When you are frustrated and annoyed that your erhu level is stagnant, you will find the answer - practice the Etude. When you are dazzled by the numerous erhu books on the bookcase, and you open a vast system project without knowing where to start, you will ask what to practice? What is the use? Today, I will tell you some of my experiences.

1. The pros and cons of etude

Before the erhu entered the university podium, there was no scientific etude. Liu Tianhua's etude came out, which transplanted the scientific training of the violin to the erhu. With the development of the era, erhu music has been enriched and developed by famous masters such as Wang Guotong, Zhao Yanchen and Liu Changfu. The etude has been systematic, scientific and self-contained. Do middle-aged and elderly Hu You want to practice systematically? Some people say that many folk artists do not have systematic training for etudes, and they still play Erhu like crazy. No need to practice. Let’s first analyze their pros and cons here.

Pros: As a necessary means of step-by-step progress; stability, scientificity, and continuity are the deep needles in the sea; a good recipe for rushing to level up.

Disadvantages: time-consuming; boring and fading interest; no chance for the behind-the-scenes hero to express; the melodic training is relatively blank.

Therefore, it is necessary not to practice without practice, not to practice fully, to practice a lot, to focus on one thing and lose another, to overwhelm guests, and to be useless. Somebody plays the etude better than the solo. If you don’t practice, the number of paths is too wild, the blanks are incomplete, and you can’t go to high levels.

2. Selected Etude

"Exercise in D major", "Exercise in G major", "Exercise on changing hands", "Exercise with both hands", "Exercise on Lianton bow", "Zhiyin", "Exercise on pad finger portamento"

3. Clever use of alternatives

Since the etude is to improve the skills and prepare for the solo, why not use the different levels of solos and ditties that are not ready to be played (you can't finish it in a lifetime) as etudes, which is pleasant and time-saving.

Longbow: Introduction to Rivers and Water, Adagio of a Flower

One bow with multiple sounds: Jiangnan Spring, Depressed Vomiting

Treble: Spring Kuaibong, Liang Zhu treble part,

Chromatic Exercises: Bumblebee, Endless Parts

Jumping Bows: Hora, Chardash

Strength: empty mountain bird language

Each of Zhu Changyue's folk songs is about the fourth grade, which can be practiced as an etude.

Lianton Bow: Liuyang River

Kuai Gong: Guests from afar, Jasmine, Yang Liuqing, etc. Three madness is also a good practice.

Passion: Alam Khan, beautiful girl

Playing: Gangnam Melody

Pad Finger: Yangzhou Minor

Vibration Variation: Small River Flows