Suggested Exercises for Đàn Tranh

Index – Thumb Alternate Warmup

Index and Thumb are used in 80% of the Đàn Tranh’s playing. This exercise focuses on the alternate of these two fingers in groups of 2 and 4.

Index – Thumb Evenness Warmup

This is similar to the previous one, but focus on the evenness of thumb and index fingers. Thus the group of 3 notes allows equal distribution of work on index and thumb.

Middle Finger – Index – Thumb Going Up & Down