to learn to play guzheng without a teacher. However, I would not recommend that on erhu. The erhu is not intuitive at all, and there are a lot of ways to learn bad habits that will short-circuit progress and fun. If you can understand Chinese, there are a lot of books and videos available for guzheng. Even if you don't understand Chinese, a good video can help a lot. It helps to have a musical background, to know how to practice, and to be very observant, both of the videos and yourself. I know that France is a large country, and Marseille a long ways from Paris. However, any number of lessons would be a big help to getting started on guzheng. It is hard to imagine that there is anything not available in Paris. The resources page at www.chinesezither.net lists a guzheng artist/teacher in Paris: www.fionasze.com/Best wishes, David |
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Post by shunatfrangipani on Oct 15, 2007 16:12:58 GMT
I don't think it's impossible without a teacher but certainly more difficult. It's always good to have a teacher to teach you the basics then, if you have some music training, you can always "feel" the music yourself and watching training videos is always a good idea. I had a teacher who didn't know how to teach beyond grade 4 but I still managed to take and pass grade 8 just by watching videos (the ones by Lin Ling are good). My Chinese is really bad so I didn't really know what she was talking about but it helped to get the emotion and the rythmn of the pieces I was trying to practise.
It also depends on whether you're going to play any of the contemporary pieces (the term "contemporary" is used here for those written in the 50s and later) as some of the techniques they use are different to the traditional, usually linear, pieces and require a greater amount of time to practise.
Good luck!
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Post by huiming on Oct 16, 2007 20:51:15 GMT
konichiwa,,, thk you very much for your tips,, all  |
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Post by frogprince on Dec 27, 2007 21:47:46 GMT
Hi huiming,
Are you still at Marseille?
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