Trying To Learn Polyphia Riffs 

Mad respect, anyone who decides to tackle any of Tim's fuckery that he calls guitar playing is a winner in my book.

Hi Sophie, I'm 30 years old, I started learning learning electric guitar a month ago. You are one of a few guitarists that have inspired me to learn. Keep posting videos like this because it really helps keep my inspired.

😂👍 You captured the struggle of every guitarist. We spend weeks, months, years to get something just right then in 3 months forget the whole song....lol Great Job. LOVE your cat 🐈

This video honestly is a sign to show that it's ok to mess up and that we all do it, no matter how long we've been playing. It gives that relatability for all players even if they've been playing for a long time. I feel like this is fun to watch in that sense, along with just watching you play in general. Keep up the great work Sophie! Merry Christmas! 🎄👏💙

Awesome vídeo, loved how you approached using the metronome to polish because how you got obssessed with the timing. It help me understands how to use it on my own learning sessions. Keep up and thanks a lot for it!

Hi Sophie I loved the video and would love to see more like it. It shows how real you are and that we all sometimes struggle to get certain guitar parts down perfectly. Again my wife and I love your channel keep up the amazing videos.

YES! Make a series of this kind of thing! Found your channel about an hour ago and am loving what I’ve seen so far!

Great to see how difficult it is to learn new tunes sophie i admire your skill🎸💖

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this video! I love seeing other musicians and artists practice. Your experience was exactly how my first Polyphia song was. Haha it took me longer but great vid!

Definitely make this a full series!

I'd love to see more videos like this one! Also, the editing is really funny :D

Yes, Soph. More of this sort of thing please!!

Always been a fan of the candid “real time/real life” moments. Really enjoyed it!

Hey Sophie ! This video super inspired me to try it myself . I’ve just gone and attempted it on my channel and it’s fair to say you definitely done a much better job than me 😂 . It’s definitely a tough one . Going to play around with it through out the week and get a part 2 up when I can !

Your channel is one of the top channels I found this year. Hugs from Mexico!!!

Awesome vid. Love watching the process. Very motivating to keep on going even if you keep messing up

Tim is great but unfortunately Scottie Le Page is overlooked often enough. Clay Gober is a monster on bass and the other Clay is super phenomenal on drums. Their previous drummer Brandon is amazing too. Everything about Polyphia past and present is amazing.

It was good to watch you progress through this piece. I totally enjoyed it. Thanks 👍

That PRS is gorgeous! This figured neck... Thanks for the videos, Sophie.

i also like the tone of this! super good job Sophie!

Honestly, this is impressive. Like taking in all of that music while trying to play along with it. I have to sit down and learn a few bars at a time of any song, and one like this I believe I'd have to sit down and go bar by bar. My brain just can't store tons of information at the same time quickly idk. Anyways, huge props to you and anyone else who can learn like this!

It was so great, this wasn’t easy, but you did it! Great skills 🤩

Keep it rolling! I am learning 50 songs for the new band and this is my process too. Until I have the muscle memory, it’s a real struggle to get to the song tempo. What I do is play the sections that are currently at 1/2 tempo every morning first thing after my warmup routine. Cheers!

Honestly it's wonderful to see even the master class guitarists like you struggle through learning something new - makes these harder pieces feel more approachable and that we aren't failures as humans for not nailing it on the first or thirtieth try lol

very interesting, please continue with these kind of videos, it's very interesting especially for new guitarists to get inspired

I would absolutely love if you made this into a full series. With Polyphia riffs primarily. They are some of the most interesting and obviously hard riffs to play. And great job btw:))

That tone is sick! I have a full strat so to play polyphia is very hard because of the distortion... Sounds incredible!

It's amazing what level you have, keep it up!

Waiting to receive my first guitar tomorrow to start learning … thanks for inspiration!

Great video! Please make more like these. Your covers are great but videos like this--that put your process and personality on display--are more interesting.

Way to tackle the piece, Sophie!!! Excellent ear!!!!

This is an amazing video and hope you do more like this

Not at all boring! Humble and informative. Not sure I dig the original piece of music but clearly it's a challenging fretboard exercise. It will be interesting to see if its melodic limits prove to be worthy of your time and efforts to push forward with the full muscle memory of your hands. 🤔. (i.e. So many songs, so little time).

I love it I’ve been playing for 46 years it would take me around a week to be able to play that up to speed you rock girl

You're so adorable. I love your conversations as much as your playing 😊

I can't wait to see you do more of these.

Well done! I feel the struggle and the back pain ffs been there.

:O you did learn it! I had no idea. The bridge in goose is the best ever.

That was really good. More like this please.

I enjoyed it. Mix it in with some of your other videos. I like the gear reviews also.

Have a fantastic 😍 holiday season ⛄🎄

Yes please make a series of these videos learning new material, thanks.

I really liked this video and would love to see more, my recomendation would be the bridge to Libra by Intervals.

That was great fun Sophie and really interesting. Arrrrrrh 😂😂. 2 hours 👏👏 Total respect brilliant 👍💯🤠😎

That was great. I would be ecstatic to learn it as fast as you did!

There’s millions of guitar players out there but only a small percentage with natural instinct. You Have it in droves!! Being able to emote through playing is something you do very well. It’s easily identifiable in your original stuff. I’ve been fortunate growing up hearing “Rubina” from Satriani or “As Time Slips By” from Vinnie Moore and those songs plotted the course on where I wanted to be as a guitar player. You are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing and I thank you for sharing that with all of us. Keep on kick’n ass girl!! 😊

Enjoyed watching the process..... 😒🤙🏽😎

This is a jam! Good on ya, Soph!

its interesting and motivating to see how even really good guitarists need a bunch of tries to learn something. sometimes(always) i feel like anti-talent because it takes me a while to pick up new stuff, this vid is a good reminder that even really good and advanced guitar players need some time to learn new song let alone beginner like myself

Great vid! What guitar is that? It’s looks beautiful?

9:43 sums up everyone practicing Polyphia songs at home rn

Grasz naprawdę świetnie :) Aż miło posłuchać. Pozdrawiam z Polski :)

Thanks Sofie keep rocking

I'm not at all at the level to play this, but after watching your video; I feel like trying to learn this song!! Thanks for the video, it's inspiring🙃 Does anybody know how you get that amazing tone tho??

Sophie! You are normal like us!! You don't pick up a guitar an play anything instantly. This is like an early Christmas present🎅😸🎄

I think your awesome. I love your Tremonti stuff

Nice Job! I can do the intro of Grey Goose and that's it.

Instructive and entertaining, as are all the videos.

Haha it’s so cool to see you watching a you tube video to learn just like us amateur s! 🥰🥰🥰

Loved this!

Yay! U got Kitty in there! Um, using the speaker cab for a scratching post…☠️😻

Hell yes make the series, watching a pro player learn/play a difficult song is great content.

Nice one, nice original vid idea. Go for a Allan Holdsworth song. Might be very tricky the finger stretching. Londoner accent? Send cheers to the World's end pub in Camden If. Nice nites over there lol

this video is me trying to record anything ever lol. This was great!

Excelente video saludos desde Venezuela 🙌

You did a wicked job! WAAAAAY better than what i could do XD

That was great. I think you'd make a great guitar teacher. 😍🎶🎸💜💘

such a great song, their songs seem so easy 20 secs into learning FUCK, I think we got the same chair, soft weave ? I know this for youtube but, you should learn it till you master it /cant mess up not till you finally get it right but it was fun :)

More polyphia learning process vids. Maybe even a tutorial on one of their songs

I liked this video so much!

What settings do you dial in to get that tone?

Spent yesterday learning the intro riff to goat and the worst. The most demeaning part is getting right up to the end of the riff and your brain gets excited cause you have it and of course that's when you fuck up

Practice makes perfect whenever you do songs 😜 you Rock 👌

They have their tabs available on their website to buy, so you can support them next time if you plan on torturing yourself again or learning the rest of Goose haha. Wayy better than my attempt at learning it 👍👍 2 thumbs up

How long was this practice sesh in real time?

wow you're so talented and beautiful enthusiastic rock musician😎🤘🇵🇭

Learning goose made me good asf at hybrid picking, pain the the fucking ass though to learn how to do the technique and then the song. But much very goody practiceeeyyyy.

That was great Sophie, awesome video 😀🤘🎵🔥🔥🔥

I'm loving this current wave of awesome female guitarists. You're helping inspire the younger generation of girls out there and it's great to see.

I feel your pain lmao takes me ages to really get down a Polyphia riff

Any chance of covering some Randy Rhoads?

More outtakes of Bella please!! Haha 😂

After watching your polished shorts it’s cool to see you fumbling through the struggles it takes to make good sound…very honest for an performer of your caliber… play on…

There's no much of that trial and error stuff that goes into learning things on guitar. It's refreshing to see a good player go through the process, rather than just see you kill it later

She speaks well and openly and honestly refreshing

tabs never worked for me and this shows exactly why. I can't read phrasing. It's always been easier for me to look at the fret board while they're playing it or just learning it by ear. It's just easier to get the feel right.

I really like your guitar

love it!

Soloing with chords and sweep picking harmonics is difficult but not impossible!

Make more of these! :)

muscle memory, dedication and natural skill, are what makes a good guitarist a great one ;)

This riff took me an entire weekend before I could nail it.

That was really great, pls try making a cover of GOAT by Polyphia :)

Great job

They’re playing the vocals on the guitar. For instance the beginning guitar solo after the intro in Playing God is not a guitar solo! It’s simulating a🔥azz rapper coming out hard AF and dropping the first verse! Their music is based on musicians writing ,composing and mixing all genres of music. Creating all the bass parts,vocal structures,guitar harmony’s ,hip hop rap and R&B vocals ,then playing them all at once, together on just a guitar done by one person ,or in this case ,individually buy each of the two guitar players. Polyphia simply mixes all genres of music ,their rock and rap harmonies and their vocal lyrics ,then all written,composed and played on a single guitar ,wether they’re live or in studio! It’s one man doing what a 5 piece band can barely all do together and it’s Ultra impressive to say least. Unequivocally this is next level complicated music with more emotion and structure than some give them credit for! The bottom line is It’s not just music but artistic writing and musical brilliance at some of it’s absolute finest and most genius! As a professional studio musician ,Drummer and lead guitarist I can say I both hear and feel the absolute magnificence of Polyphia! -Crisis

Try Intervals :D Leave no Stone!

hello , which pedal do you use ?

enjoyd this toooo much. the cat stole the show a few times too ^_^

More Polyphia covers!!

SOPHIE ! YOU ARE VERY FUNNY ! I LIKE IT ! AND I LOVE WHEN YOU PLAY ! GOOD !