Learn To Play The Shakuhachi Beginners 3- Intermediate

Learn to play Meri and chu Meri

What you’ll learn
Learn to play the Shakuhachi and learn new Techniques on the Shakuhachi: Meri , Chu Meri, high register notes, vibrato
Requirements
Own a flute and be able to play the five basic notes- Ro, Tsu, Re, Chi and Ri- We recommend a. 1.8 standard Shakuhachi
Description
In this course, you will learn to play the basic Shakuhachi notes and learn new notes: chu meri and meri notes. You will also learn to play the higher register notes and learn about Yuri (vibrato) used for Shakuhachi songs. Through folk song and original songs, you will learn more about playing the Shakuhachi and getting better at it. We will go through simple exercises to help you better your sound.Make sure to practice Ro Buki (playing the note Ro for as long as you can play it) every day so that you are working fully on breath and embouchure to build up and strengthen your playing.This course is also for intermediate players who will want to work on techniques and their meri and chu meri notes. You will learn new songs that will challenge you with new notes, rhythms, and phrasing.We have also a lesson on learning to read and write the Shakuhachi notations that are necessary to play Shakuhachi music such as Honkyoku.we have provided scores that allow other instruments to play with you. Both notations, Western and Japanese is included. We encourage you to memorize the songs and use them. The Japanese Shakuhachi notation to read the music.Learn to play this folk song. We recommend playing the Ro buki every day as a warm-up exercise

Overview

Section 1: Learn to play a folk song Kuroda Bushi

Lecture 1 Learning to play Kuroda Bushi

Section 2: Learning to play different version of Sakura

Lecture 2 Lesson 9: Sakura A

Lecture 3 Lesson 10: Sakura B

Lecture 4 Lesson 11: Sakura C

Section 3: Learn an original Song: Umi No Koe

Lecture 5 Lesson 12: Umi no Koe – first voice

Lecture 6 Lesson 13: Umi No Koe- second voice

Section 4: Special lessons: Read write and play the Shakuhachi notations and Robuki

Lecture 7 Notation lesson

Lecture 8 RoBuki- Long. Tone practice

Lecture 9 Ro Tsu Re Chi Ri

Beginners to intermediate