Illustration of erhu fingering

Tools/materials: erhu, desk.

1. First, we can turn the palm of our left hand upward, and the index finger will bend one finger in turn. When one finger bends, the other three fingers stay straight, and the ring finger and the little finger start to move together.

2. Then the index finger, middle finger, little finger and thumb of the left hand are tightly pinched together. At this time there will be a gap between the middle finger and the little finger. After training for a period of time every day, the ability of ring finger to move independently will become more and more obvious.

3. Then we let our left hand relax naturally, lightly touch the desktop with the palm root and thumb, tap the desktop vertically with the fingertips of the other four fingers, and tap one, two, three, four, three, two, one, four, three, one, four, two, three.

Then, knock one, four, two, three, four, two, three, three, and so on. In a mixed order. Every fingertip should be trained to be as powerful as a small hammer hitting the desktop, and then you can practice your hand shape.

5. The change of bow holding technique in bow method. When playing the long bow slowly, hold the bow backward and hold the bow deeply. At this time, the area where the hand touches the bow is relatively large, which is conducive to improving the control of the bow and the change of volume.

6. When we play the fast bow, we need to move the position of the bow to our fingertips. The bow is shallow and the fingertips are more flexible. You will be more relaxed when you play the fast bow.