Auto-Tune the News #2 Note-for-Note on Japanese Shamisen/Samurai Debate/Naka Bushi

Nerd learns another episode of the Gregory Brothers' amazing Auto-Tune the News series and performs it on the three-stringed fretless Japanese lute called Tsugaru shamisen. Samurai subsequently debate the legitimacy of his shamisen playing. More shamisen renditions of ATtN episodes:

#4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKwekMFaf40
#5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJZoq5MDXM
#6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0oAdL02jMk
#7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTHISdlhglI
#8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7yyGv7YjM
#9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePUaRdGx5PQ



Praise and glory be to The Gregory Brothers for crafting such fine audio/visual works of art!

(seamless transition from 3rd to 1st person narrative)
Somehow it has become a sort of goal of mine to learn to play all of the ATTN episodes on the shamisen (at least all episodes in the first season). The melodies that the Gregory Brothers create are all so clever and fun to play, ya know?!

Nonsense:
Life (in terms of everything, yet simultaneously in terms of nothing)! Team A2 seeks thunder as far as one can say. Liken me to you and I'll be appreciative, but I won't die 'til so much later, friend.


I do more note-for-note renditions of ATTN episodes on shamisen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTHISdlhglI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePUaRdGx5PQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0oAdL02jMk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7yyGv7YjM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YBa604x0CA
Thanks for watching!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• auto-tune
• news
• very
• thin
• ice

[GeorgetownSuds]

Not only am I in love with you, everyone I am in love wiht is in love is in love with you. And Nakra Bushi, You're such a poser. For the last time, give up on what's left of so many people and differ to the left! To the right! Oh, baby, do it right! Bring it, bring it back: it's time for a travel to the super heat attack. Dippin' to the pool, sucka's goin' back to school, tellin' female's what it's like to be rocking in Schlapools....

[mikepenny01]

@GeorgetownSuds

Hey, do you still have handy those rhymes about Rachmaninoff stealin' your pasta? Bustin' a cap in *someone's* dome? Ah...memories...

[Hikikomori013]

2:15 looks familiar. I wonder if I've seen that movie

As for sewage; let me get my instrument and I'll show you real sewage.

Naka Bushi was good. Go for it!

[mikepenny01]

@Hikikomori013

Haha. That's Hara Kiri (Japanese title: Seppuku)!

[YavinArba]

Shawtey-kun

[schmoyoho]

indeed, sewage may have been a greater leap forward for mankind than the moon landing(s)

[stellarnightz]

You are absolutely brilliant. Just to let you know, you're the reason Auto Tune The News #11 was so awesome.

[noobkiller187]

AWESOME!!!

[chrysillo]

mike, you are fuckin crazy. But u knew that already.

[xXStrAKA]

This is so random. Who actually takes the time to learn how to play a japanese banjo/guitar?

[TheMagicCamcorder]

0 people missed the like button.

I had to say it... :(

[Fedemgo]

Surely you jest! I'm under cardiar arrest, shamy!

[tailsmaniac1]

If ya keep covering "Auto-tune the news", with that to totally fly instrument i'm gonna be SUBBED to YA!

[dragonboyjgh]

I heard it on piano. liked it. sounded a masterpiece. and now I've heard this. I'm beaming.

Also, anyone else notice that comment from schmoyoho? I figure, if your getting compliments from the people youre covering, you know you've got it made.

[Ashesketchum]

Seriously man, you are absolutely amazing, and I love your outro. <3

[MultiversePatroller1]

I cannot even count how many internets you win for this. It's unfathomable. May you rock on that shamisen for years to come, friend.