I’m having extreme difficulty finding any pieces other than kuroishi yosare bushi to play. I know that I can purchase the Shamisen of Japan book and there’s 16 pieces in there, but I’d rather not wait for a week or so to get the book if they’re somewhere I can purchase/download them.
That said, does anyone know of anywhere I can find shamisen music notation/sheet music?
Hi Nick,
To keep you busy while waiting for the book, here is a link to my friend Kametani Eimei’s site, benben tsushin:
http://www.benben.jp/score/index.htm
It’s mostly in Japanese, so I’ve linked right to the scores. There are no full pieces here, but he gives you notation for several riffs from jongara and yosare, and embedded youtube clips to hear and see how to play them.