PlaysoloistStringsErhuSongsA Xianfa — Intonation Hold
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A Xianfa Intonation Hold — Jianpu (Numbered) Notation
- Composer
- Playsoloist
- Year
- —
- Key
- A
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 77 BPM
- Difficulty
- Easy · ★★
- First note
- E4
A Xianfa — Intonation Hold 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 = A · dots mark the octave · – holds the beat
An original Playsoloist study, composed in-house as a practice piece — not a traditional tune and not implied to be one.
How to practise this on erhu
Tune both strings before the first stroke — everything in A Xianfa — Intonation Hold 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 77 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 8 notes across 4 bars, from E4 up to D♯5 in 4/4 time.
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