(Tataki) Reigen Fujii’s Tsugaru Shamisen Pro Tips

(Want to start your shamisen journey? Get your own Shamisen and join the international shamisen community, both at !) Disclaimer: These skills specifically apply to classical Tsugaru Shamisen. Please don’t feel required to use them if you’re casually playing just for fun :-) ) After hosting our first international tournament, Bachido Cup (), judge Reigen Fujii (Champion of the Aomori Tsugaru Shamisen Taikai) noticed that the finer aspects of Tsugaru Shamisen techniques were unknown to many participants. Although he could see everyone practices hard and sincerely, they simply weren’t aware of the deeper principles behind certain techniques (deeper principles which even many professional players aren’t aware of). How to remedy this? Simply show them how to crack the code! Thus, to help the shamisen community level up their active self-study, Reigen is introducing these Pro Tips to unlock the captivating tones which Master players like Asano Sho, Agatsuma Hiromitsu, Masahiro Nitta, and Shinichi Kinoshita actively use in their performance. In this first video, Reigen teaches you how to unlock 100% power in your Tataki (percussive strikes)! This series of truly high level instruction is free for you to add to your practice, so please enjoy and practice! Want more shamisen edutainment from Reigen Fujii? Check out his channel Shamisen TV! (Japanese language only) -