In our music class, the people from the band came to join us with koto class. One of our Koto teacher, Mr. Patterson, played a Japanese Koto song called Rokudan. Rokudan was written by Yatsuhashi Kengyo. We were asked to write a blog post about what makes Rokudan sound Japanese. This below is a video of [...]

On April 11th, our Koto teachers, Mr. Patterson and Ms. Miyama did a presentation about Japanese Music with Mr. Patterson’s friend, Mr. Huebner. They talked about how different Japanese music was to Western music and played who pieces together. The Koto was played by Mr. Patterson and Ms. Miyama, Shakuhachi played by Mr. Huebner, and Shamisen [...]