Polyphia - Playing God [ main riff guitar lesson ] 

Thank you! Was a bit shy since I'm not a native speaker, but I'll definitely keep at it!

@@FedericoFavaro oh dont worry about that, sometimes we outsiders speak better English then themselves, but nice man keep going at it🔥

Amazing! Thank you, and great job learning!

Glad you enjoyed! Yah, I'm planning to!

It's awesome to hear this kinds of news! Great job!

Glad you found it useful!

Thank you! I'm glad you found this useful!

u support Ukraine, i support u (im ukraininan) and i agree his channel is good

Thank you, I'm happy this tutorial is turning out to be so helpful!

Hi there! I'll attempt to explain it by words so bear with me, I hope I'll make some sense. You can see bar #2 as alternating between melody and bass. On one hand you have the melody, which is all of the high notes that are played on the top 3 strings. On the other hand, you have the bass, which plays in between every note of the melody, and always plays the same note (8th fret on the low E string). Try to set the video at 0.75 speed and listen to the part of the video where I play bar #2 at half tempo, so it's so slow that you can tell every note apart. Focus on listening to the melody only, and then pay attention to the bass notes that are played in between them. Once you have gotten familiar with that, try to follow along the bar #2 explanation again and I hope that it will make much more sense. If this approach does not work for you let me know and I'll record a video to go more in depth about this bar

Thank you a lot, yah, definitely more to come!

You are very welcome!

Thank you! Often the trick is to "divide and conquer". Break the difficult song into many smaller chunks, and suddenly the song becomes 10 times easier. It's an approach you can apply to any challenging song you find in the future! (And also to actual life problems at times ahah)

Awesome to hear! Have fun learning!

Amazing, I'm super happy to hear that! Great job!

Ahahahahah I wish!

Thank you so much Naitik!

Lovely, great job and you're very welcome!

@@FedericoFavaro thank u again, Im going out of my comfort zone practicing this

Thanks for the sub, glad you enjoyed the lesson!

@@FedericoFavaro yeah np 😝 if u see a thirteen year old play playing god u know who it was 🌚

@@Ilovecoy do let me know if you post a cover, I will gladly take a listen :)

@@FedericoFavaro I appreciate it! I’ll lyk if I post it

Thanks bro! You have fun learning!

Hi! Personally I find playing with both a pick and fingers theeasiest way to play this song. If you are a classical guitar player though you might findit easier to play it entirely with your fingers. I know that Tim Henson plays it with hybrid picking (both picking and fingers). Your English sounds perfect to be honest! You're welcome, happy to help!

@@LatteZMoon Hi! You are very welcome! For playing faster my only suggestion is to practice with a metronome. Basically, pick the sections that you struggle with and play them very very slow. Once you don't make any mistake, increase the tempo by 5-10 BPM and repeat the process. Building up speed is sadly a bit of a boring process, but the fun part about it is that, a lot of the time, you'll suddenly get some huge improvements overnight that make it all worth it! (I apologize if there are typos in this comment, wrote it from my phone)

I'm pretty sure I had grown them a little to play this song. But it's all a matter of experimenting and finding the ideal length for you really. In my case I grow them until they are just past the tip of the fingers so they are long enoigh to pick with them, but not so long they get in the way

Glad you think so! Have fun learning!

Thank you so much! Have fun learning!

Thank you! Guitar is Tim Henson's signature Ibanez TOD10N

Wow, thank you so much!

Yeah, that can totally work too! I used to play it the wayyou say actually, but I'm very imprecise with my ring finger so I ended up sweeping it instead and it works better for me. Will have to work on my hybrid picking to make it smooth that way too! Glad you're enjoying the lessons, cheers!

Glad you enjoyed! If you'd like to learn the rest of the song I have tutorials for all parts except the very last one (I'll get to recording it eventually ahah)

Grazie Enrico!

That part is super tricky! I also struggled with it at first. For me it was a matter of trying to play it in many different ways with my right hand, trying to find the most comfortable way, and then I practiced that lots and lots. For me the most comfortable way was by playing the harmonics with the pick by sweep picking. Like, if you check my right hand at 5:18, I play almost everything through hybrid picking, but those three harmonics are sweep picked. But yeah, I think what you need to do there is try to play the section in many different ways, find the one that seems most comfortable for you, and then practice it until you get it to speed!

@@FedericoFavaro Thank you so much for your reply! I read your comment and realized I already do that sweep when I play those 12th fret harmonics anyway so I tried it for this section and I can play it comfortably now. Do you think my picking technique might be holding me back? I occasionally play with a pick, but I feel much more comfortable and in control with my fingers. For this song I'll hybrid pick, but instead of using an actual guitar pick I make my index finger and thumb shape like I'm holding a pick and I strum like that. I also would like to say this is an excellent tutorial. This is a song I never thought I'd be able to learn because the tabs for it seemed so overwhelming, but now I can confidently and easily play it. Thanks again.

Hi Artem, to play them together the left hand does a barré with the pinky finger and the right hand plucks the strings with middle and ring finger

That's great to hear, thank you for watching and have fun learning!

Actually the next lesson for playing god is coming out in 10 minutes! I've never tried playing sunset, but I'm writing it down, will check it out in the days to come!

@@FedericoFavaro thanks ..looking forward for sunset

Thank you for the encouragement man! I definitely plan on making more lessons like this, stay tuned for more!

You're very welcome, enjoy!

Thank you, I'll keep the lessons coming! As for tabs, I don't think I would be comfortable writing my transcription and sharing it here because the band sells their official tabs at this site: polyphiatabs.com. I'll think about it

Great to hear! Thank you!

@@FedericoFavaro do you have any other polyphia tutorials 🤔 can you male some?

@@thrb3st Apart for the whole Playing God tutorials series I don't have any other Polyphia tutorials, can definitely work on some in the future though. Currently I'm mostly working on my own songs (released Liquid Quartz a month ago and currently have another couple ready that will be released in the following months), but I will get back to covers and tutorials soon enough for sure

Sounds good im your #1 supporter​@FedericoFavaro

Thank you for watching! RU-vid actually cares a lot about view time so thank you so much for this!

Hey there, you could play 10th fret on the D string instead of 8th on the E. It's the same note (C) an octave higher. It's not gonna be sounding exactly the same but close enough. Then as you keep playing your hand might develop more flexibility and allow you to play 8th on the E string. If that does not happen, you can consider eventually buying a guitar with a shorter scale (aka smaller frets) Hope this helps!

Glad you found it useful! Check out part 2 too to keep learning the song!

@@sleepier8931 it's an electro-cassical guitar with piezo pickup! The main models in the market are the Ibanez TOD10N (the one you see me using), the ibanez FRH10n and the Cordoba Stage

Yeah it's called hybrid picking! Basically you use both the pick as well as your middle and ring finger

@@FedericoFavaro ty!

Thank you sam, I appreciate the support! The tutorial for the final arpeggio of the song will be out soon so I hope you'll enjoy that too!

@@FedericoFavaro Thanks man, I'll be waiting for it eagerly as I'm done with all the other parts in the default tempo. Even the main riff. Couldn't have done it without you....😁😁❤

Grazie!

Standard tuning!

That's fair, I didn't think about the right hand at all. Mostly because everyone has different preferences with their picking so what works for me won't necessarily work for you, but I can make a video, why not

Thank you so much! And I completely get it, I fell in love with this guitar at first sight too!

@@_X4ND3R_ yup standard tuning

@@HotTripod78 best way to improve! Just, if it ever becomes too much, move on to something easier and come back to this song later on. No shame in taking a detour!

@@FedericoFavaro true! I've been trying to learn the Million Dollar Baby cover by Tim for a few weeks now. Still stuck in the same place 🥲(the higher note parts, I can play the beginning riff pretty well)

I'm not really sure how to answer this, I'm not sure I understand the question, could you elaborate? If you are asking how to play muted notes, you need to put the palm of your right hand on the strings, right next to the bridge of the guitar, but I'm not sure if this is what you wanted to know

​@@FedericoFavaro The low E sound you did at 1:39 was different, like it stopped abruptly. I thought you might have did a muted note. Or am I just wrong and my ears are playing with me lol

@@YeastsaeY Yes it's definitely a palm muted note, you are completely right

@@FedericoFavaro so you mute the string with your right hand?

@@YeastsaeY Yes exactly, just make sure to do it very close to the bridge or you will stop the note entirely :)

Tim henson signature, Ibanez tod10n

Definitely not crazy, different people find different songs more or less difficult depending on what they are used to play :) I haven't trying learning the worst, all I can say is that it sounds easier than playing god to me, but I'd have to learn it to say for sure!

@@FedericoFavaro oh man, a reply from the man himself! Yeah I can't do that e minor without muting a few snares, my index just cant do it lol. Playing God is more techy but atleast it can sound good.

@@efrayen4497the worst is just so hard to play 😭

It depends on the teacher!

@@riki_XD Such a wholesome comment, thank you!

Thank you for watching! Hope you find the video useful!

Hi there! I'll keep this in mind and notify you by responding to this comment when I get to recording a lesson for that part of the song!

@@Jordanthegreat111 thank you! Yeah I'll keep that in mind in the future

Ah I think this is a misunderstanding, you don't slide from 7th of D to 14th of G. First you play 7th on D, and then you do a slide on the G string that ends on the 14th fret. It doesn't matter which fret you start the slide on, main thing is reaching the 14th fret through a slide. Hope this clear things up :)

Slide from 8th to 14th of G

Hi there, it's a natural harmonic, if you don't know how to play that try looking for a video tutorial, it's a bit difficult to explain in words

Hi! I have made part two, check my channel!

It's an Ibanez TOD10N :)

@@hmll2249 I think my guitsr might have some intonation issues, where the open strings are in tune, but if I play, say, the 9th fret, it's slightly off tune

Hi loren, this is in standard tuning :)

Thank you! Yes, just give me some time! It takes me hours to record and edit these lessons and I have a full time job so I can only find time in the weekends, trying to post a new lesson every week 🙂

Standard tuning :3

@@seetheworld9951 that is completely ok, there's no right or wrong way to play music!

I cannot provide those! However Polyphia sell official tabs on their website, do consider saving up and buying them!

Thank you for watching! For Polyphia songs I'd rather not do that because the band itself sells their own tabs, so it doesn't feel right sharing my transcriptions. In the future when I make lessons of other bands' songs I'll definitely add them though

@@FedericoFavaro oh didn’t know they sell that. Thx for the info 🙏

@@GoddamnAxl You're welcome! Thanks for understanding :)

​@@GoddamnAxl yes and sometimes they can remove them on videos

100% a god 💪