Overview
Students will be able to understand how to start playing the Chinese flute right from the very beginning., Once the course is completed, students are expected to play a simple song within the range of three notes at least., Students are expected to practice about half an hour daily to achieve reasonable results., This is a basic course to show students what features and techniques are to be expected
This course is for students who are passionate or curious in learning to play the Chinese Bamboo flute or dizi in Mandarin.
There is no prerequisites to learn as long as they have purchased a Chinese flute in D key.
Hi everyone,
This is Yong Seng, your Chinese bamboo flute teacher. Chinese bamboo flute is also called dizi（笛子） in Mandarin. It's not pronounced as "dizzy", please watch my introductory video and listen to how I pronounce the word. For your first lecture, you will learn how to paste a paper-like material called dimo (笛膜）that will create a vibrant sound after you have pasted it onto your dizi. After that, you will learn the first three notes that are sung as do, re and mi using numbers to indicate unlike the Western musical notation. 1 is do, 2 is re and 3 is mi. Once you learn how to play these three notes, I will teach you to play a simple but well-known Chinese musical piece and you will be able to play it after this course.
I have been teaching for more than 30 years and I'm currently teaching at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore as a dizi instructor. I'm also a Yamaha flute instructor teaching the concert C flute. I have a BA(Hons) in Music and I was a part-time lecturer teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for modules such as World Music, Concert Management and English. When I was 18 years old, I won the 1st prize for the national music competition (Singapore), open category, for the dizi solo performance.
Yong Seng Chye
Chye Yong Seng holds a BA (Hons) in Music from the University of Wales, UK and an LTCL (Diploma) in Flute Performance. He has performed for his solo recitals at the Esplanade, Young Musicians' Society, Jubilee Hall, the Arts House and overseas. He was a part-time lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) conducting diploma courses for World Music and Concert Management for 10 years. He has won the first prize, solo section of the open category in the 1st National Music Competition and he is currently teaching dizi at the National Technological University of Singapore as well as a flute instructor at the Yamaha Music School.