God that is the cleanest distortion ever. Hitting a polyphonic chord with distortion sounds like absolute crap but his created this tone infallibly beautiful.
@@eladguitar nah people just say it has an anime feel because they say that to every emotional post hardcore sounding band, this might not be ur standard post hardcore but it's sure as hell influenced by it, dissonant chords with a bit distortion on it. Let's just say he didn't get this style from just metal and classical stuff, sorry if this sounds pretentious I just noticed it and nobody else has
Id say it sounds nore like the raindrops reflecting the luminance of the moon as you sit there and reminisce about how you played with your little brother in autumn as a child a decade before you jokingly pushed him a little and he fell onto the road and got hit by a car before you were supposed to give him his birthday present and he became braindead
I guarantee he's already at least considered it. You don't come up with this many variations of the same style without the obviously ridiculous ones popping out at some point.
It's so nice that in this day and age you don't have to go to live shows to see shred gods do their work. What we enjoy on youtube is unparalleled by any other time in history.
I’m not convinced this guy is even human. How does your hand not end up tied like a pretzel with all the fingering? Your finger movements and knowledge of the cage system is phenomenal.
This has to be my favorite sounding mini-track from Ichika yet, there's just something different about this one than the others. I don't even play guitar but the sound of this guitar in general has me feelin some kinda way.
Polyphia and Covet are both boring compared to Ichika. They just try too hard to do technical stuff and have no musicality. Ichika actually brings out emotion in the music, with his creative harmony and melody choices.
@Clip that's because ichica fans are prebuscent anime fans who don't know shit Abt music. Don't know how polyphia isn't "musical" that's a very trivial and subjective guideline to go off of
Wow dude, definitely every thing this guy uploads with "Ethereal" in the name is the best... well let's be real, everything that Ichika uploads is the best xd
i’ve watched this video probably 40 times just because nothing even compares to the tone, as well as the melody and with the two combined, it created perfection.
reverse string order tuning: EBGDAE matlab tuning: EEEEEE all semitone tuning: Ab A A# Ab A A# (for any note) confederate tuning: CECEDE (or Texas tuning) back injury tuning: BADBAC
It's the sound you hear when you are dreaming and walk up to a vine covered door that---when opened---turns out to be a room of your memories from a thousand past lives.
No, they don't. He understands all about complex music theory and all the possible chord progressions (not just regular diatonic chord progressions in one key). Plus interesting scales to put over them. You'll want to first head to Music theory dot net and complete all the intervals training and chord training exercises until you get good at them and know them quickly by ear. Also memorize the sound of the major scale, minor pentatonic, major and minor blues scales, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor. Learn how to play each of these on your instrument of choice. This covers most of what would be considered "basic" music theory, and gives you a strong foundation. Once you can identify all the basic intervals and the most common chords/scales by ear, then learn some basic chord progressions such as I IV V, and ii V I. I mean just regular diatonic in-key chord progressions. Best way to do this is take some (simple) songs you like, learn them by ear, and do a roman numeral analysis on them and write them out. Another way is to look at RUclips videos for basic chord progressions. Build up your arsenal of regular basic diatonic chord progressions, and start to keep a library of them and write them out. It's not key that you memorize all of these by ear, the idea here is just to get your feet wet with transposing basic diatonic (means in one key) songs and chord progressions by ear. Now at this step, learn all the modes of the major scale. Memorize the sound of each mode and be able to sing it, and play it on your instrument. Branch your scalar knowledge out into modes. Then learn jazz chords, memorize the sound of each, and again apply them to these basic chord progressions. Branch your chordal knowledge out into jazz chords and sus chords. Now is where it starts to get interesting and sound complex, and you get crazy chord progressions like Ichika. You need to learn the following concepts: Secondary dominants, passing chords (large topic as there are many choices), neopolitan and german chords, augmented chords and.scsle, diminished chord and scale, tritone substitutions, modulations (another large topic), modal mixtures and modal interchange, backdoor progression, omnibus progression, altered chords. These are some of the more advamced music theory concepts you'll need to learn how to hear if you want to be able to improvise songs like he does. THEN finally you need to be able to apply them to your instrument, and improvise with this new arsenal of music ideas that you have memorized. Now take experimental approach (AKA noodling). I mean, you should always be noodling and practicing your instrument during all of the above, but by this point you should hopefully be able to use these music theory ideas to craft short progressions or riffs. Record your riffs and licks and write them out when you stumble upon a good one. You WILL forget them, so don't be lazy, and write them out. Also, continue to be curious about new interestinf progressions that you hear in a song, and write them out as well (be a thoughtful listener). This all sounds daunting, trust me I was.the same way. But I assure you if you spend a diligent 45 minutes on it per day, you can become very proficient at music theory and understand all the above concepts in probably 9 months time. There is no such thing as a good ear, as long as you can tell the difference in pitch between two notes, that's good enough. It's just a ton of experimentation and studying, plus learning how to apply them to your instrument of choice If you take nothing else from this post, then just remember this tip -- When you stumble across a cool chord progression or lick that you enjoy, write it out. Tabs or chords diagram, whatever (just write it out in a way that makes sense to you). Start young and do this consistently over the years. Keep that idea journal with you, and don't lose it. Continue to add to it. This tip alone is almost just as valuable as learning all the music theory, as you will simply learn a lot of the most practical and common chord progressions, and common licks or scalar ideas this way. Follow my advice and you will be able to craft novel chord progressions pretty easily. Writing genius music is another task altogether, but this gives you all the tools to do so. Every possible note choice will have a chord you know you can play for it (regardless of whether that note was in the original scale or not).
@@bigtimecoder2588 I think I found the God post. Thank you for taking the time to write this! Hearing someone list out learning objectives for music theory is really helpful. I have been having a really hard time getting started with it. Going to apply your advice on my bass! Thanks a ton!
If anyone's curious, this tuning is open Fm9sus4-it could also be called Fm11sus2 or Fm11(no 3), but those seem rarer-which is a pretty nice chord. It has this pretty airy and ethereal sound to it due to it having both the 2nd and 4th but no 3rd, and it being a seventh chord helps too. A voicing of this chord in standard tuning is: x 8 8 8 8 8. You can also just bar across the whole fret, but that would make it a Fm9sus4/C chord, which may just end up sounding like a Cm11 (without the 9th). If I remember correctly his previous "Ethereal Tuning" was just open Dmaj7, but with a nice voicing of it, of course. I think that just goes to show that which voicing of a chord you choose can be just as important as which chord you choose. The voicing in scale degrees is: 1 2 5 b7 4 5
Crazy to think one of best musical minds/progidical guitars of our generation, and he makes 1 minute songs on RUclips, I would love a full album from you, much love from England
We are trying to play guitar while Ichika over here is playing 𝓖𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓻
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So true man XDXDXDXD
for real
כן, ממש. בחור פסיכי.
Ichika plays in cursive
"FACFAC" tuning when?
After your video with this tuning
He's spitting FACs
Pantsu wa nani iro?
You mean DAFACC tuning when?
@@Garromusic I knew this was coming.
I definitely wouldn't mind hearing more songs in this tuning 👍
seconded^^!
Say no more, TTNG has it all on Spotify
True
Check out a band called "Scale The Summit" they have an album called The Migration
DBGDBGD tuning (from high to low)
Me: *really getting into it
*video ends
Me: no don’t leave
Me: a g a i n
This song gives me abandonment issues
Right as I read this comment and agreed with it, the song ended and I felt heartbroken all over again
@@TB-fm3tp me too, bud
same
Turn it into full song or we riot
I SECOND THIS
I THIRD THIS
I FOURTH THIS!
I see your one song and raise you an album
Bruh I'd kill our dog if this won't turn out to be an album.
God that is the cleanest distortion ever. Hitting a polyphonic chord with distortion sounds like absolute crap but his created this tone infallibly beautiful.
@@eladguitar nah people just say it has an anime feel because they say that to every emotional post hardcore sounding band, this might not be ur standard post hardcore but it's sure as hell influenced by it, dissonant chords with a bit distortion on it. Let's just say he didn't get this style from just metal and classical stuff, sorry if this sounds pretentious I just noticed it and nobody else has
@@eladguitar I mean basically it's just facts with some exaggeration that's not that big of a deal, he still said the tone was epic
@@eladguitar ay yo, chill bro
His 3rd hand must be edited out 🤔
and his 4th
it's in reverse
and his 3rd eye.
His hands moves faster than your brain
& his 3rd leg.
And then there are people who say technical players have no soul in their music.
I mean... 0:36 , c'mon. He made that guitar cry out. So much character in his playing I love it!
In most cases, yes. Lmao.
Well, there are those players. Technique and soul are not mutually exclusive, obviously. No one actually thinks that unless they're a moron
This is what you hear as a guitarist going to heaven...
Eddie Van Halen truly did have his ears blessed if this is true
Either this or Eric clapton
I hope so
@@b_a_fps1569 it'd be very nice to hear
No, you hear the intro to Money for Nothing by Dire Straits
WE NEED FULL SONG!! THAT THING IS TOO GOOD TO LEAVE IT LIKE THIS!
The tone in this is ridiculous. Its literally the prettiest leads and the most intense, shattering distortion all at the same time.
This may be my favorite 'melody'(idk what to call this??) that Ichika has made, largely because of the tone
Was thinking the same, I'm really jealous of his tone game
It's just math rock tone
Dang 🤔🤔
its barely distorted my dude???
This sounds like when an anime protagonist is reliving his memories when he's "defeated", but with the power of friendship he gets an insane power-up
Yup 😂
Dude, I was looking for this comment lol 👊😎
It kinda sound like if Evangelion intro song had a sequel.
I hadn't made the connection, but you're spot on!
Are you my brain
This sounds like the sun reflecting off waves at the beach
Bro you got that biblically accurate angel pfp drip
That’s some wordsmithing right there man...
That's actually so accurate
Id say it sounds nore like the raindrops reflecting the luminance of the moon as you sit there and reminisce about how you played with your little brother in autumn as a child a decade before you jokingly pushed him a little and he fell onto the road and got hit by a car before you were supposed to give him his birthday present and he became braindead
@@senza4591 that sounds oddly specific, are u alright?
0:39 that one note... you guys know what I’m talkin about
It hits the spirit
Yes, it was so sharp, it cut me...
The sound my cat makes when I accidentally step on his tail
at this point ichika could strum open strings in different tunings and make a song
edit: several different tunings not one
Don't give him ideas
GIVE HIM IDEIAS
I guarantee he's already at least considered it. You don't come up with this many variations of the same style without the obviously ridiculous ones popping out at some point.
didn't he already do this? I think the video was titled the easiest song to play on guitar or something along that way.
@@平沢-e1w but not in several diffrent tunings
It's so nice that in this day and age you don't have to go to live shows to see shred gods do their work. What we enjoy on youtube is unparalleled by any other time in history.
Def one of the most beautiful tuning you’ve ever used
Old ethereal tuning is may more beautriful imo
I’m not convinced this guy is even human. How does your hand not end up tied like a pretzel with all the fingering? Your finger movements and knowledge of the cage system is phenomenal.
Ah, yes. That hit the spot.
What spot? Peace.. lol
0:38 right?
@@thisissowrongtito G spot
@@osamabinladen824 but what is G spot? Lol
@@osamabinladen824 :0
This has to be my favorite sounding mini-track from Ichika yet, there's just something different about this one than the others. I don't even play guitar but the sound of this guitar in general has me feelin some kinda way.
Exactly!
The composition has a good way of drawing the listener in to pay more and more attention by slowly building and being more slow paced
If this gets a full song version it has to be named Ethereal Renaissance
Ethereal Rebirth sounds cool too!
Renaissance Rebirth? Ethereally Ethereal?
Just realized Newthereal might actually be good too.
or maybe “ethereal resonance”
"Ethereal Feel" ended up being on the N I T O ep.
That tone makes it sound like a Polyphia and Covet song at the exact same time
It is probably because it encompasses the genre perfectly
Polyphia and Covet are both boring compared to Ichika. They just try too hard to do technical stuff and have no musicality. Ichika actually brings out emotion in the music, with his creative harmony and melody choices.
@Clip that's because ichica fans are prebuscent anime fans who don't know shit Abt music. Don't know how polyphia isn't "musical" that's a very trivial and subjective guideline to go off of
It never ceases to amaze me how fluent you are regardless of the tuning. Incredible as always.
The build up to the high note at 0:39 is everything
That high note was the worst part of the song
I hope this man single-handedly inspires an entire generation of punk guitarists.
Ethereal Punk
Wouldn't it be math rock guitarists? Since when is punk in any way technical?
I dunno about punk, but I would definitely say yes to guitarists, period.
@@vietnow4611 maybe punk-guitarist will inspired via not able to play that clean and technical. So, let’s just play easy sloppy and fast then haha
So that they actually start playing instead of hurting their instruments?
One of Ichika's best
This is simply the best accumulation of chords and melody I have ever heard and nothing more can be said about just how perfect this sounds.
I bet he practiced for like an hour and was like “time to upload”
Ichika this is incredible, your versatility with the guitar is truly inspiring
Those chords and flow remind me of how my old bandmate used to play. Brings me back a long way. God bless you Mr. Nito
Please make an entire 4-minute song from this progression. I love it so much!!!
0:15 free timestamp lol
free like lol
3 years late lol
my ultimate goal is being able to replicate a single one of these videos
hope you’ve achieved your goal
you should’ve if you’ve been trying
This is beautiful
I actually listened to this daily. I hope he makes a full song from this
The strums sound like a thunderstorm...so sick!!
Omg this is the most beautiful thing ive ever heard
It's amazing how he looks so gentle while playing something so intense.
This is my favorite! Love this!!!
His tapping and other skills are of another level.. Love his playing..👌👌
Definitely could hear this being a Opening Theme song for an Anime🔥
This may be my new favorite RUclips video that you’ve posted!! I absolutely love the tone and the melody you chose. Such a genius
This man is like if Spirited Away was a human
The clarity and crunch sounded awesome
This was posted on my birthday. Best gift ever
Ichika tunes his guitar to a Cmin11 chord and it's magic
I do not trust Ichika, he claims that he got sick by the mayonnaise on his burger, but demands a mayonnaise sandwich in the same night
what
what
what
what
what
Dude....... This is your best video. No question.
Wow dude, definitely every thing this guy uploads with "Ethereal" in the name is the best... well let's be real, everything that Ichika uploads is the best xd
i’ve watched this video probably 40 times just because nothing even compares to the tone, as well as the melody and with the two combined, it created perfection.
WE NEED A FULL VERSION OF THIS SONG
This might’ve been your best one yet
He probably can just throw a pack of strings against the wall and it turns into a song
This needs to be turned into an OP 🔥
reverse string order tuning: EBGDAE
matlab tuning: EEEEEE
all semitone tuning: Ab A A# Ab A A# (for any note)
confederate tuning: CECEDE (or Texas tuning)
back injury tuning: BADBAC
we not gonna talk about how insane the video quality is
PLEASE put this on spotify, I literally can't stop listening to it, 😍😍😍
This reminded me the intro of psycho pass, you would be good at making anime intros
That lightly distorted tone is fkn awesome!!!!
Holy moly this was great. You outdid yourself again!
my favorite video of yours is the ethereal tuning video. this video was posted the day after my birthday. awesome!!!
It's the sound you hear when you are dreaming and walk up to a vine covered door that---when opened---turns out to be a room of your memories from a thousand past lives.
Damn Katie
Wow, that was deep...😳
@@perpetualbystander4516 That's what she said
I like you
Accurate
Quite possibly the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard
Theres no way that he made this didnt think "epic anime opening theme."
one of the best ichika riffs. would listen to this on spotify
Oh no, Ichika has a band aid on his thumb and he's still playing flawlessly.
We've reached the pinnacle of human existence.
Lol, that was my initial reaction too, but it's a thumb pick.
my jaw dropped, your playing always leaves me awestruck but this was beautiful
cheat code successful:
GOD Mode - ON
Definitely one of my favorites! Love you Ichika❤
PLEASE DO SOMETHING WITH RUDOLF THE REDNOSE REINDEER. like make it the best thing we'll ever see!
As always you have bought back a treasure from wherever it is you go to capture these sounds.
Fun fact: The reason his vids are so short is because most of his time is spent tuning 😂
ethereal tuning sound so good. It`s touching your soul man
Therapist: Distortion ichika isn't real, he can't hurt you
Distortion ichika:
気がついたらまた聴きに来てるんだよなぁ・・
I want u to play in standard tuning backwards
Annnnnd in the opposite direction (I mean that u play with your left hand strumming)
So play it left handed then
@@starrk7158 exactly
I appreciate this mans music and his hair. They’re both magnificent
1st time being so early lmao
I'm melting. This is gorgeous.
Do regular chords still sound good like that?
Maybe some, but probably not lol
No, they don't. He understands all about complex music theory and all the possible chord progressions (not just regular diatonic chord progressions in one key). Plus interesting scales to put over them.
You'll want to first head to Music theory dot net and complete all the intervals training and chord training exercises until you get good at them and know them quickly by ear. Also memorize the sound of the major scale, minor pentatonic, major and minor blues scales, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor. Learn how to play each of these on your instrument of choice. This covers most of what would be considered "basic" music theory, and gives you a strong foundation.
Once you can identify all the basic intervals and the most common chords/scales by ear, then learn some basic chord progressions such as I IV V, and ii V I. I mean just regular diatonic in-key chord progressions. Best way to do this is take some (simple) songs you like, learn them by ear, and do a roman numeral analysis on them and write them out. Another way is to look at RUclips videos for basic chord progressions. Build up your arsenal of regular basic diatonic chord progressions, and start to keep a library of them and write them out. It's not key that you memorize all of these by ear, the idea here is just to get your feet wet with transposing basic diatonic (means in one key) songs and chord progressions by ear.
Now at this step, learn all the modes of the major scale. Memorize the sound of each mode and be able to sing it, and play it on your instrument. Branch your scalar knowledge out into modes.
Then learn jazz chords, memorize the sound of each, and again apply them to these basic chord progressions. Branch your chordal knowledge out into jazz chords and sus chords.
Now is where it starts to get interesting and sound complex, and you get crazy chord progressions like Ichika. You need to learn the following concepts:
Secondary dominants, passing chords (large topic as there are many choices), neopolitan and german chords, augmented chords and.scsle, diminished chord and scale, tritone substitutions, modulations (another large topic), modal mixtures and modal interchange, backdoor progression, omnibus progression, altered chords. These are some of the more advamced music theory concepts you'll need to learn how to hear if you want to be able to improvise songs like he does.
THEN finally you need to be able to apply them to your instrument, and improvise with this new arsenal of music ideas that you have memorized. Now take experimental approach (AKA noodling). I mean, you should always be noodling and practicing your instrument during all of the above, but by this point you should hopefully be able to use these music theory ideas to craft short progressions or riffs. Record your riffs and licks and write them out when you stumble upon a good one. You WILL forget them, so don't be lazy, and write them out. Also, continue to be curious about new interestinf progressions that you hear in a song, and write them out as well (be a thoughtful listener).
This all sounds daunting, trust me I was.the same way. But I assure you if you spend a diligent 45 minutes on it per day, you can become very proficient at music theory and understand all the above concepts in probably 9 months time. There is no such thing as a good ear, as long as you can tell the difference in pitch between two notes, that's good enough. It's just a ton of experimentation and studying, plus learning how to apply them to your instrument of choice
If you take nothing else from this post, then just remember this tip -- When you stumble across a cool chord progression or lick that you enjoy, write it out. Tabs or chords diagram, whatever (just write it out in a way that makes sense to you). Start young and do this consistently over the years. Keep that idea journal with you, and don't lose it. Continue to add to it. This tip alone is almost just as valuable as learning all the music theory, as you will simply learn a lot of the most practical and common chord progressions, and common licks or scalar ideas this way.
Follow my advice and you will be able to craft novel chord progressions pretty easily. Writing genius music is another task altogether, but this gives you all the tools to do so. Every possible note choice will have a chord you know you can play for it (regardless of whether that note was in the original scale or not).
@@bigtimecoder2588 a lot to take in at once. But thank you, I'll work on it I appreciate it
@@bigtimecoder2588 I think I found the God post.
Thank you for taking the time to write this! Hearing someone list out learning objectives for music theory is really helpful. I have been having a really hard time getting started with it. Going to apply your advice on my bass! Thanks a ton!
@@bigtimecoder2588 great post.
If anyone's curious, this tuning is open Fm9sus4-it could also be called Fm11sus2 or Fm11(no 3), but those seem rarer-which is a pretty nice chord. It has this pretty airy and ethereal sound to it due to it having both the 2nd and 4th but no 3rd, and it being a seventh chord helps too. A voicing of this chord in standard tuning is: x 8 8 8 8 8. You can also just bar across the whole fret, but that would make it a Fm9sus4/C chord, which may just end up sounding like a Cm11 (without the 9th). If I remember correctly his previous "Ethereal Tuning" was just open Dmaj7, but with a nice voicing of it, of course. I think that just goes to show that which voicing of a chord you choose can be just as important as which chord you choose.
The voicing in scale degrees is: 1 2 5 b7 4 5
Who cares
This tuning is delicious
who cares
You always inspire me with your videos. Thank you for being you
Man this tuning is fun to play in. I can't play anything near as complicated as he does but making your own stuff to play in this tuning is wonderful.
this is particularly exceptional work from an already standout collection of music
Wow Im going to have to try this tuning out. Incredible stuff.
This is my new favorite of your work.
You never cease to ducking blow me away
Oh man. Maybe my fave of your minisongs yet. Wow
Never expected tapping and fingerstyle playing to work on distortion alongside strumming, yet here he is killing it!
This tuning has so much potential
Fantastic musicianship as always as well!
This is my favorite tuning. Thanks for introducing me to it.
All of your pieces give me a feeling of a beautiful life cut short
after watching 3 videos youve earned a subscriber dude well done truely inspirational to get me back into learning in my acoustic
Cool tuning bro! I'd love to hear some more of it.
Ichika-san is the only one who is capable of harmonizing chaos.
Crazy to think one of best musical minds/progidical guitars of our generation, and he makes 1 minute songs on RUclips, I would love a full album from you, much love from England
his tone sounds so simple yet so good