01

Date: 
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 20:00 to 21:45
Room: 
Small Classroom
Student should bring: 

tsukeshime bachi (usually smaller diameter, softer "hou" wood)
earplugs

Class syllabus: 

Welcome
- space overview
-- LATI as guests at ATUS
-- parking, early arrival, peg
-- lights, air, whiteboard, music stands
- instrument use
-- bachi: ho, smooth tips, taped
-- setting up drums
- course structure
- introductions (name, experience, weird)
- "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu"

starting point video: Small Drum Essentials eval
- Copycat
-- ten tsuku ten tsuku ten ten ten
-- tsuku teke tsuku tsuku ten tsuku ten ten
-- .... ..ten ..ken ten teke tsuku
-- ..ten keten ten .... ..teke
- Jiuchi and counting
-- ten tsuku - 3221
-- ten tsukutsu ten - 3122
- Long phrase
-- tsuku teke tsuku ten ..ke ke ke teke tsuku tsuku tsu Dtsu Dtsu Dtsu Dteke tsu ke

Course goals
- grip and strike
- simple patterns: depth through breadth
- love jiuchi, love one another

today's goals: philosophy of grip and three strikes
- relaxation is first priority
- full strike - front view on flat surface
- stance(s)

16's Drill

practice time

cleanup

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)

Teacher(s): 
Kris Bergstrom

Classes in this Course

Date Title
Wed, August 13, 2014 01
Wed, August 20, 2014 02
Wed, August 27, 2014 03
Wed, September 03, 2014 04
Wed, September 10, 2014 05
Wed, September 17, 2014 06
Wed, September 24, 2014 07