The only dude that can play polyphia cleaner than they can.

@technickn9n3

8 ай бұрын

uhhh they play it clean lol

@garethdowdall8956

8 ай бұрын

I know brother, just stressing this dude can play as clean if not better. Wasn't saying polyphia can't play their stuff live or taking anything away from them. Merely just complimenting someone who clearly put hundreds of hours learning these insane riffs so perfect.

@jan_07

8 ай бұрын

Do you see the cloth in the fretboard near the nut? That should tell you why 😂

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

My g 💕

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Jaysus god forbid you try to say something nice in the KZread comments 💀💀

Tim and Scottie are fucking monsters for creating all of this

@JonLui

7 ай бұрын

Fr

damn, scottie has come a long way with his covers

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Lmao Scottie in disguise

@static7985

7 ай бұрын

what up Scottieeee

Watching him play 40oz was sick asf

@JonLui

7 ай бұрын

Ty 🤘🏻

5:00 you are correct, in his 'the making of' video, Tim showed how he used the omnisphere arpeggiator to write that ending riff, saying it was somewhat hard trying to map it onto guitar.

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Oh it was just omnishpere? So one else was saying it was the omnichord but omnisphere makes more sense for sure

@r_pro_

8 ай бұрын

@@JonLui used omnichord to make main riff

@traco5040

8 ай бұрын

that riff was pretty spherical tho, josh peck would approve

@JohnnySideburnsX

8 ай бұрын

I doubted that at first, but I guess its true

@flufficornss

7 ай бұрын

@@JonLui if i recall i think he used an omnichord to make the notes then put that original piece into omnisphere

That riff from The Worst is still my favorite they’ve written, I love it.

@98-carlmarkmarak22

7 ай бұрын

Same , It doesnt sound like flex , just a simple riff with good melody

@samermohamed7644

4 ай бұрын

It's definitely one of the best sounding ones. I think it's one of the first polyphia riffs I heard which made me appreciate them.

That hand gesture at the end. I felt that. Nearly done with Playing God.

Nobody every gets the arpeggiator riff from Playing God 100% right (not even Tim when he plays it live a lot of the time), but yours was the cleanest I've seen by far on KZread.

Jon Lui, this guy is great. I love his originals

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Thanks a million !! :’)

Icronic and the neurotica ending were insanely clean Omds

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Thanks sm homie 🫶

absolutely insane, incredibly clean through every riff. you’re a monster keep that shit up man.

@JonLui

6 ай бұрын

TY SO MUCH !!

Absolutely phenomenal mate!! This is legit one of the cleanest if not the cleanest cover of polyphia songs ive ever seen on youtube!!

Bro, your new track hit hard, keep it up!! Btw neurotica riff is saucy, love it so much

Excellent work my man. Some of the cleanest covers ive seen.

I knew Ego Death would be on here, and omg you played it flawlessly. It's my favorite Polyphia song of all time

That outro riff is demonic. It’s the control they have on the harmonics that I find hardest. You really pulled that off well my man 👏👏

I watched this last night on my TV and had to come back and say you are severely underrated, with polyphia's music and your own. I was surprised when I went to your Spotify and you have less than 1k monthly listeners. You're crazy good and deja vu is awesome too, gonna listen to all of your originals now! keep up the great work!

Man you really just absolutely slayed some of the hardest music played on the guitar today, and made most of it look effortless. Melted my brain with this one; gonna go stream all your original music just on principle 💯

That was all so good! I recommend learning the long slide into the 14th fret in the Playing God riff, which is followed by a harmonic on the 12th. I used to play it like you, but it makes a big difference!

wow I really enjoyed your original at the end! i added it on my playlist on spotify awesome man!

super interesting to see the finger action up close and focused...it's hypnotic

I’m an immediate fan after hearing Deja Vu for the 1st time, song goes too hard! 🔥

@JonLui

7 ай бұрын

Lfg thanks sm ! 🤘🏻💕

this video was awesome dude! Great work, keep it up!

Great job man, you had some of the cleanest covers of their songs I’ve heard so far. Not sure about all the others but I just started learning 40oz and it’s difficult af so I can’t image how much practice it took to get all of these clean (also learned the worst but that one was a lot easier.)

@yummygummy2133

6 ай бұрын

Slow the living heck out of it, it's a simple pattern once you learn it but just hard to execute perfectly

I’m so happy you put OD on here! Love the song and I’m actually using it for an audition soon! Also you’re amazing, as a drummer I have no clue how hard this is, but it looks cool

nice effort dude, you rock. well done. and also, deja vu was insane!!!

what a banger of a video and a cutie of a cat! haha fr though, this was the cleanest I've seen anyone play any of these riff. Well done!

Man this just inspired the hell out of me. Ive just learned the intro to Playing God, and it was my introduction song into hybrid picking as well as natural harmonics (in the way that Tim uses them specifically) as well as the concept of flamenco guitar. it took 1 day to learn the intro and nearly two months later, I still cant quite play it cleanly at speed. I have a way to go, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Maybe one day I'll be able to cover this entire video

great playing man!

Man you slayed all of these great job!

dope video man, but i gotta say im glad you plugged your song at the end because i've had it on repeat nonstop bro lmao, keep up the good work

@JonLui

7 ай бұрын

Aaah means so much to me homie thank you 🤘🏻💕

I think what would've been a good fit here is Nightmare. The two handed tapping part is a tricky one to get down right and fluidly

@carlchameleon9847

8 ай бұрын

he probably doesnt have an 8 string

@wesleylakemusic

8 ай бұрын

@@carlchameleon9847 just an honourable mention

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Hmmm I thought I checked this one, people seem to agree with you anyway, probably could have been there instead of chimera for sure

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Got the omen 8 brother

@wesleylakemusic

8 ай бұрын

@@JonLui That's true, could've swapped either to be fair man

First of all, I'm no guitar player but I know how to strum the damn thing (sort of), and I know for a fact that their riffs were ultra complicated, but never really understood what specific factor or technique made them almost unplayable for the average guitar player, this cleared up my mind and now I have so much more respect for how they're able tu pull this off live... this is just countless hours of practice and YOU MY LAD, have done a magnificent job learning those monstrosities! Massive respect, holy smokes... keep it up lad!

You're insane dude great work. My brain melted a little bit just watching you do this. (Also, super adorable cat)

@JonLui, this video was incredibly amazing! 40oz, playing God, and even ABC sounded so clean, Im legit in tears, bro. Plus, how do I refrain myself from getting hand cramps every 5 minutes? You played 6 songs before getting one, which surprise me since you went into HardCore Mode ! ❤

Bro you are a MONSTER player. So glad I stumbled across your channel.

Those flutters on neurotica were nasty af!

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

I was very happy with the second last one haha had a lil bit of a squeal on it

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

And ty homie 🫶

Mate, my hats off, genuinely, i've been practising a couple of those riffs for years, haven't gotten as close to having them as clean as you have. But I do feel obliged to mention you're missing some of the flavor in GOAT, I would recommend taking another look at that one, other than that, insane playing, I can only hope to achieve this in the near future.

The deja vu ending riff sounds soo good. thanks for including it ill learn it asap

@JonLui

Ай бұрын

Get it!

This is not only a great cover but an amazing cover. You did a really fantastic job. Are you using NDSP Henson Archetype only?

amazing fking video dude, i saw another video that was similar as this but ur playing was x100 times better than that one since it was basically up to speed and you didnt leave out the hard riffs

you are an absolute legend for being able to play all of these...i would probably replace The Worst with Bloodbath but thats probably a me things because i learned the worst with tabs and bloodbath by ear.

Bro this literally sounds like the originals, you must've trained hard for this

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

For sure wasn’t an easy one ! Tried to get each riff as clean as possible :)

The sweeping for 40.oz looks like your left hand is some alien shit. That was so smooth and creepy at the same time

bro your technique is amazing

I agree with the most part! For me Ego Death is #1, and outro of G.O.A.T. and thumping in the middle of Bloodbath also can be top10 btw I like your way of using hybrid in Playing God :)

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

You can switch ego death and playing god around and I’d be happy w it, ego death riff was genuinely so hard play clean, it took ages 😩

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

And thanks !! I preferred to hybrid pick it all instead of going in and out of sweeping and hybrid picking like they do

@adv631

3 ай бұрын

I love u, I'm a beginner, now u have forced me to never give up on the guitar. Barre Chords still suck​@@JonLui

Youre amazing.. I hope i could play like you someday

I agree. Playing god gave me the hardest time of the lot. Mostly just getting it to sound smooth and clean is what takes so long

This guy is so insanely talented.

the end of playing god looks nasty - interesting note about the arp writing process, makes a lot of sense

Amazing playing. Super clean. I was surprised Playing God was the number 1 pick as I found it easier than than other Polyphia riffs I've tried. But I only learnt the famous intro, that outro looks rough.

@JonLui

3 ай бұрын

Ty and yeah the outro riff kinda puts it above the rest tbh, I hybrid pick it all and the string pattern for the picking hand is insane , but that being said the ego death riff is probably just as hard

Crazy clean man

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Thank v much brother

This shocked me dude!

u r talented bro apreciate it

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much homie!

Your left hand is crazy dude!! I react to its movement like seeing a posterising dunk!

@JonLui

4 ай бұрын

Hahah ty so much

man your riff was the best of the lot

That neurotica riff is probably my favorite riff in the entire album. Your tone and playing was spot on 👌

@JonLui

2 ай бұрын

Awh thanks so much, I loooove that type of hybrid picking it’s kind of basic compared to outro of playing god kind of hybrid picking

you just earned a sub my guy

like you thought, the playing god outro was wrote by an omichord great video btw, super clean playing

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

The Omnichord that’s so interesting I didn’t know it was and arpeggiator, And thanks homie 🙏🏻

I think the Playing God riff was actually written digitally and then Tim tried to recreate the attempts with his fingers. This might be totally wrong but I think they mentioned it somewhere

@JonLui

4 ай бұрын

REAL

@ACE-ik4re

3 ай бұрын

Also also, Tim has mentioned in the past that generally a lot of the time, his riff writing ends up digital at some point, for instance the bell melody in G.O.A.T, the arpeggiated melody in playing god, or a lot of his covers like, his take on pony by ginuwine, or his short little instrumental on yt called blood moon, a lot of Tim’s writing starts with a pad chord progression or some other form of midi chord progression 😁

Man o man! You got some skills for sure. Its much harder to play other people's music than your own so yes tim is mad good for writing but it takes severe talent to learn and reproduce someone elses stuff and at this level. How do you learn these riffs? Tabs piece by piece taking it slowly? I play the intros to goose and the worst but they need work to be pristine. The hybrid run on the worst is challenging to get fluid.

This video goes hard 🔥. Btw can u pls make a tutorial vid for the worst?

I’ve been learning pretty much all of these too + some. Totally related with the timing on ABC and 40Oz lol!!

@JonLui

7 ай бұрын

Such hard riffs fr 😭

the way he throw the pick after playing the outro of playing god got me rolling on the floor

self plug lord

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Self plug gang 😎

Nothing sounds better than a Strat imo i love the sort of twang they have it sounds so good its the same sort of thing that makes a jazz bass sound so good one day ill get a good strat to put next to my American Elite Jazz bass

And here's where this guy blows up

Can u name the guitars in order that u played all those with!? 😩✨

man playing these riffs is crazy enough but imagine composing they are geniuses

@JonLui

Ай бұрын

Frfr

awesome!

The polyphia riffs are impressive and all but your song at the end absolutely fucks, I love the bouncy jazz section so much. Keep fucking rockin dawg 🤘.

One of the best guitarist I have ever seen!!

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

THANKS MARK!!!

Dude! Fucking sick! 10 riffs ill never be able to play 🤣

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Ah you never know bro !!! Thanks haha

The 40oz one is so satisfying to watch omg

Mad respect, dude

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Ty homie 🙏🏻

I always find 40oz so satisfying to watch and the other cover were great too

40oz basically just looks like aggressively molesting a guitar. The sound plus the way it looks when its played. its so damn smooth yet so in your face. you are way too good btw, i better go get back to practicing if i wanna try and catch up to you maniacs.

@JonLui

Ай бұрын

That’s one way to describe it lol you got this homie keep constistent!

Wow, amazing job man

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Thanks brother !

really great vid hope u blow up

Great playing

@JonLui

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

holy shit u nailed ego death

bro just wanted to flex his immaculate covers

@JonLui

7 ай бұрын

Any excuse for a quick cover hahaha

Your technicality beyond everyone bro

your riff is awesome man.

@JonLui

7 ай бұрын

Ah thanks a lot brother

your skill is very inspiring

what a flex of guitar skill

Are some parts sped up or is it just weird frame rate? Insane covers for all of these btw. Even if they're played slower they're still ridiculously difficult

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Def not sped up, I’ll be posting all the raw clips on my Twitter ! Thanks homie 🫶

@menaceskitz27

8 ай бұрын

@@JonLui awesome stuff dude

legendary playing but bro that cat at the end!!!!

@JonLui

5 ай бұрын

Lilly stole the show Ngl hahah

this guy’s fun at parties

OD is the only riff I've ever sat down to and completely noped out after 10 minutes

Top hardest polyphia riffs: *all of them*

@Maperr_

7 ай бұрын

LFMAO

sad to not hear a single one of their old stuff on here

Awesome, how about audacity?

I know only a handful of these, but to me it's 1. Goat (the taping pattern is weird and was hard to combine with the octave slides + hammer on, and the sweep picking is tough) 2. Playing god (i to this day can't play it with perfect timing, everything else is pretty easy, but the timing is confusing to me) 3. Worst (second part of the riff is tough with all the slides and pull ofs, and hammer ons, very tricky to get up to original tempo) 4. Chimera (the easiest one, no confusing tempo or combination of techniques back to back, and if you are like me prefer hybrid picking, then it really is an easy riff) 5. Goose intro (only the fast alternate picking at the end is hard, with confusing timing Now attempting to learn neurotica, and it is by far the hardest. Very big stretches played very fast, and the left hand fingering is not obvious at all

Great work, bro

Great playing man, what did you use to get the tones?

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

Neuraldsp :)

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

And thanks homie 🫶

impressive work

@JonLui

20 күн бұрын

Thanks 😊

Jon can you please give some advice on how to get that tone on Playing God on your electric? I still haven't figured out how to get anything good on my electric for it and I do have the Tim Henson Archetype plug in, still learning how to use it apparently.

@JonLui

8 ай бұрын

In Tim’s plug-in he has a preset made called the “w6rst nylon” i think, that’s as close as you can get without acc buying a nylon guitar

You can tell it’s legit when someone has 4 camera angles going to one guitar

Holy shit the sweeps on 40oz were insane