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Strapped my GoPro headcam onto my noggin and made this video recording of me playing this guqin piece which I just self-learned from this fun little 'Guqin for Kids' book. Note: This is not a musical performance. This is merely a raw video recording to spot my own mistakes. hahaha
After watching my own video, I realized that I was hesitant in many instances, probably because I was trying to remember the guqin tablature symbols as I was playing this 9 minute piece. You could see me fudging --almost making up-- some parts as I played, and turned my head to the right to look at my right hand in the moments that I was unsure of myself. For 'real' guqin masters performing in concerts, they seldom turn their heads to their right to look at their right hand (please correct me if I am wrong).
You may wish to compare my lousy version here with those played by the experts at this other webpage (http://guqinlearner.blogspot.sg/2013/07/teaching-myself-new-tune-yi-gu-ren.html). haha
Note:
If you wish to use this videorecording for analysis or, better yet, criticism for your own research purposes, you have my express permission to do so. Please just reference this videorecording as: How, Shawn (2013) A learner's playing of guqin piece 忆故人 Yi Gu Ren, retrieved from http://guqinlearner.blogspot.sg/2013/07/video-recording-pinyin-yi-gu-ren.html
Strapped my GoPro headcam onto my noggin and made this video recording of me playing this guqin piece which I just self-learned from this fun little 'Guqin for Kids' book. Note: This is not a musical performance. This is merely a raw video recording to spot my own mistakes. hahaha
After watching my own video, I realized that I was hesitant in many instances, probably because I was trying to remember the guqin tablature symbols as I was playing this 9 minute piece. You could see me fudging --almost making up-- some parts as I played, and turned my head to the right to look at my right hand in the moments that I was unsure of myself. For 'real' guqin masters performing in concerts, they seldom turn their heads to their right to look at their right hand (please correct me if I am wrong).
You may wish to compare my lousy version here with those played by the experts at this other webpage (http://guqinlearner.blogspot.sg/2013/07/teaching-myself-new-tune-yi-gu-ren.html). haha
Note:
If you wish to use this videorecording for analysis or, better yet, criticism for your own research purposes, you have my express permission to do so. Please just reference this videorecording as: How, Shawn (2013) A learner's playing of guqin piece 忆故人 Yi Gu Ren, retrieved from http://guqinlearner.blogspot.sg/2013/07/video-recording-pinyin-yi-gu-ren.html