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Liangxiao Good Night Study Jianpu (Numbered) Notation

Composer
Liu Tianhua
Year
Key
D
Time
4/4
Tempo
70 BPM
Difficulty
Advanced · ★★★★
First note
D4

Liangxiao Good Night 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 · 滑 = huayin slide

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

How to practise this on erhu

Tune both strings before the first stroke — everything in Liangxiao Good Night 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.

Where 滑 marks a huayin slide, start the note low and glide up smoothly into pitch — the app grades the slide's start, end and whether it moved in one direction. Keep the metronome well under around 70 BPM, keep bow changes quiet, and loop the phrase that grades worst until the left hand stops guessing. By the numbers, this setting runs 14 notes across 4 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 4/4 time.

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