You might get bored, just sayin.

I bought a banhu, not that I needed one, but I couldn't help myself hihi. I thought it was the same thing as an erhu so it will be easy to play right away, how wrong was I.

Thicker bow, lower qianjian thing, tighter strings, different weight. It's like trying to play a very insensitive erhu with not enough rosin on, bow faster and harder, and all this while playing what is the equivalent of the higher register or an erhu, tiny tiny spaces, which I totally suck at, but I can't deny how much fun I am having right now. Anyway, back to the erhu now, don't want my teacher to shake her head at me because I didn't practice my assignments. Oh and the great thing is that right after I practice on the banhu, the erhu feels so easier to play.

Watched some of those kids on youtube playing, it used to be a motivation to me, totally did not work today, oh well. I'm going to go watch a movie instead.

I added basic scales and arpeggios into my new daily routine and trying to go back to my healthy 4 to 6 hours of practice a day.  I have been very stagnant for the past few months, just practicing enough to play my weekly assignments and never more. Need to practice everything slowly too.Fun thing, I know all of my bad habits, I just can't seem to change them. Oh well.  I'll try to practice more later tonight but I guess it won't happen with a lau in the way.

- I named my erhu Gigi (avatar picture)

- My musical theory is still very limited even though i've done almost 10 years of piano before... cough cough

- Apparently I sound good for someone who is still new-ish, but I am a perfectionist so I will probably never find that I sound okay unless if I master it completely, give me another 30 years. Just kidding, I probably won't live that long anyway.

- I need to learn to follow the tempo and rhythm

- Maintain good hand position, posture, everything. urgh.

- My technique is very poor, practice more all the fast stuff, or slow stuff, or all stuff to be honest 

- Bowing is getting there, need lots of work, huhu

- Start memorizing stuff so I can have a playing repertoire. Not that I play for people but hey we never know.

- Why am I still awake

- Try to learn Vietnamese music

- Repair the cracks on Gigi

- Actually just work on everything, I am not satisfied with my current skills

- Less tumblr, more practice. As if, as if...

Oh well, this is a tiny résumé of my erhu journey of the past two years, I kinda learn too fast, as in we go through the materials too fast, I just learn them superficially (?) without going deeper into all of the songs. I recently bought 2 new techniques books so hopefully we could focus on those more and less on trying to just learn a piece very fast to forget it after. We = my teacher and I.