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Recording Artist - Ropeadope Percussionist - Fleetwood Mac, LeAnn Rimes, Dr. Dre

Los Angeles, CA

http://www.TAKU.ninja

Media

Taku Hirano: "Come And Get It" 🎺🥁🔥 (Ropeadope Records; 2021)

Taku Hirano's single debut on Ropeadope Records! "Come And Get It" (featuring Keyon Harrold)

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"Fusion" (Meinl Percussion demo)

Here's my video for Meinl Percussion, called "Fusion." Track written by dear friend, producer/drummer Gorden Campbell.

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Conga Improv: Soundcheck - Fleetwood Mac 2019 World Tour

Sometimes, you just have to pull up a metronome app on your phone, plug in, and play! Start with a groove, add some fill ideas, open it up, move onto another groove idea, and repeat. The goal is to flow... Shift your attitude and approach to the click not as a tempo crutch, but more as another rhythmic "voice" to play off of... that way, you're grooving with the click and everything is not only in play with the tempo, but part of an interplay with it. Dig?

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Performing on Percussion with Herbie Hancock: "Actual Proof

Performing with Herbie in Russia for International Jazz Day's Global All-Star Concert... Total bucket list, as Herbie's "Thrust" album is one of my all-time favorites and the tune we played was "Actual Proof"! Also, being in a rhythm section consisting of Herbie, James Genus on bass, and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez on drums was pretty epic!

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Conga Improv: Soundcheck - Fleetwood Mac 2019 World Tour (Feb. 20, BB&T Center; Sunrise, Florida)

Conga improv

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Taku Hirano with Vater at NAMM 2019

Talking to DRUM! Magazine about my new signature Katana multi-percussion drumstick by Vater!

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Bio

Taku Hirano, one of the top percussionists on the touring and recording circuit, has been referred to by rock legend Mick Fleetwood, founder and drummer for Fleetwood Mac, as his “Secret Weapon" for good reason. His training encompasses Classical concert percussion, jazz drum set, and traditional Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, West African, Middle Eastern, Indian and Japanese styles and instruments. • Taku's education includes a BM, cum laude, from Berklee College of Music as the institution's first gra...