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How can technology / gear improve our taiko practice and performance? What gear do I recommend? What do I recommend against?
Where I'm coming from
- aspiring composer. Buying gear with performing, recording, touring in mind.
- not focused on ROI
- want to own as few things as possible, for as long as possible
- practice alone and with one other person, every day
- vegan, except for taiko
- environmentalist, except for music gear
Goal of tech: feedback
AURAL FEEDBACK
- hearing safety
-- earplugs
-- Etymotic dosimeter, discontinued
-- in-ear monitors
-- ear muffs over in-ears
- tempo
-- metronome (app: Stage Metronome or real: Dr Boss)
-- popular music
-- Octatrack
- timing (grid)
-- offset metronome
-- Octatrack Demo/Play/Listen
- 4-track recording (app or Zoom H4)
VISUAL FEEDBACK
- mirror
- video recording
- lighted bachi, LEDs (STORAGE)
- light trail with kdenlive
KINESTHETIC FEEDBACK
- kick and hat
instruments
- drums
-- only the best, ask about responsible leather
-- nagado
--- Asano / Miyamoto
--- Mark Miyoshi used
--- Kato Taiko
-- shime
--- Miyamoto rope for light weight, #2/#3 mix assembly
--- Asano low-profile bolt
-- okedo: Asano kanade katsugi okedo
-- odaiko: Asano / Miyamoto o-oke
-- chappa: Asano OtoDaiku
-- kane: Miyamoto dark (ask Isaku)
- stands
-- shime: snare stands
-- naname: Asano / Miyamoto
-- odaiko: Miyoshi / Asano / Miyamoto
- bachi: anything and everything
notation
- graph paper: Moleskine XL squared
- erasable pen