Dear Sum,

We are all glad to share your experience in this forum.

When I first met your Mercury with K K WONG, Jim ,廖淑芬 and you in 1982 (maybe I am the first one to state "Jim" here) . I thought that how long time I can come to your standard, it's just a dream, or it will never come true.

You must remember me, the one-guitar accompanying a female folk singer, 趙淑芬 of 秋蟬, this group had been sharing some short but unforgetable days with music. It had been of six members with 2 female voices, 1 flute and 3 guitars, normally the fultist and I were staying resident in the group. We had a happy and enjoyable period with full voices and rich accompanying at that time. It's a pity that we lost her - one of the female singers passed away in 1996, 秋蟬不再鳴了......only several song recorded during practice left behind.

Sum, your words encouarged me, I am short in vocabularies, I just told young learners of guitar how important the scale usage and chord structures are, how to familiarize the finger board and relations of different notes and chords.

To dear young stephenchan1985, take my words：

掃chord好!!!不悶!

"Chord is groups of notes with unique sounds, it brings you different effects in music, so, before you strum a chord, try think of which notes you are playing with or you will get nothing. Boring? no way!"

"When you know the notes to play, you can play most anything"

(the last sentence is extracted from "Do-re-me" in "Sound of Music", I believe, it really works!)

Try hard, enjoy music!

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Qiang

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