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How do I come up with a drum arrangement for a Bon Odori song? Many good Bon Daiko players — my teacher included — will tell you to sing the song as you play the drums.

That being said, singing and playing at the same time is easier said than done. Find the tempo and see if you can clap along accurately to the song.

Another very useful step is breaking the song into smaller sections. For example, you can take a look at just instrumental part of the song. And the last step is the play a variety of Matsuri patterns while singing the song.

When you encounter one of these spots in a song, try listening to what the other instruments are playing. If you found the content useful, please consider making a donation. You will help create new content, and keep it free. In-person private and small group taiko lessons up to 3 participants are offered at my studio in North Hollywood.

You are welcome to drop by, see the space, and get a feel for what lessons might be like. Place: Cahuenga Blvd. I can record online tutorials for you to watch at your convenience. Or, if you prefer live interaction, I have a Zoom setup for that as well. Please feel free to reach out and we can figure out a suitable format! Feel free to use these recordings at your local Obon Festival. Component 2 — Various Obon Festival Songs. Lesson 1 — Hokkai Bon Uta.

Hokkai Bon Uta Lyrics The waves like flower petals We cross the Tsugaru Sea into Ezochi Hokkaido At 17, she was just a bud Now at 21, the flowers are in full bloom In love yet completely unaware A complete lack of interest in the opposite sex is no good either There are many things Hokkaido is famous for One is the Bon Odori of my land, Hokkaido.

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Night Mode OFF. Hi Guest Login Register. Artist - Tokyo Folk Crusaders. You Lied English 2 Plays. Tokyo Folk Crusaders Radio. Public Domain Unidentified. In the s, 44Vo of Japanese claimed to enjoy listening to min'y6, with 24Vo naming it as their favourite genre of music Hughes in prep. Only the hybrid popular song genre enka discussed below ranked higher; Western-style popular and classical musics iagged far behind. But taste was and is sensitive to variables such as r9:e, residence, education and income.

Today's young urban Japanese have a vastly lower appreciation of folk song in any of its forms, but as we shall see, there are some forms that appeal to them more than others.

Soran Bushi' is one of the few folk songs familiar to virtually all Japanese. Most can sing its chorus, perhaps one verse as well, possibly tell you that it comes from the large northern island HokkaidO, that it is connected with hening fishing. But few people will have heard 'Soran Bushi' in its original context: by at the latest, the song had been rendered redundant by mechanization.

Until then, for nearly a century herring fishing had brought thousands of migrant workers to Hokkaido's west coast each spring. Information in this section derives largely from a September interview with Fujiya Kisaburo of Gokatte village, Esashi b. A team of 25 to 30 men worked several specialrzed boats and nets together. The first weeks of March were spent in onshore preparation.

The herring would arrive suddenly in late March or early April, coming inshore to spawn; as they would vanish in less than two weeks, labour was most intensive during this period. Processing the catch followed until mid-May. Then the workers moved on to other migrant jobs, or returned home to do farm work. Most herring come into the nets in the evening, so the crews would go out in late afternoon and work for several hours - all night long if the nets were particularly full.

Ifigfies: 'fironlBusfti':'ltumany fiaa of a IapanesefoKtory 33 Singing would continue throughout in contrast to many Japanese 'work songs' actually sung during interludes in the labour. There were specific songs for each stage of the process: rowing, hauling up the large set net, dumping the fish from this net into another one attached to a large sea-going boat, transferring the catch from that net to smaller taxi-boats for rowing to shore, beating the fish roe off the nets, and so forth. Some songs consisted primarily of vocables.

Although the choice of song for each stage was largely fixed, the lyrics could be selected, altered or improvised freely. True improvisation of full verses was a rarity, however. Lyrics of the various songs were sometimes chosen or created for specific functions. Thus when the herring seemed disinclined to enter the nets, a verse would be sung which called on numerous deities for help. And bawdy and comical verses were particularly valuable for keeping men awake and alert when they had to work through the night.

Each net otamo was over a metre across and much greater in depth. Two or three men would deal with a single net whose handle could be up to 6 metres long. The netting technology was developed there as well and passed to Hokkaido in the year ; the migrant workers who taught Hokkaido fishermen how to use the nets must have also introduced that song, 'Niage Kiyari', for the similar function of loading fish into a boat NHK Over time the melody and lyrics evolved into a distinct Hokkaido style though with many local variants.

Example 1 p. No recordings exist of the song being sung during the actual work. The name 'Soran Bushi' comes from the song's primary repeated vocable, soran; bushi means 'melody' and is found in many folk song titles. An alternative title drawn from the song's original function is 'Okiage Ondo', 'rhythmic song ondo for lifting [the fish] out of the sea'. Both naming patterns are common in Japanese folk songs. The metre is a steady duple.

Verse structure is as follows, with minor local variation in vocables: 1 solo vocable introduction: e yaren soran soran soran soran soran with fewer soran in some cases , ending with a shouted unison hai hai -do ;2 solo meaningful verse in the most common folk poetic metre, 26 syllables in 4 lines 7 -7 -7 -5 ; 3 unison vocable refrain: yasa en ya n sa no dokkoisho;4 non-melodic shouted unison vocable refrain: a dokkoisho dokkoisho. As one man sang the vocable introduction, the netmen would swish the otamo back and forth to scoop up fish from the larger net; the steady rhythm helped them coordinate their movements.

The initial e on the upbeat of most versions helps prepare for the start of the coordinated net-swishing Sasaki Motoharu, pers. During the meaningful lyrics, they might rest a bit or continue swishing.

At the start of the vocable refrain, they began to haul up their load. On the final shouted dokkoisho dokkoisho, they raised the otamo in two final motions to dump the fish into the smaller boat, repeating the shout until the nets were empty.

The workers took turns at this strenuous labour; those not working did most of the singing and kept the rhythm by pounding the gunwales with sticks. The song's happy feeling reflects its partly celebratory nature: if there are fish to scoop, the evening's catch has been a success.

Verse lyrics are omitted. Ml is from Mikuni, Tl and 3 from Tairo, uid Originals were sung a minor 7th to a major 9th lower' Mr. But Fujiya stressed that there was no 'authentic tune' because 'everyone sang it differently'.

Moreover, anyone could start the next verse, choosing from pre-existing lyrics or improvising a new text. The variations shown in Example I are not strictly speaking local: similar differences can occur within one group, as Fujiya confirmed. The tune can begin high or low, as can the second half of the texted melody. Typical verses the less bawdy ones! Every night I think of her more. But just as its life did not begin in the herring fisheries, neither did it end there.

Preservation Society versions Fading aspects of traditional culture are sometimes kept alive by groups of primarily older Japanese, often adopting the name Preservation Society hozonkai; Hughes in prep. Especially since the s, such societies with or without the name have emerged to preserve certain cherished local songs, for reasons ranging from nostalgia to education to competition with nearby villages to the desire to retain control of the song in the face of its alteration by professional singers.

With the death of the manual version of the herring industry, local groups formed to preserve the entire suite of fishery songs. Though no extant recordings were made 'on the job', it is clear that performances by such hozonkai are musically close to the originals, eschewing accompaniment except by rhythm sticks to replicate the gunwale-pounding. My experience with other work song examples suggests that the main changes might be a tendency to sing more quietly and ata lower pitch.

Other changes relate to the new physical context, usually a stage with an audience: order of singers is fixed; the shouted dokkoisho is sung exactly two times; bawdy verses are suppressed; and the songs that precede and follow 'Soran Bushi' in the sequence, though originally separated from it by time and space, are run together with it.

Occasionally a group might try to imitate parts of the work movements, but this is obviously difficult given the varied range of tasks. Scholars debate the value and challenge the authenticity of hozonlcni performances, but to their members these organizations are important and self-affirming. And their versions are certainly closer to the originals, in music and ethos, than the professional ones described next.