"Everything Happens To Me" - a beautiful song written by Tom Adair (lyrics) and Matt Dennis (music). At Berklee this morning squeezing in a little practice time before heading to some presentations for the 5 Week Program. Playing one of the school's Yamaha vibraphone. I like how my Vic Firth mallets (M39) sound on it.

I thought I'd share this because I've gotten a lot from it. It's very helpful getting your mind into the game as a warm up exercise and if you're new to playing tunes in all keys, it's a structured exercise that helps make the relationships and trains the ear. Give it a try. All keys of course.

Chinese Translation is for Chinese students
Wave的intro,我們今天要來研究分析它，並且把這個intro放到不同曲子中當作intro。
這些曲子必須開頭第一個和弦是一級。

intro的和弦進行: I minor7-IV Dominant7
例如：開頭和弦是Bbmajor7, 那這個intro就會是Bbminor7- Eb7 - Bbminor7- Eb7 - Bbminor7- Eb7 - Bbminor7- Eb7

像是Green dolphin street, there is no greater love, days of wine and roses, Misty
在表演的時候多用幾次，
你的耳朵就會記得這個聲音，
你又多一個intro的素材可以用了：）

Play the last 8 bars!

Chinese translation for Chinese students

其實這樣的Intro不只可以用在Days of Ｗine and Roses，最後8小節當作intro的方式，是一種很普遍演奏Intro的方式。
Aminor A7（增加色彩） \ Dminor \Bminor7b5 \Bb7(or E7) \ Aminor7 D7 \Gminor7 C7 \ FMajor7 \C13 or Calt. \

Intro的功能，是讓觀眾聽到曲子的鋪陳，所以盡量明確的給出和弦的性質，
必要的時候，也可以演奏根音，讓觀眾的耳朵先熟悉聲音。
另外intro一定要明確的讓樂團跟到，音樂走向（和弦\節奏）不夠清楚的話，
樂團中其他團員會很困惑，不知道什麼時候要進音樂。
你可以模仿Tony的節奏，或者是聽出他用怎麼樣的Voicing, 或著是她加上了什麼樣的旋律線條在其中。
試著去模仿。

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Hi Guys this month I'll talk about dampening technique.
I will explain how to do scale dampening, mallet to mallet dampening and slide dampening explain some example taken from my tune called Aforisma #8 from my new book: "AFORISMI - 11 etudes for solo vibraphone", published by Musikkforlagene is available on:
http://www.giovanniperin.com/books/

on my youtube channel you can listen to a lot of the etudes that I recorded.
For more info about the book don't esitate to contact me!