Bachido Blogcast E1 - How to Hold Tsugaru Shamisen
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12 жыл бұрынToday's episode of the Bachido Blogcast (changing title from BachiTV) is about how to hold a tsugaru shamisen, answering a question a Bachido member had on the Bachido forum.
@jdsmash 12 жыл бұрын
Nice. I feel that this kind of information is rather helpful for anyone even remotely curious about learning an art like shamisen, which is arguably steeped in tradition. It just goes to show that when it comes right down to it, you really just need to get comfortable with your baby and know how to hold it :3 Kudos for posting videos with a cold! Keep it up sir! I'd like to start creating and posting videos myself more but I want to get a more appropriate shamisen to demonstrate with.
@a0zuniverse Ай бұрын
I realize this is a very old video, but one thing I’ve been struggling with for a while now is that the my shamisen wants to slip out from under my forearm (in the direction where the tuning pegs go to the floor). I have to put an immense amount of force into my forearm to keep the shamisen from slipping out. It’s almost like my doukake is so slippery that my shamisen just slides out (I almost need some sort of “doukake-gomu.” Do you have any idea how I might fix this issue?
@a0zuniverse Ай бұрын
Okay now that I think about it, when you talking about hooking the shamisen onto your ribs, is this to prevent rotation in the way I’m describing? I’ve always had an issue with stabilizing it with my ribs, but I just tried placing the corner of the drum head on the right side of my ribs to prevent it from falling, but not sure if this is correct.
@TsugaruShamisen Ай бұрын
@@a0zuniverse I'm glad that someone's still watching these videos! 😀Yes, this is a very common issue, and I only somewhat addressed the solution here. Please check out this video which my student made a few years ago. I think he addresses the method a bit more clearly. :) - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aspljctqvLybc30.html
@a0zuniverse Ай бұрын
@@TsugaruShamisen Thanks for the reply! That Body Mechanics series is great and I actually come back to those videos frequently! Yet I still seem to be unable to keep the shamisen from falling over without supporting it with my left hand or putting a lot of pressure through my right forearm. Any position where I'm able to relax my right shoulder has the shamisen slip out, unfortunately. Should the forearm, ribs, or thigh be predominantly responsible for the shamisen not slipping?
@TsugaruShamisen Ай бұрын
@@a0zuniverse Oh interesting! Let's see... In that case, my guess is the corner of the dou might need to shift further to the outside of your leg. By putting more of the dou on the side, that can help rebalance the weight. In my opinion, all three are required (forearm, ribs, and thigh), but where the dou is on the leg/thigh makes the most difference to how affective the "triangle" of support (forearm, ribs, and thigh) is.