Masayuki Koga
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Master Techniques
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Shakuhachi
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This is Koga Sensei's advanced teaching guide for players approaching master level in study of the shakuhachi. This book explains how to breathe properly, blow naturally and concentrate the mind while playing. It provides a detailed account of the physiology involved in blowing shakuhachi with a focus on the correct ways of holding the tongue, positioning the lips and shaping the mouth cavity and throat. Also discussed is the important role of the diaphragm as well as abdominal and back muscles in proper breathing technique and the function of the lower brain in this process. Koga explains the relationship between physical energy in our body and its manifestation as sound emerging through the shakuhachi. This volume is the culmination of Koga's thirty-five years of experience as a player and teacher of the shakuhachi. The second part of this volume, takes us through the honkyoku piece Shika no Tone (The Distant Cry of Deer) phrase-by-phrase, complete with Koga's instructions, accompanying CD and annotations for notation, pitch, head movement and fingering.
65 pages. PG-6
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