Đàn Tranh Demonstration
Tablature




Manhattan Academy of Music & Language
play • learn • research




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. View more posts