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Here you can find everything you need to know about our "Big Cat", ginjineko, your favorite Japanese guitar entertainer.

We'll regularly keep posting all the hot info about him so please stick to us!

This blog is mainly maintained by khaluah, ginjineko's "Lil Sis" (not related).

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

ginjineko's mini album "REAL+" now on sale!!

Thank you guys for waiting!
ginjineko's mini album, "REAL+" is now on sale from CDbaby.com!

You can purchase the CD from the URL below.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/ginjineko

Go ahead and grab your copy now!

Download sale from iTunes Store is now in process.
We'll inform you guys as soon as it's available.
But please note that this CD has such a beautiful art work and it's also a part of the "story" this concept album weaves.
And obviously, you can only get the art work by purchasing the CD ;)


For more details about "REAL+", please read this article I wrote the other day!
Thanks!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

ginjineko tunes TAB & Backing Track Sets on sale!

●MIGHTY☆WING 250yen
●Catwalk Etude 250yen
●LIMIT BREAK 250yen

You can purchase them from here
http://www.dl-market.com/default.php/manufacturers_id/1693/language/en



As some of you might already know, ginjineko usually just says no to TAB requests.
And here are his main reasons why.


1. THERE'RE A LOT OF THINGS THAT JUST CAN'T BE PUT DOWN ON TABs
He often says, "Use your ear". That's right, to learn music, you must use your ear.
But when you have TABs, you tend to just "read" it on the paper and forget to learn how it's actually played by listening to the actual music.
Music is naturally full of nuance and feelings that just can't be put down on paper, and you can only learn them by listening to it carefully.

2. COPYING BY EAR IS THS BEST WAY TO NOURISH GOOD "MUSIC EAR"
Kinda same thing with 1, but to be a good musician, you must nourish good ear.
Copying by ear is the best practice to develop "music ear" so you should do it as often as possible, especially when you are a beginner.

3. ginjineko NEVER WRITES DOWN HIS MUSIC
That's right. The composer himself doesn't have the music sheets for his tunes cause he never writes them down.
Did you guys know that a lot of contemporary musicians (professional or amateure) never write music sheets?
In case of ginjineko, he just "copies" the music ringing in his head, plays it down on the guitar, and records it on his Mac. If he forgets how to play any of his tunes, he just listens to his recordings and "copies" it again.
That's why, if he decides to release TABs, he has to write it down from the scratch, and that's such a time-and-effort-consuming work.



However, he DOES understand that you guys asks for TABs because you love his music.
And he really appreciates that.
So, he finally decided to make TABs for some of his most popular tunes.
(He still wants to remind you guys to listen to the tunes carefully, even when you have the TAB!
There are a lot of stuff you can only learn by listening!)

Each sets are only a couple of dollars so I'm sure you can afford it by saving up some soda money for a couple of days.
Plus, from my point of view, if you pay some fee, however small it is, you will try to make something out of it, don't you agree? I'm sure you won't make any "oh-I-got-off-work-late-today" excuses or "I've-just-got-a-new-XBOX-game" excuses to skip today's practice. And trust me, it's such a big difference when you are a lazy person just like me :)


*If you have any requests for ginjineko to add to his TAB/Backing Track sets line up, please send it here: kamoneginjistudio@gmail.com (ginjineko's ORIGINAL TUNES ONLY PLEASE!) We cannot guarantee all requests will be answered, but ginjineko sure will consider them when he decides to release more TABs next time.