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