Polyphia w/ Steve Vai Ego Death - Reaction!

foreign I'm Stuart um so today uh someone posted upon uh Facebook uh this video um and I hadn't seen it sort of seen it around the internet but it hadn't really settled down to watch it um so I thought well before I comment I should probably watch it and see what it's all about so here we are thought it'd be a good excuse to make a video um so I don't know much about poly filler poly poly polyphia like I said I've not really listened to their stuff I've had to do one song before I did um I did goat with a student once and that was fun we had a half an hour lesson I think we got like maybe three five seconds into the song so yeah disaster um so I know it can be pretty uh extreme stuff um but I do have my guitar we're gonna see uh See if anything's changed um but I do feel like it might be a bit like taking the tennis racket to receive against uh Serena Williams you know you can wave your racket about all you want you ain't sending that ball back so I feel we're it's going to be similar um but anyway we're going to try um so let's uh let's get into it and see what happens oh that was nice that vibrato did you get that vibrato that's Lush what was that [Music] I don't vibrato like that I should do that I should practice that that was so Lush see that again so we're indeed beautiful [Music] yeah must try harder so actually the so it's it's um so this is fairly straightforward so far let's uh let's hope it doesn't change too much [Music] um and then the bass Line's just uh going down so we've kind of got a D wherever the melody did and that's the B flat and then the A and I think just repeated the same line on the melody didn't it [Music] oh yeah of course so um so the A's so that a um normally it would be an A Minor right in um if we're in thinking in sort of major scales we've got a D minor chord that would make the a the fifth um yeah usually if we're thinking of sort of F major D Minor that make the A and minor chord um but frequently if we're in a minor key because the a is the V chord we want it to resolve back to the one chord we tend to Major so we have that little sort of uh C major C major sharp C sharp note to resolve us back to uh D minor um yeah that's interesting so actually I'm not uh [Music] he's playing he's like it's like getting a harmonic off it or something isn't he so he's not playing a straight note [Music] so he's like how is he doing that though [Music] how'd you get an F harmonic that's weird he's got notes I don't have that seems unfair that's really weird because he's like oh unless he's um unless is he tuned down is he in D he's tuned everything down isn't he that's what's going on so actually he's is that right let's just check that for position so he's actually playing Seven it actually looked like he was a five it looked like he was playing d for me yeah so no actually so he just played the beef up and actually he was at third fret so yeah he's tuned his whole guitar down a whole step um so yeah so whereas I'm trying to play in indeed kind of here and then I haven't got that harmonic he's actually playing it in E which sounds like d because he tune down the whole step and therefore is able to get that harmonic on the 12th he's doing stuff okay yeah definitely definitely he's doing Shenanigans right okay [Music] [Music] oh my God who is that [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] yeah okay I don't think we'll need that anymore [Music] yeah I mean it's gone crazy obviously and this is sort of what I was expecting um so there we go um however it's still the same though I mean God knows what's going on um I'd have to listen to this way more times to figure out what's going on there but it's still the same the the chords are doing the same thing I mean there are no chords but the implied chords are still some of the D minor foreign [Music] but what it does mean it means it's sort of play along a ball and this kind of stuff because it's so hard um it's nice to be able to sort of find a way in and sometimes that's everything um so even if you can't do whatever the hell was going on there um it doesn't stop sort of playing along and just playing along foreign [Music] [Music] again polyphia are so far sort of outside of my comfort zone I don't you know I don't really know how to engage and it's quite possible if you're in a similar situation that the best thing um that I would say especially if you're maybe someone who is into Bolivia but you're sort of maybe younger you've got you've not quite got that technique there yet what I would say is to just sort of figure out that uh D minor scale thing [Music] and just [Music] um and just sort of play along with it and what I find is that you can start to uh sort of buy osmosis kind of get into the song that's being played and if you're kind of playing notes and they're playing notes and then you might find that oh hang on we're playing the same notes and you get that sort of crossover thing which can be really helpful in sort of developing that style if you're coming from nowhere like me that's what I would that's what I would sort of do I'd be super aware of the chords because I get the impression the way his hands are moving he's super thinking about the chords could be wrong but that's what it kind of feels like feels like arpeggios and chords just played in a sort of crazy fashion so I would start there uh if in doubt um but we don't have time to do too much of that so let's uh just see what goes on in the song that's why we're here sorry I keep uh taking us off course [Music] geometry [Music] you're still safe descending but again what comes [Music] this is more the bit that you've um sort of play along to so if you were playing along obviously now you've got sort of some big chords and that you can really yeah you can really sort of dig in and play along to these changes um so that's nice like that bit and I've liked it all about that bit I can sort of associate with a bit better [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] you can tell a bit more with him that he he's not flying about in the same way that um Tim was um so you can hear those arpeggios a bit more clearly I think um so yeah so if you're going to play along that that's a great example of sort of again sort of a good way to get into the song by hearing those changes like say everything's been straight uh D Minor so it's nothing kind of crazy going on um uh the note choice hasn't been crazy um the playing obviously is crazy um but like I say it's just scales and finding that way in and then you can sort of maybe find your own way to Crazy it up [Music] I love the use of harmonics in their sort of open string things that really does give it those sort of wider intervals than you would otherwise get right very cool [Music] foreign [Music] and that's quite cool because I've always Associated them as sort of a sort of a metal genre sort of band um it's quite nice to see them in comfortable knits where [Music] foreign I was having a debate the other day about patrons and picks and uh who plays with picks and platforms and playing faster and having the angle correct and all that kind of stuff and then you see you know these guys um not using picks if we go back where was that uh I think he was using one there wasn't he I did notice Tim didn't have a peek when he was doing his bit he's all right where was he here we go there [Music] okay I thought he was slapping it maybe not okay anyway open mind you he's the business so that's your fingers and again he just goes to shave you know all this stuff about people using Hicks and all that it can largely be just kind of like a who cares you sort of use it if you need to use it for a specific piece otherwise out he really cares anyway [Music] so nice [Music] as crazy as it is so melodic [Music] questions [Music] that's nice that was really nice I think about something oh it's Misty [Music] wow can we just talk about that chair good grief that's like the ego chair isn't it um wow it's the set designer thing isn't it it's like we've got Steve Vai coming in we need a chair how did you get a chair for Steve why is like that's the Steve Vai chair you come up with that it's like you think we overdid the chair all right wow that chair's got a bigger ego than Steve that's an amazing chair [Music] thank you foreign like some delay kind of thing going on [Music] I think he's picking everything it's weird it sounds like there's a delay or something but I think it's just uh it's he's doing that um that what did he call it like the pitch stretching kind of thing that he does that he's sort of invented until the internet said Jerry Donahue um but obviously Steve at that point hadn't didn't know who Jerry Donahue was um but yeah it's similar technique but obviously Steve's made it his own but this is a really quite weird and interesting but I guess you expect nothing less from Steve [Music] that's weird it's one of those bits that's almost understated um so if you were sort of a non-guitar player listening to that you probably kind of go ah yes all right you know pretty nice um but as a guitar player you're kind of getting oh my God that's so difficult to play you know it sort of reaches a completely different level um when you're trying to sort of print out in your brain and what exactly is going on there um so yeah very guitar Centric um piece that let's hear it one more time [Music] swag [Music] anywhere [Music] ah [Music] was quite funny there is I mean none of them are plugged in and you can see that none of them are plugged in so but actually watching his fingers that's quite that's quite cool on sort of again a completely different non-musical level um but this is um foreign [Music] that solo um he's obviously playing it note for note time means Immaculate he's not plugged in he's not playing it at all [Music] I didn't want to shatter Illusions there it just struck me that actually that was a really nice peace of mind me [Music] foreign [Music] thank you wow there you go nice oh [Music] it is is that is that blue thing I said it had taken that kind of blue Swagger oh that's Lush they should put that in the middle why is that [Music] trumpet thing they should put trumpet in the middle it really needs it I thought that when it cut to that bluesy bit it's like and it kind of got all kind of swaggery should put the trumpet in there and then cut to the Steve Vai solo ah anyway um what they did what I suppose um wow well there you go um that's um polyphia and ego death featuring Steve Vai um I've not really got anything else to say about it um I'm not sure what I said about it then but it was an experience and I really enjoyed it actually I'm gonna have a look at some more maybe I'll do another video like this um so yes anyway I'll see you next time take care all right

Channel: The Guitar Explorium

Views: 85,851

Keywords: guitar lesson, polyphia, steve vai, reaction, analysis, ego death, polyphia and steve vai ego death reaction and analysis, worlds greatest guitar players, tim henson, Scottie lePage

Id: SZfb6jAnagY

Length: 22min 30sec (1350 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 10 2022