"We would have liked for people to chanted differently etc. but we expect that maybe until we get to Goloka we may still find imperfections in the Kirtan's etc as far as we are concerned."

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Please, can you tell what you mean when you say that you would like that people chant differently etc. ?
Thank you.
Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - ASA -  Hmmm.  There are many things in Kirtans that we would like to be different. We would like that our Kirtans would be different.

1. The Kartals are played on beat. Sometimes, Indians will play they in a completely asynchromous manner and it is very hard to chant in group then.

2. Prabhupads said, "First I chant and then you listen, then you chant and I listen, this is Hearing and Chanting". It is a very intense kind of group yoga. Improvisational Theater training does similar things, but often the leader just chants and then doesn't listen to the response but goes on chanting, or he stops chanting but is not really listening to the response, nor are the responders really listening to his leading, so it becomes two paralletl mono-logs. Has some value. May take your to take birth in India is a pious family.

People engage in other discussions during the Kirtan and it makes it hard for us to concentrate.

The chanting is for sense gratification. albeit celestial sense gratification. If we chant the name properly then the Form Manifests everyone starts looking at the Deities.

Often the drum covers the Holy Names.

We don't realize that the Holy Names are people and that chanting is really calling a real person and that They can answer with Their Form, Qualities (smile), Associates and Lila.

We got a lot of room for our own improvemt.