English Erhu books

[jam]

Hello all!

As a being living in wales, uk it's incredibly hard to find an erhu player/teacher so I have been trawling the internet for resource books. However as I only speak english there are very few.

I purchased How to Play Erhu, the Chinese Violin book 1 by H. H. Lee when I purchased my erhu. It covers bowing technique, scales, jianpau notation and finering charts for the majors. But it's lacking in detail and it's very basic.

So the two I am currently looking at are Bridging the gap by Patty Chan and Follow Me to Play the Erhu by YaoWei.

Now Bridging the Gap seems like it covers pretty much every aspect as well as troubleshooting and corrections. It is pretty pricey and hard to find reviews so if any of you fellows have read it I would love your opinions

Follow Me to Play the Erhu comes with a dvd/Mp4 play along disk which would be useful. However cannot find any reviews so don't know how much content it actually holds.

if anyone has purchased/read these two books (or can suggest others) I would really appreciate your feedback or suggestions.

Many thanks,
Jam

[eugene]

There is another book by Patty Chan,Playing Erhu - Foundation Essentials Book 1
which you might be interested as well.
This is Patty Chan Facebook if you got any qns regarding her book you could PM her directly.
Hope this will help.

www.facebook.com/patty.wm.chan.leung

[jam]

Thank you! I will get in touch with her.

[willy]

Patty Chan's book is a great book for non chinese folks.. Also she has it available for an android app..

I use it all the time.

[yuhongmei123]

Feb 6, 2018 14:21:40 GMT jam said:

Hello all!

As a being living in wales, uk it's incredibly hard to find an erhu player/teacher so I have been trawling the internet for resource books. However as I only speak english there are very few.

I purchased How to Play Erhu, the Chinese Violin book 1 by H. H. Lee when I purchased my erhu. It covers bowing technique, scales, jianpau notation and finering charts for the majors. But it's lacking in detail and it's very basic.

So the two I am currently looking at are Bridging the gap by Patty Chan and Follow Me to Play the Erhu by YaoWei.

Now Bridging the Gap seems like it covers pretty much every aspect as well as troubleshooting and corrections. It is pretty pricey and hard to find reviews so if any of you fellows have read it I would love your opinions

Follow Me to Play the Erhu comes with a dvd/Mp4 play along disk which would be useful. However cannot find any reviews so don't know how much content it actually holds.

if anyone has purchased/read these two books (or can suggest others) I would really appreciate your feedback or suggestions.

Many thanks,
Jam

So, it seems I am one of the few with the Follow Me book and DVD . . . except I can't currently locate the book! Will watch the DVD and let you know about it.

[yuhongmei123]

The DVD seems informative, though I didn't look through all of it.

Yaowei is talented and speaks slowly so you can understand, but he does have an accent.
I will say that the whole look of the video is old fashioned, but that doesn't really matter to me.

It is split up like this:


1. The elementary knowledge (13 min) background

2. The skill of the left hand (30 min)

3. The skill of the right hand (22 min) some symbols explained

4. Musical compositions

I don't know if it is only for me or because of my computer, but the videos take a long time to load.