Go With It

Tonight's taiko rehearsal was a little confusing to me. Actually it was a lot confusing, but I didn't let it show. So I've been do ro tsu ku-ing my butt off, but turns out were not doing any of those, and we're just doing some dramatic rolls and other stuff instead. In my head as we were working on this I was like, huh? I thought we were going to be doing something completely different. When will that other part I've been practicing come in? But of course it didn't, and the one thing I'm noticing about this process is that it's very organic and always in a state of becoming, and I doubt anything will be set in stone by the day of the show.

But I've learned this lesson a long time ago: Just go with it. The more flexible you are the better. It's like jazz. Just be cool, man. Well, that's how I am during rehearsal anyway. Plus it's interesting to see where you wind up when you go off the road map. The only thing I asked for was a wink. I was like, Janet I'm gonna need a wink to let me know we're going to change from one thing to the other, and then she would make funny googly eyed faces at me and then it was cool, man. Smooth as jazz, yo.

I'm a tiny bit disappointed we won't be do ro tsu ku-ing, not because I practiced so hard, but I heard a sample of a performance with the sequence in it and it sounded way cool. But I'm really glad I spent all that time practicing because now it's a new skill in my box of tools. But whatever happens for the show is going to sound just as cool and amazing as that sample. Now I guess I better start practicing my rolls.