introductions - name - taiko experience, including teaching - teaching questions, challenges -- structure - playing styles naname beta intermediate / advance kids synchopation and timing movement (bachi lag) Tally Ho! Sugagaki PHYSICAL WARMUP - chance to talk - related to style 1-min drills 4-8-16-32 Table of Time ** 16S DRILL FOR GRIP ** COPYCAT - warmup - to teach new rhythms ** 1EAU - stepping - accents - re-arranged patterns - loud v soft - extended challenge upbeat/downbeat drills Leapfrog solos practice time mirror skills empathy coaching period / PEAC week music as context for fundamentals creativity from beginning my recent teaching practice - teaching without words - explain after the experience - M-patterns - otsuri - M patterns -- M1-4 -- M1 v M3 -- M plus or minus -- solo