Electric Shamisen - Part 2

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Well, for better or for worse, an electric shamisen has been made and I think this is the first time it's ever been played in America (second time if you count the sneak preview I got of it). Now, you get to experience it for the first time too!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shamisen
• Tsugaru
• Electric

[IchLiebeTsugaru]

That is a Mugen21 right?

[fiddlefella]

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure a Mugen21 can be played acoustically as well as amplified but the electric shamisen in the video can't be played without an amp. I've seen it up close and I saw it has a hard pvc skin/cover in lue of dog skin.

A Mugen21 probably sounds more like a shamisen. I think this fully electric kind just sounds like a electric guitar. (which I'm not a huge fan of, but that's just me)

[billmills]

Amazing! No matter what you think of the way the electrified sound in represented in this video, which was affected by the fact that it was recorded by the cam mic picking up stage speckers from a distance, the playing is awesome. This is a very talented musician doing some very entertaining and unique work. Thanks for posting it for us to enjoy and marvel over!

[JuliusGratekul]

I wanna see "Devil went down to Japan"

[Nadesican]

Hm, not bad, though the octave definitely seemed to have dropped in comparison with the traditional shamisen. It's almost a bass instrument in this manner!

[gargoloso]

And the electric guitar sounds to much as an electric violin or electric cello that were invented first than the electric guitar. the sound is because the distortion and other efects , the elctric guitar does not sound that way by itself, and effects can be put to any electric instrument as long as it has a jack. It is no way a property of guitars, although the mass culture has teached that to us.

[MrBhunter89]

I WANT ONE AAAHHHHH!!!!!!

[misosaltee]

haha i searched "steve morse shamisen" and this is what came up...

:D

[Ashogo]

meh...I like traditional shamisen mixed with modern styles, but this sounded too much like an electric guitar.

[oldsmanguy]

damn dude!! its like dream theater shamisen style, i like when he starts going ape shit @ 0:54 nice.

[shamisendemon]

it is mostly improvisation but it is based on the MONSTERS of SHAMISEN theme song which is written by Masahiro Nitta.

[kelpie238]

does that song is yours? [..what's it's name?]

[pureintellectual]

awesome i like how he maintains control when he goes really high. it seems like most would lose the rythym when they got up there

[olivierveillette]

J'ai déjà vu ce mec en show à MTL. Il joue avec le groupe Estradasphere depuis 2003. Kevin Kmetz son nom.