One of the key difficulties in the training of the left hand of erhu playing is the intonation. Today, I would like to share with you some tips for erhu playing intonation training, hoping to help all erhu beginners and amateurs.

The first is to connect intonation through scales. We try our best to practice slow and longbow scales every day. Because the intonation of the erhu is very difficult, it has neither the frets nor the scales on the pipa, nor the fretboard of the violin. Although the intonation of the violin also depends on touch, it has a fingerboard. The difficulty of erhu is that there is no fingerboard, so even if the position is touched and pressed correctly, the sound will still be inaccurate.

Because your pressing pressure is different, it will be higher if it is heavier, and lower if it is too light, so the intonation of the erhu can be said to be the most difficult to master. Therefore, we can achieve the effect of correcting the concept of intonation very well when training the slow longbow. We try our best to make the scales on the erhu also like the keyboard on the piano, engraving the standard of fixed pitch in the ear, and practice the scales of different tones every day. This kind of slow training can deepen the concept of intonation and improve the accuracy of intonation.

The second is to correct the intonation through overtones or artificial overtones. The principle of overtones itself is to establish overtones in the case of extreme pitches (the extreme pitch of erhu is that the position cannot be different by one millimeter). So when your overtones are very dirty and unclean, then your tone must be inaccurate.

The third is to record yourself. This method is highly praised by many masters. Because many people are more likely to hear the inaccuracy when listening to other people's performance, but it is not easy to hear it when listening to their own performance. Sometimes they don't notice their own inaccuracy when they are playing. This may be the inner and outer hearing of human beings, just like the sentence: If you don't know the true face of Mount Lu, it is only because you are in this mountain.