Kotaro Oshio is an amazing player. He attacks the strings yet still maintain the clean composition of the song. This is fingerstyle at a new level in japanese melodies.
Ten years since I started to learn this song.... Still the best rendition of Kotaro so far, was absolutely perfect, in time, with that amazing intro... Tears in my eyes.
Fantastic how he can expres his feelings just throught the guitar like that. I'm really impressed, the dynamic, expression, structure, everything matches.
@@Mephisto_D_Munyo I can't lie, I don't even remember making this comment in 2016 and I have no idea who this artist is lmao. But they're really good actually!
Totally agree with you Rylynn is best his song so far imho... And Kotaro Oshio is so soulful guitar player. I have never see someone like him. With so deep and in the same time touching music.
I prefer this (old) version to the 10 year anniversary version. Have played both, despite the 10 year version being more complicated, this version feels more in musical melody.
Same here. McKee, Emmanuel or Leeb are virtuoso guitarists, but Kotaro is a genious composer and a genious guitarist. His technique serve the music, and his pieces are build like classic good songs.
Andy Mckee - Quite progressive in style, plays pieces with complicated movements, which gives the listeners less memory of the song itself. Tommy Emmanuel - Very wide genre, highly skilled in playing scales and riffs, and has a very strong stage presence. Though sometimes he plays songs too fast that some notes tend to mute. Kotaro Oshio - the only guitarist I know who has fully mastered the nail attack. The best composer of the three. Maintains simplicity without compromising emotion and soul.
Wow, an amazing guitarist, an amazing piece, kotaro oshio is a unique artist, and i love his music :D The way he plays his guitar with such feeling is just...inspiring...
I definitely agree, as amazing as Andy McKee and Tommy are, I personally feel Andy's music doesn't have the same type of soul and Tommy's music is just nice, but Kotaro combines skill, technique and heart in all his pieces.
@haw002 Yeah. At their levels, it's not about guitar techniques, but more about how the song sound. Kotaro Oshio leads with his melodies. He is a melody maker ! !
Wow... The best live version of Tension... I just finished practicing Hard Rain... But this song is harder for me because it contains a lot of nail attack, which is very hard to master. Isn't Kotaro a god or something to compose songs like this???
You are most probably right. A lot of the Sungha stuff has been hyped up. I find the difference between Sungha and other kids his age is that he has been marketed very well and therefore gets to meet many talented artists older than himself. Making these connections at such a young age will allow him to easily become a professional musician should he choose that path and make it much easier for him to be successful.
Haha alright man, finally found someone who shares the same sentiments as me(: The only song of McKee so far that I fee has soul is Rylynn. That is seriously one touching instrumental.
이 라이브 버전은 원본 앨범보다 더욱 풍부한 표현을 가지고 있습니다 대부분 변칙튜닝을가진곡은 단조로운 곡이 되기 쉬우나 코타로는 어쿠스틱 기타가 가질수 있는 최대한의 잠재력을 이곡으로 표현했습니다 현재는 오시오 또한 나이가 들어감을 피할수 없는관계로 저때와 같은 데코핑(코타시브)을 구사하기 힘든것으로 보입니다 어느 기타 아티스트가 달성하지 못한 완벽한 곡중에 하나입니다
Ha thats people In America bro, I'm in New Zealand and we worship every guitarist on here: Erik MOngrain, Andy,Antoine,Carlos Vamos, Erick Turnbull, Kotaro. Sure, we aint a big country but we got a lot of faith in them and we by their cds :)
@goldyplee 1. You should never compare a cover to an original work anyways. 2. I'm pretty sure he's thirteen. And though he's a great guitarist and definitely going places, how he compares to other amazing and experienced guitarists should not even be debated.
Personally, I feel he is better than Andy Mckee, Tommy Emmanuel and all the other great fingerstyle guitarists, in overall terms of feeling and technique. Don't get me wrong, they are amazing guitarists too, but Kotaro Oshio is just.. unique.
depends on what u like. kotaro has more of a softer sound ex. oasis where as mckee is more aggressive ex. drifting i bet if he could mckee would slap the guitar to pieces
err Tommy is not fingerstyle guitarist, usually at least. acoustic guitarist is right though. Anyway, I find Kotaro being the "soft" guitarist out of the "Big Four"-Dufour,McKee,Ross,Kotaro (that term's from metal lol) the other 3 mostly play faster, more aggressive stuff than him. That's what I think. =)
I think it's a shame that so many comments on the "original" versions/vids/songs of songs that Sungha has covered are about him vs the original and becomes a discussion about how good sungha is vs the author or what his talent level is. Please take that shit somewhere else. It's getting really god damn old.
Why don't you get in a studio,record your videos and produce tabs just like Candyrat in Canada.There is money to be made in this and everyone can buy them and this will increase your profile in the world.Amazing song.
