"Horse Race" on Chinese Fiddle

[heyhonobodyhome]

1:18 sounds EXACTLY like a horse

[S0uluser6]

@heyhonobodyhome we know

[Quadregus]

Beautifull, I like traditional chinese music.

[alexprobus1]

Superb! I like and like it much!

[DevonWalters1]

I Loveeeee that song!!

[SoulSavior]

1:17 is the best part! :D

[8Zeitgeist]

is his lastname pronounced "ZY-CHIN"?

[AndromedaAiken]

@8Zeitgeist "See churn (without the 'r' sound)"

[8Zeitgeist]

@AndromedaAiken interesting ty

[Trokolol]

after 2 years i still not able to do that horse sound ._.

[LastTaboo]

Holy shit. Best interpretation EVER! I suppose he's using horse hair bow, eh...

[dragon20202020]

beautifull

[dcsolazy]

Chinese Fiddle or chinese violin or erhu(chinese prounounce of this instrument )

[Indifeso]

you can actually here the horse at the end of the piece! nice! Does anyone kow the name of this instrument?

[GiganMan04]

it is the Erhu

[devilhunterred]

I can't comprehend how can one play such a rich piece of music with using just 2 strings............

[BardofCornwall]

Pretty amazing--only two strings! Thanks for posting.

[highflyinreed]

who said anything about amateur, every bit of this guy's playing radiates master. He made a two stringed instrument sound like a damn horse. Awesome. You can see the horses galloping as onlookers place bets and chatter under desert sky.

[KRISHNARAJIYENGAR]

very good technique and intelligent playing! dont think he is a complete ameture. good control!

[KRISHNARAJIYENGAR]

what are the strings and bow made of? very impressive sound and playing. how much does it cost and where?

[OrsinoDuke]

not bad for an amateur

[visvimmmj]

... even for amateur, it's nothing ...

[MattTheSinger1]

Now that's talent o_o

[saranharigurung]

i have also done this piece in guitar it sound good

[kianhui89]

lmfaooooOo!!!!@1:17 XD!!!!!!!!!!

[WeLayDying]

lmfaooooOo!!!!@1:17 XD!!!!!!!!!!

[WeLayDying]

lmfao@ 1:19!!! XD!!!!!!!!!

[sifurick]

O....M...G...wow do yourself a favor and look it up...

[davidleonard07]

i love the sound of this instrument, very unique

[paulovictor182]

China Power. I want buy the bamboo flutes of China. Anybody helps me?

[theavengerseries]

if you think this isbad, wait till you see me.

i play with dots marked out on my erhu but i stll go off tune alot--

[ahsusmus]

@ 0.33 second...he played an extra set hahahah

and his motion is sooo awkward!

[IchigoDancerNyan]

He was gettin into it =D

[sinatraandaerosmith]

Groovy

[chinchillalove145]

i play the yang qin...but i love the erhu.

[fobbyrice]

he played very off tune. and kind of stressed a little. did he know that he was kind of off?

[Elaneban]

Erm it's a chinese tuning system not like the western your ears are used to any music from other than the west would sound "out of tune" because they use microtones. This is the same with any indian classical music

[fobbyrice]

ummm. what? things like pitch are important for erhu. the reason why there are pros, are because they can play the exact note indiacted on the music. playing a sharp or flat is not considered being good. i play erhu, and the chinese tuning system, if you're talking about jianpu, for this song is F key. strings are D A. his strings are in tune. but his playing involves flats and sharps.

[ddm8053]

fobbyrice. Just because you have sharps and flats does not mean you cannot play mircotones. What kind of musician are you?

[Aeelxu]

lol DDm8053 yur right and I agree with you! Fobbyrice stfu!

[Gonnakillyou]

@Elaneban "Western music" uses microtones too... they just don't usually use a microtonal pitch space.

[Chichiri520]

@Elaneban

Exactly! It's also due to perfect pitch that Westerners are accustomed to.

That's what happens when you arent exposed to music outside of your familiarity :)

[StewieSwan]

@Chichiri520 No, it's out of tune. The song is based on a simple pentatonic scale. No microtones.  Furthermore, it was composed in 1964, long after the introduction of 'western' tonality in China.

[Chichiri520]

@StewieSwan

It may sound "out of tune to you" but not to us who are accustomed to hearing this music. Please take your mind from your Western mentality for a while and just appreciate the other musics of the world :D Youre probably not used to hearing this kind of music so naturally, you say it's out of tune and because it's not of your your culture. Sorry, but the rest of the world does not go by your "standard" Western musical being.

[StewieSwan]

@Chichiri520 I'm an avid listener of asian music (chinese, mongolian, south asian, japanese, persian, indian) and I'm well-aware of microtonal music and how it is supposed to sound. As I said in my first comment, this song was composed well after the introduction of western tonality and it is based in a very simple pentatonic scale. There is only one section of this song with quarter tones, and the guy in this video didn't play it. Also, get off your high horse and don't patronize me.

[cacalacapoo]

yes he was a bit out of tune. evident from his first note.

[xxluvhntrjmprxx]

it's not off. it's chinese, and chinese like that twangy sound.

[DDRSN2]

The Chinese fiddle takes me to the middle of the bamboo forests, where I hear a small waterfall trickling down a rock nearby. I close my eyes, and later open them to find the seasons have changed, and now the leaves have turned green again. The weeping willow swaying over the small bridge caught my attention as I walked over it. I could sense Koi in the pond from the corner of my eye, which gave me an even more relaxed feeling. I can't believe I'm actually writing this on Youtube.

[tubbymaru]

that put's a nice picture in my head but i like it when they have a waterfall a little kind of pond then another waterfall continueing downward.

[xiuxiu94]

lol

[infantileretard]

Ahh the pleasures of opium

[batongbakalpare]

@DDRSN2 gwailo

[chucnguyen]

if he can keep his tempo, it's definately good. i'm viet but i somehow like this music.

[Wannabeevilfairy]

i loved that i don't think your an amataer at all the the rythem of how u played it and ur enthusiasum it was soo cool! i love the chinese fiddle!

[bobsxiaotou]

actually. the pitch was off. the running notes were bad. the rhythm that groove wasnt there. but not bad for an amateur though.

[lhorglhorg]

not bad for an amateur

[daryldkyz]

errr eww....

[Otacon144]

No, it's pronounced "AR-huu." :D

[violinogirl]

ok...thanks for the correction! Ar-huu. But I just said what the chinese guy wrote on the cd I bought him... (Sorry...my English is not perfect too...)

[violinogirl]

I heard this song first aone night walking on the street, In Santiago de Chile. I loved this song... How I would like to play erhu!!!! You play very nice!

[xiuxiu94]

u oso play erhu?XD me play too~

[Linuxica]

Bravo!!