Can I learn Playing God on violin in only 30 minutes? [Polyphia 🎸] 

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I think very few of us are even worthy to look at the sheet music😂😂 Amazing job!!🎻

Is there any app that's good for violin lessons, where I can learn techniques? There's a ton on guitars or piano but nothing for violin.

RAY CHEN!!!! LISTEN TO DANCE OF ETERNITY BY DREAM THEATRE AND SHOW US YOUR REACTION TO IT. TRY PLAYING IT AS WELL. IT HAS 108 TIME SIGNATURE CHANGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

108 TIME SIGNATURE CHANGES.

Ah, so that was you when he said “I also found a violin version of it”? Great stuff.😊❤

Awesome!! 👍😄

He's literally one of the best violinists of all time... What do you mean 😂😂😂 impossible not to like

​@@brago_that's a silly thing to say. Paganini is one of the best violinists ever born and I don't like his style at all. There's this thing called *preference*

You’re so talented!

why does that not surprise me

KNEW IT! They actually did a metal bach concerto back in the day.

Yep his mother was a violinist and he took lessons for violin when he was younger

I just checked and it's pretty crazy that Tim doesn't have a Wikipedia page. He's possibly the most influential electric guitarist around right now.

That makes a lot of sense

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sheesh, imagine accidentally dropping his violin

and he didn't learn it in half an hour, but the video is cut together, and he may have practiced it for a week!

Side note. The violin in this video is not the Strad. He uses his other violin here. All his on stage performaces are with the Strad.

@@joeyever1511 - any proof to back up your allegations? 🤔

Is this piece considered rock? Doesn't sound like one, though.

@@whatevergoesforme5129 - Well Polyphia is a Rock band but this piece is more of a Fusion of Rock and Spanish Guitar Music with some Electronic Music thrown in the mix. The rock element is clearer when you listen to the original where the Drums and Bass guitar give it a more Rock feel.

@@ornleifs I see. It sounds like Spanish Guitar Music indeed to me because of the classical guitar mode.

​@@whatevergoesforme5129describing polyphia as instrumentals math rock sounds like a good enough description

@@whatevergoesforme5129 math rock / prog rock. they used to be more prog metal. id actually still consider them prog metal at some points. (not that prog metal is all like this). prog is just "progressing a genre" so a lot of other prog rock and prog metal bands will sound completelly different to this. its a nice genre tho imo. oh and pretty much most prog rock or prog metal is hard to play. still, playing god is one of the harder ones from the "prog repertoire" id say.

Ironically he hated it because his teacher was abusive but loved music. I think it's a PTSD thing.. he refuses to even touch a violin. the composition definitely stayed with him though

of course he did. he has an asian mom.

he learned at like 10 bro, “classically trained” is a stretch

@@gavinbunnell2477 "Classically trained" just means formally taught using the standard repertoire. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with age.

​@@gavinbunnell2477His mom made him play Violin at 3 years old

I don’t know how much you know about Ray Chen but he’s won prestigious violin competitions and is a concert soloist. He’s also been loaned a Stradivarius (the dolphin). He’s playing on a 4 million euro instrument here

Also spent like half of his time quota on listening and editing the sheet music. It's pure enjoyment to watch him work.

What do you expect? All professional stringed instruments have perfect pitch and are well versed at transcribing the rhythm of the melodies they hear as well. This is not something special with them. I literally know small-time violin pros who do this as easily as him. Also, Tim’s melodies are easier to play on other instruments other than the guitar, especially the violin because violins are designed for speedy melodies and only deal with melodies. He didn’t have to deal the chords at all, so easy.

Ray Chen's literally a world class violinist, ofc he'd be skilled, mad skilled

@@jan_07 I don't know about easy. And then there's also levels to "playing" stuff. Just like the "world's fastest violinist" (Ben Lee) was capable of "playing" plenty fast, but also sloppy. I doubt there are that many people who are on the level of Ray Chen simply based on statistics.

Since Polyphia reacted to "every instrument covers reaction", I was waiting for a pro violinist to play it, awesome

Completely agree!!!

The real crossover would be Twoset reacting to this video and them trying to play Ray Chen's take on Playing God

@@pihermoso11what u talking about?! I’d rather watch Ling Ling do Polyphia in 13 mins.

also the American accent to Australian accent crossover on the voiceover is fun too.

It's very cool to see a mainstream band making music that is genuinely musically interesting. All of the guys in Polyphia are pushing the limits of what is possible on their instruments.

Ray in Polyphia 2024???

@@andreasthiemke9520 If we're lucky haha

If we get both Ray Chen and Yoasobi on Polyphia's next album, I am going to celebrate by streaking in central park.

Holy crap would love a collaboration

try roman kim

Hilary Hahn, Augustin Hadelich, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, James Ehnes, so many others...

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Same, sure there's others but Ray Chen really knows how to express himself really well. And that vibrato man jeez ❤️

Great he is, homework you must do and look further.

Lol 😅

I can totally relate to you 😅

I’m totally with u… scale is like 20-30 min for me sad

fr tho, these scales take me 40 min daily

Statistically not everyone is Ray Chen, so it's definitely understandable that other people's interpretations are noticeably simpler. I do agree that Ray adding all the small details that everyone seems to miss makes for a really really nice cover :D

It took polyphia years to develop this song

I hate people like you throwing the word hate around against musicians who DARE do a cover of a song. Are you out of your damn MIND?

Him

Most advanced or immediate players because the song isn't that hard.

@@crowing3886bro this is crazy hard to play on guitar.

@@phantasmal914 hardest part is playing the harmonics. If you've played any math rock you'd know this is mot very "hard" just a lot of different techniques used in a heavy staccato. You'll find hundreds of covers on numerous instruments. Now take their guess solo by Jason Richardson. The band themselves can't play his solos an you'll find very few cover attempts.

Concert Violinists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tim played violin🎻 in his childhood before picked guitar🎸 as a teen because he felt it cooler.

Those 2 together would be amazing!

It's still really hard tho

pro violinist and guitarist here as well. in addition to the things you mentioned, guitar frets mean you dont need to worry about pitch, which is huge. plus tone production/right hand technique on the guitar is much, much easier than bowing technique. many violinists take 10 years just to learn to play a decent detaché or spicatto. violin is simply a much more difficult instrument. id argue its the most technically difficult instrument there is, especially considering how crazy hard the repertoire can get. paganini is just the beginning of the advanced repertoire. the really hard stuff is ernst, schoenberg, ysaye, bartok, etc.

@polyphia yes please collab haha

Oooh - I just went over to his channel and his stuff is INSANE!

Though I love Ichika, his music doesn't translate to violin as well as playing god. He plays so many chords and I don't think it'd sound great unfortunately

Most of nito stuff isn't even playable on guitar let alone violin. He can't even play his pieces live.

⁠@@crowing3886he does play his pieces live….

@@otto_vdwl show me. I've seen about 5 vids of him riffing nowhere near the speed or as clean as his vids. He's done one song that I've found one song an he flubbed it hard.

Yea, I have no idea who he is, but it definitely sounded like a strong classical guitar influence in there.

I AGREE, 100%

It’s sooo true

now all we need is a two set polyphia collab