This online tutorial will teach you how to play whispers. It contains a special new guitar tuning for your guitar. Important chords to start exploring with this rare mode. Also you will learn how to play and deal with this special open tuning-mode from the study of "WHISPERS" (song included on CONCIERTO PARA SHAKUHACHI Album). This composition uses master Zapata's "KOTO Guitar Tuning". It is an amazing way to emulate a Japanese koto from your guitar. These chords should give you a good start at figuring out how the tuning works and make a great duet ensemble with a shakuhachi.
 
Sign up to this online tutorial that includes WHISPERS audio track mp3 synchronized with guitar tab and shakuhachi japanese music score, instructions on how to tune your guitar correctly and how to play WHISPERS song.
 
You’ll be changing your standard tuned guitar’s strings (E, A, D, G, B and E notes) to get this great Koto Guitar Tuning-mode. Though fully fretted chords are possible and well worth exploring, it is ringing open shapes like these that give the most distinctive sound for this alternative guitar tuning.
 
Learn more about shakuhachi and guitar. Enjoy this great lesson about koto guitar tuning, chords, shakuhachi scale, solo melody, harmony and how to ensemble shakuhachi with a string instrument like the guitar.