{"id":2979,"date":"2011-04-27T19:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:41:52","slug":"yell-a-great-song-by-ikimono-gakari-with-versions-for-mandolin-orchestra-and-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"Yell  &#8211; A Great Song by Ikimono Gakari &#8211; With Versions for Mandolin Orchestra and Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ikimono Gakari<\/strong> is a very successfull Japanese pop trio, the songs by this group are very popular in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>During the last days the song <strong>Yell <\/strong>by <strong>Ikomono Gakari<\/strong> has sticked to my mind &#8211; and I have listened to many videos with different versions of this song.<\/p>\n<p>I have first found a version of this song for mandolin orchestra, and I was fascinated by this music and curious about who was the composer of this piece. In the following video Yell is played by musicians of a mandolin orchestra in Usa, Oita prefecture. The video shows paintings &#8211; including some nice paintings with mandolins &#8211; while the music plays:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">YELL\uff08\u3044\u304d\u3082\u306e\u304c\u304b\u308a\uff09<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YELL\uff08\u3044\u304d\u3082\u306e\u304c\u304b\u308a\uff09\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4tFoAXfctSQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I think this song is really well suited to be played by mandolin orchestra. I have found 3 different versions played by a mandolin orchestra, one version for mandolin and guitar and a great version for classical guitar (video not available in Germany).<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">&#8220;M&#8221; YELL \u3044\u304d\u3082\u306e\u304c\u304b\u308a Ikimono Gakari<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;YELL&#8221; Ikimono Gakari, is very, very popular among Japanese teenagers.<br \/>\nNHK, a Japanese TV station, like BBC in the UK, selected this song as a junior high school chorus national contest song in 2009. Therefore, almost every teenager in Japan knows this song so well xD<\/p>\n<p>You may notice that i played another old guitar, which i borrowed from the owner of the old clothing store, Blonde on Blonde, where i happened to dropped-in two weeks ago. There are some old guitars with dust and i decided to pick up some of them to clean, polish and played by me as i love all the guitars on the earth =)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;M&quot; YELL \u3044\u304d\u3082\u306e\u304c\u304b\u308a Ikimono Gakari\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qij2AI35IMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I tried to find out more about this song, and I was surprised that I found many versions of this song sung by youth choirs, including this great video with hundreds of teenaged singers:<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">\u90e1\u5c71\u7b2c\u4e8c\u4e2d\u5b66\u6821 \u300cYELL\u300d<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u90e1\u5c71\u7b2c\u4e8c\u4e2d\u5b66\u6821 \u300cYELL\u300d\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8d84N7yKavg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Finally I found out\u00a0 that the song has been <strong>composed for a competition held by the Japanese broadcasting company NHK<\/strong> &#8211; which led to the fact that almost every teenager now knows this song, and many teenagers have sung the song with a school choir (especially the information from the guitar version above was helpfull to me).<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YELL \u5168\u4f53\u5408\u5531\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qjsp2DBrhhc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the meantime I have found many other versions, played by mandolin orchestra, mandolin and guitar, violin, recorder, violin.<\/p>\n<h4>Playlist &#8211; Yell &#8211; by Ikimono Gakari<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japan - Yell - Ikimono Gakari\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL8A78656CC87E9C3C\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Additional information<\/h4>\n<p>Wikipedia (German) about Ikimono Gakari: <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ikimono_Gakari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ikimono_Gakari<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia (Engl.) about Ikimono Gakari: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ikimono-gakari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ikimono-gakari<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwi-musume.com\/lyrics\/ikimonogakari\/singles\/yell\/yell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.kiwi-musume.com\/lyrics\/ikimonogakari\/singles\/yell\/yell.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another great life video by Ikimono Gakari: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wat.tv\/video\/ikimono-gakari-yell-from-live-3m4r5_2ey5f_.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.wat.tv\/video\/ikimono-gakari-yell-from-live-3m4r5_2ey5f_.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More posts about Japan in my blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?tag=japan\">http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?tag=japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikimono Gakari is a very successfull Japanese pop trio, the songs by this group are very popular in Japan. During the last days the song Yell by Ikomono Gakari has sticked to my mind &#8211; and I have listened to many videos with different versions of this song. 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