Tag Archives: Japanese traditional music

Weightlessness

Posted on September 12, 2015 by jazzpanflute

Jazz education generally does its best to keep up with the latest trends in music, with thousands of teachers worldwide analysing classic performances and attempting to reverse-engineer them into exercises that you can try at home. Working always on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Intuitive Instruments, Musicianship | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Keeping Tabs

Posted on June 30, 2014 by jazzpanflute

I used to play a fair bit of Japanese sankyoku music on my maplewood shakuhachi (couldn’t afford the bamboo variety!) with koto players Hideko Dobashi, Rie Yanagisawa (who also played shamisen) and later in Toulouse with Takaya Odano. Unlike Western … Continue reading →

Posted in Intuitive Instruments, Moves notation | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment