Started learning Gu Zhen recently....I'm on my 5th lesson already.....its so nice seeing the Gu Zhen I have at home is actually tuned and not just a pack of strings on the wood....
There....the tuned and fully working Gu Zhen in my house.....
So the first lesson the teacher told us how to wear this fingernails.....they are essential for playing and you only wear it on your right hand though some teachers want students to wear it on their left hand too.....
there are 4 in total....the little finger doesn't have 1....but i only need to wear 3 at the moment.....
The fake fingernail...
How it looks in the front when i'm wearing it....
The back.....
Yeah, the fingernails are worn at the back of the finger......and you can't wear it too tight or too loose as it will fall of or not really stationary when you play if its too loose and it might cut off your blood circulation and doesn't feels comfortable if its too tight....
and the tapes must be taped on nicely and neatly too.....god knows how many times i retaped the blasted thing to my finger the first time i wore it.....
the tape is reusable until it doesn't stick anymore....
My bro is also learning Gu Zhen too....he looks funny playing it.....lol.....
Mum also made him take up another instrument.....
Behold......the flute......
that's the flute
It was originally a much longer flute but the teacher (a man) said he doesn't have the strength to blow it so he changed it into this smaller one.....lol....we had a good laugh over that....
my Gu Zhen teacher's mother came in when i was pratising my Gu Zhen in the classroom while waiting for my bro to finished his flute lesson....
she told me that my bro very "xiu qi", which means scholar-like or something similar in chinese....
we came home and told mum that and she laughed....lol....
she said that was just a polite way of saying sissy.....LOL......
we were laughing so hard!!!!
My Gu Zhen teacher is called Ms. Wu....she's from China.....dunno which part....she often talks to her mum using their dialect but i have no idea what they're talking about.....
Her mum told me she won the gold prize for best chinese speaker in Shanghai....no wonder the way she speaks is different....perfect chinese man.....
Besides Gu Zhen, she also teaches Pi Pa (Biwa) and traditional chinese dance....
i wanna learn also!!!
maybe somewhere near future......
but i am determined to learn!!!
The pics below are the books i brought from the bookfest.....
This is the compilation horror stories by Anthony Horowitz....
This is the compilation fantasy stories by various authors....
This was the book mark we got for buying above 40....
There's still 2 stamps that we got also.....
i found that i'm obsessing over lullabies......
i even went to YouTube to search for lullabies in various languages......
i found 1 from Russia!!!
didn't know what they were talking about and it makes me wanna learn Russian!!!
there's a few german lullabies i found to but i wasn't able to find any italian ones....i wonder why....
while searching, i stumbled across the lullaby from Pan's Labyrinth.....
i remember i use to love that song.....
it is a spanish movie....very brutal....but very nice.....
very bloody also.....
but the plot is fascinating.....
i put the song in the playlist adi....it's the first song that plays.....
and the others are mostly lullabies.....
so nice.....
SK,KK: Kaori has drifted to dreamland while hearing lullabies.....so long then....there's still fanfics too read....
-bleep-
Labels: Book, Chinese, Intruments, life, Music, Rant
