Taiko continues
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gurdymonkeyAnd I continue to struggle with my left hand. Did all right on the drill work on upright drums tonight. We added more lines on "Matsuri Daiko." I'm starting to get that line I was having problems with last week, but it's not natural yet. And of course, they added a couple of more lines.
I am by no means the worst one in my class - that would have to be the woman who missed the very first session and has been floundering to keep up ever since. They made us play bits of drills by ourselves tonight. I at least have got the rhythms mostly in my head now, know how to listen to others as we rotate through a drill so I don't lose my place, and have managed not to get so flustered by playing all alone that I make a complete hash of it. But I'm definitely somewhere in the lower end of the middle of the pack.
Spent the two minute water break pounding on a tilted drum with just my left hand. Nobody else was drumming, so I could actually hear what the strokes sounded like. I think I've figured out how to strike from that angle a little better, but at the same time, it's audibly not as strong as my right.
The last class of this session is June 17. That's only four more. Unless I make a breakthrough next Tuesday, and I see no reason for that to happen, I'm going to re-take the beginner class for the next 9 week session. I am not ready for the intermediate/advanced class.
I am by no means the worst one in my class - that would have to be the woman who missed the very first session and has been floundering to keep up ever since. They made us play bits of drills by ourselves tonight. I at least have got the rhythms mostly in my head now, know how to listen to others as we rotate through a drill so I don't lose my place, and have managed not to get so flustered by playing all alone that I make a complete hash of it. But I'm definitely somewhere in the lower end of the middle of the pack.
Spent the two minute water break pounding on a tilted drum with just my left hand. Nobody else was drumming, so I could actually hear what the strokes sounded like. I think I've figured out how to strike from that angle a little better, but at the same time, it's audibly not as strong as my right.
The last class of this session is June 17. That's only four more. Unless I make a breakthrough next Tuesday, and I see no reason for that to happen, I'm going to re-take the beginner class for the next 9 week session. I am not ready for the intermediate/advanced class.
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Date: 2008-05-21 05:45 am (UTC)Free Lecture and Hands-On Demonstration
Friday May 23, 7:00 PM
Emeryville Taiko
1455 64th st., Emeryville (just off Hollis - the dojo is in a warehouse owned by Sensei Susan Horn)
www.etaiko.org
510-654-6415
(This is at our dojo - we'll be busy this Friday unfortunately, but it's always fun to go to the free E-ville demos and play with the wine-barrel drums there. :) )
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Date: 2008-05-21 05:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-21 05:54 am (UTC)There are enough rude people with drums in the SCA. I am not planning on becoming one of them.
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Date: 2008-05-21 06:04 am (UTC)