Somehow it's a concept Kubo hasn't come up against yet. But that's not nearly as interesting as all those strings. The guitar has much less of a twang than his shamisen, sort of a softer, gentler sound that he doesn't think would make for the kind of music he likes to play, but that doesn't stop it being interesting. And it doesn't stop him from being interested in hearing it played by somebody who DOES know how to play it.
"The magic comes from my mother's side of the family," he says, graciously passing the credit for awesomeness onto his mother. "She taught me how to play the shamisen."
Which he takes off his back, so they can compare instruments.
"You've got a lot more strings to keep track of," he jokes, over his three. "Would you like to trade songs?"
He's been covering other peoples' music since he got here, but so far, nobody's tried any of his pieces on their instrument.
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Somehow it's a concept Kubo hasn't come up against yet. But that's not nearly as interesting as all those strings. The guitar has much less of a twang than his shamisen, sort of a softer, gentler sound that he doesn't think would make for the kind of music he likes to play, but that doesn't stop it being interesting. And it doesn't stop him from being interested in hearing it played by somebody who DOES know how to play it.
"The magic comes from my mother's side of the family," he says, graciously passing the credit for awesomeness onto his mother. "She taught me how to play the shamisen."
Which he takes off his back, so they can compare instruments.
"You've got a lot more strings to keep track of," he jokes, over his three. "Would you like to trade songs?"
He's been covering other peoples' music since he got here, but so far, nobody's tried any of his pieces on their instrument.