iGuzheng's innovative "Follow Play" feature allows even complete beginners to effortlessly play professional Guzheng pieces!
Guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither that dates back to 500 B.C. It is rich in playing techniques. The performer plucks the strings with his right-hand fingernails, while his left-hand fingers apply pressure to the strings to execute vibratos, slides, and other embellishments , as well as occasional plucking techniques.
iGuzheng supports many playing techniques, like an acoustic Guzheng:
· Playing techniques for Right Hand:
Pluck, Glissando, Tremolo (Shake/摇指), Automatic Tremolo, Overtone
· Playing techniques for Left Hand:
Pitch Slide, Small Vibrato, Big Vibrato, Tap Pitch (Dian Yin – 点音)
Main Features:
√ Follow Play: iGuzheng's original "Follow Play" feature combines Guzheng playing symbols with string positions to provide real-time playing prompts, allowing even complete beginners to effortlessly play professional Guzheng pieces!
** Supports setting to follow only the right-hand part or both hands!
** When following only the right-hand part, iGuzheng will automatically play the left-hand part for you!
** Can be set to automatically play left-hand pressing actions: pressed notes, glissando, vibrato, etc.
[Appendix] Meanings of various lines in Follow Play:
Vertical line – Represents a "chord line," commonly used for major plucks, minor plucks, and chords.
Wavy line – Represents a "glissando line," commonly used for ornamental notes, glissando, double thumb, heavy thumb, etc.
Fine dashed line – Represents a "note group." All notes connected by fine dashed lines form a note group, which may consist of common fingering combinations (alternating thumb and middle finger, four-note patterns, etc.), grace notes, triplets, arpeggiated chords, rhythmic patterns, etc.
Horizontal thick dashed line – Represents a "tremolo line," indicating the start and end times of the tremolo.
√ Flexible Guzheng View — easy scrolling and zooming with drag/pinch gestures on the Pitch Slider Bar.
√ Record your songs, and songs can be played back with animations.
√ You can share your songs (*.igz or *.m4a)
√ High-quality stereo samples from Guzheng.
√ Additional instrument sounds: Harp, Marimba, Pipa, Ruan , Dulcimer
√ Full 21 strings.
√ Automatically play "Shake" technique (自动摇指) when you move your touch on the string horizontally.
√ Smart snapping to the correct pitch grid when moving the pitch slider.
√ Portamento / Vibrato.
√ Overtone : use two fingers to tap strings at the same time.
√ "Dian Yin" Effect (点音/Tap Pitch) : tap the pitch slider after plucking a string to create the "Dian Yin" sound effect.
√ Tuning as standard Guzheng tunings or custom tuning.
√ Transpose control .
I absolutely love this app. I’m glad it gets regular updates from the developers with new music. As a new Zheng player, I find it useful. There are really only 2 things that would make this app next level, and one of them is very easy to implement: (1) the ability to export tabs of the songs available in the app. This would be AMAZING, as I really like the renditions of the songs in the app but don’t want to spend time transcribing by hand all the notes played. Since the songs are input into the app (presumably) using tabs, it shouldn’t be too difficult to allow people to export them. The second thing, which might be a bit more difficult to do, is maybe to add in a suggestion system? So if someone is interested in a particular song, maybe if enough people request or something the developers can add it into the app? Overall, super happy with this app, I just wish I could export the tabs haha.
Best guzheng app out there
user2628292752
Really worth every penny. I first downloaded to learn guzheng in conjunction with some lessons and really enjoying the drama ost and recent popular songs than the more traditional ones my teacher assigns. It would be awesome if we can also print out the music sheet for it instead of slowly writing everything down by hand. Thank you developer for the frequent updates and not forgetting about this app!
Amazing app! Please add AUv3/AudioBus!
Ipadowner
Aside from the amazing sound and interface this app is beautifully designed. Definitely worth every penny. The one thing that would make this app next level is the ability to use it in conjunction with other music making pipelines. Having AudioBus3 and AUv3 support would truly bring it to the professional level.
Best Guzheng App
kouhvrdde
There are so many amazing songs to play and the app is so well made. There are so many customization options, ways to listen to the music without being in the app, speeds, etc it’s literally endless i HIGHLY recommend
UI bug fixes.
Version 9.3.7
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Information
Seller
Supertintin Co., Ltd
Size
138.1 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
