Thanks for watching! Here are the links to the other videos.. The Akebono Scale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTzj... The Yo Scale: • How to Write Tradition... The Iwato Scale: • How to Write Tradition...
I play shakuhachi and I have to make some comments, it'll only help you out. :) It's not played like a recorder!, you need a good embouchure, most people don't even get a sound out of it the first time they try, it's more comparable to a western concert flute, an Andean quena, a Chinese (Dong)Xiao or a middle eastern Ney then a recorder. It has lots of different lengths, from 30 cm up to 1.5 meter, with varying bore sizes. So it's range is extremely variable from shakuhachi to shakuhachi. The two main categories are 'jinashi' and 'jiari'. With hotchiku being classified as its own category, just like Edo style flutes being another category. But jiari and jinashi are the two most prominent ones. Jiari (='with ji') is more suited for western style playing, and ensemble. Jinashi is famed for its timbres most suitable for honkyoku, traditional solo Fuke shu Rinzai Zen Buddhist pieces. 7 hole versions also exist but are more aimed towards western music, traditional music really shines with a 5 hole, as you lose a lot of timbral character with more holes. The example you provided doesn't sound like an actual shakuhachi at all. It resembles it, just like an oscillated square wave resembles a clarinet, or the Google translate voice resembling an actual human being. It's not pronounced as 'sak' ehachi as in 'sake'. It's pronounced with an 'ssjj' rather then a 'ss' if that makes sense. I'd love to record some samples for you to use in your videos for free if you like? I play a 1.8, that is in D minor pentatonic. Of course I can play all notes in the 12 tone western scales with techniques like 'meri'.
