Matsuri Crashers asalato "60" structure

Practices toward this Target

180125-1840 90
180111-1745 65
171208-2005 45
171111-2048 90
171027-2005 60
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Total min. 390

Matsuri Crashers asalato "60" structure

Status: 
Completed
Due Date: 
180125
Keep In Loop: 
Airi Takashima
Vivian Lee
Ariel

Description

Develop Matsuri Crashers structure using asalato and 6/8 feel.

Ideas

- multiple gears (0~4?) allow for building complexity with solist
- bass tone would feel satisfying tonally
- bembe-style orchestration of parts (with differently tuned asalato?)

January 25 -- rough structure and video recording
Feb -- make structure assignments
Mar -- revise 60 structure to meet soloist's needs
Apr -- practice 

 

Wrap-up

Successfully performed but it wasn't a particularly compelling groove for soloist.  Perhaps asalato should remain an accompaniment to a drum part.

Pitfalls

Risk of failure: 
Final rhythms not groovy
Solution: 
Since asalato can so easily feel frantic and disorderly, focus from the beginning on feeling a heavy, solid beat. Correct fundamental issues early. Practice slowly. Understand where the M pattern strikes fall on the asalato far-near movements.
Risk of failure: 
Players not together
Solution: 
Because there is so much noise in the basic shaker sound, it's easy to get away with sloppy asalato timing. Stick with a pattern until we can all start and stop confidently. Practice recovering from mistakes.
Risk of failure: 
Asalato feature detracts from soloist
Solution: 
Find a way that the asalato feature (if there is one) works both musically and in terms of the on-stage relationship between soloist and jiuchi.