Course:
Date:
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 20:00 to 21:45
Room:
Large Classroom
Student should bring:
nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs
Class syllabus:
Welcome
- space overview
-- LATI / ATUS
-- lights, air, whiteboard, music stands
- instrument use
-- bachi
-- setting up drums
- class structure
- "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu"
Starting point video
Course goals
- understand the beauty of the basic strike
- be able to play with the metronome
- be able to play confident oroshi as group
- quarter, eighth-note serial sticking
- kuchishoga: "do, go, tsu, ku, da, ga, su, n"
- notation basics
- loud v soft
- do vs da
- Beta Essentials LATIdama
Today's goals
- grip, elbow bend
- oroshi overview
- med-tempo "dogo dogo"
Final announcements
- class pages at taiko.la
- 15-min post-class practice
Teacher(s):
Kris Bergstrom
Attendance:
Carol Fukuchi
Mary Letendre
Eric Lai
Sharon Hayashi
Ritsuko Inoue