C10 Getting Started

Qin Fengge nodded her head, thinking that Yu Guannan's words made sense. If one wanted to learn a powerful zither skill, one had to first lay a solid foundation.

Yu Guannan revealed the cover of the book in his hands. "This book is the textbook for the music course in the Music Academy. According to the book, it will require 40 lessons to finish. We don't have that much time, so we just have to do a simple explanation of some of the music theories about the guitar. If you're interested, you can study on your own when you have time. "Let's cut the crap. Time is of the essence. Next, we will begin our first lesson."

Yu Guannan went on and on for three hours, interspersed with interesting examples and metaphors. People in Qin and Tuesday listened attentively, and no one felt bored. Qin Fengge was secretly puzzled. Why did she always feel that she was being tormented when she was listening to the teacher's lecture at school? Yet now, she treated listening to Yu Guannan's lecture on music and knowledge as a form of enjoyment? It seemed like the phrase "interest is the best teacher" was not wrong at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon. It was time for lunch, so Zhou Da Tong suggested: "Brother Yu, it's not like we can go out and eat. How about this, we might as well join the Zither Department. "Rest assured, we did not eat for nothing, and we will settle our accounts together!"

Without even thinking, Yu Guannan agreed, "Of course you can. It's so lively having more people to eat! "How about this, I'll tell Little Jiu to buy more food, but whether it's right or not, it's not up to you to care about your tastes."

Zhou Datong had never been picky with food. However, Qin Fengge was different. She had dishes and flavors that she didn't like. Thankfully, Zhang Jingtao's taste was very similar to Qin Guan's, so Qin Fengge had eaten the same meal.

In the afternoon, as usual, the two of them continued to study the music theory. It was similar to the morning, so they didn't talk much about it.

By the time he returned to his uncle's house, it was already dark. Seeing his aunt and cousin waiting for him to eat, Qin Fengge felt extremely sorry and hurriedly apologized.

"I didn't expect everyone to be waiting for me. If I knew, I would have returned a long time ago. I'm so sorry!"

Aunt Zhang Lin didn't have the slightest intention of blaming Qin Fengge. She smiled and said, "Look at what you said. It was just a short wait."

"What little moment? We've already waited for half an hour, hmph!" Cousin Qi Xuena shouted in a weird tone and quickly picked up the bowl of rice.

"This child, what nonsense are you talking about …" Zhang Lin glared at Qi Xueran before turning to Qin Fengge with a smile, "Little Qin, don't listen to her blabbering."

This made Qin Fengge feel even more sorry. "No! Cousin is right, I came back late. Aunt, don't blame Nana anymore. What are you waiting for me for? So eat up the cooked food! "

Then, Qin Fengge apologized to Xue Na, "Today, cousin did something wrong and made you starve. Cousin, you have to come back for lunch on time from now on! "

"Humph! That's more like it!" Qi Xueran humphed again.

Qin Fengge did not take her cousin's rudeness to heart. She thought to herself, after all, she's a girl, not to mention a girl who grew up in a big city, it's normal for her to be arrogant.

Qin Fengge looked around but didn't see any trace of Qi Jun. She couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, are you still not off work?"

"Your uncle will be back very late every day. The company is too busy, we don't need to wait for him." Come, have more dishes! " Zhang Lin explained as she scooped food into Qin Fengge's bowl.

"No need to be polite, I'll do it myself." Qin Fengge rejected it while thinking, "Looks like the manager isn't that easy to be. The higher the position, the greater the joy!"

Aunt saw that the atmosphere at the dinner table was a bit depressing, so she started a conversation, "Chuchu, how was your study on zither today?"

"I haven't touched the zither yet. I need to learn music theory and build up a good theoretical foundation."

As soon as she heard the name of the guqin, she became excited. "What did you say? Is it a guitar? You said you were learning guitar? "

"Yeah." Qin Fengge wondered if this child ate the wrong medicine. Why was he so shocked?

"Great, I like guitars! Will you play it for me when you learn it? "

"Of course you can, I didn't think you would like it too."

"Well, of course! "There's a handsome boy in our class who can play guitar and is very popular with us girls in our class …" She looked at Zhang Lin, whose eyes were wide open. Realizing she had said something she shouldn't have, she swallowed the rest of her words.

. Seeing her aunt's somewhat ugly expression, Qin Fengge hurriedly said, "Auntie, don't make such a big fuss. Cousin was just casually saying …" "Nana, when my cousin learns it, can I play first for you?

"That's great! "When the time comes, you must go to our school and beat that boy!" She clapped her hands happily.

Zhang Lin was about to lose her temper, but seeing that the estrangement between her daughter and her nephew had disappeared, she felt much more gratified and threw this matter to the back of her mind.

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After three days of learning music, music, and voice, he was about to truly start to touch the guitar.

Today, Yu Guannan moved the class to the Qin's shop.

"In order to learn guitar, you need to understand the classification of guitar." "There are a lot of kinds of guitars," he explained, pointing to various guitars on the shelf. "The most commonly used ones are folk guitars, classical guitars, jazz guitars and electric guitars. The electric guitar has three brands: 'Fender', 'Gibson', 'Ibanez'. Fender 'is our most common and oldest guitar brand. The quality and craftsmanship of this brand are all excellent. The disadvantage is that the style is more traditional, single, and without personality. The difference between a Gibson guitar and a Fender is easy to tell by its appearance. 'Gibson' looks more stylish and uses more fancy materials. A real 'Gibson' guitar usually has a top quality mahogany body and black sandalwood fingers. It takes several years for logs to dry in the natural environment to become a material for making the zither, because only a zither made from dried logs will not shrink or deform. "

"What about the other one?" Qin Fengge asked.

Yu Guannan smiled. "Not bad. There is also 'Ibanez'. This is a Nissan brand name. Although the brand is not inferior to 'Fender' or 'Gibson' in terms of quality and craftsmanship, I would advise you not to buy this brand at home because there are so many imitations of this brand at home and it is easy to be fooled by merchants without good eyesight. "

Zhou Datong also asked, "Then how can we tell if a zither is a copy or not?"

"It's very simple. The first thing you have to do is to look at the price. Take the Ibanez brand." If it was real, even the price of this brand's low-end guqin would be around three thousand yuan, so if you saw someone selling it for much less than this price, it must be fake. Second, they had to look at the number of the playing, each zither had its own code. The code of the zither had to be consistent with the code of the package, and the information of the zither could also be found on its official website, including its color, style, and so on. Third, we have to look at the workmanship, the original zither making and the material used are very particular, and the zither imitation is mostly produced in the workshop, so it can't reach the processing standard of a large factory, and there's a lot of difference in the process. And in order to compress the cost, the zither imitation uses a lower cost log more, so the secondary filling is good, and the texture is also a lot worse. The last and most important point is the timbre of the sound. The timbre of the imitating zither will never reach the standard of the original zither.

Yu Guannan paused for a moment before introducing, "Of course, other than these three brands, there are also other small and medium-sized brands, but small brands do not represent poor workmanship. Yu Guannan paused for a moment before introducing," Of course, besides these three brands, there are other small and medium-sized brands, but small brands do not represent poor workmanship.

"This is the electric guitar from the 'Squier' brand. This kind of instrument only sells for a thousand yuan here. This kind of instrument is the most suitable for beginners to use, it is easy to use, low price, beautiful appearance and good timbre …" Yu Guonan took off a red and white guitar from the instrument rack and said, "This is the electric guitar from the 'Squier' brand."

Just introducing the different types and brands of guitars took up an entire day, but Qin Fengge felt that this amount of time was worth it. Not only did she know so much about guitars, but she also understood Yu Guannan's familiarity with guitars.

Yu Guannan took a deep breath, "Alright. You two must be tired after lecturing for the entire day. Go back and rest early today. Tomorrow, we will formally learn Finger Arts." "Hmm …" "If you're interested, I have some books on guitar that you can study tonight."

Zhou Datong yawned and muttered to himself tiredly, "It seems that digesting so many things in such a short period of time is rather tiring!"

Hearing that, Yu Guannan laughed, "Actually, logically speaking, it would be unfair for you all to be instilled with so much knowledge for such a short period of time. However, our time is limited, so we have to do this. "Actually, knowledge is something to learn and use. As long as you enter the door, you will be able to rely on your own feelings in the future to find out."

"What?" Zhou Datong patted his stomach, "I'm saying that Soup Dumplings has eaten too much at noon and still feels a bit uncomfortable. Seems like Soup Dumplings isn't something that can be digested that easily …" Eh? Brother Yu, Little Qin, why did the two of you fall to the ground … "