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How to get Shamisen Tone on Banjo

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Uploaded by on Nov 4, 2008

A short video demonstrating how to create a tone similar to that of a Japanese Shamisen lute on the banjo.

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  • Sounds more like a chinese Pipa to me.

  • 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!)

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  • 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.

  • thats chinese

    not japanese

    i know jap

  • It's "Shah-me-sen".

  • yeahh sounds more like a koto

  • Cool. What an original way to approach harmonics.

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

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

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

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