Tsuki: A Japanese Folk Song
Learn this beautiful Japanese song with the steps below to develop your musicianship skills.
Tsuki Performance
Watch this beautiful performance of Tsuki:
Learn Tsuki
It’s such a beautiful song. It’s one of my favourites and the above video is such a gorgeous arrangement.
I’ll teach it to you now. Below is the Japanese version and my phonetic version after listening to different versions.
Next to that are the lyrics that are sung in the UK. It’s not a translation but I’ve put the actual translation at the bottom.
Going forwards you can decide whether to sing the first verse or repeat in the English version of the lyrics.
There are some differences in how Japanese and English words are sung. In English we don’t give “n” a separate pitch but use it to move from one vowel to another but here you’ll see that the pitch goes up on the “n” of manmaru-i :
The same happens at “bo-n” in the third line.
Play the video above phrase by phrase to see how the lyrics and melody fit together.
Here’s the song with the English words:
Tsuki Rhythm
Coming soon…
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