So, now that you know what Wai Taiko does, and what they do it with (and if you haven't, that link to the website might come in handy about now) you might be interested to learn a bit more about how we get good enough to do so.
Training for the group is twice a week, Monday's and Wednesdays. Two hours each, usually, so that's four hours of classes together. But it doesn't stop there. We get homework to practice on, depending on which songs we're learning we might work over tricky sequences, or just try and drill our timing into something coherent.
Our group's unofficial slogan is 'One Drum', and it's also our goal. To get in perfect synch with each other, so that our entire group sounds like the fall of a single stick onto one drum, that's what we aim for.
Sometimes we get there, sometimes... not so much...
But, we're off fundraising now, so enough blogging.
Mark
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