Music to swing by

[Raiza]

At home, is there a particular song or type of music that you like to play while doing hayasuburi?

A couple from me:
AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and "You Shook Me All Night Long"

If Tony Bennett's more your thing, you can post that here too. :)

[elfboy]

Hm...

U2 - "Electrical Storm" or "Lady With The Spinning Head" [extended dance remix]. Actually, I can't think of really working out to U2, though I love them to death. Achtung Baby is a stellar record none the less. Their live stuff is pretty pumpin too... like from the ZooTV or Elevation tours.

Oasis - "Rock and Roll Star"

Radiohead - "The Bends" or "Planet Telex"

The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony" or "Blue"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free Bird" (That super long guitar solo is the craziest, wildest thing I've ever heard in my life. Great for pumping you up! It's also what I listen to when I distance run for long periods of time, such as one hour. The live version has a 10 minute guitar solo!!!)

Semisonic - "Singing in my sleep"

- i dunno, that's just what i do.

[Phorest]

The soundtrack to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Very, very good instrumentals.

Also I have a couple Taiko drumming CDs that are good as well.

[supernils]

On the swedish national training camps we usually use the "Born slippy" by Underworld from the soundtrack of Trainspotting.

[burger boy]

I always have the tunes on during any type of workout to get me pumped up and going. For me, it has to be hard rock or heavy metal. Frequent workout CDs include Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Def Leppard.

burger boy

[aru-ma]

hey phorest You've got a taiko CD? cool, it's hard to find one outside japan, wish I had one

for me, it depends, some times it's Air (Bach), random piano music, For once in my life (Sinatra) mostly flowing music, I have a bad habit of following the beat when doing suburi while listening to music.

[emitbrownne]

When training solo I listen to Aggressive music prior to the start...

Marilyn Manson, limp Bizkit, Evanessence, murderdolls, maybe even a little traditional punk...

This is just to set the mood and get me pumped up. I cannot train with the music playing though, for the very reason aru-ma stated, about training to a beat.


On the way to a class, I do the opposite.. I listen to Classical or Sinatra or happy bouncy music... There is nothing that helps destroy the intimidating pressure from a senior kendoka than having "Love Shack" stuck in your head whist coming up from sonkyo :)

Paulo

[Sir Percy]

At home, is there a particular song or type of music that you like to play while doing hayasuburi?

A couple from me:
AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and "You Shook Me All Night Long"

If Tony Bennett's more your thing, you can post that here too. :)

For me it's Annie Lennox and the Eurhytmics "Would I Lie to You?" Perfect tempo for hayasuburi.

Then switch to Dire Straits "MTV" and then a cool down.

12 minutes, great mini-workout.

[Charlie]

James. Brown.

[Jearom]

My neighbours would kill me if I tried hayasuburi at home and during regular suburi I usually turn everything off, nothing to disturb me from concentrating on what I`m doing.

Oh, I wondered what Taiko was and found this site:
http://www.taiko.com

[Nishi]

Cant suburi to music....but if i could, i would do it to Limp Bizkit-(Break stuff) Clutch-(A shogun named marcus) anything by Nirvana or the Foo Fighters, oh ya, how could i forget Ramstein!!!! I like music that sounds like it hasn't shaved in a few days :beard: And to cool down to...some of that ol' gangsta $hit!

[KhawMengLee]

Sepultura- Rufuse/Resist!!!!!

Static X- Push It

[Paburo]

but if you play loud music, how will you listen to the woosh?

[Phorest]

hey phorest You've got a taiko CD? cool, it's hard to find one outside japan, wish I had one


Yup...there are a bunch of em on http://www.amazon.com

They ship internationally I'm sure...so pick one up! Great to train to.

Personally when I'm doing Kendo I like more peacful asian themed intrumental music. It helps me concentrate and sorta keeps my mind on what I am doing. Hearing Limp Bizkit would totally mess me up while trying to focus on Kendo I think. But...thats just me! :tongue:

[Atama]

Don't think I've ever trained to music..just one of thoes things I guess, however my choice would be "poggo" by System of a Down, anything by The Darkness or "NO" by Soul Fly.

[tyler]

Once during a practice in Guelph the breakdance club came in and just started throwing down to old hiphop, double-trouble and Wild Style type stuff. My keiko went to pieces because i couldn't help but attack on the beat. lol.

havn't tried hayasuburi to music yet but if i do it'll probably be to MF Doom, who candidly flip-flop flows, single handedly with one eye closed.

Tyler

[samurai999]

I play many things. Mostly hip-hop or metal. I then go and do like 1-2hundred total.

Tim

[tyler]

hiphop's prolly good because its so rhymthic. the boom. the bip. the boom-bip.




I play many things. Mostly hip-hop or metal. I then go and do like 1-2hundred total.

Tim

[Blue_Dragon]

3 days grace are a good choice .......something good to come out of canada besides beer and well uhh.......beer.

narvana , beastie boys, house of pain, cypress hill, are good old school groups.


metelica-battery is what a do my nunchuka work out to.

[Noe]

I usually do when I'm by myself. Usually to Big Band, swing, like Big Bad Vodoo Daddys. :smiley: They rule.

[midnightdawn]

I never listen to music during kendo training, but on the way to group practices I usually listen to heavier stuff like Rage Against the Machine and so forth, gets me hyped.

[A P]

doesn't it distract you guys and girl at all???????

I found it hard to train with music on.

[Raiza]

doesn't it distract you guys and girl at all???????

I found it hard to train with music on.

This thread was only meant to ask if anyone listened to music while performing hayasuburi at home. This is assuming that you understand the fundamentals of the technique and can perform it properly.

[etherknot]

If you want a nine minute eight second subari session, I highly recommend the "Navras" track by Juno Reactor / Don Davis from the just yesterday released Matrix Revolutions.

Wheee!

[Hyaku]

Ruitsu Keisai a strong university team used to do an hour in the morning to Dead or Alive music.

[Kendo-Girl]

A couple from me:
AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and "You Shook Me All Night Long"

cool - I love AC/DC!

Some songs of Type-O-Negative are great to listen to while practising, too.

21 gun salute,
Thekla

[Nanbanjin]

At home, is there a particular song or type of music that you like to play while doing hayasuburi?

A couple from me:
AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and "You Shook Me All Night Long"

If Tony Bennett's more your thing, you can post that here too. :)

Personally I use "It's raining men" ...Hallelujah! :)

[tango]

3 days grace are a good choice .......something good to come out of canada besides beer and well uhh.......beer.

narvana , beastie boys, house of pain, cypress hill, are good old school groups.


metelica-battery is what a do my nunchuka work out to.


i think the "sport" of curling came out of canada, didn't it? :) :) :)

[Future Head]

i think the "sport" of curling came out of canada, didn't it? :) :) :)

Nope. Thank the Scottish for that. And golf. They're pretty good at making games whose sport status is questionable, aren't they?

The Kids in the Hall came out of Canada. They're funny. That's good. I guess.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Lacrosse, hockey, basketball are all Canadian-originated sports I believe.

If you want to talk music there's a ton but we seem to be most famous for exporting comedians.

[Nanbanjin]

Or how about "Old Macdonald had a farm, iai-iai-do"...?

[samurai999]

Or how about "Old Macdonald had a farm, iai-iai-do"...?

Whew... That was REALLY bad. :D :D :D

TIm

[Nanbanjin]

Whew... That was REALLY bad. :D :D :D

TIm

Thanks.

I thought that "It's raining MEN" was better, but nobody seemed to get it (or everybody was just ignoring me :( )

[xvikingx]

Thanks.

I thought that "It's raining MEN" was better, but nobody seemed to get it (or everybody was just ignoring me :( )

No way, that song is humorous on so many levels. I back you 100% on this one.

[Nanbanjin]

No way, that song is humorous on so many levels. I back you 100% on this one.

Thanks for the support...

Maybe anything by "Men at work" would also be good.

"Boyz to Men" would be stretching it a bit.

[kageXkaze]

can anyone suggest any good taiko cds? Something a bit agressive (however, im not really into heavy metal and stuff)
Oh yeah whenever I "practice" what little things i know of kendo I usually listen to GLAY:Beautiful dreamer or something cool from The Pillows... Or Gackt... But dont tell anyone about the Gackt thing... They'll like freak out... But his songs are cool though :devious:

[khehtra]

I love Punk and EMO so i always listen to music no matter what im doing from 180ing off some stairs or practicing Kendo at home theres always these bands playing

Story of the Year
Thursday
saves the day
mars volta
and Forever seem Further - Lets start a fire

yup

[Hattori Hanzo]

I have a few albums that I listen to 50 Cent -Get Rich of Die Trying, Evergrey-Recreation Day, Devil Driver, Blade II Soundtrack, Mortal Kombat soundtrack, but that is for warm ups.

[hyouriittai]

Thanks for the support...

Maybe anything by "Men at work" would also be good.

"Boyz to Men" would be stretching it a bit.

Aw man, this thread is ages old. I would've liked to add "Men Without Hats" to the list..

[tyler]

someone should experiment with some old big band stuff from the 'swing' era [guffaw]

[not-I]

Lacrosse, hockey, basketball are all Canadian-originated sports I believe.
I was willing to believe the first two claims, but it really got my goat that you Canadians would try and steal basketball!

So i looked it up -- an interesting case: "The only major sport of U.S. origin, invented by a Canadian, James Naismith at the International YMCA Training School , Springfield, Massachusetts, in early December 1891." He wanted to use boxes as "targets," but there were none around, so he hung up two half-bushel peach baskets an each side of the "court." Yet another example of Canadian ex-pats doing weird, creative things in the home of the brave.

[not-I]

can anyone suggest any good taiko cds?
Try Kodo, a modern Japanese taiko group. They mix traditional taiko with more "western" elments and have masses of CDs out. "Best of Kodo" is a good buy with lots of rocking songs.

As for me, i never listen to music while doing suburi. I'd rather hear the whoosh of my grooved bokken.

[not-I]

I'd rather hear the whoosh of my grooved bokken.
Gosh, third post in a row, but i just had to apologize for that utterly pretentious sentence.

I am quite psyched about this pre-mature bday bokken, and it IS a nice groove to get into. "Get into the groove, boy you've got to prove..."

(post-tournament goofiness)

[Zaxser]

I would've liked to add "Men Without Hats" to the list.. Hey! I like Men without Hats!* *SSSAAAFFFTTTEEEYYY Dance!* Oh what where you saying again?

[MoMusumefan21]

Man, i am surpised none of you listen to any Jpop or at least Jrock when training. nothing like a little Morning Musume and Mini Moni to pump you up before a big match.

[samurai999]

I listen to jpop but NOT momusu.

Tim

[z3ngine]

I never listen to music during kendo training, but on the way to group practices I usually listen to heavier stuff like Rage Against the Machine and so forth, gets me hyped.2 songs spring to mind straight away for Kendo practice:
- Fistful of Steel ("if ya bowing down, then let me do the cutting")
- Know Your Enemy

I've used RATM to get hyped before grading and it works well :)

z3ngine.

[MoMusumefan21]

I listen to jpop but NOT momusu.

Tim
HA, you dont know what your missing!

besides... some of the Morning Musume girls know how to use the Katana... http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/momusumefan/MoMusamurais.JPG

only morning musume has to power to fire my blood up and get me in the mood to beat the #^@$ out of someone with my shinai..

[litige]

listen to GLAY:Beautiful dreamer

Drop the L ya boy, what does it make?

[nodaka]

yes, i like to play Taiko drums (Japanese drums) while i am practicing.

[nodaka]

where do you live? i find them with no problem in the states ar check the net>

[samurai999]

HA, you dont know what your missing!

only morning musume has to power to fire my blood up and get me in the mood to beat the #^@$ out of someone with my shinai..

Dunno.. I think that they are just REALLY annoying. I have listened to their music but not for long.. I just think I'm not into the "cute kiddie" singing. I can't get in the mood to kick ass with that music. If I want something blood boiling, I listen to Young Gunz, other rap, Godsmack, Linkin Park, Metallica (oh yea!) etc.

Tim

[Eiliries]

At home, is there a particular song or type of music that you like to play while doing hayasuburi?

A couple from me:
AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and "You Shook Me All Night Long"

I love AC/DC, but I can't swing to it, everytime I hear "You Shook Me All Night Long" I have to stop whatever I am doing and lipsynch!

[Leon]

All I have to say is, Tool!

Plus Tool!

And don't forget your Tool!

It's good for tha' soul, mind, and body.
I particularly recommend '46 & 2' off of Aenima.

That one always gets me going.

Leon

[[Kensei 剣の聖者]]

the music of Shogun total war is really motivating

[Midori]

Musume during training?!Nice!But please don't forget the little pink kitty! ^^"""" Rather play taiko drums. I like it a lot. As i see it's a famous cheer music here. :)
Dear musume fans, don't take it wrong, i like musume when my brain is extra tired after long day school and i'm not able to grab the mouse to click on a better one. :P

[delphideo]

As for me, I prefer the Final Fantasy Soundtracks, since the music can be either relaxing or action packed. So I get to choose wheter I want to quicken the pace or slow it down.

[senki-kendo-jos]

I like taiko drumming! Actually, our sensei sometimes plays KODO while we warm up, do suburi and kihon waza no renshu!! Wot a lot of FUN!

[senki-kendo-jos]

And if that doesn't work... Metallica... Enter the sandman, although that's better to get psyched up to before a shiai... that and I got the fire by iron maiden

[samurai999]

All I have to say is, Tool!

Plus Tool!

And don't forget your Tool!

It's good for tha' soul, mind, and body.
I particularly recommend '46 & 2' off of Aenima.

That one always gets me going.

Leon

Yes.. Tool.. *insert Beavis and Butthead laughs here*

Tim

[kilic]

i've ever tried it. But "Vampire Dance Club"-Blade could be a good choice.:wink: Just kidding. Maybe something from "The Lord of the Rings" or "Hail and Kill". İ'm just confused.

[Raziel]

All I have to say is, Tool!
Plus Tool!
And don't forget your Tool!
Leon
If Tool is you're fav then try A Perfect Circle the lead singer is the same guy and I love them as well as Tool, and MuDvAyNe, and Marlyon Manson, and Godsmack, and Bowling for Soup, and Nickleback, and the list goes on and on I love music and I listen to it almost constantly I always have to have something playing even if it's just for background noise. But believe it or not with all of the loud angry music I listen to I still love Celtic music espically Enya. But when I pratcice I need something fast paced like MuDvAyNe to be playing or I just can't get into it.

[Aiko]

My neighbors would give me a really dirty look if I tried to put music on while practicing on my porch. They already dislike the fact I practice there because its kinda loud...but on the way to kendo, I like various songs like "I love Rock n' Roll"(non-Britteny Spears version of course)... :smiley:

[DanDan]

lol
i'd probably start dancing instead of practicing