＊Ballads - Energy and Motion
Translation for Chinese students
中文翻譯:

聊聊Ballads （慢速的樂曲），
常常我們在聆聽一個樂團演奏Ballads時，
會覺得速度好慢，似乎有些無聊，
Tony認為那是因為演奏者的演奏意圖、方向感、氛圍不夠明確，
所以這一集我們來嘗試一些練習，
看可以怎麼將慢速的曲子處理得漂亮。

首先，先找一個音，演奏Ballads的速度，
把速度和節奏感表現出來。
從Tony的示範中，
我們可以很清楚的聽到速度是什麼 ;
接著在一個和弦上來即興，並專注在同樣的事情上：保持速度感（Tony示範：GMajor7)。
如果你從來沒有演奏過Ballads，這是一個很棒的練習。

Tony示範了一首Ballad - I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face
他說，有些時候他在練習時，
只練習和弦的進行，把速度感保持好、感受和弦變化的時候的色彩張力，會幫助很大喔！

Is it her face or your face? Politically correct I guess is her.

Did I post this already?

He said play an Ab dominant bebop scale over a Cmin7b5. It's interesting because a C-7b5 looks like a rootless Ab9 chord.

So I thought I'd pass it along here. I'm sure he has covered it in lessons, but I thought I would mention it.

Adapting 3+3+2 to the Balafon

Sometimes we need to step away from our primary instrument to rebuild our awareness from the ground up. I incorporate my Harmonic Time method for all the material I have learned and teach. Here is a general description of the method:

One of my favorite songs - "Young and Foolish". My student and I were working on this for solo vibraphone playing and voicings. Here's a little sample of what we were working on. Fun stuff.

I've been working on solo vibraphone most lately and I had to record this for a competition, so I thought I would post it! Criticism?

While spending way too much time on YouTube this past month, I discovered this tremendous player by accident. Seriously, anyone looking for an entire evening's variety of great bankable material need look no further; if you look through his many online videos, you'll find a lot of variety between actual jazz compositions and standard tunes. This video is of Monk's tune "I Mean You."

"Body & Soul" - the last video of my sabbatical project which was the application of improvisational concepts along with solo vibraphone playing techniques. This was the focus of the break along with the work on two book projects (solo vibraphone playing and dampening/pedaling). It's been a nice break but I'm looking forward to getting back to Berklee for the Spring semester.

This wonderful, quirky tune by Earl Zindars has been a favorite of mine for over 50 years. I used to jam on this tune in the 70's and perform it with bassist Harvie S. Although I'd been playing it off and on I never was satisfied with my solo versions so I started working on it again about 3 days ago and finally, after 2 day of recording it, I came up with a version which I feel is moderately acceptable. It's hard not to try to sound like Bill Evans, who made the tune famous. I think there's quite a bit of me in this take. So, here goes.