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Bright Walk Outer String Study Jianpu (Numbered) Notation

Composer
Liu Tianhua
Year
Key
D
Time
4/4
Tempo
104 BPM
Difficulty
Difficult · ★★★★★
First note
A4

Bright Walk Outer String Study on erhu

The full melody, rendered as jianpu numbered notation you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

1 = D · dots mark the octave · – holds the beat

Liu Tianhua (1895-1932); public domain style study.

How to practise this on erhu

Tune both strings before the first stroke — everything in Bright Walk Outer String Study sits in first position on the inner D and outer A string, so the two open pitches carry the whole piece. The numbers are jianpu: 1 is the home note, dots mark the octave, and a line under a digit halves it. Play one full bow per note at first, slow and even, and let the app's pitch feedback tell you where a finger sits sharp or flat — with no fingerboard and no frets, the sound is the only witness.

Keep the metronome well under around 104 BPM, keep bow changes quiet, and loop the phrase that grades worst until the left hand stops guessing — with no frets, repetition is how the hand learns distance. By the numbers, this setting runs 15 notes across 4 bars, from A4 up to F♯5 in 4/4 time.

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