Naname Basics

In this lesson Shoji goes over the history, terminology, bachi choices and basic playing position for the Naname style.

In this lesson Shoji goes over how the 5 point stroke applies to playing naname.

In this lesson Shoji goes over how the catch down tap up exercises apply to naname and Don tsuku patterns.

In this lesson Shoji continues expanding on the catch down tap up exercises and applies them to playing the ka sounds and teaches new practice patterns.

In this lesson Shoji uses su DON phrases to start exploring the different ways we can move through space while playing naname.

In this lesson Shoji starts to teach the basic patterns for Matsuri Daiko one of the quintessential pieces for naname playing.

In this lesson Shoji takes the DOROtsuku DON phrases from Lesson 3 and starts arranging them for Matsuri Daiko. Different phrases lengths and variations on the DOROtsuku DON phrases are explored in this lesson.

In this lesson Shoji uses the DOROkara DON patterns and introduces the idea of improvising with the structure of Matsuri by changing the 2nd beat of the phrase.

In this lesson Shoji uses the su DON su DON DON patterns to build Matsuri phrases and uses them to explore the different ways to move and introduces the ka DON variations.

In this lesson we bring everything together into a simple arrangement of Matsuri. The arrangement is not set but is a structure through which you can start to explore and improvise with all of the Matsuri phrases we’ve learned.