Sakura, Sakura (Japanese Folk Song) – Hoa anh đào

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Tablature in different styles here.

Japanese Tuning: compared to Standard one

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Level 1: Main Melody
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◆ Practice Video for Phrase 1+2
(looped many times so you can play along)
Practice Video for Phrase 4
(looped 4 times so you can play along)
Practice Video for Phrase 3
(looped 4 times so you can play along)
Practice Video for Phrase 9
(looped 4 times so you can play along)

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Level 2: Main Melody and Á (glissando)
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Whole song

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Level 3: Main Melody and song thanh chập
(harmonic intervals)
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◆ Practice Video for Phrase 1+2
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 3
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 4
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 9

Whole song

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Level 4: Main Melody, song thanh chập
(harmonic intervals) and Á (glissandos)
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◆ Practice Video for Phrase 1+2
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 3
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 4
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 9

Whole song

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Level 5: Main Melody, song thanh rời
(melodic intervals with stationary supporting notes)

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Whole song

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Level 6: Left hand with three-note blocked chords
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◆ Practice Video for Phrase 1+2
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 3
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 4
◆ Practice Video for Phrase 9

Whole song

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Level 7:
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Level 8:
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Level 9: Prep Step
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Whole song

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Level 9: in alternating hands
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Whole song

☐ Re-tune your đàn tranh to the Japanese scale for Sakura.unchecked
☐ Share the new tuning in the classroom’s padletunchecked
☐ Practice Sakura at your comfort level (alone or with the Practice Videos)
  Recommend trying Level 6 with 3 notes or reduce it to 1 or 2 notes, just to get the 
  sense of the rhythm. Left-hand chords come in after the main melodic syllables
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☐ Share your Sakura in the classroom’s padlet.

Published by Yes We Can Music

Yes We Can Music LLC is a modern music teaching institution. It combines teaching with research and technologies to approach the most precise description and execution of music pieces without the tempered staff and notes but referenced its knowledge base. Currently, it attempts to teach Vietnamese music on đàn tranh, a 17-string zither, in a new approach, the physical make up of the instruments, the capacity of the Vietnamese pentatonic scales, the playing, the traditional Vietnamese styles lòng bản and normal hoa lá cành. The research branch uses multi-disciplinary approach of culture, linguistics and musicology. In the Vietnamese case, culture means folk poetry and folk music. This requires meticulous research in each song from online performances, the song is analyzed with music spectrograms for precise transcription into a 17-string tablature which describes how to perform each note. A song is shown to students with original recording, the story behind, the range and scale on a circle of fifths and chromatics, of the tablature.

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