Shamisen folk song score book?

Notation
#1

Hi all,

Can someone send me a link to where to buy the Shamisen notation book for the usual well known collection of Minyo/Japanese folk songs like Saitaro bushi, Aizu Bandai san etc.

Many thanks,

#2

Hi Alex. Are you talking about Fujimoto books ?

#3

Hi Patrick,

I am not sure what the Fujimoto books are?

Do they have notation for popular folk songs?

I’m hoping there is a “how to play popular minyo songs on Shamisen” book with scores.

I was at the big 4 day folk music competition in Tokyo around 2 weeks ago and I’m sure one of the stalls showed me a book with Shamisen notation/tabs.

Is there like a book on amazon japan or a similar website?

Thanks so much :slight_smile:

#4

You can also download a lot of them.

Toshi shamimaster has a bunch on his site:

http://www.shamimaster.com/gakufu.html

and there is a ton here. I’m going to assume you don’t read Japanese. If you want, I could download them for you if you told me what you want.

http://www.mu-tech.co.jp/music_files/shamisen/

#5

That’s awesome, I have used website a lot in the past and he doesn’t have scores for the songs I’m wanting to learn.

That would be fantastic, I can’t read Japanese so any help with finding scores for me would be fantastic.

The 3 songs I would love scores for are:

  1. Saitaro Bushi
  2. Aizu Bandai San
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Thanks Pete :slight_smile:

#6

Well, the site it down, but I have them all in a book here. I could scan them in and send them to you. Do you have an email?

#7

That would be wonderful, thank you for your great help Pete. I’ve messaged you.

#8

You are right, Alex your picture is the cover of the fujimoto minyo collection. Here is a example of the page in a fomer discussion :

#9

The books I have are Fujimoto books (though ancient).

Showa 51 nen.

#10

goodpm/am, mr. @Pete_Larson this maybe rude but, can I also have a copy? If it’s fine with you… Thanks!

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