When you only have 5 mins to learn an impossible guitar riff (i miss you - Ichika Nito) 🎸 

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To the person who said this would be impossible on the violin. You just didn’t practice enough.

Ichika Nito is very good. Playing this on the violin shows takes just another level of virtuosity. Well done!

As a guitarist I love your interpretation of the song, and I appreciate how faithful you always are to the original. Plus seeing a world class soloist enjoy Ichika Nito makes me feel very validated for choosing the instrument I did. It's nice to have the respect of other musicians.

That was so fun. I would say. It went from “I miss You” (being openly vulnerable) to “I miss You” (and I can explore this feeling, be okay, and even celebrate it - but I still miss you).

That was much better than expected. Well done! I didn’t think it could be done!

I enjoyed “the whispers between the notes”-so evocative of the wistful music. Thank you so much for sharing.

So enjoyable. As a non-musician, I so enjoy seeing you hear the notes, finding them, and writing them out.

never would i have thought that my favorite violinist would cover my favorite guitarist. what a day

That sweater is fantastic! I usually try to comment on content, but that's really striking.

one and a half year into learning violin and this is the first time i see a song with a lot of chords transcribed like this; thank you ray it's inspiring and informative!

Ichika had some videos where he reacts to different covers of his songs. I guess at some point he will appreciate your cover, cause it's so awesome 👌🏻

You got awesome camera presence and musicality! I usually don’t bother watching the creative process and skip to the result haha but you kept me engaged

Great! As a fan of Ichika and his style i can confidently say that you nailed it. Great vid

I love this series. It's so interesting because of how good Ray is.

I was introduced to you as the violinist whose strength was in how you express the music, so these challenges that allow you to interpret and have fun are definitely gonna be enjoyable! It's always a joy to see you figuring out the puzzle pieces and how to fit it together 😊

Wow the result is not bad. Actually I really like the “I miss you” of Ichika Nito. Before watching your video I thought this song is better with guitar. But now I think your violin version is not bad 🤔 Great job Ray 🎉

out of all pieces, I think it's pretty awesome you picked "i miss you", because it seems to be one of Ichika's favorites as well :)

I love Ray doing these challenges! It's so interesting to hear how the music transfers to a different instrument and so interesting to hear Ray's thoughts while putting together the arrangements. Also: he is releasing so much content on his channel lately and I am LIVING for it!

CONGRATULATION TO 400K SUBS RAY, AMAZING MILESTONE

Awesome job Ray

The best guitarists can give good violinists some challenge, but very good violinists (esp. world class violinists) are on another level.

Geez. It’s crazy how much talent and pitch awareness you need to pull this off. Bravo!

As a guitarist and violinist I love these videos!!

Thank you for bringing so much joy to playing the violin!!

This is so cool!! Love Ichika's music and watching your translation process 🤩

Would love to see these instrument transcriptions with accompaniment, like you mentioned. Loved the solo result, but would be fun to hear the result with a more layered sound to match the chords. 😊

I'm a violinist, but I picked up guitar as my hobby thanks to Tim Henson and Ichika Nito. I tried covering their songs on violin, but I really missed their tones, it's the icing on the cake. With the violinist background the progress is pretty fast, you should try it!

I really enjoy how you explain what music is trying to say. Great video❤

Respect for the wise choice of the pull over. Very Ichika

This took me multiple months 😢 Fantastic job haha!

You captured all the emotions, so good

Never thought i would felt the tingling feeling towards a violinist... 😍😍😍😍😍

Please do more covers of Ichika 's music. It sounds genuinely euphoric. Loved it❤

Ichika's older stuff is much more suited for a classical instrument like the violin. It was less flashy flash like now and more beautifully composed ethereal solo guitar pieces, take "illusory sense" for example

Nice! I love seeing difficult guitar stuff on various instruments but on violin its usually the most impressive, cant wait for someone to try out the Winter Madness Solo 😄

Oh my god, my favourite violinist is play my favourite guitarist songs this is actually heaven, amazing playing as always!

Ray! This should be arranged for playing on a loop. Imagine the looped call response. Might not have more strings, but we have time travel 🎶

I'm speechless Now I will be obsessively switching between the violin and guitar for this song :D

Wow both the original and the violin cover sound amazing!! Well done to both!

See, even while taking notes in-between playing Ray is more efficient than me, holding the pen while playing would have never crossed my mind before 😂 well done with the cover!! I'm excited to hear more in the future!

I’d love to see you and Ichika Nito do a collaboration together. This was awesome! Great job

That was amazing. I think you should start releasing some of these as covers

U are do good ❤❤ youre my fav musician

It would sound so great if both of you played together 😮

You should have a look at Tenebre Rosso Sangue especially the main theme at 1:31 onwards. Very Bach like and very fast and powerful. Also just a great theme that sounds great on the organ/electric guitar. Could be fun adapted as a violin piece.

Since Mike Portnoy is rejoining Dream Theater you should try to learn one of there riffs! The Dance of Eternity or the Honor Thy Father openings should be fun for someone at your level ☺ Nice job on the Ichika riff too! I would imagine getting the voice's right was a little annoying.

Let's go I'm so glad more people wanted to see ichika

you did great with this piece on violin!

I enjoyed every moment of this video. So entertaining 🎉

Ray slayed!

can you do the same challenge with asturias please. it's classical guitar music but i'm sure we will enjoy it

That was epic. I really loved watching your process from difficult and making changes, questioning the whole thing!, to just wow. What a glorious sound. I can tell how not easy it was, and you totally rocked it! Thanks so much! 🎉

ray coulda easily stretched this to 8 mins to get mid rolls, what a g. also amazing video i hope he does more of these!!!

Very impressive Ray. You are a skilled musician without a doubt.

The ichika song you played in the background at the end is one of my favorites, play that one!! lol

1:14 I also started listening to ichika recently and had this exact reaction (but violin still 1st)

Ray, I really enjoy your thinking process the whole time!!!❤great job in transcribing!

“You know the difference between A-sharp and B-flat? A-sharp is sharper” OMG THANK YOU RAY!!!!!!!!!!!

You did good! Difficult to play a song from a different instrument. But you did well.😖 “Happy New Year!”

YES ! well done ! hello from Réunion Island !🤩🤩🌴🌴

Ichika is part of band called Dios which makes some pretty banger music! I recommend checking out his work with the band

Love these challenge videos Ray.

very good!

Sharps are sharper than flats only with just intonation. There is no difference between A# and Bb with equal temperament. The equal temperament divides the octave in 12 identical notes with a ratio of the 12th root of 2.

You nailed it again 👏🤝 the " every musician after practicing for 10 min " is so true 😭😂 I can't get enough of these challenge videos 🤎

Really, really good. The challenge when starting from a classical training is always finding away of not making non-classical tunes sound stllted. It's something to do with barlines and the intensity required to project all the colours. Never mind making a transcription sound effective on a different instrument. Oh, and how about making the video of pulling it all together enjoyable to watch. Kudos to you, Ray.

🥰 love how you interpret the song

I so badly want a polyphia, ray, ichika + orchestra mash up 😢

The collab I always wanted

so good and interestignly interpreted. i would love to hear a duet with a cello now !

Ray and Ichika Nito's music, count me in

This sounds AMAZING 🤩 I hope you also take this time to learn chop techniques with this too :) to get those guitar pops too. I believe you’d be perfect to learn chop techniques, and would help even more with jamming and feeling the groove in a EPIC way. (Casey Driessens chop notation glossary is a PERFECT source for this, on RU-vid) :) I love the fact that you attempt non classical styles and improvise as well 👍🏾 it keeps me coming back to your videos.

this was awesome ! congratz Ray :))

as a guitarist learning violin, i would actually love to see you try out guitar for a video!

Don’t know how you do it, awesome as usual.

That was sick

Very amazing, loved it. ♥

You're so good at violin❤

I'd love to have a tonic equivalent for other types of art. Though that kind of seems hard for writing in the moment. But I'm doing my best with a small writing group which has been super helpful

Dunno why I haven't subbed til this point. Fantastic rendition!

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serious question.. how comfy is that sweater???. it looks extremely comfy :P

I feel that having post work done on the performance part of the video takes away the wholesome charm of it imho

THIS IS BJUTIFUL. Please make and Yvette Young one!!!

Beautiful

Beautiful! 😊❤

I like the colorful top

啊啊啊居然繼Tim henson之後還有ichika nito! 還有陳銳! 同時是這三個人粉絲的我好快樂哈哈哈!

It's sounds great, now it's time for you to do the hard version of I miss you 😆

Would love to see some of these after 40 hours of practice!

Dude you've got to react ot soul bass concerto by Xavier Foley. The piece's 3rd movement is just 🤌🤌🤌🤌

I would love to see you play something by Rob Scallon, like For That Second

nice choice of 3d printer - bamboo labs are great :)

That's AMAZING！！！

The crossover I didn't know I needed

So good

Please do more of ichika!! Try arpeggio

Ray said he should pick up the guitar. Ok, so now he’s doing violin then opera then guitar?! 😂😂 If you don’t go into Rays studios in Tonic, the opera part wouldn’t make sense And also Ray, you should play Shostakovich cello sonata on violin 😄

Best Performance Ray.. Very nice...