How to play shakuhachi

３.play "尺八"
 ３.１ The breathing method
  �@I close lips lightly and blow air from the center of lips.
  �AThe breathing method is compound breathing to push air by
    the power of the stomach little by little.
  �BThe low sound widens some gaps between lips and pushes
    big air.
    The high-pitched sound lowers the gap between lips and
    begins to thrust thin air.
  �CIt is 2 octave by regulating strength of the gap between
    lips air to pitch.It can give pitch of tone interval.
  �DKeep a basic posture, and the precaution is out of the
    "歌口" from the center of lips.
 ３.２ Preparations
  �@I set up a tuner to determine whether accuracy, and the
    pitch of the "尺八" is better.
  �AWhen the pitch of the slips off, I cannot
    practice with confidence. I will have teachers confirm it
    with a tuner. It is important to think that it becomes
    the accurate pitch if how to play is right by the exercise.
３.３ Exercise to make a sound
    I practice excluding the pinch-hitter of the "尺八", and
    providing a sound in the short one with the "歌口" first.
    In addition, of the power of the stomach enter, and
    provide a low sound and a high sound with the condition;
    practice it. When a sound does not come out well, we come
    back to Paragraph 2.2, Paragraph 2.3, and let's confirm
    it.
３.４Exercise to join a "尺八" together, and to make a sound
  �@I make a sound in a state not to block up the hole of the
    "尺八" at all. Pick up a "尺八" I have.
  �AThe "尺八" pulls a chin in the anteverted dancing posture
    that bowed and poses. There is I practice in dancing
    posture until a degree sound comes to appear.
  �BI confirm whether the manner of composing waka of the
    "尺八" is also parallel to the center of lips.
  �CLet pull a chin, and manner of composing waka fit a chin,
    and push lips lightly, and is light with the lower lip;
    a song I can enter the entrance and I let I seem to catch
    "歌口" with lips lightly, and lips confront "歌口" and
    blow lightly. If a sound comes out, it is normal.
  �DI block up all holes with a finger according to a
    fingering list next and blow.
  �EIf a sound of former ロ can blow right pitch, it is
    success.
  �FWe play second ロ next, and let's see it. If normal pitch
    appears, it is a great success.
  �GThe successful person advances to next 3.7. When I do not
    do well, I advance next.　
３.５ Confirmation to make a sound with the finger
      of the left hand
  �@I confirm the low second sound and high former sound in
    the state that threw state of Paragraph 3.4, all the holes
    open I do it. When a sound does not come out, how to play
    has a problem. Let's come back to Paragraph 3.2.
  �AI confirm 5 holes of the back of the "尺八" like stuffing.
    "4 hole" nearer the lips of the face I confirm a hole like
    stuffing.
  �BI confirm it with the finger of the left hand in this way
    from 5 holes to 3 holes.
  �CI confirmed that I blocked up the hole surely with the
    finger of the left hand in this.
    In the case of the form that, particularly the third
    finger has finished growing on a straight line, a sound
    gets worse without being able to completely block up
    the hole. We come back to Paragraph 1.3, and let's
    confirm whether a finger and the back of the hand and
    a finger-tip parallel a "尺八".
３.６ Confirmation of the right hand
  �@I continue it from the place that I confirmed in
    Paragraph 3.5.
  �AI block up 2 holes, and the second sound and the former
    sound appear or confirm it. I block up 2 holes, and the
    second sound and the former sound appear or confirm it.
    I block up the hole in turn successively and confirm it.
  �BIf I block all it up, and a 3 sound of ロ"E" from ハ"E"
    appears, I block up the hole with the finger of both
    hands Confirmation is completion.
  �CAs the right hand becomes the form to block up the far-off
    hole, unreasonableness occurs in a diagonal form, is
    medicine particularly.As a finger may become the cause
    that a growth sound collapses linearly, a finger becomes
    parallel, or the back of the hand and a finger-tip come
    back to Paragraph 1.3 with a "尺八" and it will confirm
    it.
 　

３.７ Exercise to make 2 octave sounds with a shakuhachi
  �@It is a soup stock flow until a sound of the ハ"E"
    following 2 octaves from a low sound of second ロ"E" I
    lower it in this adversely t"o second "E". "メリ" making
    a sound is excluded. "ツ"and リ" of "メリ", a sound
    comes to come out by this exercise and practices it some
    other time when a "尺八" is 5 holes.
  �AA finger blocks up the hole exactly slowly, or a 1 sound
    1 sound is beautiful exactly. I practice while confirming
    whether a sound appears.
  �BLet's confirm whether the trace of the hole of the
    stomach of the finger is normal.
３.８ Method to make a semitone"メリ"
　�@The semitone of the "尺八" makes a sound by lowering
    the sound. This with "メリ" I call it.
  �AThe sound that moves some fingers for a hole like the
    right of the chart below, and empties a small hole, and
    is low. It is a method to give this.
  �BNominate some finger-tips without changing the position
    of the finger like the chart below left to bend; is
    little in a hole.
    I do it a low sound by a method to provide and call
    かざし"kazashi".
  �CIt is a method to pull a chin, and to make a low sound.
    When a sound does not become low by the operation of the
    finger.I can make a low sound in conjunction with a
    method to attract a chin in watches of the night. It is
    メル"Mel" how to play.
  �DIt is very difficult to make the sound of "メリ", and it
    is not in stable pitch. As it is difficult to give pitch
    of "メリof ツ" code F in this in the case of 5 holes, you
    should look up at the instruction of the teacher.

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