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Check-in question: Do you speak any other languages besides English? Did you study any languages or want to?
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!
We did some greeting/kiai practice keeping in mind the vowel pronunciations that we worked on last week. Generally speaking it means “please help me” or “I put myself in your hands.” But there are a lot of uses for this term, which I have referred to as the “magic phrase!”
If you want to dig deeper into it’s meaning, I found this Japanese language resource.
Isolation Drill
Here is a recording of the Isolation Drill that Franco led us through that I made early during SIP. A reminder that you can use the little flower/wheel on the bottom right to speed up or slow down the tempo.
DoRo tsuku (loud-loud-soft-soft)
DoRo tsuku practice is always great “taiko vegetables” for building up technique, use of hara and evenness between right and left. Last year we wrote this song during PRC. The square on the top right is playing DoRo tsuku the entire time so it’s great practice if you want to follow along. I boosted the volume on that square.
Happy Practicing!
REMINDERS:
Payment for classes should be made here: https://www.paypal.me/sanjosetaiko OR by check made out to San Jose Taiko, 565 N. 5th Street, San Jose CA 95112 (please mark the check PRC). The fee is $10 drop-in or $36/month. Please mark on your payment what dates the payment is for. This will help greatly in reconciling payments.
Bachi can be purchased to be mailed for $10 a pair.
Our friends in southern California are also running a taiko class for Parkinson’s called “Rhythmic Flow Taiko” on Sundays. Please check their website for more info.
Join the San Jose Taiko Parkinson’s Recreational Class Facebook page to share info/resources.
At any time, feel free to email yurika@taiko.org for questions!