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The Practical Shakuhachi
Etudes for Technical Development
James Nyoraku Schlefer
2008 Kyo Shin An Music Publishing BMI
www.nyoraku.com
"The Practical Shakuhachi" is a welcome companion to the author's previous "Shakuhachi Workbook". The layout is consistent and clear and this volume's layout is entirely right-to-left which makes things flow easily while working through it.
Part I presents Warm Up and Long Tone Practice, Progressive Interval Practice, Meri Exercises, and Etudes.
Part II follows with Western diatonic scales, Intonation, Articulation; and a generous list of major scales, minor scales, and arpeggios. Also included are some Third Octave fingerings in an appendix.
This is not a book for reading, it's a book for playing! The amount of text is no more than necessary, which allows for ample white space on each page, which makes for excellent readability. Material is laid out in consistent, logical order, and the lack of clutter allows one to concentrate on the work at hand.
"The Practical Shakuhachi" needs to be in your practice area, and/or in your "away" bag, right next to "Shakuhachi Workbook".
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I have been using the previous book by James Nyoraku Schlefer and was very happy to see this one. This books is a perfect follow up to "Shakuhachi Workbook".
The material in these two books are useful in so many ways.
I believe that "The Practical Shakuhachi" can open up the door for many people approaching this instrument whom may only have a common knowledge of Western music.
The scales and songs provided are more readily recognizable by Western ears and I think this can give a certain instant familiarity between the Japanese notation system and the notes they represent.
It's certainly inspired some of my work over at my website flutedojo.com, specifically on my guides page here: https://flutedojo.com/shakuhachi-guides
Last edited by Jon Kypros (2024-03-30 19:37:19)
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I got this book at the KiSuiAn shakuhachi camp and it is excellent!! A great workout and tone builder!
BrianP
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