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The heike shamisen compared with a medium-sized, or chuzao shamisen Plectrums for a minyo and heike shamisen. The heike shamisen (Japanese: 平家三味線), is a Japanese musical instrument, member of the shamisen family. Like its other counterparts, the heike shamisen has three strings, a slender neck, a body taut with skin, and it is plucked ...
A single drummer alternates between the two drums and the taru barrel in his or her ensemble, in intricate drumming techniques. Heike Ondo is accompanied by a kind of shamisen called the Heike Shamisen, which has a shorter neck than most shamisens in Japan, and thus, a higher range. The narrative is quite long and is rarely ever sung in its ...
The heike shamisen (平家) is a shamisen particularly fashioned for the performance of the song Heike Ondo, a folk tune originating from Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The neck of the heike shamisen is about half the length of most shamisen, giving the instrument the high range needed to play Heike Ondo.
Simply put: Love songs have stood the test of time through so many decades. Seriously, the ’60s and ’70s were all about soul and funk, while the ’80s ushered in pop and rock. And then the ...
The heike-biwa instrument itself is a combination of gaku-and mōsō-biwa predecessors. [42] Indeed, the relative average distance between the frets is equal to that of heike-biwa, as are the relative height of the frets. [42] From Shobutsu, two schools emerged, the Yasaka-ryū school, led by Jōgen, and Ichikata-ryū school, headed by Jōichi ...
Irreplaceable is a studio album by American musician George Benson.The album, released by GRP Records in 2003, was recorded in contemporary R&B style. However, four songs were re-recorded in a more smooth jazz style and released in 2004, together with three new songs, and leaving out three songs from the original 2003 edition.
While the City Sleeps... is a 1986 studio album by American guitarist and singer George Benson, released on Warner Bros. Records.It features musicians like Paulinho da Costa, Preston Glass, Paul Jackson, Jr., Marcus Miller and Narada Michael Walden (as drummer and producer), alongside young talents of the time like Kenny G, Randy Jackson and Kashif.
Songs and Stories is a studio album by George Benson. The album was released by Concord on August 25, 2009. The album was produced by John Burk and Marcus Miller and featured a host of guest musicians.