Been too long since I have posted in my blog. The Friday morning jam at my home has added a base player to our lead guitar, clarinet and me on the vibes. As a percussion player who is rhythm-challenged, I find playing anything upbeat, or with a latin beat tough to do solo, but having a base man and lead guitar chunking away helps a whole lot. The base doesn't come through well on my Zoom Q2 digital recorder. These clips are from Jan 13, 2017.

Working on a few things and exploring some possibilities using this deep and classic song as the vehicle.

My composition Faraway with Steve Allee-piano, Jeremy Allen-bass and Steve Houghton drums.
Hope you enjoy. Rusty

Chinese translation is for Chinese students
打開PDF你會看到兩種不同的intro方式。
第一種，是適合用在快的曲子之前。
有一個固定低音，然後上面是五級三和弦和弦循著半音下行，

第二種適合用在中版速度的Rhythm Changes
是一個非常像1 - 6 - 2 - 5的聲響，但是用了很多tritone sub，
像是Db和弦代替了原本1 - 6 - 2 - 5中的G7b9
像是Ｂ和弦代替了原本1 - 6 - 2 - 5中的F7b9
然後最後兩個小節，簡單又清楚，用Ｆ這個音做節奏。

因為很多樂手不習慣跟鐵琴合作，不適應鐵琴的聲音，所以Behn說他有時候即使演奏很清楚的和弦進行，仍然有些樂手會Miss掉Cue，因為他們習慣聽鋼琴的聲響，鋼琴有低音。
所以在這種情況下，我們就要讓Cue點更加清楚，有時候演奏簡單又清楚的Cue是件好事。

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。

Hello all!

My name is Victor Burton (unfortunately, no affiliation with Master Gary!). My initial musical formation is classical trumpet in high school. I started classical percussion when I was 16 years old (with 2 professionnal orchestra players as teacher). I'm now 17 years old, and I'm currently studying Latin Percussion at college. I started playing the vibraphone more seriously last summer, when my High School lent me their vibes.