"Kangding Qingge" (康定情歌) or "Kangding Love Song", is a traditional folk song of Kangding, Sichuan Province. The song is one of the most popular songs across the Sinosphere.

Kangding in 2004
In 1946, while studying vocal music in Sikang Province, the Quanzhou native Wu Wenji had collected the song Paoma Liuliude Shanshang (On the Running Horse Mountain) amongst other local folk songs. While teaching at a Kuomintang military academy, Wu scored and renamed the song as Kangding Love Song, after the capital of the Sikang Province. The song was then spread to the rest of China after being performed by then popular Soprano Yu Yixuan.


Some tips for practicing:
Learn the melody at both the slow and fast tempo. Don't forget you can slow down and speed up the video too!
Play the melody along with the jam track. Can you keep the melody going when Eimear's part drops out?
Try to play the chords. Experiment with using different rhythms. There are a lot of chords in this song and a bunch of ways to play them. Attempt to play them in your lower register, using only the D and G strings, or only the G and C.
Improvise over the jam track. If you're new to improvisation, start by embellishing and altering the melody.

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