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.

Last month at the Vibes Bootcamp, Tony taught me this lick to use in Green Dolphin Street, and it's great in a bunch of other tunes too. I've been practicing it in all 12 keys in a couple styles, so here's all twelve swinging! Next step: Improvise.