Month: <span>August 2017</span>

Whiplash

  My uncle, Shogo Inoue, is a former Jazz Drummer who learned from Takeshi Inomata, and I, a bad amateur drummer, often ask him some lessons. He always scolds me severely saying “Your cymbal lagato is quite failure ! Doesn’t sound 4 beats at all ?!”. It makes me a bit bad-tempered, but afterwards, the more I think about his lesson, the more I realize the preciseness of it. This is the way professional musicians are, and we must never make light of their “Heart”. Terumasa Hino, a world Jazz trumpeter, is being blamed for his having used “violence” on a boy playing drums in a Jazz Event for kids. …

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