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Post by paulv on Jan 28, 2016 12:13:21 GMT
I've returned to this forum to hopefully help people who are interested in Beijing Opera and want to learn how to play the jinghu. Prior, I was playing erhu when I was active here, but in the last four years, I started learning jinghu.
If there is any interest, I'll start posting things to help people get started or keep them going.
Hope to hear from people!
Regards,
paul...
PS: Some areas to be covered:
1) Video lessons from a Master (yes, they're in Chinese but you can still watch/listen to learn things)
2) Lessons (20 of them) in jpeg files from the same Master
3) Supplement videos/lessons from the same Master
4) My lists of Beijing Operas you can easily obtain and watch
5) Instructions on how to create DVDs of those operas (I have several hundred operas) to play in your DVD player
6) Of course, any specific questions people may have.
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Post by davidmdahl on Jan 28, 2016 17:46:04 GMT
Welcome back, Paul. My erhu teacher would love you! Dr. Yang loves Beijing Opera, at least, and we have a tune that sometimes gets programmed. I can almost keep up, but too often the dizi player catches fire and I struggle. Dr. Yang has a jinghu, but usually plays Beijing Opera on gaohu. I expect that jinghu is better than gaohu and especially erhu, for playing Beijing Opera. However, I am more of a low strings fan.
I know a few fans of Beijing opera on Facebook. Let me know if you would like help meeting them.
Best wishes,
David
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Post by paulv on Jan 28, 2016 18:32:29 GMT
Welcome back, Paul. My erhu teacher would love you! Dr. Yang loves Beijing Opera, at least, and we have a tune that sometimes gets programmed. I can almost keep up, but too often the dizi player catches fire and I struggle. Dr. Yang has a jinghu, but usually plays Beijing Opera on gaohu. I expect that jinghu is better than gaohu and especially erhu, for playing Beijing Opera. However, I am more of a low strings fan. I know a few fans of Beijing opera on Facebook. Let me know if you would like help meeting them. Best wishes, David David, Thx for the greetings and the offer to link me up to some of your fans. I can understand why your teacher plays the gaohu for those opera songs as a traditional Beijing opera band has a Jing Erhu and a Jinghu player -- the Jing Erhu range is close to a gaohu and about an octave lower than the Jinghu (D5-A5). The Jinghu comes in two styles: Xipi (fast, staccato, various accents, high pitched) and Erhuang (slower, more mellow, lower). If your song is Xipi style (my favorite!), then you'll see a lot of sixteenth-note runs. I don't know if you ever saw the movie "Farewell My Concubine", but the two guys playing the opera performer roles were symbolically performing this opera in the movie: Ba Wang Bie Ji 霸王别姬Hope you (and others) enjoy it!! Regards, paul... |
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Post by Minh on Jan 31, 2016 22:53:26 GMT
Hello Paul,
I am not learning the jinghu right now, but I would love to see those videos and lessons, it could be great references if I want to learn in the future
Have a great day
Minh
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Post by paulv on Feb 1, 2016 11:44:33 GMT
Hello Paul, I am not learning the jinghu right now, but I would love to see those videos and lessons, it could be great references if I want to learn in the future Have a great day Minh Hi Minh, Here's the link for Lesson 2A (there are three parts) video: Jinghu Lesson 2AAnd the first page of Lesson 2:  Enjoy. Regards, paul... |
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Post by Minh on Feb 4, 2016 15:17:18 GMT
Thanks Paul
How much harder was it to learn the jinghu to you? You own personal experience.
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Post by paulv on Feb 4, 2016 18:34:20 GMT
Thanks Paul How much harder was it to learn the jinghu to you? You own personal experience. The music style is very different then the erhu and requires some techniques/effects that are not common in erhu playing. Holding the jinghu/bow position is different also, and you need to be conscience of that because the string space on the bridge is about 1/8" -- you can accidentally bow both strings at the same time (which is undesirable). Songs tend to have many, many runs of sixteenth notes at fast tempos (the xipi style), but there are some slower songs (the er huang style). Actually, the lesson set has its first song at lesson 5 (seventh, and last exercise) -- it's the song taken from the opera Drunkin' Concubine -- this opera is about one of a king's wives who is waiting for the king to visit her, but he doesn't show -- she becomes unhappy and her servants keep bringing her different alcoholic drinks and she gets drunk. The song is the background track for when she's drinking, and is an er huang style song (even though it's loaded with 16ths and 32nd notes!! Here's the opera if you're interested (it's almost an hour). Enjoy.................. Drunken Concubine (Guifei Zuijiu: 贵妃醉酒) or aka: "The Drunken Beauty"Regards, paul... |
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