Shakuhachi Workbook: Daily Practice Exercises
for Technical Development by James Nyoraku Schlefer
Book and CD - 98 pages
- $39.00
For those dedicated to their shakuhachi practice this
is an excellent workbook!
This
93-page Shakuhachi Wookbook with CD, by James Nyoraku
Schlefer, offers daily practices for helping you to
develop your technical skills in playing shakuhachi.
"Just
as athletes begin each workout session with stretches
and calisthenics, so too should musicians begin each
practice session with warm up exercises that prepare
them for playing the repertoire." - James
Nyoraku Schlefer
This
Shakuhachi Workbook presents numerous exercises for
playing various scales, intervals, long tones, and so
forth. The following exercises for developing your
playing skills are included in this workbook:
Long
Tones I
Long Tones II
Intervals
Stretch Skips
Harmonics
Natural Scales
Insempo Scales
Other Drills for: Meri, Swell, Atari, Koro Koro
James Nyoraku Schlefer
Called "A Master of the Shakuhachi" by The
New York Times, James Nyoraku Schlefer is a leading
performer and teacher of shakuhachi in New York City.
He received the Dai-Shi-Han or Grand Master's
Certificate in 2001. In Japan he has worked with Aoki
Reibo, Yokoyama Katsuya, Yoshio Kurahashi, Yoshinobu
Taniguchi, Mitsuhashi Kifu, and his primary teacher
in New York was Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin. He holds a
Master's degree in Western flute & musicology
from Queens College and currently teaches music
history courses at the City University of New York.
James has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy
Center, Tanglewood&rsquos Ozawa Hall, BAM, the
World Financial Center, and the Metropolitan,
Brooklyn and Philadelphia Museums. James has three
solo recordings, Wind Heart (which travelled
120,000,000 miles aboard the Space Station MIR)
Solstice Spirit (1998), and Flare Up (2002.) His
music has been featured on NPR's All Things
Considered. Nyoraku is a member of the Japanese
Sankyoku Ensemble East, which has performed and
lectured at the Juilliard School, Manhattan and
Eastman Schools of Music, Vassar, Haverford,
Moravian, Colby-Sawyer, Hunter and Wellesley
Colleges, SUNY New Paltz, and at music festivals in
the US, Asia and Europe.
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