Electric Shamisen - Part 1

[1234airows]

OH FUCK ITS A WEAABOOO!

[extremehockeyfan]

this is awesome lol

[MGdirector]

awesome!!

[KaNAkSpam]

this gaijin dishonouring my ears with his erectric shamisen he take a poo on a japanese curture

*seppuku*

[raquer10101]

@KaNAkSpam I'mma nom nom nommin on yo culture. :D Tastes fishy...

[banished8910]

try that with overdrive on :D pls do it for me ! :D

[shamikami]

@banished8910 There are tons of videos on youtube demonstrating Electric Shamisen with overdrive,feedback, distortion etc.

[gjdud12]

sounds like metallica's clean tone

[TheToxicVoid]

@gjdud12

You're right.

[MrWayJay]

...Yoshida Brothers anyone?

[wccrispy]

When you started tuning it in the beginning it sounded like "One" by Metallica.

[STNKbone]

I love this sound so much! Where would it be possible to get one of these?

[DarkAvatar1313]

making it electric makes it sound too much like a regular electric guitar

[guyverunit1]

What a horrible sounding shamisen ripp off... it sounds like its killing the culture.

[shamikami]

@guyverunit1 HAHAHAHA! HELL YEAH! Kill that silly old culture! Rip it off and KILL it!

...Oh, Oops. Sorry fiddlefella (Kyle)

[sangheily115]

lose little traditionality in music, dont worry its good music =)

[ohboogyohwoogy]

this is just a strange looking electric guitar...nothing else. doesnt sound like a shamisen, much more like a distorted eguitar.

[Jacobsenacc]

I can imagine some japanese traditionalists wanting this guys head on a platter, but you must admit this is an amazing mix of cultural instuments and technology.

[WhiteTakumi]

Now imagine the Yoshida Brothers using them.....

[shamikami]

@WhiteTakumi HAHA. Yoshida Brothers will never use this model of Electric Shamisen. I have asked them personally (or at least Kenichi) and they told me they would only use electric with the standard skin . This type has a plastic skin cover like an electric guitar pick guard.

[hardcorechicano]

now that is some metal

[vertebrae03]

Shamisens fucking rock!!

[Raxerm]

Where in the motherfucking world can i get one?! xD

[oldsmanguy]

i like the sound of the two harmonizing.

[jennaofthecuckooclan]

That is SO AWESOME

[Phelan666]

Just sounds like a three stringed guitar. Total waste of effort.

[Vulcan4298]

It lacks that snap the acoustics have to me, but sounds so metal. Do want!

[BernardoOne]

I like it. In doom metal bands this would sound perfect

[weedmanman420]

oh my. im going to do that. if i can get a shamisen.

[shamikami]

Hell Yeah!! I love your youtube name!

[weedmanman420]

:3 thanks

[BLSPUCKETT]

I totally agree...

[MuriatMuriat]

cool...

[yellowfellow]

haha sounds awesome

[pepehorhae]

cool^^ howcome the only thing missing is the spirit in playing it?

[Masterusi]

It sounds nor bad, but it could be 100times better.

[TokyoAro]

yes

[nfn58]

I don't like it as much... it's cool though. Saying you don't like it is probably similar to what people used to say about electric guitars. Now people love them.

[MortuusDiabolus]

Uhm...well...

The traditional [non-electric] shamisen souds much-much better imho.

[Thraxxacor]

Yich... Sounds terrible... Cool n all, but if you're going to play a shamisen, make it a non-electric...

[mulatogato]

do caraio

[adrielric]

i find this very cool ! it sounds great ^^

[Dennemark]

it does take away the traditional shamisen sound, but maybe thats because this sound is for an completely different style of music.

[joeyvic]

This is awesome. This may be the wave of the future. Who knows

[athiria]

I don't like this at all, it takes away the "shamisen sound".^^

[wtfwtfjessicax3]

Agreed. <3

[Soriphen]

Agreed as well.

[PooJiraiya]

like the rock robe

[jikishijinshinken]

エレキギターを初めてポピュラーにした人、レス・ポールさん。「­この音、もうギターじゃないよ。電子音だよ。げんなり」と言われ­た。　嘘だと思う？

[HevyImpaler]

Sounds very good!

[sgtrockstar75]

This is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen. I think its brilliant. Wish I'd thought of it.

[SanRafaelSwell]

For those of you being critical of this brilliant musician, get a clue. Kevin Kmetz is the first foreigner in history to win the honorary Daijo Kazuo Award at the Tsugaru Shamisen Championship Competition in Kanagi, Japan on May 5, 2005 and the "Judges Choice" Award at the Hirosaki Championship tournament May 4, 2005. In both 2006 and 2007, Kevin placed Nyusho (runner-up) at Hirosaki and Jyun Yuusho (2nd place) at Kanagi. Enough said.

[matsuiny2004]

cool. keep doing.

[BobTheSkeleton]

I want one!

[matthieu124]

The original sounds better in my opinion, stick with the traditional :). Still, this sounds pretty good

[akinasukizakura]

この音、もう三味線じゃないよ。エレキギターだよ。げんなり。

[smierco]

woooow

AMAZING

japanese metal yeah

[anariel2000]

pretty cool.

[kwansoo87]

my first thought

[shadowkat95]

Mukashi no tugaru dewa nai. Kore wa arata na monogatari o sasu kibo no shamisen desu.

[Hellnezuela]

sounds perverse, i like,fiddlefella i wanna learn shamisen

[JinsukeHP]

I like the regular tsugaru shamisen, but this has a really nice, haunting sound that I haven't heard from an electric guitar before.  It might just be Kevin, but I like it.

[Mimeblade]

I think it would sound better if he played it faster, that's usually how electric guitars play too.

[Kagura785]

Sounds scary, I like the traditional Tsugaru de gozaru na... (quoting Kenshin) Yare! Yare! Yare!!!

[ShinobiSniper]

that's the dude from God of Shamisen right?

[Otacon144]

Yeah. His name's Kevin Kmetz.

[Savic]

he hath defiled the Shamisen....

[KUROGUY]

That's what they said when the electric guitar was invented... And shamisen is guitars eastern cousin. It's a new invention so the sound of it hasn't quite been perfected.

[Savic]

I remember hearing an electric Banjo when I was younger, I've never seen, or heard one since...goes to show you that somethings are not meant to be Electrified

[Marazish]

i think it relly depends on what kind of distortion you run it threw, before throwing out an amp. you can make even a gibson sound like pure ass with a bad enough pedle (or one thats ben tuned to sound bad.)

also i thought the shamisen was Extreamly old, but the pick up to make it electric wer new hmm?

[TheViolinistHamel]

thats really good, but nothing beats the beautiful sound of a regular Shamisen.