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In the spirit of the European Taiko Expo, we’d like to offer you our freshly baked community piece “Shodaiko”!

What is special about Shodaiko?

Shodaiko is a piece that offers different types of challenges for your group. It allows people to make their own voices heard and explores specific aspects of taiko playing, at the same time as being accessible to a range of players. Each of the voices in this piece focuses on a different aspect and invites each person to challenge their safespace – students and teachers alike. The coexisting characteristics of the voices are constructed as follows:

  • Chu-daiko focuses on choreography, simple rhythmic patterns, and is easy to access
  • Okedo-daiko is groove centered, inspired by Kion Dojo and GOCOO, with unusual hand sticking
  • Shime-daiko emphasizes technical and controlled playing, for more advanced players

In order to make this piece accessible and enjoyable for as many groups as possible, we composed solely for beta/flat-stand position, added a simplified version of the shime-daiko voice, and arranged a third version which includes metal percussion and an O-daiko voice.

This is our first piece that has been specifically written with the taiko community in mind and we hope you’ll have as much fun playing it as we had creating it. In short: It’s all about starting something new!
So, have fun and bring the Big Bang!!


Everything you need in one place.
Save your energy for learning the piece instead of spending it on gathering the resources!

Song DescriptionPDF
Cheat-sheet: Extra notesPDF
Notation: Regular versionPDF
Notation: Basic shime versionPDF
Notation: Shodaiko Plus (metal percusion and O-daiko)PDF
Audio: All voicesWAV
Audio: All voices with clickWAV
Audio: Chu onlyWAV
Audio: Chu only with clickWAV
Audio: Okedo onlyWAV
Audio: Okedo only with clickWAV
Audio: Shime only (regular version)WAV
Audio: Shime only (regular version) with clickWAV

Training videos


We’d love to see you playing this piece!

If you have a video of your progress, please upload and tag it with ​#Bringthebigbang ​and​ #Shodaiko ​to share it with the community.

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