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Date: 
Sunday, May 15, 2016 - 10:00 to 11:45
Room: 
Small Classroom
Student should bring: 

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

Class syllabus: 

prep
- 1eau Drill on board

welcome
- personal updates
- thoughts on BBBQ
- thoughts on Patience Duet

course overview
- procedure
-- learn an original Patience Duet rhythm
-- decipher the "development"
-- practice the building blocks used in that development
-- improvise new developments
- why
-- specific hits are not critical and can be distracting
-- "imagining" subtly informs the development
-- eventually, reacting to and being inspired by each other

1-4 (quarters -> eighths): over O.G.
- copycat
-- 1
--- emphasize L
--- reveal slow vs fast strikes
-- 2
--- emphasize last L
--- "individualize" strikes in last R L
-- 3
-- 4
-- then combine

generalizing quarters

- two options: hitting, not hitting
-- 1eau Drill (each line once?)
-- in reverse?

- being patient
-- what to do when waiting?
--- feel the beat and take confidence in the value of the silence
--- taking turns: don 2 3 4 1 2 3 don

- imagination
-- taking turns: don 2 3 4 [imagined]

- hearing a development in quarter notes
-- feeling the tension build to the "1"
-- all/1: sparse to full (don 2 3 4 don 2 don don)
-- all/1: full to sparse (don don don 4 don 2 3 don)
-- all/1: upbeat to downbeat (1 don 2 don don 2 don don)
-- all/1: downbeat to upbeat (don 2 don 4 1 don 3 don)

improvisation
- sparse -> full, next person full -> sparse
- repeat for each development option

whole section
- quarters -> eighths -> a few sixteenths

choreo break: lines 17-18
- with music

whole section with resets of tracks, so each pair is starting fresh

next time
future:

choreo break: slow spins
- with music

generalizing eighths
- pairs of hits
- just L (upbeats)
- slight crescendo
- leading to 1

generalizing sixteenths
- pairs up upbeats (su dogo)
- leading to 1

Teacher(s): 
Kris Bergstrom
Attendance: 
Lee Stone
Doreen Haramoto
Julia Asano
Kendra Nitta
Sharon Ishida

Classes in this Course

Date Title
Sun, May 15, 2016 01
Sun, May 22, 2016 02
Sun, May 29, 2016 03
Sun, June 12, 2016 04
Sun, June 19, 2016 05
Sun, June 26, 2016 06
Sun, July 03, 2016 07
Sun, July 10, 2016 08 - coach
Sun, July 17, 2016 09 - coach
Sun, July 24, 2016 10 - coach
Sun, July 31, 2016 11 - coach
Sun, August 07, 2016 12 - PEAC
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