My Cousin Wanted to Learn a Polyphia Riff, So He Texted Me 

this, and, if you're not really watching his fingers while he plays, he always looks like he's playing the most smooth thing known to man. he makes guitar look so easy

@@Av-te7ze the dude practices like a motherfucker so he seems like a robot made to play guitar, he's got videos of him practicing and it's convinced me he's actually a human, he makes mistakes and practices the tricky parts slowly several times.

...or any math metal ever

this is a big problem with youtube... yes there is alot of good that comes from it, the list is infinite of the good it brings but it can be hella discouraging as well if you don't take things the right way... all we ever see is the end product... we don't see the weeks and hours of hard work that were required to get even close to being able to play it perfect. So I think its good when people show their learning process a bit :)

The sublime album? That would be awesome!

I saw them on this tour too, they’re phenomenal live!

I was there too!

I was there too lol!

i saw them play 40oz in 2015 when they were just diaper shittin babies!!!

Same here, him and Robert Baker, I love his content as well

Yes yes yes

singlehandedly

Ok

watching him play helps me so much I wish he had videos of just him playing over a backing tracks

Was there too, it was so beautiful, wasn’t it? Also went to the one in Milan a couple days ago but the Berlin one felt amazing ❤

Even with the tabs it's like that. ApparentlyTyler did it by ear which is crazy. But I be struggling sometikes with the literal tabs in front of me

I know what you mean. I played most my life applied myself seriously. But modern guitar like Polyphia is out of my league. I’ll bet most old shredders from 80s can’t play polyphia either. Steve vai was first I heard say he couldn’t do what the guitarist in polyphia do. I never hear Paul Gilbert or Marty Friedman mention polyphia. For decades yngwie, and etc were elite (rock) guitarist. Not anymore. They must cringe when someone ask them to play polyphia. Terrified.

I find tabs make it more difficult to learn a song, at least in most cases. And for me at least, songs I learned from tabs I seem to forget in a week, whereas those i earn I remember for years. More importantly Ed Tabs stress notes, not shapes and chords, like using you ear does: plus, listing to the song over and over you get the timing drilled into your head as well as the notes. Realistically we don’t all have the ear to sound these things out so the tab are a useful reference but I urge those who haven’t tried vintage style and instead rely only on tab, put it down and go learn a new Hendrix song focusing on the chords and embellishments (you can lookup the chord progression if necessarily) yeou might find it works better

When I was In high school id fall asleep with something else in my hands! My mom even caught me a couple times! I should’ve licked the door 😂 15 years later and we’re both scarred

Helps to have a professional education on the matter, to be fair.

You will get there. Start simple, and keep practicing!

@@Anikanstern thanks for the encouragement bud!👍🏻

@@camero2596 🙂

That finish is to die for

*while fretting

There precision on the arpeggios are inhuman

ayyy you were there in hamburg as well?

@@phlorian yes spent all my life savings on merch

​@@Elias-qj7dq 😂😂

I was there at the Birmingham gig. Was insane. The sound quality was unreal. Even the guy before with the violins sounds so good

@@RoNdOAk47 Oh it was surreal wasn't it, I may of bumped into you who knows ! Oh yeh Johan Lenox was his name, he was wicked, got myself a new playlist after ;)

Of course 😂 he wrote it

Just keep practicing bro, it takes time, but i promise you anyone can learn to play their songs in time.