Don’t miss a chance to perform ‘Ready Set kaDON’ and/or ‘Lion Chant’ with On Ensemble for our upcoming Taiko Heroes 2 concert series which will be held December 19-20 in Santa Monica at the Miles Memorial Playhouse! If you want … Continued
We are excited to announce the release of our ‘Taiko Bachi Explained’ video! I get a lot of questions about bachi and it occurred to me that I should just make an ‘everything you ever wanted to know about taiko … Continued
Participate for the entire weekend or for the workshop(s) of your choice! “Very well done! Great sequence. Nice blend of challenge and repetition. Please continue!” “REALLY glad I was able to practice with online lessons before the workshop … Continued
Shoji has been hard at work in Northern California filming new courses for kaDON. Check out some of these behind the scenes shots.
Ready Set kaDON Lesson 5 Now that we’ve learned all the patterns we’ll need for “Ready Set kaDON!” (RSK) it’s time to start with the arrangement! Lesson 5 goes over the first half of the arrangement for the Chu1 part. … Continued
Lesson 9 is the last lesson in our Odaiko Basics course! In this lesson Kenny Endo and I demonstrate a two person arrangement of his piece Odaiko Kakeai Kihon Kyoku. It’s very easy to arrange the piece for a … Continued
2014 was a great year! After quite a bit of behind the scenes planning and preparation we launched kaDON at the World Taiko Gathering back in mid July. It’s hard to believe that it has only been half a year … Continued
This week we released Kenny Endo’s Odaiko Basics Lesson 7 which focuses on finishing the patterns used in Odaiko Kakeai Kihon Kyoku. Next week we’ll upload Lesson 8 which will introduce soloing and improvisation on the odaiko. After that we’ll … Continued