believe it or not this is tame compared to some of the stuff on his channel, i would be confident in putting him 1st in the world for guitarists as tim is no doubt amazing, but itchika has to carry his own song and make it sound full which he does masterfully
when i say 1st in the world i mean for innovation and skill, as for allround best guitarist in the world, i dont think such a thing exists as it gets too subjective
You should check out his different tuning videos, i think its very impressive how he can make a song using very whacky tunings. Also i recommend giving the guitarist Manuel Gardner Fernandez a listen, hes on the level of ichika and tim henson imo
I think two of his best pieces were “homesick” and “orb.” Homesick single-handedly inspired me to play guitar and I’ve spent a year and half practicing it like at least 2 hours a day and I’ve only recently been able to play it up to speed
Well done! I love hearing about people stepping up to a challenge! I remember doing the same thing back when I was 15. The second I picked up a guitar everything else ceased to matter.
Honestly I think there's more going on than pickups. I think it's probably amp modelling much like Polyphia. I have never heard a guitar sound quite like that.
Since I can't listen to songs for the first time ever again, I found very entertaining to watch people's faces earing them for the first time. And man.. you do some good ones ahahah I have good news for you and for me. You still have Manuel Gardner Fernandes, Tosin Abasi and Charlie Robbins to close the genre "modern guitar virtuosos".
I have heard a lot of amazing young artists, but I hadn't heard Ichika till now. Within the first 2 seconds I knew this guy is mind blowing...it only got better from there!!
Ichika Nito was in Jared Dines "the biggest shred collab song in the world IV"" That's where I found him, tooooons of great musicians in that song. I would recommend you watch it (or react to it) if you haven't already :) Love the reactions man, keep up the good work :)
@@PrymalChaos He was in 3 as well, blended super well with Tim's part ( which may have been the highlight of that video ). In shred collab 4 he played a different style with distortion( still good )
He has a band called Ichikoro. Look up Enemy and Samurai. He fits very well in the band setting. Been following Ichika since he released Forn, a little ep, which is absolutely beautiful. He also did a bass ep. There's a video of one of those songs on his channel. He's also done a few things with Yvette Young as well.
You know He is Baiscally play Piano on Guitar because hes first intrument that he learned is Piano at 20 years old he began to Learn Guitar.. thats why the way his picking the guitar so smooth and flawless
Wow. Am going to learn new stuff every time I watch your show? Guitars averaging the best fret distance and never being really in tune?? Amazing. Thanks again PC. I feel a coffee coming on. Oh no, I'll go broke!! Or poor Lolli will have to miss out on one.
Subscribed 👍 Thank you for this laid back reflection on this piece by Ichika - loved the small inserts on guitar intonation nuances, really hit home for me being a fellow guitarist here.
One thing I know about electric guitar is they have to be plugged in to produce quality sound. His guitar isn’t. But, I know he can play this. I’ve been subbed to him for a while and love his playing. Just a pet peeve I have. Thanks for the video and knowledge.
Haha. That's funny, I was hassling some artist for not having their guitar plugged in for a video and my partner brought up one of our music videos, and said "look! Yours isn't plugged in" to which I replied.. "look closer, I am using my wireless transmitter" Chackmate Natalie! Also yeah.. pet peeve of mine too. 😂
@@PrymalChaos haha and it’s not like we are saying these musicians can’t play it. We know they can. It takes me out of the performance though. Similar to when my drummer friends see a drum kit being played with no mics, sampled sounds and is obviously quantized. Nothing wrong with it but really takes me out of a performance. Thanks for the comment back. I’m not subbed but now I certainly will be.
Ichika Nito, Tosin Abasi, Javier Reyes, Charlie Robbins, Tim Henson, Manuel Gardner Fernandez, Sarah Longfield, Yvette Young…. All monsters. Of course there are many many more out there but these are the folks that come to mind with a more “math” prog style playing. There are a ton of other amazing guitarists out there that are less math and more shred.
I play fingerstyle and when I need heavy strumming I flick my wrist and strum with my index finger. It really helps quickly switch techniques. I've been trying to write my own stuff taking influence from pretty much everything I listen to which includes everything from classical, jazz, and blues to Ichika, Metal, Midwest emo, Math Rock, and Prog.
Really interesting points on this! I, too, try to remind myself that people are people... in both directions. It's funny how when thinking of society, culture, or technology, it's easy to assume that ancient people were simpletons. They weren't. They were every bit as smart, creative, clever, and thoughtful as we are, and lived lives every bit as complex and nuanced and full of detail. At the same time, it's funny that when thinking of _art,_ it's _just_ as easy to assume that ancient people had some sort of magic, a grand-mastery that nobody today can match. They didn't. We're every bit as talented and virtuosic as they were... or at least, the best of us are.
Kind of reminds me of Jean Baudin who did some incredible solo stuff on bass. There's not much of him playing on youtube, mainly some video game theme songs, but songs like Transcend or Frosty Acres come to my mind. As for the true temperament frets, I somehow always thought that those would only work for exactly one tuning and then if you wanted to for example tune to drop-d from standard, you'd be even more "off" than on a normal guitar... but is that really the case?
I have never used one, but you made me curious, so I looked it up. Yes you can detune and play around with tunings, but there tends to be a limit to detuning before it sounds bad. As far as just dropping the low E to D, I think it would be fine. I don't think the intonation would change that much with a semitone shift. Although I guess it would depend on what you want put of a TT fretboard to begin with. Certainly would be fun to play around with though. They recon that bending feels the same, which seems so odd when you look at it.
Hey dude! Been loving your reactions :)) I’d recommend you check out Nasty and Drown by polyphia, your mind will be blown. Apart from the two classics, Goose and The Worst, that everyone else is suggesting. First of, regarding the arpegios and stuff that Ichika and Tim are doing. If you want to start to play that type of music, I’d recommend you to first master hybrid picking, then arpeggiating will come naturally. Hybrid picking is using the pick to play the “bass” notes and while playing other string with your other three fingers, either one at a time or the three together. I’ve been playing polyphia stuff for about two years now, and hybrid picking was the “cheat code” that helped me understand everything else they are doing. Now, about what you said about the intonation and that stuff. I ain’t an expert, however, I’ve learnt and played a lot of their stuff and all those “inconsistencies” with the tuning come from one of two main reasons. First off, tapping. Contrary two Polyphia, Ichika plays a lot of runs tapping, not only single notes and it’s quite impossible to play all of that in tune, as he will use several fingers at a time to tap and you requiere different force to tap in different strings, so doing those tapping runs in tune is kinda impossible. He could’ve tracked the runs several times with a little bit of tuning variations, but in my opinion Ichika has always had more of a “human” feel to the instrument. The other reason why bass strings go out of tune is due to how hard he plays. If you rewatch the video, when he gets really “emotional” with his playing, he’s really slapping does strings, naturally making them fluctuate in pitch. Anyways, have a good one man!
Thanks for the tips mate! Quite honestly, based on the recording I was doing last night, I need to go back and master "regular picking" before I start worrying about hybrid picking, I have gotten so sloppy. It actually freaked me out a little. 😂 Also I want to be clear, In the video, what I was hearing in regards to pitch was not meant to sound critical in any way. If anything I was blown away by the level of control and that he was in fact 'playing with' the tuning. Your may have nailed it though especially when tapping more than one note at a time it's really hard to apply the same amount of pressure with your right hand.
Technically i wouldnt say this is his craziest or whatever. But melodically to me this song is a step above the rest, it just has such a ridiculously clean ans incredible sound to it, the word ethereal comes to mind (ironically ethereal is associated with some of his other stuff). Some of my other favourites would be ‘20 seconds of melodious licks’, ‘when you love soneone but realise its never gonna work’, ‘orb’, and ‘drowsy’ too His work is seriously incredible and he has a nuts repertoire, even 4 different spotifys i know of. Ichika, nito, and bands dios and ichikoro. So theres so much i still havent even heard This is the best video ive seen reacting to/breaking down something like this
Have you heard of Sungha Jung, finger style guitarist from South Korea? His 2022 cover of Hotel California sounds like two people jamming. A child prodigy.
Loving your reactions/breakdowns of these talented peeps🤘🤘 can I suggest Shakey Graves -roll the bones (if you haven’t already, I’ve only seen this one and the polyphia one, need to binge your vids now😅)
More guitar instrumentals? Check "Asterism". Three very young musicians doing instrumental hard rock music. The guitar shines so bright, that it seems that bass and drums play on a normal lever.
In case it’s not apparent, I’m absolutely impressed and love what others can do and have done with the instrument. I acknowledge my being content at pretending to not know my instrument too well and have happily regressed to punk from black and power metal styles. It’s my comfort zone.
your face when you realize you are a beginner compared to somebody else, although you've thought you were very good musician..:) and this thought that" I am in the middle of my life and will never play like that"....
love your reactions man. could you possibly be kind enough to do some justin johnson reactions? to me he is one of the best guitarists on the scene now and not many people are reacting to him. his delta blues and slide guitar is phenomenal. would be lovely to see it! cheers!
Just some friendly feedback, try to minimize your fillers (um, uh) etc. happened to tap fwd 10 sec a couple times and 4-5 times in a row I landed on an um
Yeah I'm working on that exact thing, it's hard because I don't really set out with a plan or any kind of script. Sometimes I'm cogniscant of it, but other times I forget. It's one of those things that unless your actively trying not to do it, you don't notice you are doing it. It drives me crazy. 😂
shes a great guitarist but if you want to see a female guitarist that can - and does hang with the best players in the world (vai etc.) then look up nita strauss, some of the best shredding i have seen
if it were just melodic arpeggios I wouldn't be all that impressed. in fact, I'd probably say it was a waste to compose it on such a crude instrument as a guitar. but he definitely went much further and harnessed the expressiveness to to demonstrate not just melodic arpeggio, but how that could underpin an entire style.
Hi, could you please react to "Bloodywood - Ari, ari feat. Raoul Kerr", an indian Street folk metal band... Dont want to spoil, u have to trust me... 😝 Greetz from Germany
When you're talking about the fret positions on a guitar, I think you have the causality a little bit mixed up. I could be wrong, but to my understanding, it's nothing to do with guitars in particular, or the strings, but rather the 12-tone scale that _most_ cultures have settled on for music. There's nothing physical about those 12 half-steps, nothing in physics that says those are the best choices for building harmonies. You can see demonstrations of other systems that end up producing _beautiful_ music, if music that sounds very alien to our ears. Don't get me wrong... a perfect fifth _is_ a mathematical resonance that really does exist, with the sound waves genuinely lining up in ways that create pleasurable sensations in our brains. The problem is that if you build a perfect just-tuned instrument, it can only ever be tuned in one key, or... more precisely, one family of keys (equivalent minors and all that). If you transposed into another key, the notes would all be slightly out of tune... and certain keys would be more out of tune than others. So the idea of well-temperament was developed. What that does is make _all_ of the notes ever so slightly out of tune in a way that averages out, so that all intervals in all keys sound "about right". What this means is that while yes, squiggly-fretted guitars certainly do exist, the reason they aren't the norm isn't so much because they'd be difficult to play or to make (just look into the Sitar a bit, and you'll see what an enormous pain in the ass people are willing to put up with to make the music they want to make, as the sitar _does_ have to be reconfigured for every key change, with adjustable fret positions). Rather, it's that such a guitar could only ever play in one key. Any instrument with discrete "built-in" intervals suffers from this problem... so guitars, pianos, wind instruments, harps... Instruments with infinite pitch adjustment (note by note), like most bowed string instruments, the human voice, the trombone, etc. don't have this problem. They _can_ play in just temperament... but most violinists, cellists, singers, etc are not _trained_ to do so, because we're all so used to well temperament that just temperament sounds _wrong_ to us. Plus if you're going to sing or play with any well-tempered instruments, and you're used to playing in just temperament, customized per key, you won't fit in, and will sound out of tune on some notes. But when an entire musical genre is performed _entirely_ in continuous-pitch instruments, something special can happen. An acapella group that sings together for a long time, or a string quartet who always play together, can learn to make _perfect_ intervals with each other... and when they do, the music almost "snaps into focus" in a way that makes it very special. Think of something like monks singing. When they sing, it's very strange sounding. It's beautiful, but it's hard to even tell where one voice begins and another ends. Chords are hard to dissect, as the sound waves all blend and interfere constructively with each other to create new sounds, rather than just combinations of sounds. Anyway... I just thought I'd mention that that's why discrete-pitch instruments are always slightly out of tune, and yet _sound_ correct to us. They have to be, so that they can play in any key and be "close enough", and that's such a common thing over the last few centuries that most people have adapted to it completely, and it sounds _normal_ to us.
Excellent points. It's funny I hadn't considered temperament when it comes to a capella groups! That's really interesting actually. They can infinitely adjust their tuning on the fly to match perfectly harmonically. I gotta do some thinking about all this. Thanks again mate!
@@PrymalChaos Here's a cool video with a keyboard that can play in pure tones that demonstrates the difference really clearly. It's kind of shocking, actually. ua-cam.com/video/Yqa2Hbb_eIs/v-deo.html
Ichika is pretty insane but I doubt he can play a lot of it live. The very limited live playing I've seen has been pretty poor but those vids were from a while ago and he spends probably all of his time playing. I just think some of the stuff he plays is sus.
believe it or not this is tame compared to some of the stuff on his channel, i would be confident in putting him 1st in the world for guitarists as tim is no doubt amazing, but itchika has to carry his own song and make it sound full which he does masterfully
when i say 1st in the world i mean for innovation and skill, as for allround best guitarist in the world, i dont think such a thing exists as it gets too subjective
Yeah I get that. There are people who just stand out from the crowd though.
@@PrymalChaos exactly 💯 ichika the G.O.A.T
@Soyel u got proof of that? Lol
@Soyel lol he has never taken lessons from Steve vai xD
ive never heard someone breakdown this style of playing like this, and i love the verbal interpretation you have provided for us so much, heres a sub
Thanks Johnathan!
I agree, I like the knowledge and musical experience in his review of ichika
You should check out his different tuning videos, i think its very impressive how he can make a song using very whacky tunings. Also i recommend giving the guitarist Manuel Gardner Fernandez a listen, hes on the level of ichika and tim henson imo
I'll take a look.
"Hands don't glitch like that" 🤣
Jared Dines about Manuel Fernandez
You're my favorite reacter as a fellow music nerd I love hearing people geek out about cool music stuff. Your videos are awesome!
No way! Thanks for such an amazing compliment! However I suggest you take a look at Key of Geebz channel. He is the GOAT. 😂🤘
I think two of his best pieces were “homesick” and “orb.” Homesick single-handedly inspired me to play guitar and I’ve spent a year and half practicing it like at least 2 hours a day and I’ve only recently been able to play it up to speed
Well done! I love hearing about people stepping up to a challenge! I remember doing the same thing back when I was 15. The second I picked up a guitar everything else ceased to matter.
I love your insight about the possible pickups he uses, I keep trying to wrap my head around how ichika manages to get that amazing tone
Honestly I think there's more going on than pickups. I think it's probably amp modelling much like Polyphia. I have never heard a guitar sound quite like that.
@@PrymalChaos No Amp modeling
@@PrymalChaos im pretty sure he uses the DI signal and adds effects like eq and compression to it
@@flufficornss yeah that seems like a reasonable possibility.
Since I can't listen to songs for the first time ever again, I found very entertaining to watch people's faces earing them for the first time. And man.. you do some good ones ahahah
I have good news for you and for me. You still have Manuel Gardner Fernandes, Tosin Abasi and Charlie Robbins to close the genre "modern guitar virtuosos".
I think Animals as Leaders might be up pretty soon. I real curious about Tosin.
@@PrymalChaos Sweet! Besides Tosin, Matt Garstka is easily top 3 contemporary drummers. Looking forward to see what you have to say!
I have heard a lot of amazing young artists, but I hadn't heard Ichika till now. Within the first 2 seconds I knew this guy is mind blowing...it only got better from there!!
He is intense. Very cool!
Dude you are killing this Reaction thing. You provide insight instead of "Wow, awesome, cool"
Thanks Chris! I appreciate that.
Ichika Nito was in Jared Dines "the biggest shred collab song in the world IV"" That's where I found him, tooooons of great musicians in that song. I would recommend you watch it (or react to it) if you haven't already :) Love the reactions man, keep up the good work :)
One of the greatest guitar/bass collabs I've ever heard.
Yeah. I may do just that. Thank you!
@@PrymalChaos if you may check the part 3 of the same, Tim Henson is in that while Scottie LePage is in Part IV
@@PrymalChaos He was in 3 as well, blended super well with Tim's part ( which may have been the highlight of that video ).
In shred collab 4 he played a different style with distortion( still good )
vitalism is another super crazy instrumental band. biopolarity by them blew my mind the first time i heard it.
He has a band called Ichikoro. Look up Enemy and Samurai. He fits very well in the band setting.
Been following Ichika since he released Forn, a little ep, which is absolutely beautiful.
He also did a bass ep. There's a video of one of those songs on his channel.
He's also done a few things with Yvette Young as well.
Thanks for the Tip!
You know He is Baiscally play Piano on Guitar
because hes first intrument that he learned is Piano
at 20 years old
he began to Learn Guitar..
thats why the way his picking the guitar so smooth and flawless
Wow. Am going to learn new stuff every time I watch your show? Guitars averaging the best fret distance and never being really in tune?? Amazing. Thanks again PC. I feel a coffee coming on. Oh no, I'll go broke!! Or poor Lolli will have to miss out on one.
Illusory Sense, probably one of his best tunes, deserves a reaction. Ichika is just a beast, amazing
WHOA! Amazing explanation! More please!
Will do!
This reminds me a lot of what Grant Stinnett does with his bass. Masterclass !
5 guitars, 4 amps, nr of pedals and other gear for sale.
Thanks to Ichika I was liberated from this addiction.
😆
Love the info on the true temperament guitars, I’ve never heard of them before thanks!
Happy to help!
Subscribed 👍 Thank you for this laid back reflection on this piece by Ichika - loved the small inserts on guitar intonation nuances, really hit home for me being a fellow guitarist here.
Thank you Konstantin! I appreciate you watching. 👍
You're getting close to 5k. I'm happy for you. You out out amazing content. I loved your reaction to Ichika. He's awesome.
Hey! Thanks, I can't even believe it. It's wild!
randomly stumbled upon you. very glad for that
Thanks mate!
One thing I know about electric guitar is they have to be plugged in to produce quality sound. His guitar isn’t.
But, I know he can play this. I’ve been subbed to him for a while and love his playing. Just a pet peeve I have.
Thanks for the video and knowledge.
Haha. That's funny, I was hassling some artist for not having their guitar plugged in for a video and my partner brought up one of our music videos, and said "look! Yours isn't plugged in" to which I replied.. "look closer, I am using my wireless transmitter" Chackmate Natalie!
Also yeah.. pet peeve of mine too. 😂
@@PrymalChaos haha and it’s not like we are saying these musicians can’t play it. We know they can. It takes me out of the performance though. Similar to when my drummer friends see a drum kit being played with no mics, sampled sounds and is obviously quantized. Nothing wrong with it but really takes me out of a performance.
Thanks for the comment back. I’m not subbed but now I certainly will be.
Ichika Nito, Tosin Abasi, Javier Reyes, Charlie Robbins, Tim Henson, Manuel Gardner Fernandez, Sarah Longfield, Yvette Young…. All monsters. Of course there are many many more out there but these are the folks that come to mind with a more “math” prog style playing. There are a ton of other amazing guitarists out there that are less math and more shred.
I definitely have to check out Animals as Leaders!
I play fingerstyle and when I need heavy strumming I flick my wrist and strum with my index finger. It really helps quickly switch techniques. I've been trying to write my own stuff taking influence from pretty much everything I listen to which includes everything from classical, jazz, and blues to Ichika, Metal, Midwest emo, Math Rock, and Prog.
Well it will certainly have a more interesting outcome than if you only have one source of influence. Keep it up mate!
@@PrymalChaos That's what I'm hoping for
Dropping a like before you even hit play because I know what you’re in for 😂
Haha.
The first few seconds of this composition makes me think of Zelda: A link to the past, when you're in a fairy cave.
Nice reaction! One suggestion is that you should always link to the video you're reacting to in your video notes.
Oh! Great idea! Not sure how I missed that.
Thanks for the tip!
Really interesting points on this! I, too, try to remind myself that people are people... in both directions.
It's funny how when thinking of society, culture, or technology, it's easy to assume that ancient people were simpletons. They weren't. They were every bit as smart, creative, clever, and thoughtful as we are, and lived lives every bit as complex and nuanced and full of detail.
At the same time, it's funny that when thinking of _art,_ it's _just_ as easy to assume that ancient people had some sort of magic, a grand-mastery that nobody today can match. They didn't. We're every bit as talented and virtuosic as they were... or at least, the best of us are.
I've never heard him before. Amazing and great reaction! May I suggest another amazing guitarist? Estas Tonne, The Song of the Golden Dragon. Thanks.
I'll take a look! Thank you!
Omg yep great suggestion, when he gets going with his eyes closed my jaw dropped lmao
Kind of reminds me of Jean Baudin who did some incredible solo stuff on bass. There's not much of him playing on youtube, mainly some video game theme songs, but songs like Transcend or Frosty Acres come to my mind.
As for the true temperament frets, I somehow always thought that those would only work for exactly one tuning and then if you wanted to for example tune to drop-d from standard, you'd be even more "off" than on a normal guitar... but is that really the case?
I have never used one, but you made me curious, so I looked it up. Yes you can detune and play around with tunings, but there tends to be a limit to detuning before it sounds bad. As far as just dropping the low E to D, I think it would be fine. I don't think the intonation would change that much with a semitone shift. Although I guess it would depend on what you want put of a TT fretboard to begin with.
Certainly would be fun to play around with though. They recon that bending feels the same, which seems so odd when you look at it.
If you want a song from ichika that really makes it sound like he is playing two different guitars with one then check out “Orb”
I'll take a look! Thanks!
@@PrymalChaos dope
Hey dude! Been loving your reactions :))
I’d recommend you check out Nasty and Drown by polyphia, your mind will be blown. Apart from the two classics, Goose and The Worst, that everyone else is suggesting.
First of, regarding the arpegios and stuff that Ichika and Tim are doing. If you want to start to play that type of music, I’d recommend you to first master hybrid picking, then arpeggiating will come naturally. Hybrid picking is using the pick to play the “bass” notes and while playing other string with your other three fingers, either one at a time or the three together. I’ve been playing polyphia stuff for about two years now, and hybrid picking was the “cheat code” that helped me understand everything else they are doing.
Now, about what you said about the intonation and that stuff. I ain’t an expert, however, I’ve learnt and played a lot of their stuff and all those “inconsistencies” with the tuning come from one of two main reasons. First off, tapping. Contrary two Polyphia, Ichika plays a lot of runs tapping, not only single notes and it’s quite impossible to play all of that in tune, as he will use several fingers at a time to tap and you requiere different force to tap in different strings, so doing those tapping runs in tune is kinda impossible. He could’ve tracked the runs several times with a little bit of tuning variations, but in my opinion Ichika has always had more of a “human” feel to the instrument. The other reason why bass strings go out of tune is due to how hard he plays. If you rewatch the video, when he gets really “emotional” with his playing, he’s really slapping does strings, naturally making them fluctuate in pitch.
Anyways, have a good one man!
Thanks for the tips mate! Quite honestly, based on the recording I was doing last night, I need to go back and master "regular picking" before I start worrying about hybrid picking, I have gotten so sloppy. It actually freaked me out a little. 😂
Also I want to be clear, In the video, what I was hearing in regards to pitch was not meant to sound critical in any way. If anything I was blown away by the level of control and that he was in fact 'playing with' the tuning.
Your may have nailed it though especially when tapping more than one note at a time it's really hard to apply the same amount of pressure with your right hand.
Behold the protagonist 💝
Technically i wouldnt say this is his craziest or whatever.
But melodically to me this song is a step above the rest, it just has such a ridiculously clean ans incredible sound to it, the word ethereal comes to mind (ironically ethereal is associated with some of his other stuff).
Some of my other favourites would be ‘20 seconds of melodious licks’, ‘when you love soneone but realise its never gonna work’, ‘orb’, and ‘drowsy’ too
His work is seriously incredible and he has a nuts repertoire, even 4 different spotifys i know of. Ichika, nito, and bands dios and ichikoro. So theres so much i still havent even heard
This is the best video ive seen reacting to/breaking down something like this
Ichika and Tim have done a collab it's on Tim's UA-cam 🙌🙌🙌
😲
He plays both parts of a white stripes son on his channel check it out it is nutty
At 9:00 i think dissonance is the word you might have been looking for
I think you may be correct! 😁🤘
Tim Henson with Polyphia is a new sound as well.
Yeah I have reacted to GOAT AND OD. Both awesome!
Please do more ichika!
Certainly!
ichika and polyphia have a song together called Death Note you should check it out if you’d like :D
Have you heard of Sungha Jung, finger style guitarist from South Korea? His 2022 cover of Hotel California sounds like two people jamming. A child prodigy.
this man is able to either make you play guitar because of how good he is, or quit guitar because of how good he is
19:05 oh you almost got it! hahaha
Hahah. That little bastard. So close!
Please watch more of him
Will do.
Highly recommend Sayonikadori: Brilliant city 😉
If you like Ichika and Polyphia I highly recommend that you check out CHON and Covet. they are both super technical but in different ways.
Yeah Chon keeps coming up in the comments. I'll take a look!
@@PrymalChaosIf you end up liking CHON or Covet, Polyphia has done songs with the guitarists from each band as well as a song with Ichika
Check out Charlie Robbins/Syncatto, Owane, David Maxim Micic and of course Plini.
Also try looking at the band Berried Alive, song strawberry serenity.
That is some fine pun work!
Breaking news. Yngwie Malmsteens incarnation travels to the past to show off to old Yngwie Malmsteen.
Loving your reactions/breakdowns of these talented peeps🤘🤘 can I suggest Shakey Graves -roll the bones (if you haven’t already, I’ve only seen this one and the polyphia one, need to binge your vids now😅)
okay....I've never heard that. What in the actual...
Right?
More guitar instrumentals? Check "Asterism". Three very young musicians doing instrumental hard rock music. The guitar shines so bright, that it seems that bass and drums play on a normal lever.
I'll take a look
He's playing a fucking piano on a guitar 😂
That's pretty much it.
Sent this to a buddy:
My musician reactions are something like this.
😯
😠
“Anyway, here’s a punk song you can sing along to drunk.”
In case it’s not apparent, I’m absolutely impressed and love what others can do and have done with the instrument. I acknowledge my being content at pretending to not know my instrument too well and have happily regressed to punk from black and power metal styles. It’s my comfort zone.
You gotta go where the dopamine take you my friend!
your face when you realize you are a beginner compared to somebody else, although you've thought you were very good musician..:) and this thought that" I am in the middle of my life and will never play like that"....
I am feeling that more and more with every new video by artists like Ichika, Polyphia, etc. Haha. Makes me wonder why I put myself through it. 😂
Yay when I watched ur polyphia react I was hopin you’d watch. Watch ichika vs Tim Henson
It's gotta happen.
@@PrymalChaos it already has man!
love your reactions man. could you possibly be kind enough to do some justin johnson reactions? to me he is one of the best guitarists on the scene now and not many people are reacting to him. his delta blues and slide guitar is phenomenal. would be lovely to see it! cheers!
I'm not familiar! I'll take a look.
Polyphia | Death note (ft. Ichika)
Go and check out berried alive, just do it!
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Haha yeah! I was being attacked by Mothra!
Just some friendly feedback, try to minimize your fillers (um, uh) etc. happened to tap fwd 10 sec a couple times and 4-5 times in a row I landed on an um
Yeah I'm working on that exact thing, it's hard because I don't really set out with a plan or any kind of script. Sometimes I'm cogniscant of it, but other times I forget. It's one of those things that unless your actively trying not to do it, you don't notice you are doing it. It drives me crazy. 😂
@@PrymalChaos I totally agree. I just took a public speaking class and that was one of the things I really had to work on
You could be Chase Cameron’s brother. Next great reaction channel, you heard it here first
Thanks for the compliment! Not sure who Chase Cameron is, but I'll take it!
2:51 wtf was that?😨
Scholars maintain that what he was doing was channelling the galactic tesseract via 7th dimensional positive ion spinner conjunctions.. I mean.. duh.
@@PrymalChaos bro i mean look better something flies close to your head
@@jamesback6823 oh damn!! Must have been a metal loving moth!
Max Ostro for the win
Very good and a different song! Another guitarist I rate highly is Tina S. if you haven't watched her.
shes a great guitarist but if you want to see a female guitarist that can - and does hang with the best players in the world (vai etc.) then look up nita strauss, some of the best shredding i have seen
@@Jerry-tg2lj Tina isn't a hang out but she can master their works and more.
I'll take a look!
if it were just melodic arpeggios I wouldn't be all that impressed. in fact, I'd probably say it was a waste to compose it on such a crude instrument as a guitar. but he definitely went much further and harnessed the expressiveness to to demonstrate not just melodic arpeggio, but how that could underpin an entire style.
Well said.
Tri Tones sound off, but offly on.
Ichika is 27 by the way
Oh thanks!
Hi, could you please react to "Bloodywood - Ari, ari feat. Raoul Kerr", an indian Street folk metal band... Dont want to spoil, u have to trust me... 😝
Greetz from Germany
Sounds really interesting!
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When you're talking about the fret positions on a guitar, I think you have the causality a little bit mixed up.
I could be wrong, but to my understanding, it's nothing to do with guitars in particular, or the strings, but rather the 12-tone scale that _most_ cultures have settled on for music. There's nothing physical about those 12 half-steps, nothing in physics that says those are the best choices for building harmonies. You can see demonstrations of other systems that end up producing _beautiful_ music, if music that sounds very alien to our ears.
Don't get me wrong... a perfect fifth _is_ a mathematical resonance that really does exist, with the sound waves genuinely lining up in ways that create pleasurable sensations in our brains. The problem is that if you build a perfect just-tuned instrument, it can only ever be tuned in one key, or... more precisely, one family of keys (equivalent minors and all that). If you transposed into another key, the notes would all be slightly out of tune... and certain keys would be more out of tune than others.
So the idea of well-temperament was developed. What that does is make _all_ of the notes ever so slightly out of tune in a way that averages out, so that all intervals in all keys sound "about right".
What this means is that while yes, squiggly-fretted guitars certainly do exist, the reason they aren't the norm isn't so much because they'd be difficult to play or to make (just look into the Sitar a bit, and you'll see what an enormous pain in the ass people are willing to put up with to make the music they want to make, as the sitar _does_ have to be reconfigured for every key change, with adjustable fret positions). Rather, it's that such a guitar could only ever play in one key.
Any instrument with discrete "built-in" intervals suffers from this problem... so guitars, pianos, wind instruments, harps...
Instruments with infinite pitch adjustment (note by note), like most bowed string instruments, the human voice, the trombone, etc. don't have this problem. They _can_ play in just temperament... but most violinists, cellists, singers, etc are not _trained_ to do so, because we're all so used to well temperament that just temperament sounds _wrong_ to us. Plus if you're going to sing or play with any well-tempered instruments, and you're used to playing in just temperament, customized per key, you won't fit in, and will sound out of tune on some notes.
But when an entire musical genre is performed _entirely_ in continuous-pitch instruments, something special can happen. An acapella group that sings together for a long time, or a string quartet who always play together, can learn to make _perfect_ intervals with each other... and when they do, the music almost "snaps into focus" in a way that makes it very special.
Think of something like monks singing. When they sing, it's very strange sounding. It's beautiful, but it's hard to even tell where one voice begins and another ends. Chords are hard to dissect, as the sound waves all blend and interfere constructively with each other to create new sounds, rather than just combinations of sounds.
Anyway... I just thought I'd mention that that's why discrete-pitch instruments are always slightly out of tune, and yet _sound_ correct to us. They have to be, so that they can play in any key and be "close enough", and that's such a common thing over the last few centuries that most people have adapted to it completely, and it sounds _normal_ to us.
Excellent points. It's funny I hadn't considered temperament when it comes to a capella groups! That's really interesting actually. They can infinitely adjust their tuning on the fly to match perfectly harmonically.
I gotta do some thinking about all this.
Thanks again mate!
@@PrymalChaos Here's a cool video with a keyboard that can play in pure tones that demonstrates the difference really clearly. It's kind of shocking, actually. ua-cam.com/video/Yqa2Hbb_eIs/v-deo.html
But does he Djent??
yes... just check out his channel
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Ichika is pretty insane but I doubt he can play a lot of it live. The very limited live playing I've seen has been pretty poor but those vids were from a while ago and he spends probably all of his time playing. I just think some of the stuff he plays is sus.
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All I can say..... man,how is miss Steve ray Vaughn and a few of the Blues masters..
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