Ancient Metaler First Time Reaction to Polyphia - Playing God 

Talent = hours of practice and passion for doing it.

Yes please do yourself a favor and watch more! Incredible band through and through!

You should look up Tim’s writing process. It REALLY sheds a light on how he puts this stuff together. It’s very interesting how he leverages available technology to songwriters.

God I am obsessed. This is my fave track of theirs, beautiful 🖤

Some people refer to this type of music as "Math Rock". You should check out their track "Ego Death" featuring Steve Vai, former Frank Zappa guitarist and world famous guitar virtuoso. I think you have to have a certain type of appreciation for guitar skills to fully enjoy this type of music, I love it.

Loved the video. Thanks man.

I refer to Polyphia’s genre as “Maximalist Fusion”.

it's funny that you bring up how he thinks of so many notes seemingly at random at the point in the video that you did, because he actually talked about how he used a piece of software during his writing process that creates a lot of sounds and also arpeggiates note sequences at random based on a few parameters (like key, tempo, etc...) and so he let the arpeggiator come up with a sequence of notes for that ending "solo" and after throwing his own spin on it, he forced himself to learn it lol. If memory serves me correctly, I think he mentioned it on his personal youtube channel where he talks about the making of this song and shows the original recording session that he wrote the song in.

Please react to Ego Death by Polyphia next, featuring Steve Vai. I think you'd love it.

They have a bunch of one take playthroughs of their newer songs that are absolutely incredible and worth a watch.

If you haven't yet, check out Marcin with Tim Henson, Classical Dragon.

7:15 please watch the making of video for this song and you will see exactly how. Lots of cool stuff went into this song.

Nasty is my favorite

Plano represent! Never guessed one of the best bands on the planet would come from my hometown.

Good review of a great song and group. "Po-liff-ee-ya" lol. Tim uses an arpeggiator program to mix up his cords to "flex" now and then. The hard part is taking the arpeggiated notes and applying them to the fretboard. He says it can be a real bitch to figure out, and I believe him.

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It's Po-lyph-ee-uh haha everyone gets it wrong. I saw them for the first time about 10 or so years ago. They are amazing live, gotta go see them when they come around your area. Edit: they have songs that are more "metal" especially their older stuff. But they don't often use distortion these days, opting for a clean chime like lead. This song being an exception with the signature acoustics being put at the forefront. I remember this song coming out and not long after the guitars being in production. I'm pretty sure they are sponsored by Ibanez.

Po-LIFF-ee-ya

You have to try Polyphia Ego Death.

Crimeny, it’s not PoleeFEEA. PolIFFia.