TEDxTokyo Jake Shimabukuro - 05/15/10 (English)

[itchyego9]

My only complaint.... Tedx left a distracting computer monitor on, with its blinking lights! This guy deserves better attention to detail and to take in his talent without things like this! 

[MadDogSpirit]

Amazing !!

[BTBHSOHBOY]

Roy Smeck is good, James Hill is good, but Jake Shimabukuro is incredible.

[GeracaodeValor]

:))))))))))

[coolcoolbye1]

Wow your amazing. My name is Grant, and you have truly inspired me to play the ukulele. You are one of the best ukulele players i have ever heard. Your right up there with Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Im going to start tomorrow and my goal is to play "while my guitar gently weeps" just like you. Keep up your amazing work!

[Oreganoseasoner]

4 strings sounds like an orchestra in terms of magnitude.

[EarlLedden]

oops, I posted before the "last piece". While my Guitar

gently Weeps was the great awakening of the ukulele .

[EarlLedden]

oops, I posted before the "last piece". While my Guitar gently weeps was the great awakening of the ukulele .

[EarlLedden]

To hear what's happening with the ukulele lately I always listen to Jake, who got me started again with his last piece.

[mauijaystar]

We will never see anyone or anything like Jake again. See him as much as you can, as often as you can. We will be able, when we're old, to say "I saw Jake Shimabukuru play', and the children then will be wistful, and will dream.

[Caekplz]

@CoinDl You're supposed to strum a ukulele at the end of its neck. :B

[MonkeyandGiraffe]

2 people are deaf

[beans4free]

@MonkeyandGiraffe you idiot it's at four people now.

[BootShark]

Beautiful, absolutely marvelous.

[SHirst321]

who were the jerks the disliked this haha

[Kagome8055]

WOW and i thought ukelele's were just for slow nice soft music....

o__o jake got some serious talent i wanna be him DDDD:<

[Norcalflat]

I knew the Ukulele is a real instrument, I just did'nt know someone could JAM so hard with one!

[TheBlackbird]

2 people had shaking hands trying to hit the thumbs-up button....

[LOVER88100]

@Stinkoman1212

SORRY TO HEAR THAT

[bawz999]

Amazing!

[sjkdec18]

great cinematography. kudos ted tokyo camera men/women and direction!

[RealCheeseOnly]

ukalele is everywhere on youtube! I love it! This is definitely the most talented, pure ukalele music I've heard out of all of it. Thank you! It was beautiful.

[goodgoodgoodful]

He talked about the encounter with lady gaga... in my opinion Jake is far more inspiring musician than she is. Simply beautiful music of his.

[Scorianos]

We have tickets to see him at the end of this month. This will be our second time. I would go to watch him play once a month if he would come to the states that often.

[thecanberrakid]

He really is an extraordinary artist... what a great musician he truly is. I love him to bits.

[420stocky]

Absolutley Amaizing well done Jake never listened to a ukulele play untill tonight and well its opened a whole lot more doors for me and just in one day in listening to one play i think the idea of a ukulele being the instrument of peace is 100% TRUE

[davexz]

absolutely blown away now. 

[TheZirn]

is that a concert sized or tenor?

[hukapuka1022]

@TheZirn tenor

[sakatis]

whats the defrence in sound? from a guitar

[hukapuka1022]

@sakatis ukes give a softer sound because its strings are made of nylon

[StandAlone3]

@sakatis (learn to spell when trying to ask a serious question) basically, it's very simple, guitars, having longer and thicker strings produce a much more deep pitch. If the guitar is the alto sax, the ukulele is the soprano sax, and the bass is the baritone sax.

[sachsoni]

I want your shoes!!!!

[grinkrystal]

very nuno bettencourt.. bravo!!!

[floppee]

just awesome

[zairekrieger]

watch his facial expression, so much passion

[davidbkopp]

"You know one of the things I love about being a ukulele player is that no matter where in the world I go to play, the audience has such low expectations!" CLASSIC!

[Nihao392]

Good! I like it.

[juelz714cali]

One day I want to see him do Free bird on the Ukelele

[MRA08]

his uke is siiiiiiiick!

[siampansey]

He's my inspration...xoxo

[Richard7PF]

"...I truly believe that the 'ukulele is the instrument of peace."

truly, this man is a favored son of the islands, taking aloha far beyond our seas

[kario0n]

Ave Maria at 6:00 is hauntingly beautiful

[appleorangejuice]

Awesome

[LeonardChrist]

No dislikes :)

[U9693024]

awesome

[heewoman]

AWESOME!

[shkong]

is jake even human? omg!

[lespe60]

amazing... I sent the link to my kids to make them smile too.

[same270]

@lespe60 if u are with your kids they will be more happy than watching it.

[i65c]

Tough voice, huh.

[JahLove63]

Jake is a phenomenal soul...his playing gives me chills...utterly amazing!

[enzym]

Feels like going to Hawaii anytime now.

[mboya6969]

amazing

[chucksandy]

a fantastic performance & so happy to have been there to see it! Thanks Jake and TEDTokyoX!

[lovecatgdm]

Beautiful

[myfriendwendyinjapan]

Those are some mad skills! Your passion is contagious.

[iknowe1]

What a wonderful performace! These comfortable sounds makes me happy !

[IKNOWE234]

What a wonderful performace! These comfortable sounds makes me happy !

[ktachibana]

Thank you Jake !