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91. Special Skills: Introduction to Erhu

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Ang Lee finally decided on a song, which was "囍". The difficulty of this song is relatively moderate. Ang Lee likes the arrangement of this song. The erhu as the prelude, and the suona part that connects the chorus and the main song is the highlight. Ang Lee liked it the first time he listened to it, so he decided to spend some time every day during this period and he should be able to finish it by mid-next month.

The arrangement of this song is mainly drums, erhu, suona, pipa and piano. Among them, erhu and suona are instruments that Ang Lee doesn't know yet, which is why he decided to make this song.

He now has time to learn new instruments, and there are some dialects and falsettos. He can complete this song alone, but there is a lot of things to learn.

Without Lin Chaomu's help, Ang Lee could not borrow the rehearsal room from the famous musical instrument department, so he had to buy the instruments himself and then drive to a place where there are no people to study, because there are many people in the school, so if you practice in the dormitory, you may be afraid that you will disturb others.

Ang Lee decided to learn Erhu first.

The Erhu thing looks very simple because it is just two strings, divided into outer strings and inner strings. The thing that pulls the Erhu is called a bowstring. When the three lines are combined, it looks very simple, but in fact it is extremely difficult.

If no one teaches it, it is normal for you to study it alone for several years without getting started.

As the saying goes, the Thousand Days of Flute, Hundred Days of Flute, learn to break the waist with Erhu. This is an instrument with strict requirements for body posture. It requires the corresponding vertical relationship between Erhu and bowstring, so the performer must sit upright and the waist must be straight, otherwise the sound will be deviated.

This is just one of them. Another thing is that the fingering of the erhu is also difficult, because it does not have fixed products like guitars, nor does it have a fingerboard like a violin to support it. It depends entirely on where the fingers are pressed and what force is used.

Pressing down in the same place with different force, the sound pulled by the bowstring is completely different, and it is not even in the same range. It requires the player to be sensitive enough to hear the subtle differences between similar sounds.

The most difficult part is the pitch. If you want to play the sound you want, you need to start working with your left and right hands at the same time. Both hands need to be very careful and accurate in order to make the sound you want.

This is a very demanding instrument and requires a lot of time to practice. However, Ang Lee is not worried about these two points at all. One is that he has systematic help and can get started quickly. Learning Erhu is definitely much easier than others. In addition, he has enough knowledge reserves in his mind, so he basically won’t take detours.

Then he has enough time to practice now. Although the team in the company requires singers and artists to post a song sample a month, Ang Lee doesn't need it because everyone knows that he can make songs and doesn't need anyone else to help.

Even if I don’t give Manager Zhao a song sample for two or three months, the latter will never say anything. Now he has such strength and status.

Ang Lee drove around the school for a long time and finally found an excellent place to practice not far away.

This is a small hill not far from the back door of the school. There is a tourist pavilion on the top of the mountain, but few people come up. Only on weekends, students drive up to camp and barbecue, and there are basically no people during the day.

After Ang Lee parked the car, he took out the erhu that was placed in the back seat. He bought it at the market yesterday. He spent nearly 10,000 yuan, which is considered to be a very good-quality erhu.

When learning a musical instrument, the most important thing is to buy a musical instrument with better quality. This way, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort. If you can't learn it, you can't blame the instrument for the head.

When Ang Lee was learning guitar, he bought the cheapest fire stick because he didn't have much money. It took him a long time to figure out that he couldn't play the music he wanted was not because he had made a mistake in his practice, but because the guitar was not good.

So the first thing Ang Lee did after he had some money was to buy a good guitar. This time was no exception. In order to learn the erhu well, he bought a good erhu.

The autumn afternoon is not hot at all, it is the most comfortable time of the day. When the breeze passes through the pavilion, Ang Lee only feels refreshed.

He held the erhu with his left hand and the bowstring on it with his right hand, but he did not mean to pull it, but kept in this position.

The first thing to learn about erhu is posture.

If the sitting posture is wrong, it will be useless to learn it later. So Ang Lee is just learning to play the sitting posture he should do. For this reason, he also downloaded a leveling meter with his mobile phone, then placed the phone on his right arm, and set it up to make a sound as long as it is not horizontal.

With scientific practice, Ang Lee believed that he would be able to get started with the erhu instrument very soon.

But he knew that the most test of this instrument was patience. Too impatient and seeking success was not possible, so he was not in a hurry. He did not make a sound throughout the afternoon, but he kept his posture of preparing to pull it.

The saying that the erhu was tired and broke the waist was not in vain. Just from the first day, Ang Lee felt that his waist seemed to be breaking, so sour that he just wanted to lie down and remained motionless.

But Ang Lee did not dare to be careless, and even did not have the idea of ​​just letting it go, because there is a saying that only by sitting on the erhu can one be well-suggested, so he did not dare to slack off at all. As long as he could sit on the erhu, the erhu would be half successful.

After that, Ang Lee had a new schedule every day, typing in the morning, practicing sitting posture for three hours in the afternoon, and then painting oil painting for two hours.

After persisting like this for a few days, Erhu had not learned it, but Ang Lee was surprised to find that it was much easier for him to draw oil paintings.

Because oil paintings are also painted while sitting, Ang Lee didn't pay much attention to sitting posture when he first learned oil painting, so he didn't practice it specifically. Now after practicing erhu, he discovered an advantage, that is, he was much more relaxed when painting oil paintings, and his hands became much more stable. In the past, there were always some deviations in shaving white, which forced him to remedy it again, but after learning erhu, this link became much easier.

So he began to practice again with endless pleasure.

It was not until one day that he held on to the level of the phone for half an hour and did not sound an alarm, that he finally smiled with satisfaction. His first level had been successfully completed.

But it's been over a week and almost ten days.

Although he has not officially made a sound, Ang Lee knew that his progress in learning erhu had already loaded a lot.

Then practice fingering.

This link is a very familiar link to Ang Lee, because what you have to learn for every string instrument is fingering. Before this, Ang Lee is considered to be experienced in this regard.

However, the fingering of the erhu is more difficult because it does not have a fixed grade and requires the performer to understand what fingering and strength can make what sound. There is no shortcut to take, so Ang Lee is ready to fight a protracted battle.

It's still the old way, try one by one.

Ang Lee already has the technical requirements for controlling the bowstring with his right hand, because it is relatively simple, and you only need to be able to pull it smoothly on the string. Ang Lee has been practicing this movement for a long time. It is no longer difficult for him to pull a stable and gentle sound for the first time.

Therefore, Ang Lee's focus is on the fingering of his left hand. Just like those instruments before, Ang Lee pressed all the strengths of all positions several times, familiarizing himself with the pitch of each position.

He is very confident in his voice. After all, this is his ability to eat. Even without the help of the system, his voice is quite accurate.

[Congratulations to the host for passing the instrumental assessment through his own efforts and obtaining special skills: Getting Started with Erhu]

[Entertainment of Erhu: Special skills to improve the host's understanding of Erhu and reach the entry-level level]

The prompt sound that had been away for a long time finally rang out from Ang Lee's mind again, which means that he had just mastered a new instrument, that is, the erhu.

Complex information poured into Ang Lee's mind like a tide. Ang Lee closed his eyes and felt the feedback of his finger pressing on the string. With the help of the system, it became much easier and easier for Ang Lee to practice the erhu again.

Although he knew clearly what force to use at that position to make sound, he just couldn't master the so-called node well, but now it's much easier for Ang Lee to practice again.

And this time, Ang Lee can finally start to try to play the erhu part of the accompaniment of the song "囍".

The erhu part of this song is mainly the first twenty-five seconds, which is relatively simple for Ang Lee, because the erhu sounds more melodious and long, and it sounds like a very long paragraph, but in fact there are not many fingering changes. Just like Peking Opera, there are not many lyrics, but there are only many vocals.

According to the score of the song and the knowledge of the system in his mind, Ang Lee found the corresponding string position, and then pressed according to different force to test the sound that matched the accompaniment. This is a very test of pitch, but fortunately Ang Lee's pitch is pretty good.

But in just twenty-five seconds, ten sounds, it took Ang Lee half an hour to find the corresponding position on the erhu one by one.

The next thing to do is to pull out these sounds skillfully, play them in a coherent and complete manner, and then find a recording studio to record the sound source, and even if the erhu part is completed.
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