How to get Shamisen Tone on Banjo

[75egcg]

Hello's, mines name is toki and i's gonna give yous a littles bits of lessons on ehhh littles aspects of banjo playings ziss is sortas mines own sing dats my bandz Dessklok didints like so's i show yous youtubes ppl.

[scarydead]

thats chinese

not japanese

i know jap

[ImmortalReaver]

It's "Shah-me-sen".

[annyonghaseyo90]

yeahh sounds more like a koto

[Johnnybomb1]

Sounds more like a chinese Pipa to me.

[Sunderlanding]

Cool. What an original way to approach harmonics.

[AaronDuckFish]

Wow! Great technique! Coming from a Tsugaru shamisen player.

[cosmicarainia]

hummm, is Kevin logged into someone's elses Youtube.

[JoJaDaRu]

Awesome trick, I'd love to hear a big jam with this style going on.

[LJKNY40]

Very interesting. hey! you should get in touch with Mike Penny or Kevin Kmetz- in America they are the best Shamisen players around! (Or at least the silliest!)

[jackn1969]

Cool! I'm gonna give it a go, thanks for posting this. 5*

[robbourassaguitarist]

Thanks, I was wondering how you did that actually. I could hear the harmonic, but I haven't ever done it with fingerpicks.

5 Stars.

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