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Date: 
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 20:00 to 21:45
Room: 
Small Classroom
Student should bring: 

nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs

Class syllabus: 

Welcome
- space overview
-- LATI as guests at ATUS
-- parking, late arrival, peg
-- lights, air, whiteboard, music stands
- instrument use
-- bachi
-- setting up drums
-- mutes
- course structure
-- 741 if sufficient players, David
-- Bonenkai
- what it means to study taiko
-- fun of physical / mental challenge
-- fun of making music together
- introductions (name, experience, weird)
- "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu"

Starting point video - Renshu-esque copycat

Course goals
- medium, large, small strikes
- grip
- stance
- learn and perform LATI Renshu in PEAC Week
- love taiko, get to know one another

(Ancillary goals)
- intro to kuchishoga: "do", "da", "go", "ga"
- counting
- listening to "togetherness"
- intro to notation

Today's goal: grip, stance, line A

Final announcements
- 15-min post-class practice, today, cleaning
- homework
-- supported, not required
-- ways to practice at home: tire, no-taiko-required exercises
- class pages at taiko.la

Teacher(s): 
Kris Bergstrom
Attendance: 
Nancy Morishita
Naiwei Hsu

Classes in this Course

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Tue, November 03, 2015 01
Tue, November 10, 2015 02
Tue, November 17, 2015 03
Tue, November 24, 2015 04
Tue, December 01, 2015 05
Tue, December 08, 2015 06
Tue, December 15, 2015 07
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