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Learn Taiko with Michael.
Based in Hawaiʻi, Michael offers classes, private coaching, and guest instruction locally and beyond.
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Current classes
Study with Michael in Honolulu.
Michael regularly teaches Sunday classes with Taiko Center of the Pacific at Washington Middle School. Class schedules follow TCP sessions and are subject to change.
Bon Taiko
Beginning Odaiko
Uchikomi
Sundays · Honolulu
Taiko Center of the Pacific
Washington Middle School
1633 South King Street
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Guest teaching & workshops
Instruction for taiko groups, schools, festivals, intensives, cultural programs, and established organizations.
Private coaching
Focused one-on-one or small-group sessions tailored to the player’s body, goals, repertoire, and primary taiko style.
Online learning
Virtual lessons and educational video content designed to make detailed technique work accessible beyond Hawaiʻi.
Workshop focus
Areas of study.
Chu-daiko (Naname · Betta / Hiraoki)OdaikoShimeYodan / NidanBon Taiko
Fluidity, efficiency & expression
Naname-style training that connects foundational form, advanced movement, clear dynamics, and physical sustainability.
Nidan / Yodan Uchi
Two-drum movement, modified doko-doko ji and X-pattern work, musical flow, and performance presence.
Odaiko
Full-body connection, sound quality, stance, impact, resonance, and expressive use of space.
Sound & body mechanics
Personalized work on transferring energy from the ground through the body and into the tip of the bachi, using structure and momentum rather than brute strength.
Teaching approach
Efficient body mechanics.
Personalized instruction connects the ground, body, and bachi while reducing unnecessary tension.