Kazue Sawai Plays Midare (JAPANESE KOTO)

The greatest living koto player. The Jimi Hendrix of the Japanese harp.

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Music

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• koto
• Japan
• Japanese
• music
• Jimi
• Hendrix
• Midare

[japonaliya]

The reason I compared Sawai sensei to Jimi Hendrix was first, to get attention of those who are unfamiliar with Japanese traditional music.

Secondly, both Sawai sensei and Jimi Hendrix are/were masters of their respective instruments, and totally changed the way those instruments were played and perceived.

They both changed the history of music.

I can guarantee that if Jimi and Kazue had met they would have recorded together.

[japonaliya]

I have been playing the koto for 5 years..the guitar for 20. Hirojoshi tuning is pentatonic, but the koto can be tuned to an infinite number of "scales" "Plunking" on a koto quite easily, but you can play a simple piece on ANY instrument. Mastering the koto is as hard as any western instrument. Pieces like Rokudan or Midare are used as a standards to get your instructional cert. All students learn these in the course of their studies, but a trained ear can hear the master vs. the novice.

[Iceberqe]

"jimi hendrix of the japanese harp" XD

[Komakiu]

:)

[MOAKmemoirs]

@nipponichibanable あなたがたは真理を話す

[harmashalom]

I have always loved the pentatonic scale!

[BlakeBatts]

I just got into this Koto This is something I need to dig deeper and find out more about!

[asukanomiko7]

この世界の異端者！それこそ、狂い弾きですね。

[nipponichibanable]

これの音楽わ迚一番です

[jippiandy]

@CriterionCoIIection no, then why do you comment this then??

chill out... douche

[slimdave2011]

pretty cool sounds lady..mix it in with some other forms of music like punk or metal and it would spectacular.

[CriterionCoIIection]

@japonaliya you can't guarantee anything, douche bag

[CSSFUN1]

MASTERPIECE!