nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs
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, Jason
-- June 2 performance
- introductions (name, experience, weird)
- "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu"
demo
Course goals
- master R p/a, L e/u
- learn and perform Tally Ho
- love taiko, get to know one another
(Ancillary goals)
- intro to kuchishoga: "do", "da", "go", "ga"
- counting
- listening to "togetherness"
- intro to notation
- R grip
Today's goal: R
R hand - 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
- counting precisely
- accenting 1
- long-distance
- 1eau Drill 1's section
pulse challenge
Final announcements
- homework
-- supported, not required
-- ways to practice at home: tire, no-taiko-required exercises
- class pages at taiko.la
- 15-min post-class practice, today, cleaning (quadrant 3)