NATC 2025 Phoenix

For your more freedom musical express, “Chappa” will be became the best partner for you.
It will make you to moving around on stage and adding some of another color for your team numbers.
Contrary of seems, it is very difficult to handle for making good sound.

A famous Chappa player can control different over 200 sounds.
Ringtaro introduces the most essential 7 sounds in this workshop.
After workshop, you may create your original sound illimitably with your sensibility!

Prerequisite/What to bring: Please bring your Chappa if you have it.

Participants will learn the background and basic movements of Wakayama Ryu Edo Kotobuki Jishi, the traditional celebratory shishimai (lion dance) of Tokyo.

Prerequisite/What to bring: Participants should have full body mobility without pain. Participants should wear comfortable clothing. No prior experience required.

Participants will learn the background and basic movements of Wakayama Ryu Edo Kotobuki Jishi, the traditional celebratory shishimai (lion dance) of Tokyo.

Prerequisite/What to bring: Participants should have full body mobility without pain. Participants should wear comfortable clothing. No prior experience required.

This workshop will help you improve your Shinobue playing by improving your tuning and creating a cleaner sound. We will use different songs to explore different techniques. We will also work on higher notes and how to play them cleaner.
Focus on the performance of the Fue and how to project when playing with Taiko drums.
We will also focus on how to improvise to taiko songs. As a sample, we will play some phrases to some of the better-known songs, such as Yatai Bayashi.

Prerequisite/What to bring: Be able to play some melodies and bring #8/ Happonjoushi Fue.
We will have some extra Fues available if you don't own one.
Bring a music stand might help and we will work from the Book Learn to Play the Shinobue by Marco Lienhard but will have copies for those who don't have the music