Ok! What Dimension Did This Guy Come From?! - Ichika Nito - Awakening Reaction!! 

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

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

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

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 :)

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

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".

You're my favorite reacter as a fellow music nerd I love hearing people geek out about cool music stuff. Your videos are awesome!

Dude you are killing this Reaction thing. You provide insight instead of "Wow, awesome, cool"

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!!

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

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.

5 guitars, 4 amps, nr of pedals and other gear for sale. Thanks to Ichika I was liberated from this addiction.

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.

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.

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.

Nice reaction! One suggestion is that you should always link to the video you're reacting to in your video notes.

randomly stumbled upon you. very glad for that

The first few seconds of this composition makes me think of Zelda: A link to the past, when you're in a fairy cave.

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.

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.

Love the info on the true temperament guitars, I’ve never heard of them before thanks!

WHOA! Amazing explanation! More please!

Illusory Sense, probably one of his best tunes, deserves a reaction. Ichika is just a beast, amazing

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.

This reminds me a lot of what Grant Stinnett does with his bass. Masterclass !

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!

How do you just have 5k subs?!?! Excellent breakdown. Sub’d.

Dropping a like before you even hit play because I know what you’re in for 😂

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😅)

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.

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 RU-vid 🙌🙌🙌

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?

ichika and polyphia have a song together called Death Note you should check it out if you’d like :D

Behold the protagonist 💝

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 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.

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.

Highly recommend Sayonikadori: Brilliant city 😉

Please do more ichika!

Tim Henson with Polyphia is a new sound as well.

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.

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

Check out Charlie Robbins/Syncatto, Owane, David Maxim Micic and of course Plini.

Breaking news. Yngwie Malmsteens incarnation travels to the past to show off to old Yngwie Malmsteen.

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.

He plays both parts of a white stripes son on his channel check it out it is nutty

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!

Sent this to a buddy: My musician reactions are something like this. 😯 😠 “Anyway, here’s a punk song you can sing along to drunk.”

Polyphia | Death note (ft. Ichika)

Also try looking at the band Berried Alive, song strawberry serenity.

Yay when I watched ur polyphia react I was hopin you’d watch. Watch ichika vs Tim Henson

He's playing a fucking piano on a guitar 😂

okay....I've never heard that. What in the actual...

At 9:00 i think dissonance is the word you might have been looking for

Please watch more of him

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

I'm sure you've got a billion recommendations already (and possibly this one mentioned already anyway), so what's one more....when it comes to this sort of high quality instrumental playing, I'd like to recommend the band Sokoninaru. It's not for everyone, though they do have some...let's call it "entry" songs (and a ballad or two). Even if you just look at it on your own, I'd at least like to spread the name. There are so many underrated bands all over the word, but I'll stick to this one to recommend...there's just too much otherwise.

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

You could be Chase Cameron’s brother. Next great reaction channel, you heard it here first

Very good and a different song! Another guitarist I rate highly is Tina S. if you haven't watched her.

19:05 oh you almost got it! hahaha

Max Ostro for the win

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.

Go and check out berried alive, just do it!

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"....

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.

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Ichika is 27 by the way

Tri Tones sound off, but offly on.

2:50 bug

2:51 wtf was that?😨

But does he Djent??

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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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