02

Date: 
Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 10:00 to 11:45
Room: 
Large Classroom
Student should bring: 

tsukeshime bachi (usually smaller diameter, softer "hou" wood)
nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs

Class syllabus: 

Today's goals
- small drum starting point vid
- first split practice

[10] warmup: small-drum copycat, 2-count length
[one row of 11 drums in a tight line to allow multi-drum on neighbor's, use "rotate" cue]
[watch for particularly strong and weak players for order of upcoming video]
- serial sticking: Yuta
- loud v soft: Eric
- sparse hits (within "1 e a u 2 e a u"): Blaine
- multi-drum: Young

[20] small drum starting point video
- explain the starting point video
-- "ten tsuku tsu ken" jiuchi (from the 5 structure) at max confident speed
-- Yuta will play cue on nagado twice, slowing down second time, jiuchi player tries to follow
- give 60 seconds of "ignoring others" practice for individuals to determine their speed
[pull one shime forward, set one nagado on naname, set camera]
- start recording, pick the stronger players first, and have each member play the jiuchi 5-10 seconds before joining them with the cue

[10] structure of the day: The 5
- talk through the structure looking at the score
- demonstrate the structure (Yuta v Janelle, Andrew shime, Stacey cymbal)
- mention that we'll need a few volunteers at end of class

[40] split practice: cue focus

Yuta leads Soloists cue practice
[set nagado to naname]
- cue 16x all together
- explain sticking options
--- standard: RLRL R L x3, R RLR L
--- R-focus otsuri: RLRL R L x3, R RLR R
--- hardcore serial sticking: RLRL R R x3, R RLR R
- cue 16x all together (or 8x2x if not every member has a drum)
- provide individual feedback where necessary
- cue 4x4x, each set a little faster
- demonstrate the slow down "kill it"
- cue and kill it 4x4x, each set the slow down gets more dramatic
- cue-> half time practice

Andrew and Stacey lead Rock Solids cue practice
[one nagado on naname, remaining members on shime, okedo]
- demonstrate cue and kill it on nagado (Andrew), with shime following (Stacey, 5 jiuchi)
- nagado guides everyone through cue and kill it 4x
- notate the jiuchi and the cue on the board to show the relationship between the parts and reveal the "lonely L" of the nagado cue pattern
- play cue and jiuchi together very slowly for 60 seconds to hear the relationship
- explain importance of watching the soloists' right hand
- nagado guides everyone through cue and kill it 4x
- game: one member plays cue on nagado without announcing the tempo first, others on jiuchi have to catch the tempo (by listening closely to the "lonely L" and watching that R hand)
- nagado guides everyone through cue and kill it 4x, gradually making the slowdown more dramatic
- pick others to play nagado cue 4x if time remains

[10] individual kill it and half time switch practice
-Establish tempo, cue->kill
-Establish tempo, cue->half time switch

[10] 5 battle
[in small room to simplify equipment?]
- soloists can ONLY use M1-4, dynamics appreciated
- pick 2 volunteers, run the structure
- discuss how it went, answer questions
- pick 2 more volunteers if time allows

[3] clean, final announcements, close

Teacher(s): 
Kris Bergstrom
Attendance: 
Ben Hirose
Doreen Haramoto
Eric Lai
Hiro Ogikubo
Janelle You
Kazu Shirai
Michael Hirota
Reid Taguchi
Sharon Ishida
Stacey Nakasone
Takumi Azama
Yuta Kato
Wendy Dwyer
Young Kang

Classes in this Course

Date Title
Sun, February 08, 2015 01
Sun, February 15, 2015 02
Sun, February 22, 2015 03
Sun, March 01, 2015 04
Sun, March 08, 2015 05
Sun, March 15, 2015 06
Sun, March 22, 2015 07
Sun, March 29, 2015 08
Sun, April 05, 2015 09
Sun, April 12, 2015 10
Sun, April 19, 2015 11
Sun, April 26, 2015 12
Sun, May 03, 2015 13
Sun, May 10, 2015 14
Sun, May 17, 2015 15
Sun, May 24, 2015 Wkshp: Asalato
Sun, May 24, 2015 16
Sun, May 31, 2015 17
Sun, June 07, 2015 18
Sun, June 14, 2015 NO PRACTICE
Sun, June 21, 2015 19
Sun, June 28, 2015 20
Sun, July 05, 2015 21
Sun, July 12, 2015 22
Sun, July 19, 2015 23
Sun, July 26, 2015 24
Sun, August 02, 2015 25
Sun, August 09, 2015 26
Sun, August 16, 2015 27
Sun, August 23, 2015 28
Sun, August 30, 2015 29
Sun, September 06, 2015 30
Sun, September 13, 2015 31
Sun, September 20, 2015 32
Sun, October 18, 2015 CicLAvia O-Ji debut
Sun, October 25, 2015 34
Sat, December 19, 2015 Possible gig
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