PERFORMANCE NOTES
“ORB”
Ichika Nito
solo instrumental by YouTube sensation Ichika Nito features the young guitarist and composer performing some seemingly superhuman sleights of hand with a gentle, flowing touch and great expressiveness. Using a dreamy clean electric tone with some delay and reverb and employing hybrid picking throughout, as well as numerous finger slides, natural harmonics and tapped notes, Nito starts off simply, with a sequence of sparse that effectively outline a four-bar chord progression in the key of E natural minor. He then proceeds to spin a series of inventive and more densely textured and technically complex variations on his initial idea in
