Plucked Strings: Pipa 琵琶

Techniques:

  • Chromatic scale

Right Hand Techniques:

  1. Down-stroke with index finger and up-stroke with thumb
  2. Short tremolo with down-stroke and up-stroke
  3. Up-stroke with thumb and down-stroke with index finger at the same time
  4. Down-stroke with thumb and up-stroke with index finger at the same time / repeat the fingering from opposite direction
  5. Down-stroke with index finger on 2 strings
  6. Tremelo with 5 fingers
  7. Tremelo on 2 adjacent strings simultaneously
  8. Down-stroke brushing with index finger
  9. Down-stroke brushing with index finger and up-stroke brushing with thumb
  10. Tremelo with one finger

Left Hand Techniques:

  1. Arpeggio
  2. Pushing and pulling the string
  3. Push-pull vibrato
  4. Vibrato
  5. Portamento
  6. Strike and pluck
  7. Tangle 2, 3, or 4 strings
  8. Bartók pizzicato

Left and Right Hand Techniques

  1. Up-stroke with index or middle finger with thumb pressing on the string near the bridge
  2. Strike the top of the soundboard
  3. Harmonics
  4. Artificial harmonics
  5. Stroke with left-hand fingernail under the string