02

Date: 
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 20:00 to 21:45
Room: 
Small Classroom
Student should bring: 

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

Class syllabus: 

warmup
- top to bottom stretches
- discussion topic: new years' resolutions?

today's goal: large strike

stance review
- tape

8x2 drill
- once together
- once all students for feedback
- one student alone
next level: correct counting
- counting every right (pulse)
- every other right (pulse, &)
- next: every fourth right (1 e & u)

grip L2
- bounce image
- individual feedback

alternating hits slowly

how to listen - training the ears for sensitivity in tone
- all-one practice
-- evenness of R and L
-- location on drum

playing together: being sensitive to timing
- single hits with count-in (ichi, ni, so-re!)
- falling (with gravity) as base strike
- leading well with ever-so-subtle delay

large strike, elbow bend
- what to feel
-- reach upward
-- patience
--- at end: don't move, listen until sound is gone
--- at beginning: breath out on way up, breath in at top, then go

closing

Teacher(s): 
Kris Bergstrom
Attendance: 
Dina Aubrey
James Yamanoha
Michael Okuda
Nancy Morishita
Naiwei Hsu

Classes in this Course

Date Title
Tue, February 16, 2016 01
Tue, February 23, 2016 02
Tue, March 01, 2016 03
Tue, March 08, 2016 04
Tue, March 15, 2016 05
Tue, March 22, 2016 06
Tue, March 29, 2016 07
Tue, April 05, 2016 08 - coach
Tue, April 12, 2016 09 - coach
Tue, April 19, 2016 10 - coach
Tue, April 26, 2016 11 - coach
Tue, May 03, 2016 12 - PEAC