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 if sufficient players, David
-- Bonenkai
- what it means to study taiko
-- fun of physical / mental challenge
-- fun of making music together
- introductions (name, experience, weird)
- "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu"
Starting point video - Renshu-esque copycat
Course goals
- medium, large, small strikes
- grip
- stance
- learn and perform LATI Renshu in PEAC Week
- love taiko, get to know one another
(Ancillary goals)
- intro to kuchishoga: "do", "da", "go", "ga"
- counting
- listening to "togetherness"
- intro to notation
Today's goal: grip, stance, line A
Final announcements
- 15-min post-class practice, today, cleaning
- homework
-- supported, not required
-- ways to practice at home: tire, no-taiko-required exercises
- class pages at taiko.la