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Here's a variation on the first chord etude. Notice the different voicings used here to give the harmony some different motion.

Chinese translation for Chinese students

學敘事曲（Ballad）的第一件事，是學會弦律（Melody）

如果只打旋律，你聽不到聲音（心中沒有曲子的聲音），你就要去聽這首曲子聽CD。

重點是”演奏旋律”，然後心中想像著和聲進行的聲響。


一定要先去聽這首曲子，確定你記得了旋律，知道和聲聲響。再來到樂器前面演奏。

你也可以左手演奏Bass，幫助自己聽到曲子的和聲進行。

didn't i give you a bunch of things to work on? i don't see them.

friedman dampening and pedaling.

and lets do this. pick a tune that you know really well. memorized. play it for a few days and then let's do a skype lesson and talk about the tune. i'll show you how i think of the harmony.

cool? get the friedman book.

This is the A Section. Put in the chords and master this. Also do it in Eb.

I always tell my students to transcribe Cliffords solo, especially the first 2 or 3 solos. It's a masterpiece!

chinese translation is for Chinese students
講到intro，其實有千千萬萬種不同的方式，除了之前介紹到的降五音intro，
這邊又多了另一種intro的idea。
我們可以稱這個intro為I - IV。
因為是不斷反覆在一級和四級和弦中，並且導入到第一個和弦的方式。

在PDF中的第一個intro就是單傳的反覆在一級大和弦（Major chord）和四級大和弦中，
最後接到ii - V - I。

第二個intro是反覆在一級Major chord和五級sus4中，最後也是接到ii - V - I。

I was trying a mountable overhead camera. On my head. Maybe too jittery. I should mount it back on the ceiling.