Well.

After a two week break, between sessions, taiko started back up again tonight. I arrived as Sean-sensei and Shannon-sensei were moving drums around while a very pretty young Japanese woman stood watching. Turns out she's a visiting friend. Shannon-sensei introduced me as one of his "good" students, which was quite gratifying.

We plowed through "Shinkyoku" a couple of times. I felt like I'd been trying to play with crowbars in each hand - amazing what a couple weeks off does to my forearms, and we won't even talk about my pitiful excuse for hand speed. Then we worked on "Jisshin" so folks could rotate around on o-daiko solos. That's when Shannon-sensei told me I was their most improved student.

I wasn't doing anything special tonight. I felt out of shape and sloppy. But I'm the most improved. This week, at least. ;-D