Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd - Fingerstyle Solo Guitar (Kent Nishimura) 

Well said. Kent's arrangements are unexplainable to 99.9% of humanity. I can play almost anything, however kent is beyond my 34 years of experience to play

Heavenly playing Agree 100%

Totally agree

It's not how "they" play it. It's All about the Song. Very Well Done, Thank You for Posting this.

The arrangement itself is astounding. I arranged a multi-layered guitar track of this years back to learn Logic…and can attest to the nuances that underpin this song. That descending keyboard line 😍

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No. This isn't superb. This is absolute magic on display. To capture all of that, fingerstyle on a single instrument is beyond impressive.

@@kyleinokc this one song in particular is sublime in its emotional evocation....genius at another level.

Yeah!! Its called fingerstyle..

no human voice. so what ever you do if it does not have human touch its just intruments

@@kalyand75 ... You think that this doesn't has a human touch because it's lacking the vocals? Really?????

You forgot to add voice as well, notice he plays the lyrics. Absolutely superb. Don't need a voice if you know the song.

....even the guitar singing too

Tears of joy is a real thing

At 64 beat you lol yes nicely said

Same here

This version is epic. No one played so perfect this song as Kent did.

Very well said.

Indeed

The guitar goes back some hundreds of years and was made for good musicians. It has quite the history long before modern times. Spanish flamenco players used the guitar . Others play Bach and all manner of classical music - playing 4 lines of music at the same time using the right thumb and three fingers - beautiful sounds. This young man plays a combination of a modern approach, with a few flamenco flourishes near the end. Even a beginner can sound very nice on this lovely little instrument.

I absolutely LOVE that idea, and could totally see it being true!

My guitar itself regularly cries when watching Kent. I suspect my guitar of watching him even when I am away. Can't really blame my guitar.

@@geetjuhhisdebeste I know... it's always nerve wracking to see someone so young and so good when you've played for years and don't come close to half of it!

2 years late, but my guitar and i are crying together because we’ll never be this good

Agreed

Almost puts you off playing guitar at all ... bit like when Eric Clapton first saw Jimi Hendrix ... cheers

Absolutely, and he's still so young! If Kent keeps playing for another 20 years, I wonder what he could do then!

this is when thedoo became an acoustic fingerstylist

Yeah, different style. Kent is more percussive and uses lots of tap harmonics. Sausage fingers Richard Smith different again.

I think in terms of style and arranging only Eddie Van Der Meer comes to mind, but they tackle very different tunes so it wouldn't really be easy to compare them, not that there is a need to. I am sure Kent would also agree that there is no "best" and it's just a matter of interpretation and each artist has a different way of expressing a piece. At best, once could argue the technique mastery, in which case I'd have to agree that Kent has the highest degree of mastery of it, of the people I've come across so far. Which isn't to say others couldn't do it, but they may preoretize other things over technique...

Emmanuel is in a different place. Kent could certainly be validly compared to Gabriella - those two are like brother and sister. So compare them by all means.

There are absolutely tons of amazing percussive acoustic players so would be narrow sighted to say the best. Besides, that's a personal thing I guess.

@@SmokinMesa Sure but every is different - let's say top tier.

He is a natural one man band ... but using the guitar as everything, not like the old days ... chords for the rhythm, fingers and palms for drums, bass on the bottom 3 strings then melody and a flipping whole orchestra on the top 3 strings ... he doesn't even need to sing ... brilliant

Gilmour is a baby boomer. Waters is based, tho.

Gilmour's solos were what was good about Pink Floyd. Waters was just a downer.

@@Joeherman Nah. Even though I don't like Roger's personality, I'd be stupid and oblivious not recognizing his amazing songwriting and what he did for Pink Floyd.

@@FocohiAcoustic Absolutely. Incredible lyricist.

@@FocohiAcoustic I beg to differ. Amazing songwriting? Take for example "Another Brick in the Wall" written by Waters. Harmonically, it is pretty basic and dull with a three note vamp. Lyrically it is dumb "We don't want no education". Sheesh. As dumb as it sounds. But when Gilmour comes in with his solo, it sizzles. Take out Gilmour's solo and nothing's there. Same with so many other songs that Waters supposedly "wrote". Most of the songs Waters wrote on The Wall are depressing downers on their own like "Don't Leave me Now" or "One of My Turns" Blecchh. Not very interesting lyrically and harmonically. When Gilmour steps in with the guitar solos on, let's say, Comfortably Numb however, those are the only high points of the album. Same with Wish You Were Here where that famous four note theme as well was composed by Gilmour. On Dark Side of the moon, can you imagine Time or Money without Gilmour's guitar work? One of the most interesting things Pink Floyd did was Great Gig in the Sky which had nothing to do at all with Waters. Of course Syd Barrett was a creative and clever songwriter, but not the dour faced Waters. Lucky for him he could ride the coat tails of his bandmates. In addition, Roger Waters tried to steal the Pink Floyd Name claiming he was the most important part of the band. Luckily he lost. Is that what you mean by "what he did for Pink Floyd? More like a selfish brute.

It's right up there with his Another Brick in the Wall solo ...

The part of solo is completly insane.

It’s hard to even comprehend how he’s even playing it, unreal

You're right, it's so good!!! Beautifully balanced and blended! 🤩

Composed by ?

@Divocwax: What's that to do with this amazing solo acoustic fingerstyle performance ? I've been listening to "The wall" since the album release, and when I listen to this masterpiece, I aknowledge the spirit of the song just like when performed by PF.

Ummm.... Kent is arguably one of the best guitarist out there and you're throwing shade. For what reason Idk why. Gilmore can't hold a flame to this kid. And yes he's a kid...that defies all logic with his passion and ingenuity in how he arranges 4 parts at once.

@@Divocwax arranged by one of the greatest.

He’s arrangement is without doubt made in Japan best quality

Well said

Exactly why I find Kent so mesmerising too

I do agree. I'm not even 3 months straight into guitar yet I can spot a madly skilled person as you put it. Keeping rhythm while soloing is such a mesmerizing thing.

I have nothing to add to this comment. Well said.

Beautifully articulated Marko. Spot on. You helped me appreciate this even more than I was. Which is saying something. Cheers!

Kent has at leat three brains.

Agree 💯 I watch everyone who does fingerstyle guitar on RU-vid and this guy is on another level.

Thank you so much for the Wish u were here tutorial.

I saw a guy play wicked game on the street the other day and thought: "meh nothing compared to Yoni"

Heeyy Yonii

These are grand slams bro

And they said Marvel had the most ambitious crossover ever

Ive been playing guitar for 40 years and know I could never place this well. This is on another completely different level than 99.9% of guitar players that ever lived.

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Yes!

And looks at me with contempt when I return.

@@thanesgames9685 My guitar ran away while I was at work after watching this video.

“Why can’t my player do that to me?”😢

Didn't you watch Kent playing "Time" and "Another brick on the wall" ?