Drummer Reaction: SENRI KAWAGUCHI | "Young Hawk" KIYO*SEN JAZZ ver (2021 Reaction) 

Senri is the package. She can play from Metal to Jazz and such a nice personality too. She, Kanade and Yoyoka lead the way to so much joy to watch sensational (Japanese) female drummers. What a treat.

Finally Senri! She's awesome drummer! She played with Guthri Govan as well! Fantastic musician.

Just to add to the conversation; the lady on keys was the 2nd musician that played keys for the legendary Fusion Jazz band Cassiopeia. If you haven't heard of them, you've probably heard some of their compositions on the 8bit nintendo and Sega game system. Senri is by far the most recognized drummer currently active in the Jazz world overall. She was compared to the late great Buddy Rich at the age of 15 and has performed with some of the most prominent artists such as Guthrie Govan. Remember; they ask HER to perform. But that is little surprise considering her mentor was Kozo Suganuma. Check him out; then you know why her talent has developed her skills so quickly.

That was damn good. All of them, each musician, top fucking notch.

Love Senri .. speaking of Japanese female drummers Jimmy Paige (Led Zepplin) saw this drummer and insisted he meet her for a photo op he is rumored to have said she's better than Bonham ... she is Akane Hirose of the J-Rock Group Band Maid .. you should check out their song Freedom (live version) and her solo you can find it on their official YT channel I have not heard of anyone getting a strike reacting to them.

Nice to hear something closer to what drums "actually" sound like. I think we tend to forget... ;) Keep it up Andrew, great content ! With love, from France.

I not sure if you know but her and yoyoka are friends and are in touch with one another. I understand she helped yoyoka with a few things. She's phenomenal but Im more in to rock drummers. I still can marvel at and appreciate her ability. Enjoyed the show and your commentary thanks stay safe.

The words of the day articulate, dynamic and musical.

This brings a smile to my face. Not just because Senri is smiling. Actually her smiles are contagious, but they bring such a happy funky and jazzy beat. Along with Fabulous sound & rhythm .. A+ performance!

It was pretty fun to watch her grow up on the kit when she was first being recorded at what, 8 or 9? Now she's 24 and keeps getting better as time moves on.

Senri Kawaguchi learned drumming from Kozo Suganuma since 8 years old. Kozo Suganuma is famous drummer in japan and he is called "King of too many strokes". So, Senri Kawaguchi is called "Princess of too many strokes" :-) Suganuma and the guitarist, Koichi Yabori are working together in a Jazz/Rock band called "Fragile". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ze3tU34yg0U.html Yabori plays with both the master and the disciple. The keyboardist, Kiyomi Otaka is also famous among japanese jazz fans also. She is Yabori's wife. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jJ1FctAOk0c.html

Not the best Senri video, but I can "chew" this well. Better a video from Senri than none.

Senri was playing Tombo in 7/4 when she was 9 years old, fronting for a jazz band. BTW, she also played professionally while getting her BA degree from Waseda University (The Stanford/Oxford of Japan).

Wow, Senri is the best I love her.❤😍❤

She is just so fluid. In my list of players to learn more from.

Kind of a Buddy Rich feel solo. Felt like I was sitting at the Baked Potato in Studio City.

Her drumming's obviously great, but her smile kept me watching!

takes me back to all the electric jazz fusion I loved in the mid to late 90s.

Yeah this is a good one. She has some wonderful solo vids but this is even better!

Something that feels to me to be overlooked is the simplicity of those snare rolls at the end of those 4-bar phrases. The opportunity is there to do more in terms of fills but by doing those half note rolls, especially in more of a jam session feel, the rolls make the start of the next 4-bar phrase feel more open. It can't be overstated how underrated the feel it creates by such a simple technique to fill the end of the phrase

If you can find the time good sir: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8H1-ebvlBTw.html The quality is not ideal, but this is Guthrie Govan's Japan tour that Senri was asked to perform live together for the first time. The composition 'Erotic Cakes' was based almost entirely on 'bad notes' (apart from rhythm of course) An absolute joy to watch. There is another video out there where he commissioned Senri and the incredibly talented bass player Mohini Dey. Well worth checking out even if only in private.

I do like the Kiyo-Sen music. This was obviously more pure jazz but they have a fair amount of songs that are old school prog rock. Think: Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Their newest CD is awesome prog/fusion. Watch her video 'Drumatica' from that album to see her being as she describes herself, "a very busy drummer". BTW, her nickname in the Japanese music circles is "Princess of many strokes". Senri's other band, which is also jazz, has some very fine stuff. I really like her older Buena Vista CD Which I think she put out at age 16 or 17. Here is better example of Senri doing prog with 25/16 timing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kKfJklQOz7k.html. There are other commenters that have mention Haruna of Lovebites. Haruna was founder of that band. She is really worth watching. Check out the video "Liar" (studio live). Good visibility of her drumming compared to other youtube videos and good mixup. A good friend of Senri's is Tamu Murata. A young session drummer in Japan. She has new project called Nemophila. It is a bit of a Japanese supergroup of metal/hard rock godesses. Check out the song she just released she did at home during quarantine last month. She plays both the drums and keyboards. See: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Go1mMo8xms.html. A good Nemophila, metal song with her is Oiran, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eyb2NtPwcxc.html. Here is very cool Jfusion song in a very Liquid Tension Experiment style that features Tamu's drumming: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kwsciXm_7sA.html. So you are right-- there is something in the water there.. My conjecture is it comes from the middle earth via the onsen waters.

Senri is the most distinguished female drummer of Japan who has also shared a stage with some of the greatest drummers in music history like Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd and Akira Jimbo. She is also one of the youngest (at 13) to be added into the Drummerworld’s list of the Top 500 drummers in the world and has also been featured as the cover artist on an issue of Drumhead magazine. Here’s a link to a drum solo by her on Drumeo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V5YDxDuyKDI.html And here’s a live of her song “Adventure” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-urpso-w87ts.html Btw she is also the first Zidjian artist ever to get to perform at the very location of their cymbal factory in Norwell, Massachusetts. It’s a solo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NvDsi-gohDo.html

I came for Senri, but the whole band is fucking amazing! 15:42 is when I realized the guitarist had decided it was time to blow some monds.

Kio*Sen is named for the Kiyomi Ohtani (keys) and Senri (of course), but the band members are just top tier all-around. They produced at least 4 albums from 2014 (when Senri was just 17) to 2020-ish of progressive jazz/funk/rock and yes, it's just 'really tasty' all through. There's a little bit of rotating players in and out but the guitarist performing here is the "usual" guitarist.

She plays beyond her years. I see many young musicians with great chops and technique...but the feel, dynamics and just the "ease" of putting all that together is usually missing until they have more experience and maturity. Not so with this young lady...she's fantastic!

Cool lady drummer and she has some sick beats. Sarah Thawer is a brilliant and bizarre drummer. She’s definitely entertaining. Thanks again and I’ll interrupt myself.....with Van Damme splits

Oh damn, this is serious. I really need to explore Japanese jazz better.

No matter what instrument you play you'll not escape guitar face.

Love it! Feels like progish jazz 😂

they are a SERIOUS Trio 😳😁👍,i love improv JAZZ especially 3 piece

Obviously love Senri here…she is a magician….but being a guitarist….god do I love that solo guitar tone…Sounds so Eric Johnson like…and man I love that guy and his work so so much…

Haken - Nil by Mouth! Drummer is Raymond Hearne. Also, Mark Zonder from Fates Warning! Both great technical drummers! Zonder has a unique style of drumming. Check out "At Fates Hands" by Fates Warning

What we saw here is a drop of what she's capable of

Yes! More female drummers THANKS 😊

Senri is the #1 jazz drummer on the planet. She is the reincarnation of Buddy Rich. Kozo Suganuma has trained Senri well.

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Holy crap! Had not heard of her. Check out her channel! Fusion beast!

Cool reaction.👌

what a drummer 😁👍

SEN REEE Kawaguchi

Senri is awesome 👏👏👏👏so musical and so relaxed behind the kit while just grooving and smiling.....she’s top drawer 😎👍🏻🥂

to perpetuate a stereotype: Asians can do anything, literally anything. Senri is one of the examples of that. I bet if you would put her on a guitar, she would play that without spoofs as well. JK, but for real, I am a big anime fan and the soundtracks of a lot of them are incredible and when you begin to look up the musicians behind them, you realize how much great musicians that country has. Yoko Kanno is probably my forever love... I mean how can you not listen to something like "Tank!" and not be at least bobbing your head or tapping your foot! Might be a great reaction to drums of that as well. That said: Someone up for some DnB videos? I love the Noisia cover from Ben Anderson but there are also a lot of other great drummers out there who occasionally or only play that style... ANdreas Meinhardt, Jojo Mayer also dabbled in it...

Japanese jazz like this always makes me want to dust off the PS1 and knock out a few laps of Gran Turismo 2

She is the young hawk.

JAZZ- when you want to hear all the notes. At once.

Took me till I hit 30 to get or like jazz. Now it's mostly that and metal. Weird combo, but it works.

I would like Senri Kawaguchi to play with Ivo Papazov ... man that would be awesome.

Senri is a great drummer arguably the best female in the world. This clip is far from the best. You really see how good she is in solos. Most of the time here it's just keyboards and guitar solos. Really watch the individual clips which highlight her skill to the max. This isnt a great recording either. To get a true idea of her talent,look at her clips when she was only 12,one duelling with Kanade Sato who was only 8 at the time. She is better now of course but was incredible as a pre teen. Unlike Yoyoka and Kanade,she really didnt show her class until aged 10. Both Yoyoka and Kanade were outstanding prodigies at 5 and 6. There is a clip of Kanade barely able to reach the bass pedal playing in a band. Quite astonishing performance. She has great 'feel'. Not as powerful as Yoyoka and Senri but she really is a fine 'touch' jazz specialist. Yes Senri does some nice fills here and her speed in the female field is unsurpassed. She does get erratic at times and loses it on the inverted cymbals but the rest of the time she is outstanding as seen here. Just needs to broaden her repoiotiore to other genres to gain greater recognition.

PLEASE DO, STEVE ASHIEM, PLAYING SCARS OF THE CRUCIFIX, the band is deicide, hes in his 50s and he is still playing extreme death metal, effortlessly (at least he makes it look that way) Please look the guy up.

Check Sonny Sharrock - Seize The Rainbow....my favorite guitarist ever, really check out any Sonny Sharrock RIP.

Look at her shows in Paris, so much better and exciting.

Notice the recording dates: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jDngvBMT2Zc.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--CdOxI6Typc.html

Please do a video of Toe's drummer. That guy Is a god

Her name is pronounced Sen-Ree :D

Gotta check out Anika Nilles and Sarah Thawer for some more great female drummers.

this is where music is now, pop and rock are dead

As long as you know the structure of the piece played, for me jazz improve is fun and easy. That said to do it well it does take a bit of skill. I find this type of drumming more fun because it is less structured than rock. Playing rock for me is too strait forward and gets a bit boring to play. Jazz, funk, and r&b,. I find more groovy and fun to play.

Does that chick have a fucking Yamaha cs-80 and a nord lead 3? Nice. To bad she's pulling some basic shit outta them.

First!!

OK really great, but where's the bass?

noblastbeats/10

Still my favorite video of hers: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BA3lvWaC7PY.html

I wonder if she's ever collaborated with Hiromi Uehara? That's not to say that the keyboardist here is not accomplished by any means.

Why pick this video from her ? There are much much better ones.

Before it got to the drum solo it was doing okay, but she kind of built it up to go nowhere, almost like watching a beginner at a guitar center drum off towards the end. 😕 Just seemed like she didn’t know what else she could play and ended up playing different versions of the same thing back and forth. Left feeling a little ehhh..

These musicians obviously have impressive musical abilities, why in the world they would waste even 5 seconds of it playing jazz is a damn mystery to me. Jazz is insufferable nonsense.