Team Bachido 2014 - Application Packet

General
#1

Ladies and bros! As you can tell from the recent buzz on the forum, Team Bachido will be returning to Japan to compete at the All-Japan Tsugaru Shamisen Tournament (Taikai) in Aomori!

I’ve finished the Team Bachido Application Packet and uploaded it to Dropbox. Please check it out!

If you are interested in joining Team Bachido in May 2014, Please follow the steps below.

  1. Please download the three PDFs.

  2. Fill out the two PDF forms, “Team Bachido Application Form - (Insert Name Here).PDF” and “Team Bachido Liablility Waiver (Insert Name Here).PDF”

If you aren’t able to fill out the forms digitally, please let me know.

  1. Save both PDFs.

  2. In the filename, replace “(Insert Name Here)” with your name.

  3. Please send the two completed forms to kyle (at) bachido (dot) com. We will make the necessary calculations and inform you of the registration fee.

  4. Check out the “Kita no Hibiki - Taikai Version.PDF” and start practicing!

Kevin is arranging the dynamics for Kita no Hibiki. Along with the PDF, please watch his video(s) to practice the dynamics as well.

That’s about it! We will also be posting a FAQ very soon. Feel free to discuss your plans, ideas or questions here!

Deadline is around March-ish, but signing up earlier is encouraged.

Take vacation!!!
Kyle Abbott & Masahiro Nitta

#2

So Kyle, right off the top, I ask this: It asks for your name in English, and then asks you to for it in Romaji. Since Romaji is English letters, what exactly are you asking us for? (Did you mean katakana instead of Romaji???)

Also, I PM’d you about the rental charge - please check that out and clarify here as appropriate (the PM will explain the issue…)

Thanks in advance.

#3

Excellent question! Long story short, we need katakana, but the Adobe PDF requires an ‘Asian Language Pack’ installed on the computer being used to fill out the form. So to keep it simple, we will use all romaji. Later on, Nitta san or myself can simply replace it with katakana later.

So for example, in the english part, you would write “Linda Caplan” and the romaji part, “Rinda Kapuran”, right?

Thank you very much for checking in about the rental charge. It is 3000 yen for the whole trip, not per day. I’ve just updated the form.
I say it again, it takes a village! :slight_smile:

#4

Ah, wakatta!
Okey-dokey, will write my English name in katakana in Romaji (I believe I got that right now, yes??? :wink: )

#5

And Kyle, you realize that the PDF notation still only shows part one + the simplified side. Part 2 (= bottom/harmony line as shown in your book) isn’t shown or mentioned anywhere “official”.

So it might be worth reminding people that all three parts are being played at the taikai, in case somebody thinks part 2/the harmony has been dropped out. Or it might be worth taking the notation from your book and pasting the simplified part below that, so that all three voices/lines show in one single score…

Okay, I’ll leave you alone for a while — at least till you get back from Boston. :smiley:

#6

Karuru Hedorondo?

#7

Two questions:

  1. Regarding the completed forms ( I’ve typed my info into the PDF’s.) Must we E-MAIL them? Or is there something with the dropbox we should do? Excuse my ignorance!

  2. Kind of a question, is it safe to assume that if nobody is bringing family/significant others who require the other lodging options for the ryokan, may I call “shotgun” on the single room or one of the doubles/the triple? Seeing as we’re all sharing the same fees it seems like “first come first serve”…? It’s hard not to sound like a D typing this out but it’d be pretty sweet having a solo room I think. So can I conditionally reserve the other rooms if no one requires them? =D

#8

Karl - you might want to try “Ka-ru” instead (it needs the hyphen).

Josh - sorry, I already claimed (and Kyle acknowledged) the single room early yesterday… So grab the double.

#9

Hey Josh! Good question! After you fill it in and save, email them to kyle (at) bachido (dot) com. :slight_smile: Thanks!

#10

Thanks again for the answers! I realize after a closer look all the info was in the application pdf!

Application + waiver complete and sent!
Princess reservation booked (I’ll be arrived in the afternoon on May 1st ) and I’ll be brining the fibersen with me once more.

Getting pumped (again) !

#11

Hey folks! Just letting you know that Adrian has written up a very informative FAQ, which I’ve posted here. Check it out! :slight_smile: -

#12

Thanks for posting that up Kyle~

#13

Well, it’s thanks to you for composing it! :slight_smile:

#14

Kyle, I just compared the “Kita no Hibiki - Taikai version” that you have on Dropbox with what you and I went over on Skype the other day. The pdf you have on Dropbox is still the full, unabridged version of the piece. It does not show the cuts that are being made to ensure the piece fits taikai time restrictions. (And there was nothing in Adrian’s very helpful faqs about this issue… :wink: )

So, are you going to put up an amended/annotated copy of the piece for everyone showing it as we’re actually supposed to play it? It seems a shame for people (esp. those who didn’t perform it last year and don’t know there are cuts to be made) to be memorizing the piece and then to be told much later that they’ll need to change what they memorized… :-/

#15

:-O!!! Ooopss…

Well, it appears that I completely misunderstood when we skyped. I was checking with the version in the book, I had thought that the PDF was actually correct (in terms of trimmed sections). I know you told me several times what the problem was, but it didn’t fully click inside.

Okay, now it all makes sense! My apologies, Linda! Kyle’s brain is a little osoi as of late.

So, I’m gonna get on that right now. Chotto matte ne~

#16

1:12am, finally done. Here we go! - Dropbox - Error

I proofread several times, but there’s always the chance that there might be a mistake. So anyone who’s learning the piece with the tab, please verify it with this video

Linda, thanks again for re-pointing out what you’ve told me many times. Oy vey, I now remember why I hated making notation for Shamisen of Japan. :wink:

Good night!

#17

I had thought that the PDF was actually correct (in terms of trimmed sections). I know you told me several times what the problem was, but it didn’t fully click inside.

A-n-d…Kyle, there’s still one little bit that didn’t click. On behalf of those who are playing part 2/the lower line/the harmony part in your book (those are all the same thing, folks), there’s a little bit of “notational discrimination” going on here.

Your new pdf still does not show part 2 anywhere, and since you amended the notation itself but didn’t specify where your changes are (such as “line X, bars Y to Z”, etc.), there is no easy way for the people playing part 2 to figure out what to cut. Each player will have to compare side 1’s notation bar by bar in the pdf against side 1’s notation in your book, and then transfer the result of that comparison to side 2… Seems kind of a waste of time and energy for each person to have to do that individually when you could write a single forum post here indicating what to change. Then everyone could quickly be on the same page, as it were… I’m just sayin’. :wink:

#18

I should note that I’m spread so incredibly thin now, I’ve so many pots on the fire and am constantly working just to keep on top of everything, my brain is frying. I appreciate very much input and errata, but I must ask that people make do with what’s available as much as they can, 'cause espresso can only fuel me so much and I’m about to burn out.

To assure everyone, there’s NO need to learn side 2 (harmony) of the full version (shown in Shamisen of Japan). If they learn either the bottom part or the top part on the Kita no Hibiki - Taikai Version .pdf, it will work out fantastically. :slight_smile:

And if anyone wants to learn side 2 on their own, that’s perfectly fine too, but it’s not required. :slight_smile: Last year, most everyone has listened to Kita no Hibiki enough that they already had a sense for both parts. In fact, all 21 people played the piece almost perfectly, so I’m confident that it should go fairly smoothly this year as well! :slight_smile:

Let’s all ganbaru hard people! Because Kyle’s only got so much steam in his tank!

#19

To back up what Kyle said, all you really need to know is the main melody line. That’s pretty much what everyone was taught/ended up learning. For example, Kevin was teaching me a bit over Skype, and when I asked him about the harmony part, he was like “Oh, that’s mostly improvised anyway, so don’t worry about it.”

In the end, everyone had a working knowledge of the main melody, and then when we all started practicing together in Japan, decisions were made about what harmony parts should be played and who should play them. The parts were often made up on the spot and then carefully taught to the people designated to play them.

So no need to worry, I don’t think! At the very least, the videos should tell you all you need to know.

#20

Truth; a lot of the decision over bits-to-be-played were like “Hey, you seem to be best at X, so we need you over here in such-and-such part” or “You have a really good tataki, so we need you covering bass for that section to give us some extra umph”.

It’s not always the easiest to pick up things on the spot, but definitely not getting hung up on the details/attached to any one part is best for one’s own mental preservation.

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