Evolution of Tim Henson (10 - 28 years old) 

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11:29 is their song called "the worst" iirc

Bach Keyboard concerto*

I want Clay Gober (progression videos that are available 😅)

Thank you so much and have a blessed day🙏 www.youtube.com/@josephmelodies

def more than me

At least at 16

at 10 I was still playing with Lego lol

Not me

Fr bro 💀🤌🏿🥲hurts

He looks too feminine I like it 💀

And not planning to share.

Make up, grew out his hair and some shitty products like fret rolf.

I think he is skinny in his younger years, that's why you will see that he'll have pronounce jawline but when the fats go in, the baby face pop out.

So the 10 year old one is 28?

Keep going, I played like sweet child o mine since 11yo. Only thing I regretted is that I stopped learning at 16, and wasted most of my time simping as a teenager. What a waste, I wish I put more time into things I truly love, not some approval or anything. I'm brushing my skill again now at 28. So you do you, keep on going.

Still on it ?

@@haniyatarh8545 yup. I can finally play Playing God at x.75 speed perfectly and full speed with a few hiccups.

thats the attitude to have. you dont want to be the greatest guitar player. you want to be unique. so many players are lost in the shadows these days because they are so technically gifted but lack a voice of their own on guitar. to see a really unique voice in terms of guitar playing, listen to jerry garcia. as soon as a track comes on with him on guitar, you can tell its him from miles away without vocals. this is what you want to achieve

I haven't played guitar for 10 years (3 years experience before). I saw Playing God on my RU-vid feed randomly a few days ago and now I'm obsessed. I started to learn the bossa nova part of that song. I hope to learn the rest...in a few years haha. I'm seeing Polyphia tomorrow in La😮!

nah it’s what happens when a kid who has good parents who provide a safe environment to let their kid express their interest with time and consideration. there’s a lot of people who never had opportunities like that. most people never had those bare minimum privileges

@@dqena Well, that has an impact too, for sure! However, some kids have that support system and don't succeed or give up because it takes a lot of work and consistency to reach a proficiency level at something. Anyway, he is an incredible artist and that's what I was pointing out. Love & peace, man

@@dqenaI have that and I’m still shit at what I do. It’s definitely talent and hard work.

@@writerbutlerlewis keep practicing bro you'll get there

No such thing as natural talent.

This is such an encouraging take. Generally we just think people have innate talent but we forget hard work.

Another thing most forget is that these kinda players have been playing for a really long time so they’ve had a lot more experience. If you think this way you can remember you need patience to get good

nah bro, tim is just a freak

Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard

Yep, he found something he liked, was disciplined and consistent. Now he reaps the results of such hard work and dedication.

"Tim is still 28. We are absolutely not ready for what another 20+ years of this guy's playing will bring." Definitely too many notes.

He is 38 yrs old. do not spread fake info about him 😡 that is bad 🤬

@@gravesupulturero3652 uh, what?

He better not fly, all the good ones leave too soon and check out in that manner

@@gravesupulturero3652 wtf is wrong with you?

Me too. His/her/their music is so inconsistent. And there is no more soul. "The chef Commander on earth" as Bob Dylan has said.

HIS/HER/THEIR IM DYIN 😂 ​@@davlostiedfranca

@@davlostiedfranca? Polyphia is awesome what are you on about, leave your identity politics out of music

Love your emotions @@zitronekoma30 ... as a kid or a woman. "Si vous voulez contrôler un peuple, contrôlez sa musique." Platon "If you want to control a people, control their music." Plato "The devil’s greatest trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist." Charles Baudelaire "Violence is not only in blows, it is in established, existing situations, that we refuse to question, that we refuse to change." Abbé Pierre "Give me the power to create money and I don’t care who makes the laws!" Mayer Amshel Rothschild "If people understood the banking system, I think there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford "When the money of a government depends on the banks, it is they and not the heads of government who control the situation." Napoleon Bonaparte Be brave, mature and grown as an adult.

Merci @@iiXchan 😁😇🙏🤲☝

His mannerisms became much more feminine over the years

Absolutely agree. First they are all into techniques. Building up solid skills and enhance their dynamic range and speed. After they meat lightspeed they reflect and find out that speed and precission isn't the main goal at all and start to use all their skills to express emotions. And let me say one thing: if your emotions express themselves in lightspeed riffs you probably should give yourself the chance to talk to a doctor.

​@@ziggyjohnston5302disagree. He got much more setteled. Talking about his playing. He just looks more femin and what the heck is the problem? He is what and who he is. It is his life man. And he deserves nothing but respect because he is inspiring people instead of spreading hate and separatism. Check that.

@@iloveaviation-burgerclub-a8145 The problem is it's not just him. Look at our entire culture. We're becoming weak and emasculated. Celebrities, actors, musicians, athletes. You can see it all around. There aren't many masculine men left. No more Clint Eastwoods or Steve McQueens. But hey if you're gay and a person of color somehow that's more important

​@@ziggyjohnston5302 genuine question, why does that matter

Pfft...

The shredding was still cool

What soul? Wheedley Wank Wheedley hasn't got soul...

actually, to me old polyphia sounded more soulful. Now it sounds like they want to cramp every inhuman technique into one song, with only some parts being actually easy and nice to listen to

@@TheDiamondBladeHD Come to think of it, you're right. Still better than straight up shredding though.

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”

Except Picasso was a true genius who changed the history of art. Art, not technique.

@@steven5054 ha what. as much as tim is tim, like u dont like him or whatever..hes creating insane art, like top top class..which is why steve vai worked with em and theyre giant thru instrumental music. u can be butt hurt or whatever, i'll join ya, but hes great nonetheless

@@steven5054 Picasso is literal shit. 🤣

"realistic" is putting it mildly. He was obscenely good at realism considering his age and he had plenty of time left to get even better at it

Also seems to be the time he started desecrating his temple with ink. Interesting! Perhaps a pact of some kind was made with a certain entity back then?

@@__.Music.__I laughed out loud when I read this.

​@@__.Music.__nah it's a seal to prevent Tim on shredding too hard and bending the fabric of spacetime

@@__.Music.__ i was going to say the same thing. Something happened round that time...

He became so feminine over the years

It's because he wears makeup and lip gloss now

​@ziggyjohnston5302 you clearly came to this with some kind of agenda just fkin appreciate his music evolution. Why the fuck are you fixated on his style of dressing and looks so much.

which 2 both went to the same school?

@@roosteronguitar3685 Scott and Tim went to the same school in Plano, is what I remember reading in an interview from Tim

@@justech Wait they were in Plano?

@@bachstreetboi yes

Hey I didn't know that, thanks for the fun fact! Kinda related, a few years ago I was talking to a co-worker, we were talking about our high school days and it turns out that not only did we go to the same school, but were on the same bus lol. He was a year or two ahead of me which is why we never talked in high school, or if we did it was just a quick hi in passing or something equally unmemorable

Who is hating? Lol. I come from the progressive R&B and Jazz fusion side of music and progressive metal/ whatever the hell you want to call this is not my cup of tea normally. Still, this guy is mind blowing and totally deserving of respect

Maybe jealousy.

There's nothing but support in every comment here. Not sure but you might need some new glasses.

Jeleousy is probably a better word than hate.

Yup. He's got that "something" that makes him stand out. Truly a modern guitar hero!

Jesus Christ loves you

@@lunaeguitaristJesus Christ loves you

Uhhh... yes, 💯

Get off of your knees dude

Let's not forget prodigies who practice really hard are the ones who become masters

@@Sku11zDude agreed

@@nguyenphutrong2492 not hating on this man's obvious talent, but i have to argue with your bold statement about this being a 'textbook definition of prodigy'. i think a prodigy is somebody with near superhuman-like abilities - like picture-perfect memory, or ability to playback a song perfectly after hearing 1 only 1 time, or reciting PI to 10,000 decimals places. so, in that regard, this is NOT the textbook definition of prodigy

​@@roadracerdave7645text book definition for you: "someone with a very great ability that usually shows itself when that person is a young child" - Cambridge dictionary.

BIG facts.

25 when he got the Demon tatt on his neck is when it all changed.

@@p7wjesus Probably some brain development and such, he was definitely channeling more from within

Electric?

Exactly man, learning guitars not about being the most technical or fastest player in the world. It's about seeing yourself go from knowing how to play nothing, to learning your first chord, to learning things you thought were impossible.

I've started late too! Late 29 years old now nearly 31 and it's getting somewhere 😁

@@ratchet600 brooo I'm 28 should i pick it up 😭 how do i go about starting

@@Ihateteenagerstheyrecringe I got a beginner electric from a colleague for £50 with small amp. Basically a £100-150 starter kit, some of which aren't half bad. I got something nicer once I got into it as I had the budget 😊. It was important to me to have a teacher with a reasonable track record as in the early stages I would need an objective eye for my progress and someone other than myself to answer to if I hadn't practiced enough. I also don't want to develop bad habits if possible which I probably will anyway, but I can minimise it in the early days.

Plastics and lighting his skins color

Thats exactly what I was thinking watching this vid. But also his skill and how easy he makes it look makes me wanna quit music😅 not really. But he is a true virtuoso

@@Mehdi.A wait he had a plastic surgery ?

@@aliefalfino9278 nose , jaw and teeth, whitening his skin , also gained some weight which change his face shape , you can check all the transformations on old videos vs new look

Like an elve

It remembers of me Jason from far cry 3. The more tattos he gets, the more it increases his abilities.

Unlocking levels of self-expression

@@chrisstrong3748 new levels new devils baby

@@baraldobumpa3447 I'm using that from now on

Yeah, the chemicals inside tattoo paint helps conducting it

Right 😂 10 year old me could barely get through smoke on the water. So much fuckin talent this dude has, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of hours he's probably invested in his playing. well get there one ah these days buddy 😂

in an interview with Herman Li he said he didn't like being called an anime character all the time. They found it in poor taste but obviously its going to keep happening forever

To now looking like a lesbian in a Japanese anime

@@NiteF0X keep smoking from dabong

@@edgemasterrlolhe right tho 😅

@@edgemasterrlolhe right tho 😅

based on this video, it seems around 25 is where he really started developing his current sound, playing the harmonics as part of the musical sound rather than a shredders harmonics. It marked a distinct change from his earlier shredding.

@Frozen Pizza ? Who cares, that's just everything to do with his aesthetic and personal life. You don't need to like it to hear how talented he still is and enjoy listening to him play.

Exactly.

What age did he/she/they start taking hormones?

@Frozen Pizza its not that deep lmao

once he becomes 50 hes gonna become ryan reynolds and an actual guitar god

I swear half his fans wanna snuggle with him

@@steven5054 i mean yes and no You can't recognize his glow up

Does ink mean handsome to you?

He looks like a girl wtf you mean handsome? He’s a pretty boy

Effortless but he can't sing and dance while playin

Pro

Same here, 10 years of playing guitar and I only have 69 of his 10,000,000 skills

I've been playing for 19 years and I feel the same 😂 even though i started shredding at 13

I've been playing for two years, I'm really excited because I'm going to actually start having lessons soon!

That's coz you are as gay as him

I was so bored with guitar and guitar players until I started paying attention to these guys and a few other modern players like the Periphery guys. Tim, Scott and Mark Holcomb really brought it back from the dead for me. I never stopped playing in the 26 years plus I've been playing but I did stop growing and loving it a long time ago. Guitar needed these guys bad in my opinion. Polyphia especially may have saved the extinction of guitar in these next generations.

Check Stephen Taranto, Josh Meader. Shawn Lane and U. SRINIVAS. Oh and Julian Lage of course!! He's the best Enjoy man!

@@crieverytim yes!! Shawn Lane (RIP) was magnificent. Thanks...

@@crieverytim Nick Johnston too!

@@GG-ow3ke nice find! Thanks. You might like Chris Buck

Thats an amazing way to put it

Yoooo

Where did your moustache go?

This guys know and see everything

Why are you everywhere?

bro, you are even here? u must be god

Not really those are pretty common hairstyles and clothes in fashion

Crazy

My guess would be that he didn't have the style he's now associated with the creation of. In the same interview he suggests telling his younger self to 'play without distortion and make it sound dope' would be his possible advice if he could go back in time (although he's reticent of this idea believing his path to get to where he is was important in itself) If he trotted up to Berklee closer to the 10 year old version than the 28 year old one, shredding with distortion, there would be no evidence at all that he was going to become the player he did or do anything unique or interesting.

He didn't have the current playing style back then though.

Berkley is up their own ass. If you can play, you can play. You shouldn't have to be a virtuoso player to go to Berkley. You should be good and benefit from going the school not the school benefit because you went there.

name this song please

@@s1tetempo862 that was his entry for the Jared Dines shred collab

I don't know... pure talent, absolutely, but I prefer guys like Sergey Golovin and Andy James.. to me there is just "more" to their music than what Polyphia offers. Not saying it isn't good, I just need a little more "soul" than all the computer sounds coming from the guitar.. all good though, very talented guitarist.

@@grep67 well yeah, this is superficial pop music. Take GOAT, your average guy who hates metal and only likes hip hop would like that song. What's remarkable about it is it also has artistic merit. But to me this is like the music I would make with my mouth as a kid. Or like dubstep. Silly, fun and void of depth. But polyphia brought instrumental mastery to it. In fact, as I write this, the last clip came on and it just about sums up my point perfectly: The fact that both of you old schoolers turn your heads at the talent but little IG-obsessed Johnny middle-schooler also enjoys it, can hum along to it.... that's crazy. They've popularized proggy math metal lol. To my ears, Tim seems like he played similar in style to Andy James when he was younger and then distilled his style into one that's more focused on melody and feel and broken arpeggios/harmonic and less shreddy. I'm more a Prince guy myself but I think guys like Shawn Lane, Stephen Taranto and Josh Meader are technically superior to both these guys. And U. Srinivas the most technically gifted of them all!

Also, if you haven't heard Julian Lage, you're missing out on a once in a generation talent. He's a total prodigy. His version of Autumn Leaves or I'll Be Seeing You is sure to impress.

Same shit arpeggios over and over as someone with a degree from Nottingham university this is not special , let’s see him write his own orchestral score like Yngwie did then I will eat my hat as Yoko did in the Simpson lol 😅

Did he shit in your cereal or something? Why are you this mad? And besides, he arranges all the polyphia songs, which have just as many layers as an orchestra and are far more sonically diverse

@@UndarZ 3 chord progressions in each song 🎶 , watch Justin Hawkings on RU-vid he figured out Ego Death in like a minute it’s not hard to do what Tim does he also is using a 120fps camera to make his playing look faster , cheating is not honourable

@@christineayres7199 why do you have to pitch him against another person? He’s amazing in his own right regardless of what your opinion is. I’m sure neither artist would appreciate you doing that…it’s low.

@@RachelSings21 silence 🤫

Lucky you! Thank you for watching! 🤘🏻

100% it's insane because Scott would be the guitar assassin in any other band. But this isn't any other band. What an embarrassment of riches.

Nevermind the Clay's are s class themselves

Scott's writes some tasty solos.

@@GL-tx9dv they are all incredible but Tim just looks iconic

We all love Scott!

Exactly. That was my initial thoughts.

Guthrie Govan will make your head explode then.

Thats just it. I see videos of all thise guys you mentioned on YT and in the comments all the old heads are discussing the GOAT, and how music these days isnt anywhere as good. And im just over like " yall obviously just stop looking for new music after your 20s" because along with Tim there are dozens of guitarists or more doing things these days you couldnt even imagine SRV or VH, beck, malmsteen doing in the 80s. See Jason Richardson, Angle Vivaldi, ... actually just search Jared Dines Shred Collaboration on YT to see a collection of guitarists and where were at now. Your welcome