Spring, when a young person's fancy turns to.....

[gurdymonkey]

1. Making a hell of a racket. It's official. I am registered (and paid) for Taiko For Beginners. Classes start April 15 and it probably won't be ANYTHING like this. In my favor, I can keep a beat and know how to listen to others in an ensemble. Fitness-wise I suspect this is going to kick my ass - two miles a day or not.

2. Making new clothes. The day started with someone squeakingly new on sca-jml. Then I got TWO emails today from people who'd hit my website. One is some high school kid who wants to make her own Heian outfit looking for a nagabakama pattern, the other was a young man involved in Dagohir (LARP) looking for patterns for men's stuff. I referred them to the appropriate places since those are wheels I have not seen fit to reinvent.  Personally, I will probably start work on Mike's squire obi this weekend.

Comments

[apollonia.livejournal.com]

Be prepared to learn aurally rather than visually. Also, your first few lessons might be shorter than expected. They were for my music teacher who studied in Japan.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm a by-ear musician, so I don't expect that to be an issue.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

There is a Taiko club at the University of Tasmania. Every year at the "Clubs and Society's Day" where all of the student organizations have a table to recruit new members they wind up in the same corner as the SCA. They are fabulous, *but* between their rhythmic noise combined with the general hubbub of conversations and the SCA armoured combat, it is difficult to hear the questions of the people interesting in joining up!

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

Taiko class sounds so cool! I wish I could get one closer than downtown Los Angeles...

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

The taiko class sounds fun! Have a great time. :-)

[bovil.livejournal.com]

karisu_sama and didjiman are long-haul taiko students, and they'll be with us on Saturday night. Karisu is the gal I told you about who is now studying at Emeryville.

Horizon Broadening 101

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Kewl! It'll give me something more to say than "Wow, that's the biggest hair I've seen since 1985."

I did have a look at the Emeryville website, but I figured doing this through the adult school (conveniently here in town as opposed to on the other side of the Maze) would be a good way to get my feet wet and see whether I like it enough to do it for more than ten weeks.