大滝詠一の仕事ぶり
Eiichi Ohtaki’s Working Pace


佐藤 慧 / Kei SATO
ナイアガラ大学 / Fussa University
https://keisato.blogspot.com

16th, February, 2020

大滝詠一とは / Who is he?

おおたき

大滝詠一 / Eiichi Ohtaki

大滝詠一(1948-2013)は歴史上最も偉大なミュージシャンです．

Eiichi Ohtaki is one of the greatest musicians of all time.

問題設定 / Research Questions

大滝詠一の仕事ぶりについてしらべる．
This study examines his working pace as musician from the 1970s to the 2010s.

RQ1

彼は生涯に何枚アルバムを出したのか？
How many albums did he make in his whole career?

6 Albums in Career

Wikipediaによれば，彼は43年のキャリアで6枚のオリジナル・アルバムを出した．

Accrding to Wikipedia, Eiichi Ohtaki made six albums in his 43 years career as musician.

Ohtaki’s Great First Album

5枚目の『A Long Vacation』が代表作とされているが，発表者はファーストアルバム『大瀧詠一』が好きである．YouTubeに上がっているので聴くよろし．

A Long Vacation, his fifth album, is widely seen as his best one.

My favorite is his first, 大瀧詠一(Ohtaki Eiichi). Fortunately, we can listen to this gem at YouTube.

RQ2

彼は何年に一枚のペースでアルバムを出したのか？
How many years on average did it take for him to make an album?

7 Years per an Album

43年で7枚なので，一枚あたり約7年かかっている．

Ohtaki made six albums in his 43 years career as musician.

In other words, it took about seven years on average for him to make an album. You can make sure of it by calculating as follows:

43/6
## [1] 7.166667

では，仕事ペースの変遷は？

We found it took around seven years for Ohtaki to make an album.

Then, how had his working pace changed through his career?

His Super-Slow Working Pace

1980年代を過ぎてからは1枚も作っていない．

This figure shows the number of his albums from 1970 to 2013 by ten years. Interestingly, he had made no albums after 1980s.

結論 / Conclusion

  • 43年のキャリアで6枚のオリジナル・アルバム
    Eiichi Ohtaki made six albums in his 43 years career.

  • 80年代をすぎてからの製作ペースの減衰
    Ohtaki’s working pace suddnly slowed down after the 1980s.

大滝って最高だよね

When you are listening to his music

Thank you for listening!