Spring on River Qing - YangQin

[ZDrums24]

do you need a particular stick to do that tremolo? Despite my best efforts, I can't get mine to do it.

[Drbolla345]

The Chinese and this instrument fits hand in hand. I can't see any other instrument that compliments the culture completely. Whenever I hear the Yangqin play, all I see is the Chinese landscape, its history and people. feels like it was meant to be.

[cf18]

Amazing.

[aidanchen1]

I play a yang qin and your music inspires me to play this song.

[CommentCandy1]

ok, now, can anyone tell me if the music for the part on Karate Kid with the Cobra trick is coming from a Yang Qin? I love the way it sounds. It's one of my favorite Chinese instruments. It's even making me feel enthusiastic as i type!

[azimuth457]

Amazing! so well played!

[ms0325604]

這首曲子好像都是自己在伴奏自己~

就已經如此優美動聽~

不知是否有人曾使用別種樂器來伴奏這首揚琴曲???

真是好奇ㄚ!

[TheOneToxic]

oh yeah, not one dislike, lets please keep it this way people for this truly amazing music !!!!

[magerpker173]

so that's where perfect world got it from :P

[MyDarkAngel26]

its really nice;thank you for this video:)))

[rbra42]

Who was the composer of this tune?

[rbra42]

Who was the composer of this tune?

[marco21falcon]

wierd question....would it be possible to tune a piano in the same scale as a yangqin?

[elfie1015]

@marco21falcon A piano is the same as a yanqin. The tuning at least. When you play a scale on the yangqin, it's just different notes, like the piano. Does that answer your question? Sorry if it doesn't.

[ThisWickedBullShit]

If i'm am ever asked to state the meaning of the word beauty I would only be able to list pieces to the questioner, the YangQuin being one of them.

[tmick990990]

wow so much respect for anyone who can play one of these things!

[Dacsy]

:):):) I'll happy, when i listen the Yangqin...

[whosaidsoup13]

oh great. now I want one

[celethon]

how is the yangqin set up, like, do the notes get higher right->left? Are they separated by octaves like, one octave between each of the "bridges"?

[elfie1015]

@celethon The yanqin's notes get higher as it moves upward, and right-->left. The bridges are not the octaves, they just keep the note the same. Most scales use 2 bridges.

[Redbaron011]

Incredible.

[aaronyeager83]

That is so amazing.

[gitarmats]

Really cool instrument!

[drownedinsect]

SO COOL!...but not as good as me (joke)

[ujmi]

beautiful :)

[eelfie]

there's a specific way to hold the sticks, that's how you can play with one hand.

[limsj6]

what is the technique to do a tremolo on one hand?

[electronixtar]

It's called 颤竹。Literally means tremolo bamboo sticks.

[wfriedson]

a wise musician once told me that our heart and mind hear the notes, but our soul hears the spaces between the notes. In your wonderful playing, the notes and silence are both music. Thank you for this wonderful music. i play celtic hammered dulcimer, and your playing inspires me beyond words. thank you.

[CaptainDiscount]

A wise musician once told me that my farts were messages from Elvis

[ledzeppelin27]

that guy just blew me away

give THAT man a ci-gar

[tonberry97m]

i would like one

[basti4ever]

thats just awesome...

what a speed an precision, just wow! And the instrument itself sounds beautiful too

[msoulja]

Love this

[ladynekoami]

the Qin is a very beautiful instrument I only hope that my pale hands can touch one or even play one

[mobydick187]

:p it's just a stringed instrument. Not as if it fell from the heavens

[ladynekoami]

wow you obviously havent studied your history. Look up what it was for then maybe you'd appriciate and be moved like I was for what it truly is.

[kammo]

a stringed instrument?

[OnlySinner]

wow,thats just beautiful.

[cumulustree]

great