Can I learn Playing God in an hour?!

what's up homies it's time to learn the song playing god from polytheia [Applause] [Music] i had this idea because i saw some other people do it on the internet i figure why not give myself a little crack at it so we're going to set ourselves a timer here we're going to see about how long this takes where's stopwatch there's stopwatch okay i'm starting all right i'm starting a screen recording let's just go ahead and jump into it [Music] first try first notes literally nailed them first try so far the song is proving to be pretty easy now is this is this a harmonic at first [Music] duh here's what we got we're doing good so far let's slow it down a little bit we're going to try 0.75 speed now i should note he's got he's got a pick i ain't doing that these are my these are my picks here right here in my hand i know how possible this is honestly [Music] i think that's right so far okay now it's gonna start getting tricky i think he's doing that with his thumb or he's hitting multiple notes on the harmonic [Music] two harmonics [Music] [Applause] so we go open multiple notes open harmonic and then open [Music] and then we're going [Music] what's what the hell's that chord [Music] yeah i think that's what he's doing right okay he's got the he's got his middle finger here that's cool what the hell i don't understand what he's doing he's taking his fingers off but it doesn't look it i don't see why he's taking them off even though i'm a classical guy i guess i should strum that right he's strumming it okay let me get this in my head [Music] i should get my freaking cut away [Music] i don't know how he's getting this so clean those are really really hard to get the ring out [Music] why would you do that tim why [Music] that's right there's a big difference between electric players playing loud with a lot of distortion you're constantly you're constantly muting strings that you don't want to be ringing out so when you're playing a melody you're you're playing a note right but then you immediately want to stop the previous note and jump to the next notes instead of [Music] on the classical guitar you're more liable to hear somebody go instead of so i'm wondering if sometimes there's things that he's doing that he's sort of it's sort of habits that he has taking over from from electric playing um and then applying them here it does make the melodies um maybe kind of snappier and a little bit more more defined instead of all the strings mushing over each other [Music] i don't know what the hell the [ __ ] is that now okay [Music] that's hard to go from here and then to hit this twice right because you gotta hit this [Music] okay okay okay okay i feel like this is a good chunk to just kind of focus on and just and see if i can get this this chunk okay it's already been 16 minutes [Music] [Applause] now i hear that okay and i'm seeing something else but i don't think it's wait okay maybe i'm seeing something with his ring finger there i don't know if he's fretting a note it looks like he's fretting this which doesn't make any sense or could be that well it could be that i'm gonna count the press one two three four five six seven eight right [Music] okay ah [Applause] so cool there's a lot of really cool sort of melodic stuff you can do with harmonics on guitar sometimes you'd be surprised at just how like accessible certain melodies are as harmonics okay and then and then okay and then some and then i know there's some stuff there's a direction we're going here that i'm liking okay because this feels like okay these are chords i can figure out down here it's not too crazy it's all these harmonics [Music] and these are just that's for sure what's going on just these are just two note chords there [Music] now he's way up high though so he's doing it he's doing that i probably have to be a pie because he probably wouldn't be up high unless he needed to be yep because he's doing those harmonics so this is this is something that is very nice so so whatever whatever finger i use here what hold on is it yeah he's going [Music] he's taking three and he's going sliding that three up and then doing three down to two which i personally hate i would actually do three to one i just think it's a much easier pull-off but you know he's he's uh he's he's tim he dude he's timmy dude so this is a great chance to um you know i find a little chunk like this and what needs to happen is i just need to do it over and over again you can't put a timer on playing playing god [Music] i keep accidentally hitting a harmonic there [Music] is it supposed to be that is he [Music] i don't know somebody somebody might have the tab and that would be a good thing to know is this chunk right here because it looks like he's going in the in the video it looks like he's going but i'm hearing like an open string there or like a not a non-harmonic string it is you can you can see from his right hand he's going he's picking this and then this and then this i believe oh timmy dude he tricked us timmy hit us with was one of one of his tim tim tricks [Music] yeah yeah easy money right there [Music] that's hard okay okay okay okay let's let's slow down a little bit let's play what we got so far it's been almost a half hour good lord [Music] that's [Music] hard know i just know that if i had those tats i could get these particular harmonics now is he doing a no he's picking those i think those bass notes which is way cooler than it's way cooler i like that he's going i'm gonna do it the classical way though no i totally forget what to do now why there it is [Music] got it i'm just like tim [Music] i'm not like tim i got some [ __ ] just chill out dude just gotta chill out i move my mic a little bit here got that [Music] all of this is completely doable it's com this is all like pretty much fine for for what i'm used to but the harmonic stuff in particular this stuff i i don't know it's so hard to get those to ring out are you doing that ah he goes slides up with three and then and then goes to two [Music] i need a break hold on this is quite taxing i'm paying that tim tax right now that's just a lot to cram into my brain [Music] yeah boy that's what i'm talking about i'm looking at you tim i'm coming for your spot in polytheia [Music] what's next i forget i keep forgetting keep forgetting [Music] your mind your mind tim you are minded i forgot we're at 45 minutes at this point that i've been recording here my back is starting to hurt that's a good sign oh dude that was my ribs tim might have tattoos he might be really good at guitar but can he crack his ribs i doubt it [Music] oh i'm getting i'm getting lost crap but yeah but he's got he's doing his pinky here [Music] he's not going here clearly [Music] he's hitting an open either [Music] he's just doing bars there [Music] that might be what is okay i'm just gonna look at what he's doing instead of trying to figure it out by ear one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleventh fret [Music] i think that's what he's doing there i don't think he's doing this i don't think he's doing oh he's doing this dude it doesn't look like he's doing a nose cord it's disgusting i shouldn't have done that 15 seconds took 50 minutes and that's not even i don't even have it yet right i've just i've just gone through it hey what's up guys um i'm here to i know tim's been giving you problems um he he just he can't he's addicted to the tattoo thing and i'm here to audition to be in the band um i prepared playing god for you guys i know it's all the rage right now i figured this is something you guys are going to want to be playing this live because you guys want to be playing this on tour so i got it all ready for you're not going to need tim anymore okay i don't have any tattoos [Music] what do you guys think huh what do you guys think huh what's the best [Music] how would a classical guitar player do this can you do it like that i forget what the hell yo fast you gotta get there jeez that's quick dude no i don't want to do no go back now you want to have your mind absolutely shattered here's the actual speed it's funny when you work on it slow and then you listen to the actual speed you're like oh no why tim god it's so fast feels like it's fed up now what what no i'm trying to try to show off trying to show off for you guys trying to be a show off here okay let's get rid of all that let's wipe the the ego aside we go to a place where the ego is not here we go so slow let's go so slow so slow that we can't believe it that we can't believe how slow we're going oh i can believe how slow we're going listen see this is this is about the tempo i should be working on it [Applause] [Music] coming at you handy make way politia it's crazy how clean he gets it that's the thing it's he's playing it so much faster than i am and it's so like crystal clear i'm really playing this way faster than i should like if i were really let's say if i want to record this at some point i'd be working at it like this [Music] and all those harmonics are just absolutely trash um that's something i really need to focus on it's funny crazy i'm like relaxing more i'm like consciously trying to chill out and it's actually helping okay extra slow extra slow a few more times then we'll go for that [Music] my neck my neck bro okay ready full speed full speed let's go i'm on to you tim i get it now i get it now this is easy i figured out a secret [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] there you have it a perfect a perfect run-through of pretty much all of playing god from the band politia from the guitarist tim let's try it again so you can hear that so you can really just hear everything i'm doing [Music] i'll take that i'll take that how much we've been going for an hour and 26 minutes so far it's like 15 seconds of music exactly 15 seconds and that is as good as it gets and that that amount of time it gets crazy later i love this part this whole thing [Music] maybe at some point in the future i'll mess with this this other crazy lead [Music] i love that show oh it's so cool [Music] but hey man if you want to if you want to if there's other songs you want me to try to figure out you watch me figure it out watch me suck um let me know dude let me know in the comments down below stay tuned for my next video i'm coming for you tim bolivia hit me up okay sam griffin guitar at gmail.com send me a message all right don't tell don't tell tim

Channel: Sam Griffin Guitar

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Id: 9jjKaN09Q88

Length: 17min 22sec (1042 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 10 2022