The Sakura Variations

So I finally got the time, equipment and conditions to make a new recording. But what should I record? I learned quite a number of new pieces during the past months but I just didn't feel like playing any of them. Having been listening to the great Yatsuhashi Kengyo's Koto music and getting overly enchanted with it, I decided to learn a new piece: Sakura! Unfortunately I did not have too much time to practice. But now I am on my last days in Turkey, getting ready to go back to the US for school... ..with my new guitar that I bought recently. I am very happy with it :)

Sakura means "cherry blossom" in Japanese, and the guitar piece is based on a simple Japanese folk song. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_%28folk_song%29 for the original song.

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Music

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• sakura
• yuquijiro
• yocoh
• classical
• guitar
• klasik
• gitar
• can
• baldan
• japanese
• japon
• koto

[merweryan]

en iyi müzisyen değilsindir elbet..bence tabi..lakin youtube'da tanıma şansı bulduklarımın içinde çok beğendim..5 yıldızı hakediyorsun..

[mcbaldan]

Teşekkür ederim.

[PopLockIn29]

This is awesome...

You have so much skills...

I "started" playin guitar a few weeks ago... n i wanna realy learn this... but i dont know if I'm ready for it... it look rly hard.. :/

Neyse... Cok güzel oyniorsun. Bana göre en iyi Türk musicien sin... =)

Lütfen birak ma musice, onu birakirsan hayati da birak mis olursun...

Keep it up, the awesome work.

[mcbaldan]

Teşekkür ederim. Müziği bırakmayacağım. Türkçede müzik "oynamak" değil, müzik "çalmak" denir ;) Sana gitarda iyi şanslar.

[gridjid]

Wow. I stumbled across your Satie piece and was impressed, so I checked out some of your other stuff. Very nice. It is obvious you put a lot of passion in your playing. How would traditional Turkish music sound on classical guitar?

[mcbaldan]

Thank you. You can watch /watch?v=3F0bGt0DEbo to see a blend of Turkish and Latin music on the guitar.

[pushpanathannn]

Excellent...



[summonshire]

Incomprehensible...

[MetalLife]

uh dude, this must be your own version because its quite different from the original arrangement from Yukihiro Yokoh.... also try to play it a little slower, with more feeling and no string bending please, leave that to death metal solos =) check out the version played by Per-olov Kindgren

[1curiouswolf]

Great! Thank you very much to share. It's very difficult and you play great! Thanks again.

[hbsunsun]

Beautiful interpretation of Sakura.

Arigato!

[chokennaitei]

omg....amazing

[Bl33dingM00n]

i agree!  this person is amazing. I can't get enough of listening. such a clear, pure sound. I love it, i honestly do

[priced80]

whoever says this guy is no good is an idiot and has obviously never tried to play these songs. I think he plays this one better than john williams!! and thats saying something from a John Williams fan.

[razucabrera]

whoa...love this piece! (: