Shiko Mawatu makes "ROSA" look so easy

[kanikir33]

Voici des doigts agiles et magiques!!! Un vrai délice aux oreilles... aussi doux que les chatouilles d'une plume a l'oreille.

I love it !!!

[HeshimaJameni]

The original song is on youtube as:

Rosa Western Jazz Band

[bboya111]

can you do it slow please

[roccckkerrr]

is that a parker fly?

[ScottShuster]

Yes - Shiko was playing my Parker Fly Mojo.

[gvba02]

Concerning the special tuning ScottShuster mentions:

The D string is replaced by an E string.

This E string is then tuned to D

This gives the special sound

[muy6u]

Mi-composé

[ytkbe]

Mi-compose style is some sort of rythm guitar. This is solo guitar, with ordinary tuning.

[bmx24dog]

The original of "Mapenzi yako Rosa", song by Mikidadi Abdalla with Western Jazz Band one of the leading music band of Tanzania 1960s-70s.

[sukununu]

@bmx24dog Yeah, the year was 1974, the Band, Western Jazz ,the composer Shamba Ramadhani and Band Leader - Wema Abdallah

[bmx24dog]

Mapenzi yako Rosa was 1st played by Western Jazz Band of Tanzania on late 1970's with their great quitarist Wema Abdalla

[reddy0096]

ce cool

[kouapolo]

I am very please by the way you play ROSA. Please, can you tell me the chords and a bit of the solo. Thank you very much.

[joebarmusique]

just great

[bahwenge]

What a wonderful world of congo music

[naidamu]

...actually the tune is by one of the greatest Tanzanian bands from the 70's, Western Jazz

[Nazadanze]

Shiko Mawatu has a new album out, it is great!

[skaone3]

I have this tune on Cd will try and upload the full tune.

[bellemskey]

oh, this is nice, please do upload it and let us be aware of it... Cheers

[misterwill9066]

Heya Scotty 2 Hotty! Thats an amazing clip - I may have seen it before, but just seen it again - lovely stuff - is there anywhere I can find more of this player? I love the fingerstyle!

[saba7002]

this rosa song and the music, especially with shiko's guitar brilliance - absoultely awesome!!! my wife recorded with shiko, jirbo and soukous stars in 2004 in a NJ studio. these guys are classical!!! hey, do you have a full-length version of the music (ROSA)?

[ScottShuster]

Hey, Saba - thanks for writing -- regrettably no, this is all I have of Shiko playing Rosa - I don't think I have ever seen the band play the whole song. Let's ask them for it the next time we see them play - !!

[saba7002]

I have Jirbo's number. He's currently in the Congo and we plan on going there sometime next year to do an album. I know that Shiko and the other members of the band are on Staten Island, New York. But I do not have a contact number for them. I plan on calling Jirbo this weekend and I will ask him. The are great, aren't they?

[miminawewe]

Two question: Who knows where I can get this western jazz music?

[ScottShuster]

and the second question is....?

[miminawewe]

Where can one learn how to play this kind of guitar? Are there books, sheet music for it?

[ScottShuster]

these are good questions! To find the music is not difficult. Visit africambiance (dot oh-ar-gee) where stores are listed and where you can ask folks about stores near where you live. To learn soukous guitar is, we are told, not difficult, but there are virtually NO teachers around.  There is a discussion of soukous and African rumba guitar playing at the "soukous guitar" "tribe" located at tribe-dot-net

[andsalomoni]

@ScottShuster Well, perhaps learning this kind of guitar playing is really not very difficult, at least technically, but I think that the difficult for "white" (i.e. born outside african culture) people is that the core of this music is really deeply rooted in the heart of the african way of making music (no matter on which instrument).

Examples: v=2Gho8a2xwMk

v=tKz4vBTVYzg (from 2.50 on)

I'm learning to play these guitar parts, but not on the guitar, on the accordion.

[andsalomoni]

(cont.) playing these kind of "hard" sebenes needs a very african musical mind frame, despite of any technical skill. Sometimes you have just 5-notes riffs, but played Congolese Way!

[SIKONGE]

Mapenzi yako Rosa... This is OLD Tanzania music played first with Western Jazz Band in those 70's together with Asha by Tabora Jazz, then both compiled in Soukous Star song Nairobi Night (Lokassa ya Mbongo).

[drmlabs]

that little run he does at 19sec is genius

[NJAHARA]

very very good job men its amzing!!!

[markomatijevic]

This is great! African music has the groove, has everything, and Shiko is truly amazing, he goes over only three chords and makes a whole story with them, this is fantastic!

[Nazadanze]

That's what I call guitar playing!

[cave82]

i'm in heaven....thank you!! blessings:)

[jooner25]

Vraiment très bien ;-)

[vjsolly]

perfect

[wtamim]

Amazing,

[stephanash]

Now that's AMAZING !

[randyklemola]

this is amazing

[ScottShuster]

Hey Randy - Thanks for the comment about Shiko's guitar playing...maybe you would like to join the SoukousGuitar group here at YouTube --

http://www.youtube.com/group/S­oukousGuitar

Shiko is on most of the band videos - he's one of the all time greats of African guitar playing

...and if you are a guitarist, you should also have a look at the Soukous Guitar tribe at tribe.net

http://tribes.tribe.net/soukou­sguitar

!!!!

Thanks again,

Scott

[randyklemola]

sure thing I just gotta figure it out