Nothing Saturday

 Just the kind of Saturday I like! I practiced on the shinobue a bit before bed and figured out how to play Golden Chain, I just have to check it against the choir version. 

I told myself I'd sleep all I like and slept until 5. I was awakened partway through and had trouble going back to sleep because someone had some beeping thing going on, with their car or something I'm not sure. I finally went back to sleep and when I woke up it was done with. 

I am thinking more and more about how I'd rather, once I'm back in Hawaii, work on becoming a good shakuhachi player than simply being a so-so Ebay seller who's a so-so shakuhachi player on the side. 

I found Steven Taizen Casano's channel (again) on YouTube and subscribed. He's based in Hawaii and even teaches at Punahou, and he's got a lot of neat stuff. He's got a ton of little exercises that he plays and has written in a different notation than the Kinko notation I've been learning, but they're simple enough for me to not only practice them but practice writing them down in Kinko notation myself. He's also got a lot of clips of him playing at this and that place, like at Ka'ena Point and at Kualoa and so on, the same kind of places I envision myself playing some day. 

I need to get a brush pen and get expert at writing shakuhachi music because while there are, according to Rinban, computer programs for writing it, I don't trust computers one bit.