Shamisen demonstration

A wonderful piece of Shamisen music by two very talented players. Recorded in the north of Japan.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shamisen
• Japanese
• music
• Aomori
• Traditional
• Japan
• beautiful

[bhagenbeek]

Thanks for your comment AMradio.

I think they only use it to hit the strings.

[lyraelx]

ahhhh stupid white people, this is so much better than britney spears or whatever 'rap' jungle music u play on your mtv

[bhagenbeek]

I agree completely

[Newerat1]

I love japan...

[bhagenbeek]

Watashi mo

[SaijaFOX]

amazing!

domo arigato gozaimasu

i love it^^

[bhagenbeek]

Do itashi mashite, tomodachi.

I'm glad you enjoy it.

[Kagura785]

Nice music, but it's pronounced and writtern as Tsugaru, not Sugaru. If you write it incorrectly, you basically change both the meaning of the word and the Kanji itself. (You might want one of your Asian friends to pronounce it for you). "Su" and "Tsu" are very very different, just to let you know.

[goread41]

@mobalistiko,

Right on. Nice hearing someone address the fact there being a multitude of great forms of music regardless of cultural operatives that might influence one to have an ethnocentric bias ex.(us & them). From the dance of the cosmos down to the harmonious cellular activities happening within our bodies. All of life is musical in nature, just depends on your level of magnification.

Peace

[amegland]

Oh! Que musica mas genial. Me encanta el sonido que produce el Shamisen.

Oh! What a great kind of music. I love the sounds the Shamisen produces.

Gracias por el video.

Thanks for the video.

[bonosbones]

@Newerat1 me to

[scarydead]

@bhagenbeek Actually when it hits the skin of the instruments, since the skin is a special kind of skin, it creates a percussion sound letting a flow of rhythm out so basically yes. On other types of shamisens, this does not happens because it is not the style of the instruments.

[AMRadioHits]

Is the plectrum also being used as a percussive device?

[steveteaches]

and?

[OkamiNinja7]

You're responding to an old comment made like, what, 2 or 3 months ago?

[steveteaches]

hip hop is only international because we send our crap everywhere... i doubt other countries honestly want to say they make it.

[leozar69]

you are gooood =^-^=  (i am white)