dear shakuhachi friends,
i am reading this list since a few weeks and i got many good ideas about shakuhachi .
i get a teacher since about 4 month, a japanese teacher, shinan nobuhisa hanada from ichion-kai. when i heard the first time about shakuhachi lesson, i did not hesitate .
it is a gift from heaven ;-)
when we are starting the lessons, nobody could get a sound or rather, my children were laughing about her mum, blowing only fffttftttfttt,
and then, the teacher gave his very important lesson, never a instructional guide could:
he said: "in japonese music, when there is no sound, that is sound too".
now i relax when playing ;-D, sound is coming when it like
best wishes from the capital of bratwurst in germany, nuremberg
love
es.ha
sorry, my english
"B. Ritchie" <nemo2000@worldnet.att.net> schrieb:
>Top 10 reasons why a teacher is preferable to an instructional guide and CD.
>
>1. An instructional guide can't take you out for a beer.
>
>2. The instructional guide won't organize student recitals and other
>performances for you.
>
>3. If perchance you get a performance through other means the instruction
>manual won't be able to help you put on your kimono.
>
>4. An instructional CD can't introduce you to it's other students.
>
>5. An instruction book will seldom bring over bratwurst for the Packer game.
>
>6. An instructional guide can't introduce you to other instructional guides.
>
>7. When a great player comes to visit from Japan he can't crash out at the
>instructional guide's house.
>
>8. You can go on a bike ride with your instructional guide, but the
>conversation will be poor.
>
>9. The instructional guide does not have a cute little daughter to play with.
>
>10. Unless you have flawless intonation, familiarity with the microtonal
>scales and pitches of Japanese music, total objectivity about your own sound,
>the ability to see yourself from outside your own body and interpret that
>information, knowledge of arcane Japanese shakuhachi terminology, voluminous
>historical knowledge of the pieces, players and schools of shakuhachi, the
>ability to locate and choose a good instrument despite being a beginner,
>understanding of the nuances of the pieces not depicted in the notation,
>comprehension of the appropriate vibrato to use for each piece, note or phrase
>(and when not to), knowledge of which of the many fingerings for each pitch is
>appropriate in any given instance, etc. etc. etc, you probably could benefit
>from having a teacher.
>
>
>
>Stav Tapuch wrote:
>
>> In learning how to play the shakuhachi, how crucial is live instruction? It
>> seems that the most difficult part is developing the muscles of your lips
>> and abdomen - and how could a teacher speed this process up, besides
>> ensuring that you stick to a regular regime of increasingly challenging
>> exercies? Would a very well disciplined student stand to gain much from the
>> pedalogical framework of a teacher?
>>
>> Of course, without a teacher once can not be inducted into the traditional
>> lineage of shakuhachi teacher-student relationships,and an unbroken
>> transition of a cultural bounty of great beauty, which is undoubtably
>> something of tremendsous value. But from a strictly technical persepective
>> - the value of a teacher above a good insturctional guide and accompanying
>> disc is not apparent to me.
>>
>> I would enjoy hearing the persepctives others on this issue.
>>
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