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Erhu operating guide

In the teaching of erhu bowing, people always attach importance to the principle of relaxation. If the students' performance is unclear or the timbre is not beautiful, the teacher encourages the students to relax and not be too nervous. However, in the practice of erhu practice, some students find it difficult to understand the word "relaxation", and even more difficult to achieve. This is main...
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The erhu is generally tuned in the relationship of fifths, with a range of three octaves. The erhu is generally tuned by the relationship of fifths, such as (d1, a1, c1, g1, g, d1, a, e1) or (e1, b1). When playing music or opera with some local colors, in addition to the fifth-degree relationship, there are also pure fourth-degree relationships. There are even octave tunings in some...
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Today, I will talk to parents about the problems that are easy to occur when children play the erhu, and how to correct them. 1. The question of how to hold the bow. Children holding a bow do not pay much attention to the interaction between the thumb, index finger and ring finger. If the requirements and essentials of the three fingers in holding the bow are unclear, and the requir...
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For children, cultivating interest in learning is a basic guarantee for students to persevere for a long time. My approach is to clear up the three barriers to beginner erhu learning before systematic and standardized learning, namely bow-handling, qin-holding, and intonation. Yungongguan: The pitch of the erhu is difficult to control, and most of the strings are inaccurate ...
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For beginners of erhu, not only have to pay attention to the few points required in our previous article, but also keep yourself relaxed. The combination of the two is combined with continuous practice. I believe that everyone should master the pitch well. What a problem. Inaccurate tone and others are empty talk, so it is particularly important to practice erhu scales and intonation. The...
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I believe that many of my friends have basically no professional music knowledge before contacting the erhu, so many beginners of the erhu have no idea about the concept of pitch. Therefore, I think that when we start to learn the erhu, we should continue to cultivate our own sound recognition ability. After we have a specific concept of pitch, we will consolidate it through the following point...
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Believe that many erhu beginners will have some doubts: "Teacher, can I learn erhu with my short pinky finger?", "Teacher, how should I practice four-fingered chords with my short pinky finger, I can't always feel it?" , "Teacher, my pinky finger is very stiff when I practice four-fingered chords, what should I do?" So are these problems really just because of my short pinky finger? ...
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First of all, I would like to explain to you that what we generally refer to as "tuning (tuning)" refers to tuning according to international standards. Standard tuning of the erhu: The outer string is a1, notation 6, singing la, corresponding to the 29th white key of the piano The inner string is d1, notation 2, singing re, corresponding to the 25th white key of the piano ...
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If a player who has a very keen grasp of the intonation of the erhu, when he hears inaccurate tones in the performance of others or himself, most of them will have an indescribable discomfort and a feeling of something wrong. Often at this time, the performer will constantly adjust the position where he presses the sound until there is no abnormality. This fully demonstrates the important...
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There are two ways to cultivate the intonation of the erhu. One is to maintain the correct erhu playing posture from the beginning, especially the posture of pressing the strings with the left hand and the correct finger spacing. Although the finger distance of playing the erhu has some relationship with the size of the individual's palm and the size of the erhu, there is one thing that will no...
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