Self-learning methods for hulusi beginners include: breath breathing methods and control training, fingering training, and spitting training.

1, breath method and control training

Playing hulusi must first learn abdominal breathing, abdominal breathing method is to use the mouth to inhale, the breath sinking, while the abdomen expands, the muscles tighten, exhale the abdominal muscles contraction, relaxation in a one by one, a loose and a tight in the completion of the respiratory process. In the case of the cylinder tone as 5, the bass area of the 5, 6, 7 and the alto area of the 1, 2, 3 of the breath is stronger than the alto 5, 6, blowing the alto 5, 6 when the breath is relatively weak in order to be able to blow, blowing, so to do a good job of breath control training.

2, fingering training

To achieve absolute relaxation of the fingers, in order to improve the speed of the fingers, in general, beginners should start from the scale practice, familiar with the pitch of each tone, according to the practice piece step by step practice, from the professional practice of the fingers to go up to say, from the simple scales of fingering to start with, and then small intervals and intervals of the intensity of the training, the fingering of the link to the core of the finger finger movement! The core of the fingering connection is the speed of fingering.

3, spit training

The spit is the breath impact on the tip of the tongue to send out the T or K sound, there are mainly three kinds of spit: single spit, double spit, triple spit, hulusi music as a whole is concerned with the light and soft, so spit should not be too heavy to the lightness of the main.

The way to pick a hulusi

1. The material used is delicate. Gourds should be fully mature, yellow in color, thick and strong skin, and beautiful and upright; immature gourds are thin skinned, whitish in color, and easily damaged. The quality of the bamboo pipe directly affects the sound of the good and bad, bamboo should be fine and old, there is a certain weight, too light is not good.

2, fine workmanship. The overall appearance of the hulusi should be beautiful and generous, the instrument itself should be like a work of art. Never because it is a minority instrument on the crude, the original roughness as an aesthetic standard.

3, beautiful tone. The tone of the hulusi has very distinctive ethnic characteristics: introverted and subtle, gentle and elegant, round and full, delicate and simple. Good hulusi tone is fascinating, intoxicating, with a special "nasal" effect, the volume is not large, but very penetrating.