nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs
Opening:
- Alignment, Balance, Fluidity
- name, pronouns
- "name one texture that brings you joy"
-- smooth quartz countertop
-- breaded fried fish (bread crumbs, not battered)
-- flurry stuff animal
-- mochi made with fresh sweet rice
-- masago / corn (slight resistant and a lot of it)
-- iced coffee boba
-- trader joe's non-dairy coffee boba ice cream
-- really fine sand
-- crunchy carrots
-- wispy clouds (being there & not being there - dissipating in the sky)
Warmup
- full body warmup
Alignment and Drumrolls
- apply the same concept of feeling the air/ki through your spine to build upper body awareness
- to feel the alignment of shoulder, arms, and lower body
- to feel the space around our body
Alignment of the left wrist and left elbow
- alternate between left and right
- imagine cutting the cup cake (the bachi as the knife) - no back hand because we don't want to smash the cake
Stance
- finding ease and flow in your body with the way you stand
- feel the body weight towards the ground, not toward the drum
- headlights: balance between the hip joints, no twisting of the torso
- belly button and extend forward - notice the relaxation of the arms/elbows/shoulders
light saber exercise
- purpose: posture awareness and extension towards the right side
- notice the elbow joint has to relax / let the elbow drop
- applying different texture
-- honey (standing on a pool of honey)
-- mochi
-- iced coffee boba (shooting upwards / gliding)
Learning the patterns (see image)
- applying different texture
- notice how the imagination of texture affect the way we move and the sound we create
