A Song from Erhu Newbie - pls provide comments

[jtangsw]

Hi,

I just uploaded a video in www.youtube.com. Here's the link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gzItGRQF2I

It's a simple erhu performance (using D scale) with the background music from the song Chen Li De Yue Guang (³ÇÀïµÄÔ¹â).

This is my own creation:
The Moon That I Want To See (ÎÒÏë¿´µ½µÄÔÂÁÁ).

Hope you like it...

Fyi, I've been playing the guitar for a few years and I just started learning the erhu. After 6 erhu lessons, I decided to record this video to check for my mistakes. I reckon it's a good way to realize/notice my own errors in the video.

In this video, I noticed that I kept lifting my right hand while bowing, which is quite wrong. If anyone noticed other areas of improvements, hope you can let me know.

Thanks.



regards,
Tang

[calden]

Sounds and looks great! It's good you noticed that right hand wandering upwards - that will interefere with changing strings as you go faster. You might want to sit up straighter - a good, strong upper body gives support to proper bowing. Intonation and rhythm is very good. Excellent!

Carlos

[jtangsw]

Thanks for the prompt reply, Carlos.

It's my first attempt to record myself playing the erhu. Really happy about it.

The sound quality is a quite bad cause I'm using a digital camera (with tripod) to do the recording.

Hope to share my second recording when I'm got better with the erhu.


cheers,
Tang