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Date: 
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 13:00 to 14:00
Student should bring: 

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

Class syllabus: 

prep
- on board
- "Yoroshiku..."
- "bachi sanding", bachi tip drawing
- "taiko strap height"
- "kamaete = get ready!"
- "oroshi"
- "break: other shoulder"
- "kuchishoga"
-- (three rhythms)

Welcome
- "yoroshiku onegai shimasu"
- bachi sanding
- okedo height (nametags on straps?)

kamaete
- picking up okedo
- how to hold bachi

oroshi review
- ichi ni so re
- oroshi
- future
-- triple oroshi

kuchishoga
-- don don dogodon
-- tsu tsu tsu tsu
-- su da du da

counting
- counting precisely
- 1eau 1's section

future
- second bachi, "jiuchi"
- "jiuchi" team plus "kuchishoga" team
- groove add-in (do, dogaga, dogaga-chi)

performance goal
- oroshi: power of playing together
- kuchishoga: how we learn
-- "don, don, dogodon"
-- "tsu tsu tsu tsu"
-- "su ga su ga"
- interconnected rhythms
-- do ga ga su chi su su su (on okedo, all/1)
-- don don dogodon (on cue w/ "1" finger, all or half)
-- su n gan su n gan su n gan su n gan (on cue w/ "2" fingers)
-- ki-chi-ki-chan ki-chi-chan chan chi-chan (kane)
-- teketeke and solo (shime) ?
-- fue ?
- arrangment
-- managing expectations
-- increasing tonal richness
- parade build: 4 counts of 8 hits crescendo (and/or adding drums), out for 7, loud ka on 8, back to groove

Teacher(s): 
Kris Bergstrom

Classes in this Course

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Fri, September 23, 2016 02 KB
Fri, September 30, 2016 03 YK
Fri, October 07, 2016 04 YK
Fri, October 14, 2016 05 YK
Fri, October 21, 2016 06 YK
Fri, October 28, 2016 07 KB
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