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