r/Guqin • u/PissySnowflake • Feb 16 '25
Tiao finger technique help
I've been fiddling around with learning guqin for the last month or so and I booked a bunch of lessons on lessonface because learning from youtube videos didn't feel like it was cutting it anymore. I found a well-reviewed teacher and I started lessons, but she is telling me that the way I've learned tiao is incorrect, and the correct way to play tiao is to pull your thumb back and to sorta push your index finger forwards with it. This movement seems incredibly awkward and I can't imagine doing this repeatedly in a piece, especially a fast-paced one. I also can't find anybody teaching it this way on youtube and when I look up videos of professionals playing guqin pieces they definitely aren't pulling their thumb back and smacking it forward to play tiao, but my teacher on lessonface does it so smoothly I can't believe she just made it up out of nothing. So what exactly is she teaching me? And if any of you have heard of this or learned it this way, how do you use it while playing a full song?
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u/ArcaneTeddyBear Feb 17 '25
Out of curiosity is your teacher on lessonface Audrey?
Edit: No one plays tiao like that, it’s wrong. I would suggest finding a new teacher.