Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Jivanmukta wrote:

Hello,

Beginner, have been practicing for appr. 4 months.

The heading says it all.
What is it?
More important - how to solve it?

Thanks :-)

One question comes to mind: You getting enough sleep?

You might also want to try breathing out through your nose a bit, as it regulates the oxygen release more than breathing out through the mouth (not sure of specifics, but just read about it again in a book on anatomy for dancers.) Mouth for playing, nose for turning pages/etc :-)

Ralf

fouw wrote:

Somebody is going to write: 'get yourself a ......"

... bed? :p

Moran from Planet X wrote:

lowonthetotem wrote:

...   you could get your hands on some hard core stimulants ...

Just as I said, poised but relaxed

Then just add some opiates. Or you could just go to Starbucks, I think the sugar buzz takes the edge off the caffeine and has the same effect, wide awake but without the jitters.

fouw wrote:

Um, question: How does one play the shakuhachi whilst breathing OUT through the nose?

Now Edosan, I'm disappointed.
The technique is simply the reverse of circular breathing!

But seriously, the solution to Jivanmukta's problem will be given in a post yet to be made.
Somebody is going to write: 'get yourself a ......"       (hint: Skype might be mentioned too)

Ciao,
Kees

Kees - have you forgotten me after the days and drinks in Prague?

fouw wrote:

The guy who most of the time keeps his hat on, Kees Kort. We know each other and have had drinks as well.....
Next year, if Marek succeeds in organising another festival, we can have drinks the three of us!

BTW: sorry about my silly joking since you do have a teacher.....

Oh yeah, Kees Kort, thats the guy.....warm and actively welcoming a beginner like me
There will be a festival in Basel next year I think, maybe we meet here there, I buy! Hopefully we find trappist beer, its difficult to find here in Norway. I'm sure the beer will help releasing the tensions that creates the yawning.
J

That actually sounds like you sound a good solution. The most important when learning is to enjoy playing. And some times it is a good idea to take the time to enjoy what you can play and not only push on to learn new repertoire. The latter is necessary, of course, but the more you get enjoyment and soul into the playing the better you will improve anyway.
Good luck!

When i just begun playing, i went to play by myself once at sunset in the woods, i played like 5-10 minutes and then felt so tired that i just fall asleep on the rock i was sitting on, when i woke up it was already night, i slept for like a full hour on the bare rock, then i begun my walk back home and encountered a large pack of wild boars, i played them my shakuhachi to scare them away....
the whole experience was....surreal...

Anyway, shakuhachi playing now days (its mostly on long pieces and big flutes) gives me calmness and the feeling like when you just woke up in the morning and still sleepy and very calm and relaxed, i actually like it a lot.

preety big...
they say on the site israeli wild boars might get as heavy as 150kg



i have seen them many times while walking in the forest, usually they just snore and run away, but if its the time when they have babies, better walk slow and scare them from far away so you wont seperate them from their babies and they will attack you or threat you.

they babies are looking kinda cute

Last edited by Itamar Foguel (2010-12-13 18:53:10)

Playing to the boars; that's pretty cool.  One time a boar came up to my friend's cabin in the mountains here and bit a guy on the leg while he was sitting on the porch.  We then took a video of the critter.  They are quite tasty in the stew that a local shrine serves every New Year's day above a small village called Kagamimura, where we sometimes do a hike up the highest peak in the area to see the first sunrise of the year.

Last edited by Daniel Ryudo (2010-12-14 04:07:57)

Wow, that's some major rooting; if they could only be trained to dig out madake...