If D-A (3dot,4dot...7dot) are suppose to be the low octave notes, why do we play them the same way we would the regular octave notes in the 1st position, does the tuning of the Erhu change with each key to adjust for this or something that I dont see clearly in the video?
Good question! The tuning does not change on the erhu. For Bb, the assignment of the dots varies - occasionally, you would see the 1 assigned to the Bb that is below the range of the erhu, in which case, you would see many notes with dots on top. This video shows the most common way that Bb is notated in jianpu for the erhu.
@@pattychan5683 So if in all key scales the tuning of the open strings D and A stay the same, but the position of the 1 changes (for instance G scale G=1) so that we have semitones in different parts because the 3-4 and 7-i positions change in each scale. That means that the only thing that changes from scale to scale is minor adjustments to the finger positionings because we have semitones in different parts of each string.
If D-A (3dot,4dot...7dot) are suppose to be the low octave notes, why do we play them the same way we would the regular octave notes in the 1st position, does the tuning of the Erhu change with each key to adjust for this or something that I dont see clearly in the video?
Good question! The tuning does not change on the erhu. For Bb, the assignment of the dots varies - occasionally, you would see the 1 assigned to the Bb that is below the range of the erhu, in which case, you would see many notes with dots on top. This video shows the most common way that Bb is notated in jianpu for the erhu.
@@pattychan5683 So if in all key scales the tuning of the open strings D and A stay the same, but the position of the 1 changes (for instance G scale G=1) so that we have semitones in different parts because the 3-4 and 7-i positions change in each scale. That means that the only thing that changes from scale to scale is minor adjustments to the finger positionings because we have semitones in different parts of each string.
@@johnskender9477 Correct!