Thank you so much for your videos! I've always wanted to learn the shamisen, I saw a video on it a few years back of 2 guys doing a cover of 神のまにまに and the sound of the instrument is amazing. Your videos finally convinced me to order a shamisen on the Bachido website. I haven't ordered yet, but I will be using your videos here since they are a lot of help!!
Thanks for this I’m just starting to learn how to play and I have your book and I was wondering about that. I have this really beautiful WW2 Tsugaru shamisen that has papers that came with it and sounds amazing when I get the notes right lol I took your advice from your videos before I bought it and Asked good questions and made sure that the new skin they had put on it was not cat skin because I live in the USA I love your book and even kinda made my very own bachi which was fun but I need it work on that some more it’s a different size from the one wooden bachi I have and a bit to thick in the neck for my little hand. Thank you so very much I look forward to seeing your new videos and I love your newest one that you made it’s so beautiful with the different woods you used and much louder than your other ones
Thank you so much Kyle, but when you counted out the triplets, your syllables were actually making 16th notes instead of triplets because "zero" has two syllables. "Four-three-ze-ro" = 4 syllables. When counting numbers out loud to a beat it's sometimes necessary to shorten the number word to make it into just one syllable. Often when counting 7/4 people will change "seven" to just "sev". You could do the same and shorten "zero" to just "ze". Thanks for making all the great shamisen content!
This symbol really confused me on the rokudan tablature, maybe I missed a passage in the book but reprinting with this information added would probably be a big help (I saw a couple other posts confused about this on the bachido forum alongside my own)
Aah, probably so. I probably didn't mention much about the triplet. I am planning to do a full rewrite of Shamisen of Japan, and will definitely write about triplets. Hopefully I'll be able to start it next year, or possibly the year after. Finding time has been so difficult as I get older. :P
I don't know if the musical concept of triplet is different in tsugaru, but if not, aren't the three notes within the triplet supposed to have the same duration? It seems like you are giving double the duration for 0 compared to 4 and 3. In other words, I thought 0, 4, and 3 were each supposed to last 33% of the beat, but what is happening is 4 and 3 together are taking 50% and 0 is taking the other 50%. Not complaining though, it sounds good this way as well!
when he starts playing it full speed (around 3:07) the 0 note in the 430 has the same duration as the other two so it's a triplet then, it's just when he's playing it slower and counting it out there's a pause on the 0 that makes it sound that way. (another comment here mentions that "zero" has two syllables and that's why it sounds that way when counting.)
Really gotta get me a Shamisen to accompany my Banjo. Cool video, hope to watch when actually learning. ありがとうございます❗
Thank you so much for your videos! I've always wanted to learn the shamisen, I saw a video on it a few years back of 2 guys doing a cover of 神のまにまに and the sound of the instrument is amazing. Your videos finally convinced me to order a shamisen on the Bachido website. I haven't ordered yet, but I will be using your videos here since they are a lot of help!!
Thanks for this I’m just starting to learn how to play and I have your book and I was wondering about that. I have this really beautiful WW2 Tsugaru shamisen that has papers that came with it and sounds amazing when I get the notes right lol I took your advice from your videos before I bought it and Asked good questions and made sure that the new skin they had put on it was not cat skin because I live in the USA I love your book and even kinda made my very own bachi which was fun but I need it work on that some more it’s a different size from the one wooden bachi I have and a bit to thick in the neck for my little hand. Thank you so very much I look forward to seeing your new videos and I love your newest one that you made it’s so beautiful with the different woods you used and much louder than your other ones
Thank you very much
Thank you so much Kyle, but when you counted out the triplets, your syllables were actually making 16th notes instead of triplets because "zero" has two syllables. "Four-three-ze-ro" = 4 syllables. When counting numbers out loud to a beat it's sometimes necessary to shorten the number word to make it into just one syllable. Often when counting 7/4 people will change "seven" to just "sev". You could do the same and shorten "zero" to just "ze". Thanks for making all the great shamisen content!
That's a good point! Gaaah, I was completely oblivious to that! Never let it be said that I never added more challenge! :-P
This symbol really confused me on the rokudan tablature, maybe I missed a passage in the book but reprinting with this information added would probably be a big help (I saw a couple other posts confused about this on the bachido forum alongside my own)
Aah, probably so. I probably didn't mention much about the triplet. I am planning to do a full rewrite of Shamisen of Japan, and will definitely write about triplets. Hopefully I'll be able to start it next year, or possibly the year after. Finding time has been so difficult as I get older. :P
I don't know if the musical concept of triplet is different in tsugaru, but if not, aren't the three notes within the triplet supposed to have the same duration? It seems like you are giving double the duration for 0 compared to 4 and 3. In other words, I thought 0, 4, and 3 were each supposed to last 33% of the beat, but what is happening is 4 and 3 together are taking 50% and 0 is taking the other 50%. Not complaining though, it sounds good this way as well!
when he starts playing it full speed (around 3:07) the 0 note in the 430 has the same duration as the other two so it's a triplet then, it's just when he's playing it slower and counting it out there's a pause on the 0 that makes it sound that way. (another comment here mentions that "zero" has two syllables and that's why it sounds that way when counting.)