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Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Hi Fu Mi & Akebono Cho experiment 2 years, 4 months ago

Here is the PDF to print out and play: HiFuMi + Akebono

Note that both pieces, HiFuMi & Akebono, are arranged side by side. HiFuMi is right and Akebono is left, with a line dividing each set of […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Akita Sugagaki #4 to the end 2 years, 5 months ago

Akita Sugagaki #4 to #6
Akita Sugagaki #6 to #7
Akita Sugagaki #7 to End
Note: This is the rest of this piece. I’m not sure how helpful this approach is, so I thought I’d try something else next time. Perhaps […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Akita Sugagaki #3 to #4 2 years, 6 months ago

Akita Sugagaki #3 to #4
Note: This section goes from HA-YURI-RO of line 3 to HA-YURI-RO of line 4. I play it twice, straight and diagonal (although I don’t know if the diagonal view is that useful)

The […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Akita Sugagaki #1 to #3 2 years, 6 months ago

Akita Sugagaki #1 to #3
The notation for these honkyoku are in Blowing Zen Expanded Edition and Blowing Zen II
Honkyoku Line by Line
Every now and then I’ll post a small section of honkyoku. My guess is th […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Akita Sugagaki #2 2 years, 6 months ago

Akita Sugagaki #2
The notation for these honkyoku are in Blowing Zen Expanded Edition and Blowing Zen II
Honkyoku Line by Line
Every now and then I’ll post a small section of honkyoku. My guess is that b […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Akita Sugagaki #1 2 years, 6 months ago

Akita Sugagaki #1
The notation for these honkyoku are in Blowing Zen Expanded Edition and Blowing Zen II
Honkyoku Line by Line
Every now and then I’ll post a small section of honkyoku. My guess is that br […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Honkyoku Line by Line 2 years, 6 months ago

Every now and then I’ll post a small section of honkyoku (1). My guess is that breaking honkyoku down into bite size parts may help some at the beginning of this journey… or not. This is an experiment, after a […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Hi Fu Mi – Part A & C 2 years, 7 months ago

Hi Fu Mi – Part A & C

The notation for these honkyoku are in Blowing Zen Expanded Edition and Blowing Zen II
Honkyoku Line by Line
Every now and then I’ll post a small section of honkyoku (1). My guess is t […]
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Carl Abbott started the topic 40 years and just getting the hang of it 😉 in the forum Blowing Zen Travels 2 years, 10 months ago

It is surprising how ignorant we are about our sense of time. I say ‘we’ because I’m seeing this from a human lifetime perspective. For us, a lifetime is a long time. In truth it is less than the blink of an eye. Now to just be able to see (feel) that truer nature of time is liberating… almost lends a sense of immortality… ironically I suppose.
Carl Abbott started the topic test in the forum Blowing Zen… or just hot air… Lounge 2 years, 10 months ago

Just to get the breeze started…
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Kyle meets Takeo 3 years ago

Kyle meets Takeo & Yamaguchi Goro’s Shakuhachi! I met Takeo at Yamaguchi san’s house. Yamaguchi’s practice was to schedule students in such a way as to have a few lined up and observing him and the current student […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Play by heart 3 years, 1 month ago

If you can’t remember melody very well, you are like me and rely on reading notation. If you are like my son and can you play by heart. Paying attention may be more challenging if you read then if you play by […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Yamaguchi San 3 years, 1 month ago

I was going to call this post The Real Lesson, but that wouldn’t do it justice. So I named it after my shakuhachi teacher, Yamaguchi Goro.

This video clip is of him (on the left) playing a beautiful suizen […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Cave Man Shakuhachi? 3 years, 1 month ago

A Science News article, Stone Age flutes found in Germany, reports that people living in Europe more than 35,000 years ago made this flute (shown from three different angles) out of a vulture bone. The magnified […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Find the Zen in the blowing 3 years, 3 months ago

I imagine everyone is naturally both over-rigorous and under-rigorous… just in different areas, according to their natures. It is when over or under rigor causes pain for us that it becomes problematic. The pain […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Correction to my recording of Hi Fu Mi: 3 years, 3 months ago

In the book “Blowing Zen” CD, Hi Fu Mi, Track 24
Online Hi Fu Mi(Complete), MP3

Refer to page B12 of “Blowing Zen”, #111-115, and #131-134. I played both these sections with the meri tone dropping down to o-me […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Music for Those with No Musical Talent? 3 years, 3 months ago

Yes! Of the Buddhist Hon Kyoku this is true. What you do need, however, is to pay attention. Yet, you don’t even need to do that. Of course, if you don’t really listen to what you are doing, you will not enjoy […]
Carl Abbott wrote a new post, Kumoi Ji Shi 3 years, 3 months ago

Keep the same rhythm pretty much throughout, except for the usual slow down at the end. The piece feels like it is stepping up the pace, but actually, it is just the increasing inclusion of 1/4 beat notes… […]
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