"oh it's just not your style of music". Specifically, she's playing like it's a shamisen, which uses a different style and techniques than a rock guitar. Like ShamisenHero said, she's actually plucking the strings with both hands and striking the strings on both the up and down strokes. As to how fast she plays, this is how fast it's supposed to be played, so this is how fast she plays it. And she plays it well.
wooo, thanks, i have read about something like that a few days (i till searching for information about this XD haha) mmm... but i wonder if there are diferent scales... one of my friends give me a sheet with some names of the japanese scales, and i wonder if is somthing like the gregorian modes... do you know somthing else? they look like pentatonics, but looks like diminish too, its awesome the music of this country, thax for the answer again n___n
@delta9LouDog Yeah, you're right. I'm just sayin' that's probably why this up-loader wrote that. Because by the way that they wrote their description, it would seem that they're not a native English speaker--probably a Japanese person. So they just went with the translation when describing it. You know?
Part of playing the shamisen isn't just the sound it makes but also how the player and instrument appear. A large portion of proper shamisen protocol isn't something that someone with no training can understand, or training in a different instrument.
Listening too a banjo makes you think of a bunch of hokie hick fucks dancin ... This instrument makes you think of samurais slicing shit up, which is by far way more BADASS!
klavereen...this is Iwasaki Shizuka in this vid, but i will be forever grateful to you for telling me about the new link to Isimura Natsumi, domo arigato gozaimasu
Con unos principios de diferencia. Como que usa un plectro especial llamado bachi capaz de realizar patrones rítmicos/persecución. (Cosa que no se puede hacer con el bluegrass)
My late wife Yoshie was a Shamisen teacher and used to play for me...now I can only listen to Shamisen on youtube. I think she would have liked to see a different version - style. She was however very much traditional (Yamato Nadeshiko she used to say).
The guitar instrument family is limited to instruments which are historical derivatives of the guitar. This includes neither the shamisen nor the banjo, which could, in addition to several other instruments around the world, be grouped together for using a tensioned membrane to conduct string vibrations. However this grouping holds together primarily on that ground and not on issues of instrument design, tuning, playing technique, or historical association.
I hate uber-anime fans who think they know everything about Japan. Read about the history of the Shamisen and where it comes from and you'd understand why people who don't know the name of the instrument(or don't care) would call it a guitar. Stop being so pretentious.
I'm stuck listening to it, I've been binge searching for all the videos I can find. The one woman I found it looked like she was playing the guitar with a Dorito. I was like fuck yeah. This and the percussion ensambles I've found are kick ass. Am I seeing it right though they pluck only 3 strings and use the pick as a slide as well as a drum per-say. And for the lack of the other two strings they tighten and loosen to gain the other notes?
The Yoshida Brothers did a duel performance that was kick ass sitting in front of an orange curtain. I also love the super long guitar that looks like a harp laid on its side and they move the bridges up and down and pluck using all their digits. I can barely Pat my head and rub my stomach. lol
