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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): Archived
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. This blog is no longer active. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Just trying to live a good life and not miss anything along the way. View my complete profile. Tone Drills (with tuner). Flex Drills (head movement and meri). Rhythm Drills (clapping and note names). Scales and special notes. Songs I am working on. Right now I am playing through everything I have.
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): September 2012
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just trying to live a good life and not miss anything along the way. View my complete profile. Tone Drills (with tuner). Flex Drills (head movement and meri). Rhythm Drills (clapping and note names). Scales and special notes. Songs I am working on. Right now I am playing through everything I have. Chikuzen Studios (Michael Gould).
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): June 2015
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. This blog is no longer active. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just trying to live a good life and not miss anything along the way. View my complete profile. Tone Drills (with tuner). Flex Drills (head movement and meri). Rhythm Drills (clapping and note names). Scales and special notes. Songs I am working on. Right now I am playing through everything I have. PVC Shakuhachi (how to).
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): May 2011
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Monday, May 23, 2011. I know I have to practice more, but things are going well. I am starting to use meri notes with both shading and half holing in more and more songs. I am able to most of the tings he has me try, but I can sense that it would be even more productive if I had a lesson in person. (someday). Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Lessons of late have focussed on stability and range. Michael has been...
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): August 2011
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Tuesday, August 9, 2011. I just got back from a month-long residency at Zen Mountain Monastery. I did not have a lot of time to practice, but I did manage to spend some time in art practice doing some composition. Over the next couple of weeks, I intend to record the two pieces that I wrote. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Just trying to live a good life and not miss anything along the way. Songs I am working on.
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): Hinomaru
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Thursday, February 17, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Just trying to live a good life and not miss anything along the way. View my complete profile. Tone Drills (with tuner). Flex Drills (head movement and meri). Rhythm Drills (clapping and note names). Scales and special notes. Songs I am working on. Right now I am playing through everything I have. Chikuzen Studios (Michael Gould).
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): February 2011
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Thursday, February 17, 2011. Friday, February 11, 2011. Although I try to limit my blogging to expressions of my direct experience, the knowledge of the topic is a huge factor. I am considerably less confident in my writing of this blog than I am when I publish AikiEssays. Why this particular rant? Now that I am working with a teacher, I am taking great enjoyment in being at the beginning of this thing.
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): December 2011
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Saturday, December 10, 2011. I'll be honest; it has been some time since I practiced regularly. My last regular lesson with Michael was in June, and after I got back from the monastery, I wasn't playing that much. I did play shakuhachi as part of the Zen Arts Ensemble with theToledo Zen Center in October. We performed at the Toledo Museum of Art and it was beautiful. We are just finishing our recovery from ...
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): April 2011
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Sunday, April 24, 2011. I made this one cool find a little while ago and I thought I'd share it. I like to play while standing a lot of the time, but I didn't like having a music stand out in the living room, nor was I fond of setting it up each time I wanted to play from a score. Friday, April 22, 2011. The best beginner points that I had reinforced in this lesson are. 1 Learning to follow the rhythm marks...
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog): Still Here
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Five Holes (a shakuhachi blog). The trials, tribulations and bamboo-ee efforts of a novice player. Monday, October 10, 2011. For those who may have been checking in, I am still here. From August to mid October has been very challenging and I have been playing very little. (and hardly practicing at all). I am not done, nor giving up. Energies have just been redirected lately. I will be returning to lessons with Michael Gould shortly, and still plan to record my compositions from the summer. I had another ...
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