Takayoshi Ohmura

Takayoshi Ohmura (大村孝佳, Ōmura Takayoshi) is a Japanese musician popular as a rock guitarist. He was born on December 26, 1983 in Osaka. He started learning piano at the age of three. By the age of 11 he had started to play acoustic guitar moving to electric guitar at the age of 14. By the age of 17 he was heavily into hard rock/heavy rock of the western-style music and devoted himself into it.

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• Influence
• Takayoshi Ohmuras Band
• Marty Friedman
• Liv Moon
• Cross Hard
• Gloria
• UROBOROS
• Guitars
• Equipment
• Discography
• References

He attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in 2002 at the MI Japan Osaka school for two years. He also met and played with Vitalij Kuprij, and recorded the CD "Nowhere To Go" with Richie Kotzen, Mark Boals and Doogie White.

He formed the band Cross Hard in 2005 and released "Eclipse From East" on May 25, 2005. In 2006, along with Cross Hard's bassist, Kaoru, he formed another band named Gloria and released its first mini-album (MOTIF)on March 26, 2008. A second mini-album (Acrobatic road) was released on January 21, 2009. He has played guitar on tour for Marty Friedman and has either been a member of or performed with among others, Taiwanese pop singer A-Mei, Japanese singer Liv Moon (Akane Liv), Jazz big band Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (DCPRG), Gloria, C4, Uroboros and Babymetal. He is also an instructor at Musicians Institute Japan (MI Japan).

Influence

Ohmura was into Dokken. He also stated that "I love Laputa so much."

Takayoshi Ohmura's Band

Although a solo artist, Ohmura has his band members to accompany him live.

Takayoshi Ohmura - (Guitar)

Support members  :

NOV - (Vocals)

Kaoru - (Bass)

ayuco - (Keyboard)

Tadashi Okamoto - (Drums)

Hideyuki Okada - (Keyboard)

Tim Miller - (Bass)

Toshio Egawa - (Keyboards)

Marty Friedman

Marty Friedman (Lead Guitar)

Support members are :

Takayoshi Ohmura (Rhythm & Lead Guitar)

Ryota Yoshinari (Bass)

Mitsuru Fujisawa (Drums)

Liv Moon

Akane Liv (Vocals)

Takayoshi Ohmura (Guitar)

MASAKI (Bass)

Tatsuya Nishiwaki (Keyboard)

Suganuma Kouzou (Drums)

Cross Hard

Cross Hard is rock band that features Takayoshi Ohmura.

Takayoshi Ohmura (Guitars)

Kouhey (Vocals)

Kaoru (Bass)

Shingo (Drums)

Teru (Keyboard)

Gloria

Takayoshi Ohmura (Guitars, Back-up Vocals)

Kaoru (Bass, Vocals)

Yuki Aoyama (Drums)

UROBOROS

Kurose Keisuke (Manipulator/DJ)

Aya Kamiki (Vocals)

Takayoshi Ohmura (Guitars)

Taizo Nakamura (Bass)

Sasabuchi Hirochi (Drums)

Guitars

Takayoshi Ohmura uses his ESP Artist Custom Guitars Series.

ESP Snapper Ohmura Custom "Twinkle Pink" Maple fretboard

ESP Snapper Ohmura Custom "Twinkle Pink" Rosewood fretboard

ESP Snapper Ohmura Custom "Royal Silver"

ESP Snapper Ohmura Custom "Eclipse Gold"

ESP Snapper Ohmura Custom "Brass Red"

ESP SE Ohmura Custom "Red"

ESP Snapper-7 Ohmura Custom "Twinkle Pink" (7 Strings)

ESP Snapper-7 Ohmura Custom "Honey Gold" (7 Strings)

ESP M-SEVEN Ohmura Custom "Golden Moon" (7 Strings)

Other Guitars:

ESP Edwards E-SN-185T0

ESP E-II Arrow-7 Babymetal

ESP MA-CTM/QM

ESP Amorous NT-CTM

Equipment

Amplifiers

Kemper Profiler Rack
Marshall JCM800 2203 + JVM410H + JCM800 2203KK + JCM900 SL-X + Marshall Vintage Modern 2246

Guitar effects & Accessories

Kemper Profiler Remote
Sobbat DB-1 Drive Breaker
Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-9
BOSS NS-2 Noise Suppressor
BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
BOSS DD-3 Digital Delay
BOSS CH-1 Super Chorus
BOSS PH-3 Phase Shifter
BOSS PS-5 Super Shifter
BOSS GT-10 Guitar Effects Processor
Bootleg Dr. Mid Rich
Providence Anadime Chorus
Budda Wah Pedal
TC Electronic G-Major
EX-PRO Wireless System
Custom Audio Japan Mixer
Custom Audio Japan Power Supply

Discography

Nowhere To Go (2004)

Eclipse From East (with CROSS HARD) (2005)

Power Of Reality (2006)

Emotions in Motion (2007)

MOTIF (with GLORIA) (2008)

Acrobatic Road (with GLORIA) (2009)

V.A. - SOUND HOLIC - Metallical Astronomy (2010)

Blazblue Song Accord 1 with Continuum Shift (with A.S.H) (2010)

Blazblue Song Accord 2 with Continuum Shift (with A.S.H) (2011)

Hard Corps : Uprising (2011) (Video Game)

ALTER WAR IN TOKYO (with DATE COURSE PENTAGON ROYAL GARDEN) (2011)

Devils In The Dark (2012)

Devils In The Dark: Final Edition (2014)

Cerberus (2017)