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Friedman Pedaling and Dampening Etude #24

Building on the previous etude, this new version expands the lines and incorporates additional chord adjustments to deepen the harmonic exploration in 3/4. By introducing extra melodic lines and refining the chord changes, this etude offers a richer harmonic texture while staying within a straightforward 3/4 groove. It challenges the player to navigate slightly more complex progressions, encouraging a deeper understanding of how to shape melodic ideas within the time signature.

Friedamn 13 Faster

One of my students has been working on "Footprints" and wanted to explore playing in 3/4 time. To help, I put together a simple etude focused on adapting familiar patterns to fit 3/4. What I like about this approach is that it lets you apply a straightforward line throughout the tune, and it flows well in 3/4. There are a few places where I adjusted the line slightly to better match the chords. Also, keep in mind that these changes are a bit simpler than the original ones, but they’re still widely used by many players—dating back to an old real book version!

Friedman Pedaling Etudes 18 and 20

#20: https://youtu.be/9W0P1NSWCec?si=5ap9S8UFRcHz5P9v

Thanks Glenn For Sending it! 

this is an amazing video for a lot of us. Do this stuff! 

Workshop Recap - Harmonization Exercise Pt. 5 by Behn Gillece

Friedman 13

This is to accompany the etude I posted. But I'll also include the etude here as well. 

Like Someone In Love is a great tune to study. Harmonically it does so many things.

For example the first two bars is a 1 to a 6, however, it sticks a dom 3 before the 6 and it sounds cool. I'll do a video on this and talk about cll the cool things. 

I played it on the MalletKat so listen to the audio for pedaling. It's pretty straight forward with pedaling.