Tamu Murata - Another SICK female Japanese drummer (NAKAYOSHI METAL) むらたたむ

[@jojo-ll1gg]

10年くらい前にSORAMIMIと言う4人組のgirls bandにTamu MurataとJuna Seritaがメンバーだったことは意外と知られていない。 NAKAYOSHI METALの中でHAGANEのSAKURA YOSIDAがguitarを弾いています。

[@DrumRoast]

WOW thanks for this info!!! I don't think anyone has told me about SORAMIMI yet? ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@tcntad87]

@@DrumRoast I know this is a drumchannel but you have to checkout Serita, one badass bassist:)

[@grantnealon5101]

Tamu is a brilliant drummer mom of two children under 5, and also plays piano, keys, xylaphone bass and electric guitar, oh and saxaphone and sings. One incredibly talented young Lady... Check out some of her drum cams whilst playing with Nemophila.. Best wishes from France 👍🤘🇨🇵

[@DrumRoast]

omg hello Grant from France!!! One of the few European viewers of my videos from the USA ❤

[@anthonypowell6234]

So, merely Superhuman-Tamu!

[@PurpleDracos]

Tamu has been a massively sought after session drummer for some time. It probably is some sheet music there is a video of her sitting in with Gacharic Spin at Naon no Yaon festival when their drummer Yuri was on maternity and she read sheet music for the show.

[@DrumRoast]

thanks for the info!! Respect for drummers that can read sheet music :)))

[@80mtn]

Tamu is my favourite drummer. One of my favourite musicians in the world. Period. Also one of my favourite humans. She's an amazing person. 🌸🌹♥

[@DrumRoast]

🌸🌹♥🌸🌹♥ she has a very wholesome KZbin channel :)

[@80mtn]

@@DrumRoast I don't speak a lick of Japanese and she doesn't have subtitles, but I'll watch a 2 hour livestream of her doing basically anything because it's so soothing for some reason! Hahahaha Hey Happy New Year! 🙂

[@fastskipper777]

Tamu actually comes from Fusion Jazz space. However, she can play anything. And her own channel has over 40 million combined views. She has been a very respected session drummer. She is a current member of Nemophila, an all-female metal band. Just wanted to add one more thing. This song is from the project band Nakayoshi Metal which is headed by Daisuke Kurosawa who is the lead guitarist. he is an absolute monster guitarist. Daisuke and Tamu go a long way. Daisuke does a lot of metal/Fusion Jazz/Rock and stuff and his channel has a lot of his own sessions with Tamu in it. You can even see videos that are 6 years back with session metal songs with Tamu hitting the drums. They are absolutely on fire. Here is a Fusion Jazz Metal instrumental song. featuring Tamu >>> Cytus II < ISPION > >>> kzbin.info/www/bejne/oajWlJyOosRqqaM

[@DrumRoast]

holy shit this is a CRAZY find ADDED TO MY LIST THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TherealSeriousMoonlight]

Awesome choice! Love Tamu! She attracted me to Nemophila and now I'm stuck. Thanks for the reaction!

[@DrumRoast]

thank you for the wholesome comments as always bro ❤❤❤

[@Oldmarty]

With all that music can do, one must not forget that she is a mother of two. And she is a sought-after session drummer, from Jazz to Metall

[@DrumRoast]

shoutout to all of the moms/parents out there!!!!

[@bryandevito5120]

Two kids and a metal band career. Woman power on top of woman power. Tamu is a superhero that no one makes movies about but should.

[@DrumRoast]

it's time for you to make a documentary Bryan, we're ready :))))

[@bryandevito5120]

@ I make body cam videos. Not documentaries. Career choice. lol.

[@nevillewestuk5580]

Tamu is a multi intramenlest, she plays Saxophone, xylophone, piano/keyboard, electric guitar and she is a vocalist. 😅 So I'm sure she can read sheet music as well. I'm enjoying your reaction program friend, keep it up 💥👊🏼

[@DrumRoast]

💥👊🏼💥👊🏼I can't sing nor play Sax/xylo...MAD respect...maybe she also has perfect pitch 🤣🤣🤣

[@bocatampere]

Lovin Tamu 🔥❤️ My alltime favourite drummer. Coming from jazz background. Mother of two. Lovin’ her vlogs, very funny person. Lovin’ Nemophila ❤️ Greets from Finland 🇫🇮🤘

[@DrumRoast]

🔥❤️🔥❤️ hello to Finnish folks from USA!!!

[@michaelmunno]

one of my favorite drummers. one of the best I have ever seen / heard live too. she's pure awesome. along with Akane from Band-Maid, Junna from HaganE, Natsumi of BRIDEAR, Neil Peart of RUSH, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Haruna of Lovebites, Mizuki of East of Eden and Lonesome_blue, Kanade Sato, Senri Kawaguchi, Mimi, etc. so many awesome drummers and many of them are tiny women from Japan. outstanding. so much love from me for their talent and so easy to see how much fun they have playing their hearts out

[@DrumRoast]

RIP sir Peart and shoutout to sir Portnoy as well!!!! Great list!!!!

[@dave4reel188]

What i like about her channel is that its not just about her drumming. Its nice to get to know a musician as a normal person doing normal things

[@DrumRoast]

she has 200K subs for that reason, very personable ❤❤❤

[@TomRussell-cy6ll]

Tamu can play anything !!!!!!!!!!! It's amazing how may genre's I have seen her play !!!! What a talent !!!!!

[@DrumRoast]

I'm excited to hear the other genres myself :))))))

[@rasi2020]

I appreciate very much that you are now pretty deep in the Japanese female drummer "rabbit hole". So you MUST react to Junna too! She now is in the band HAGANE but earned fame on her own channel covering many well known songs (like for instance Dragonforce's "Through the Fire and Flames"). At the pandemic time she was some sort of light in the darkness for me... As Haruna from Lovebites she is a "small one" - some 150 cm small, but a true volcano of energy. She is so amazingly entertaining and of course a super precise and skilled drummer too. Gee Anzalone (the drummer of Dragonforce) said in a reaction video to Junna's cover of Through the Fire and Flames, that Junna was the best doing this song - except of himself

[@DrumRoast]

❤❤❤

[@guitarandy2406]

As others probably have mentioned, she's as much a jazz-fusion drummer as prog/metal (one of her previous bands was Soramimi with Juna Serita), but her main project since 2019 is the all female metal band Nemophila. She has played as support drummer for Gacharic Spin twice, first for a few gigs in 2018 and then again in 2021 when current drummer Yuri was on maternity leave (and their male support drummer Levin wasn't able to perform) for their regular appearance at annual all female music festival Naon no Yaon (Nemophila were also playing, so Tamu pulled double duties). She's a multi-instrumentalist with drums as her primary instrument and her husband is composer Akira Yamaoka, most known for writing the Silent Hill soundtracks. Been professionally active for over a decade both in bands and as a session musician and still only in her early 30s.

[@DrumRoast]

that's freakin crazy that she played for 2 bands at the same music festival 🤣🤣🤣THANKS for the lore!!!

[@fretbuzzaldrin4965]

Murata Tamu was my first Drummer crush in this Rabbit Hole of Japanese music I fell into some years back, and she is still up there at the top of the list with the likes of Senri and Kanade. The frog on her shirt was kind of a trademark of hers, as she wore many different shirts with it in her videos growing up. I don't know much about a lot of the old cartoons over there, but I asked her on a live chat and she told me it was Pyonkichi, or The Gutsy Frog. Sometimes he's angry, sometimes he's smiling. There is some useless trivia for the day.

[@DrumRoast]

PyonkichiPyonkichiPyonkichi 🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤❤❤❤ NOT useless!!! I LOVE IT ALDRIN!!!

[@IanBreton35]

Tamu is a very talented session drummer for many years since 2019 she joined NEMOPHILA. As others fans. She's also a multi-instrumentist. I discover her when she played with Nemophila a cover of the Trooper from IRON MAIDEN. since that day I love & follow NEMOPHILA. She's Japonese

[@DrumRoast]

❤❤❤ Nemophila I need to remember this!!!

[@michaelthain4488]

I think it is Nemophila's practice room. If you watch any of the videos where the members are each playing from there home Tamu plays an electronic kit in what is not much more than a cupboard. She is amazing and certainly one of the cutest mums of 2 children

[@DrumRoast]

uWu thanks for the info!!!! It's a well equipped practice room for sure :)))

[@ericifune5543]

Inspired by Nao of Maximum the Hormone. There's a video of Tamu meeting them after entering a contest. Nao can't believe it.

[@DrumRoast]

🤩🤩🤩

[@powbobs]

She has five KZbin channels. She smiles a lot usually, but she was sight reading here. She’s mostly a jazz fusion drummer. She’s been a Tama artist for years.

[@DrumRoast]

5????? Tamu/Tama 🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤

[@powbobs]

@ Tamu is her nickname, which is from the tom drum. Her actual name is Ai.

[@timgove5337]

Tamu Tama, yes, Tama loves that. But her stagename Tamu is actually Tom (with Japanese accent), as in Tomtom drum, first name Ai(love), family/maiden name Murata

[@allanmoger1838]

Ha! You found the Japanese metal drum queen. I don’t think she’s everyone’s cup of tea, but she’s brilliant either way. She’s the drummer for Nemophila, who are top tier (obviously). She’s made me cry twice now. She’s THAT good. She’s actually a top tier all round musician, she used to do solo live streams, singing and playing keyboards - music is her thing and she made a good choice.

[@DrumRoast]

❤❤❤ I've been seeing that lore in some of the other comments :)

[@ericifune5543]

There's a video of her playing the saxophone.

[@ulycination978]

For those interested, you can see the full band playthrough on Daisuke Kurosawa channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp6oknpqadSld80

[@DrumRoast]

yo this is sick THANK you for the link!!!

[@ulycination978]

@DrumRoast Your welcome, always happy to share some good stuff. Have a happy new year!

[@HH-mw4sq]

She wasn't "cracking-up." She was just smiling like she normally does when she plays. Because of her smile, and her double-pedal bass work, her nickname is "the smiling thunder."

[@DrumRoast]

😂😂😂my bad ❤❤❤

[@schelin1447]

Have you seen her jam out with Senri Kawaguchi? If not...DO IT! Tamu-san has done drum cover of pop, punk, jazz, progrock, metal and everything you can think of.

[@DrumRoast]

yes I've been told that she's a very accomplished session drummer :)))

[@TherealSeriousMoonlight]

We want to watch someone react to our favorite band/drummer/vocalist. But we came to _your_ channel to see a fresh reaction to material we already know. You're killing it dude!

[@DrumRoast]

💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@powbobs]

She’s a really good singer too. Extremely famous in Japan. She’s friends with Senri Kawaguchi.

[@DrumRoast]

Senri or Tamu needs to record a vlog where they just hang out with all of the biggest female Japanese drummers that wouuld be sooooo dope

[@powbobs]

@ Search KZbin for ‘Tamu Murata Nao’. She and Akane Hirose of Band-Maid have the same inspirational drummer.

[@powbobs]

@ One of Tamu’s channels is her having amazing Japanese drummers on her show for interviews and playing together. The vlog of her finally meeting Nao of MTH is the cutest thing ever. I’m not a fan of MTH, but Nao’s powerful drumming did inspire some great female Japanese drummers.

[@timgove5337]

Oldish video of Senri & Murata jamming. Not sure this includes the whole segment (TV show?), but they test drive each other’s kits before drumming head to head kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJrci2dvh9iBnM0si=b_cMKFgyuur1bDI4 Think Ive mentioned, it really is a Scene in Japan, they actually do hang out, plenty of pics, if i find more videos I’ll try to remember to check back in here 😉

[@glenkelley6799]

Thanks for this reaction, Tamu is a great drummer. From what I've read, she used to teach at a music school in Tokyo (not sure if she still does) and has worked with Roland for different projects. She's worked with Yoyoka (when Yoyoka was around 12) in judging young drummers for a contest (I think the winner received a Roland V drum kit). She also demonstrated a Roland model along with Yoyoka in a side by side drum solo - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5-qo416l7aqfLc

[@DrumRoast]

man Tamu really is the whole package musician/drummer, I think I found one of the GOATs of Japan from the comment section 🔥🔥🔥

[@DrumRoast]

THANK you for the direct link Glen BTW!!

[@ericifune5543]

Akane of Band-Maid also can read sheet music.

[@DrumRoast]

holy smokes thanks for that info!!! ❤❤❤

[@AngelLWJ]

tamu! 🐸🥁！

[@DrumRoast]

🐸🥁🐸🥁🐸🥁

[@ulycination978]

There is a few videos of her and Senri doing a kind drum battle. Pretty good stuff, more on the Jazzy side. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJrci2dvh9iBnM0

[@DrumRoast]

thanks for the link!!!

[@rasi2020]

Oh, I just discovered that you already reacted to Junna a couple of days ago - so excuse my suggestion. But eventually you could react to HAGANE just to see Junna working in a band....😉

[@DrumRoast]

👍👍thanks for the rec!!!

[@hermannschaefer4777]

Ludwig was in the 60s and 70s THE drum brand, almost every major band had drums by Ludwig (starting with the Beatles, later Doors, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Scorpions, Queen, Led Zep, Van Halen, ...). Ludwig lost most of its market share due to quality problems in the 80s and 90s, changed owners and is now a brand of Steinway.

[@DrumRoast]

WOW thanks for the info sir!!! Other comments have stated that Tamu was an official Tama endorser so this wasn't her actual kit 🤣

[@hermannschaefer4777]

@@DrumRoast Vintage drums (~70s) esp. snares by Ludwig are still "a thing" and quite expensive on ebay etc. I'm not a drummer, so no idea if they are really worth the price. Friend just bought a small kit for ~5k.

[@TlanImass]

hey D_R... question for you. I don't think it's Murata-san's set-up but instead it's Chika-chan's of HANABIE's set-up. She has a smaller drum on the outside of the kick drum attached. (I don't even know if it's a drum. Some say it's a massive microphone.) Do you know what that is and what it's for? Thanks! Happy New Year!

[@DrumRoast]

Yes it's a huge microphone (a loudpeaker with the wiring reversed) inside a drum shell to capture extremely low frequencies, I personally don't see a use for it besides in live music situations (with GOOD speakers) 🤣 HNY!!!

[@TlanImass]

@@DrumRoast Thanks! Good to know. Yes, I saw HANABIE live and that's when I saw it.

[@alastairmcintyre4752]

When you're a mum of two kids under 5 this is probably a walk in the park 🤣😉

[@DrumRoast]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@swissystan]

Coolest mum in the playground only after Miyako :)

[@DrumRoast]

❤❤❤

[@jjo154]

I don't think that's her set-up. She's a Tama drums artist. And she has two kids. Since you're more of a jazz/fusion guy, here she is pre-Nemophila playing with Rie a.k.a. Suzaku (although it is a bit long) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fanJc5eLe5efpdE.

[@DrumRoast]

wow that was way back THANK you for the link and lore!!!

[@swissystan]

Tamu, awesome….in my personal opinion wasted on Nemophila

[@DrumRoast]

🤣🤣🤣

[@alexisxxx026]

She played also trumpet and guitar. Amazing drummer she is. My idol 🇵🇭🇯🇵

[@DrumRoast]

TRUMPET!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@maynardcrist3374]

Bro, You should check this kid. You will be amazed she did a drum cover of Through The Fire And Flames by DragonForce. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3zVYntqf9tpn9U

[@DrumRoast]

yessir reacted to Junna already on my channel but I picked an easier song 🤣🤣🤣