Hi everyone,
One Wednesday we had a stay at home and do school work day.We have a lot of those especially when it rains. On Wednesday night me and my family went to Tiako (thai-ko) drumming lessons. It was a beginners class and a free trail to see if we liked it or not. We caught the train there and I think I got a few odd looks (I don't think you usually see a 12-year-old girl riding a train in trackies and a hoodie). We got there half an hour early. We were escorted into a cafeteria type room and we had to sit there until the lesson. In the boring ol' room there was a vending machine that gave out hot dogs, burgers and other things like that. My mum said that must be a salmonella breeding ground (salmonella is what you get if you have some types of food poisoning). The lesson started at 7:30pm and we walked into one of the studios. Because we were the new ones in the class my dad had to write our names on the name tags in Nihongo (knee-ho-n-go, It's Japanese for, um, Japanese). After the instructor made sure that everyone was there he took us into another room where another on of the instructors conducted a stretching session. After that we went back to the studio and the instructor taught us some basic drum patterns then we put them all together. Everyone took turns on the drums and we did this rotation. After a while he introduced another pattern that they had to play on the other side of the drum. It was really fun. At about a quarter to 9 we went into the advanced class and watched them. They were doing the same rhythms as us but a gazillion (yes I know it's not a real number) times better than us. Our instructor joined in and he was hitting so hard that he broke 3 taiko drum sticks and that's hard to do. It was really loud, so loud in fact that it was shaking the room.
sayonara yon ima (sigh-yo-na-ra yo-n ee-ma)
(Goodbye 4 now)
Chloe
That sounds like such fun, Chloe. I wish I could have the chance to try it. I think I would probably be too slow and fumble fingered but I would give it a go.
ReplyDeleteWe have seen the taiko drummers drumming at the Sydney Opera house. Quite a while ago.Your flaming grandmother, Colleen, made me go. It was noisy and spectacular and I thought i was in the middle of an artillery barrage. Bang! Boom! Thumpity thump! Wham! Whack! Wham! Bam! Bam! Bam! You must promise me never to practice taiko early in the morning near my bedroom. If you do so I will be forced to take such steps as will cause you much embarrassment and possibly severe injury inflicted with a drumstick! Love Scoop.
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