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Post by jarrelle on May 14, 2008 5:21:13 GMT
Hi everyone.I am new here.I am 15 years old.I have been playing guzheng for 11/2 years and I reached a level 8 cuase of my disipline and many hours of practice.I want to master guzheng and travel around the world to share its mystic beauty and pure tone.Every time I go to practice the first moment I pluck the string i feel like I am in ancient china practing out in the palace court yard.Oh and I'm not chinese.I am arfican american mongolian and italian.I am all mixed up eh!glad to be apart ot this forum. ;D
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Post by dsouthwood on May 14, 2008 16:18:28 GMT
Welcome from a 66-year-old mix of Irish, English, and German ancestry who also loves the guzheng. Maybe I'll also travel the world after I form the "12 Old Guys Band"  . |
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Post by jarrelle on May 14, 2008 18:40:59 GMT
:)Hi Nice to meet yoou.Its nice to hear that non chinese also like guzheng.How long have you been playing? ;D
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Post by dsouthwood on May 15, 2008 15:12:49 GMT
I've been taking lessons for about four years now. It takes me longer to learn some of the techniques, but eventually I get there. Right now I'm working on the tremolo (my teacher calls it "shaking"), and that's coming very slowly. One of the exercises she has me do is to pick a string and do the tremolo on it continuously for three minutes. It's torture, but it has made a difference.
As to being a non-Chinese guy playing a Chinese instrument, you should see the group photo of my first recital. There were about a dozen and a half of Chinese kids, and right in the middle was this 6' 2" extra-large Caucasian guy. Kind of like "Where's Waldo" for dummies. What's even funnier is that I am also learning erhu, and I've been my teacher's only erhu student. All his Chinese students are learning violin. But I love the music, and learning to play it keeps my brain young.
Dennis
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Post by plk on May 26, 2008 12:53:15 GMT
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