Want to level up your music skills for free? Come practice and see how others do it on Tonic: tonicmusic.app/join-in 🎵(Sheet music also in description)

@Scotch._.stickers

6 ай бұрын

Plzzz pin me ❤

@sparklingmagnolia

6 ай бұрын

I think very few of us are even worthy to look at the sheet music😂😂 Amazing job!!🎻

@DanielPMBA

6 ай бұрын

Is there any app that's good for violin lessons, where I can learn techniques? There's a ton on guitars or piano but nothing for violin.

@hipsterorc

6 ай бұрын

RAY CHEN!!!! LISTEN TO DANCE OF ETERNITY BY DREAM THEATRE AND SHOW US YOUR REACTION TO IT. TRY PLAYING IT AS WELL. IT HAS 108 TIME SIGNATURE CHANGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@hipsterorc

6 ай бұрын

108 TIME SIGNATURE CHANGES.

I’m honored to be featured!! Loved ur interpretation of playing god LOL

@11kwright

6 ай бұрын

Ah, so that was you when he said “I also found a violin version of it”? Great stuff.😊❤

@joyceyang6976

6 ай бұрын

Awesome!! 👍😄

@brago_

6 ай бұрын

He's literally one of the best violinists of all time... What do you mean 😂😂😂 impossible not to like

@blakesimmons5130

6 ай бұрын

​@@brago_that's a silly thing to say. Paganini is one of the best violinists ever born and I don't like his style at all. There's this thing called *preference*

@shirleys4124

6 ай бұрын

You’re so talented!

Fun thing about Tim Henson, who is the masochist who wrote this piece to perform live, is that before he started learning guitar, he was a classically trained violinist

@marmei

6 ай бұрын

why does that not surprise me

@vulpix8998

6 ай бұрын

KNEW IT! They actually did a metal bach concerto back in the day.

@takentactus8779

6 ай бұрын

Yep his mother was a violinist and he took lessons for violin when he was younger

@gringochucha

6 ай бұрын

I just checked and it's pretty crazy that Tim doesn't have a Wikipedia page. He's possibly the most influential electric guitarist around right now.

@redhawkneofeatherman261

6 ай бұрын

That makes a lot of sense

Some fun facts: - Ray has been playing the violin for 30 years (over 40,000 hrs) - He has won 2 world-famous violin competitions - He is literally considered one of the best violinists in the world today - The violin he's using is named "Dolphin", made by Antonio Stradivari in the 1700s and it's worth over $15M

@kates2588

6 ай бұрын

Щ

@junlee1268

6 ай бұрын

sheesh, imagine accidentally dropping his violin

@joeyever1511

6 ай бұрын

and he didn't learn it in half an hour, but the video is cut together, and he may have practiced it for a week!

@suzannepoon7706

6 ай бұрын

Side note. The violin in this video is not the Strad. He uses his other violin here. All his on stage performaces are with the Strad.

@Beep-yw1he

6 ай бұрын

@@joeyever1511 - any proof to back up your allegations? 🤔

The level of respect that Ray has for Tim's playing "Nobody told me he was a Paganini!", how flustered Ray seems (relatable!), and the amazing interpretation that he plays in the end, all make this video so much fun to watch! Not to mention that I was already a fan of Polyphia. Would love to see Ray's full cover of Playing God

Loved the look on his face when he realised that this wasn't just some ordinary rock piece.

@whatevergoesforme5129

6 ай бұрын

Is this piece considered rock? Doesn't sound like one, though.

@ornleifs

6 ай бұрын

@@whatevergoesforme5129 - Well Polyphia is a Rock band but this piece is more of a Fusion of Rock and Spanish Guitar Music with some Electronic Music thrown in the mix. The rock element is clearer when you listen to the original where the Drums and Bass guitar give it a more Rock feel.

@whatevergoesforme5129

6 ай бұрын

@@ornleifs I see. It sounds like Spanish Guitar Music indeed to me because of the classical guitar mode.

@ohheylads

6 ай бұрын

​@@whatevergoesforme5129describing polyphia as instrumentals math rock sounds like a good enough description

@scipug3048

6 ай бұрын

@@whatevergoesforme5129 math rock / prog rock. they used to be more prog metal. id actually still consider them prog metal at some points. (not that prog metal is all like this). prog is just "progressing a genre" so a lot of other prog rock and prog metal bands will sound completelly different to this. its a nice genre tho imo. oh and pretty much most prog rock or prog metal is hard to play. still, playing god is one of the harder ones from the "prog repertoire" id say.

Funnily enough Tim grew up playing Violin originally and switched to guitar because he hated it. It would be fun to see Ray and Tim collab and give each other lessons!

@Mallchad

6 ай бұрын

Ironically he hated it because his teacher was abusive but loved music. I think it's a PTSD thing.. he refuses to even touch a violin. the composition definitely stayed with him though

@andinuruljihad2912

6 ай бұрын

of course he did. he has an asian mom.

@gavinbunnell2477

6 ай бұрын

he learned at like 10 bro, “classically trained” is a stretch

@paracetamolgirl7820

6 ай бұрын

@@gavinbunnell2477 "Classically trained" just means formally taught using the standard repertoire. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with age.

@Lenny-sr7wb

3 ай бұрын

​@@gavinbunnell2477His mom made him play Violin at 3 years old

Dude is mad skilled. Considering he had to learn how to play an extremely complicated song in only half an hour *on a completely different instrument* . I really love how you played the 'flamenco' part.

@yfllll

6 ай бұрын

I don’t know how much you know about Ray Chen but he’s won prestigious violin competitions and is a concert soloist. He’s also been loaned a Stradivarius (the dolphin). He’s playing on a 4 million euro instrument here

@notepadpowersnail1860

6 ай бұрын

Also spent like half of his time quota on listening and editing the sheet music. It's pure enjoyment to watch him work.

@jan_07

5 ай бұрын

What do you expect? All professional stringed instruments have perfect pitch and are well versed at transcribing the rhythm of the melodies they hear as well. This is not something special with them. I literally know small-time violin pros who do this as easily as him. Also, Tim’s melodies are easier to play on other instruments other than the guitar, especially the violin because violins are designed for speedy melodies and only deal with melodies. He didn’t have to deal the chords at all, so easy.

@fiita6086

5 ай бұрын

Ray Chen's literally a world class violinist, ofc he'd be skilled, mad skilled

@cedricl.marquard6273

5 ай бұрын

@@jan_07 I don't know about easy. And then there's also levels to "playing" stuff. Just like the "world's fastest violinist" (Ben Lee) was capable of "playing" plenty fast, but also sloppy. I doubt there are that many people who are on the level of Ray Chen simply based on statistics.

I love how Ray doesn't just aim to get the right notes, but also goes into the nuances like the slides and phrasing.

the crossover i didnt know i needed

@santiagomartinez9051

6 ай бұрын

Since Polyphia reacted to "every instrument covers reaction", I was waiting for a pro violinist to play it, awesome

@Leslie.N.

6 ай бұрын

Completely agree!!!

@pihermoso11

6 ай бұрын

The real crossover would be Twoset reacting to this video and them trying to play Ray Chen's take on Playing God

@mkleng

6 ай бұрын

@@pihermoso11what u talking about?! I’d rather watch Ling Ling do Polyphia in 13 mins.

@matthewjoscott

6 ай бұрын

also the American accent to Australian accent crossover on the voiceover is fun too.

The best part is that if you were to do a song with Polyphia, you wouldn't have to dumb down your own playing like you would in a pop song. These guys are all virtuosos in their own right and adding you to the mix would be a chef's kiss atop an already stacked mountaintop. Can't wait 😂

@darkcircle899

6 ай бұрын

It's very cool to see a mainstream band making music that is genuinely musically interesting. All of the guys in Polyphia are pushing the limits of what is possible on their instruments.

@andreasthiemke9520

6 ай бұрын

Ray in Polyphia 2024???

@blakesimmons5130

6 ай бұрын

@@andreasthiemke9520 If we're lucky haha

@kiwiplays886

6 ай бұрын

If we get both Ray Chen and Yoasobi on Polyphia's next album, I am going to celebrate by streaking in central park.

@robr9170

6 ай бұрын

Holy crap would love a collaboration

Tim Henson used to play classical violin but switched to guitar. He's said in interviews his music is inspired by violin concertos partly.

I absolutely love how at first Tim is introduced as someone who plays "difficult music by non-classical music standards" before moving on to calling Tim "a Paganini". That's just fantastic!

To me, Ray Chen is my one and only favorite violinist. He's God's gift to the music world.

@AshayKolhe

6 ай бұрын

try roman kim

@felipechrysostomo760

6 ай бұрын

Hilary Hahn, Augustin Hadelich, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, James Ehnes, so many others...

@kazeppa

6 ай бұрын

chloe chua

@justsomeguy6060

6 ай бұрын

Same, sure there's others but Ray Chen really knows how to express himself really well. And that vibrato man jeez ❤️

@kpsig

6 ай бұрын

Great he is, homework you must do and look further.

I love how he actually practiced for like 10 min and played it so well 😭 bruh I can't event finish my scales in 10 min

@joyceyang6976

6 ай бұрын

Lol 😅

@shirleys4124

6 ай бұрын

I can totally relate to you 😅

@allytam9990

6 ай бұрын

I’m totally with u… scale is like 20-30 min for me sad

@esfomeada_1015

6 ай бұрын

fr tho, these scales take me 40 min daily

i hate it when i see these sort of covers on youtube... that also change the piece to 50% simpler. seeing you trying to get all of these really small details right, that's more than musicianship. that's dedication and commitment. respect.

@sondernfy

3 ай бұрын

Statistically not everyone is Ray Chen, so it's definitely understandable that other people's interpretations are noticeably simpler. I do agree that Ray adding all the small details that everyone seems to miss makes for a really really nice cover :D

@Dark_Souls_3

2 ай бұрын

It took polyphia years to develop this song

@huitrecouture

Ай бұрын

I hate people like you throwing the word hate around against musicians who DARE do a cover of a song. Are you out of your damn MIND?

As a pianist I don't understand anything about violin but this is still extremely impressive and sounds unreal

To be fair in 30 minutes you actually learned playing god, vlogged and explained to viewers your thought process all at the same time. Bravo! How many people can really do that?

@tibtub3411

6 ай бұрын

Him

@crowing3886

6 ай бұрын

Most advanced or immediate players because the song isn't that hard.

@phantasmal914

6 ай бұрын

@@crowing3886bro this is crazy hard to play on guitar.

@crowing3886

6 ай бұрын

@@phantasmal914 hardest part is playing the harmonics. If you've played any math rock you'd know this is mot very "hard" just a lot of different techniques used in a heavy staccato. You'll find hundreds of covers on numerous instruments. Now take their guess solo by Jason Richardson. The band themselves can't play his solos an you'll find very few cover attempts.

@person7587

6 ай бұрын

Concert Violinists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ray's face at the beginning was priceless! 😂 You did an amazing job!!! ❤ Now we need a collab with Tim! 😉

@tobiashansson909

6 ай бұрын

And a bass lite by dave504

@antareepdinda6500

6 ай бұрын

Tim played violin🎻 in his childhood before picked guitar🎸 as a teen because he felt it cooler.

@Jzaday

6 ай бұрын

Those 2 together would be amazing!

"How hard could it be?" famous last words. Tim had classical music training (as a violinist, if I remember correctly) when he was a child, and I think when he switched to guitar, some things remained in the way he composes.

What I love about most about Tim and the rest of Polyphia, is the fact that you show someone who doesn't know how to play an instrument, and they think it sounds good. You show someone who does know how to play, and they always have the same reaction as Ray did when he first heard the intro.

So, fun thing with this as a violinist and guitarist: it’s way easier on guitar, and not just because of the extra strings. The harmonics are much more lenient on guitar, and most all of the chromatic bits are much easier since chromatics are easier to learn overall on guitar (the frets are in half step intervals, so it’s generally much more intuitive when learning on guitar imo than on violin). I genuinely don’t know how you actually played this as well as you did in the time you did because the piece is so weird but you absolutely crushed it

@master-gaming9338

5 ай бұрын

It's still really hard tho

@noahyes

12 күн бұрын

pro violinist and guitarist here as well. in addition to the things you mentioned, guitar frets mean you dont need to worry about pitch, which is huge. plus tone production/right hand technique on the guitar is much, much easier than bowing technique. many violinists take 10 years just to learn to play a decent detaché or spicatto. violin is simply a much more difficult instrument. id argue its the most technically difficult instrument there is, especially considering how crazy hard the repertoire can get. paganini is just the beginning of the advanced repertoire. the really hard stuff is ernst, schoenberg, ysaye, bartok, etc.

as a Polyphia and Ray Chen fan this is the best thing i could i have seen. please collab with polyphia sometime in future to get a mix of metal and classical music it will be like a dream come true.

@kayhsu1572

Ай бұрын

@polyphia yes please collab haha

The fact it only took you 30mins to play that well is incredible. It's the first video of yours I've watched, but I can tell you have been playing violin for a LONG time. Unreal!

you know he has mad respect the second he calls it a piece

Do Ichika Nito in the next time!!!

@RayChenViolinist

6 ай бұрын

Oooh - I just went over to his channel and his stuff is INSANE!

@blakesimmons5130

6 ай бұрын

Though I love Ichika, his music doesn't translate to violin as well as playing god. He plays so many chords and I don't think it'd sound great unfortunately

@crowing3886

6 ай бұрын

Most of nito stuff isn't even playable on guitar let alone violin. He can't even play his pieces live.

@otto_vdwl

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@crowing3886he does play his pieces live….

@crowing3886

6 ай бұрын

@@otto_vdwl show me. I've seen about 5 vids of him riffing nowhere near the speed or as clean as his vids. He's done one song that I've found one song an he flubbed it hard.

Ray Chen: GodHuman on VIOLIN. TwoSet: eMmoTtIoNnnal DamASGE

I Love how he said, " place pretty difficult music for non-classical music standards". Then once the song starts he's like. Oh no this guy's GOOD good.

That is a really amazing interpretation of "Playing God!" I love the techniques used to imitate the ghost notes of the guitar. Now how you managed to play the harmonics midlines is beyond my comprehension, and I guess that's why you're such a skilled violinist.

Best crossover ever. Ray Chen (fave violinist) x Playing God-Polyphia (fave guitar song). Ray absolutely killed it in under 30 minutes of learning!

I've seen quite a few of these, 'learn Playing God in x minutes', and this is far and away the best. For 30 minutes, this is nothing but a W. Tim does have a pretty extensive classical background, so it kind of makes sense that the stuff he writes is a bit beyond typical contemporary music.

@Aaron-xq6hv

6 ай бұрын

Yea, I have no idea who he is, but it definitely sounded like a strong classical guitar influence in there.

30 minutes isn't enough that boy practices guitar 40 hours a day. I am glad you found him, it's one of my favorite songs and I play the violin too so it was neat to see you interpret it.

Amazing, thank you for this crossover, this made me so happy 7:25 for whoever, like me, keeps coming back just to listen

As a Ray Chen fan and a Polyphia fan I absolutely love this crossover! I'm going to see polyphia in a few days! I won't forget to practice my violin too

Ray: How hard can it be? Tim: _plays one riff_ Ray:

На скрипке звучит даже красивее, чем на гитаре при том, что это кавер, а первое услышанное обычно воспринимается как лучшее. Хочу полную версию!

the tone/way you play it is super reminiscent of the original piece i find it super hard to really genuinely get the right feeling on a different instrument, especially when the music isnt entirely compatible from instrument to instrument so this was super impressive wowowow incredible job

Amazing. We don’t deserve this. Fascinating to watch the process of a world class musician dissect and synthesize the work of another but very different world class artist. Again, amazing.

Tim Henson played the violin as a kid which makes this video 10x better

Strings are strings🙏. A brilliant piece on the guitar brilliantly interpreted for violin! A collaboration would no doubt be amazing🙏 Ray just got a new subscriber

it took me 3 months to learn the entire song at normal speed... and 1 year 3 months to master the intro. truly a hard piece but i love it

“Ray Chen can do pretty much anything he wants on the violin 🎻 “- The Washington Post Ray is just amazing 🤩 and inspiring to all. He’s my favorite Violinist and classical musician! Edit: Idk if Ray will see this, but for your next video, can you transpose the Haydn cello concerto to violin and play it so it crushes my self esteem as a cellist ( in a good way) Thanks!

@rodrigomoraes2305

6 ай бұрын

I AGREE, 100%

@elliechoi._.

6 ай бұрын

It’s sooo true

The playing was so beautiful !

you just summoned the entire guitar community

Wtf, understanding the piece in half an hour is already an impressive task.

You should definitely do more polyphia stuff! This is so good

You should do this piece as a surprise at one of your concerts if you can!

That was incredible! My favorite rendition so far. I wish you covered the arpeggiated part in the 2nd half of the song. Tim has mentioned that it's the most difficult part.

This was absolutely incredible, I love your interpretation so much

Thanks for featuring the guitar, and even try play that piece/song (?) !! You can try some actualclassical pieces for guitar, such as Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega (there is even a version for violin).

It's randomly awesome surprises like this that make me stop and feel so lucky to live in this time.

Great Version big props for getting it together so fast. Fun to listen to and to see how you planned it through.

Thank you for showing us this process, Ray. It is so much fun to see your mind at work. Your finished pieces look so effortless.

I'd love to see a full violin rendition of Playing God (without any time constraints to transcribe, adapt and learn)!

That was seriously impressive how much of playing God Ray got in 30 minutes! I’d be curious how he does for some of the craziness of the last section of the song! There is some crazy arpeggio stuff even for guitar that would be incredibly difficult on violin.

Absolutely brilliant!!! Bravo!! Thank you for sharing your gift!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I'm so glad I found this video, it was so fun to watch the breakdown!

Probably the best violin variation of "Playing God'. Keep up the awesome work.

NO WAYYYY I JUST WANTED TO PLAY THIS ON VIOLIN AND YOU SUDDENLY UPLOAD THIS MASTERPIECE I LOVE IT

Great job Rey. Would love to see more content of you reacting and playing with guitar masters.

This was highly entertaining and impressive as heck. Keep killing it G 😁❤👏!

Absolutely enjoyed this video. Hope Ray will start a series of such collabs/covers!

You are amazing! You’re practically sight reading it and did a great job! That’s pure talent!

I love how expressive you are while playing, and I'm thoroughly impressed that you learnt it in 30 mins! Absolutely insane

I'd like to start here saying that this was absolutely amazing. You absolutely nailed it. I think you should try doing G.O.A.T., another Polyphia classic. Now an actual Polyphia note: it's sometimes hard to hear just how much Scott LePaige is an integral part to the guitar parts until you hear it without him in it.

Ray you are incredible, very humble and relatable, a pleasure watching you!

Holly sh*t this is the best cover I have seen of the song. Polyphia have to see this! 🔥

Loved this--seeing your process as you learn a difficult and different piece and then getting to hear the final result is just amazing.

This is fantastic to both listen to and watch. Both pieces are different but so incredibly beautiful and both have this cool vibe. Loved it. You go, Ray!

I did not expect to see Polyphia on your channel 😅 It's insane, how fast you learned this 👍

Thank you for sharing your process for learning a piece with us. It was so interesting to see the changing emotions that went into the practice session and also to hear the end result which was a treat. Your versatility and virtuosity shine.

OMG, you killed it. From beginning to end AMAZING!!!!

My first time seeing Ray. What a joy. Keep doing what your doing man.

You are truly a great content creator in addition to being an amazing violinist!!

You did amazing! I've been a huge fan of Tim Henson and Polyphia for years, and being a musician myself, I definitely admire your tenacity and ability to translate this piece to violen. You killed it!

You absolute beast. This was one of the most beautiful things I've seen. Thank you

Violin version? I didn't know what do you expect, but you CRUSHED it!

Omgeeeee this is great! I love this, your years of hard work and experience as a professional violinist are showing in the quality of this rendition, and in such a short time 😭 but it's your wonderful talent that let you to grasp the the vibe of this piece in a wider sense and record this with style that I might even love more than the original ❤ this is too great uwah😢 (loops)(omg so many chords)

Both of you musicians are incredible❤

Fantastic idea Ray. I would love to see more solos like this one!

This is epic! One of my favourite songs. I love seeing great music played in different ways.

I'm obsessed with it! The best thing I have heard in a while. Thank you for bringing this music to us!

Great seeing such a good classical musician make content for the public 🎉

That was just wow. Both the learning speed and the performance. ❤

Tim needs to see this his reactions to covers are great and this is top tier❤

Wow you're so talented... Crazy to see someone of your caliber play this piece and recognize the beauty and difficulty of it 🔥

As a Polyphia fan and metal fan in general, I really enjoy this video and I hope you can do more videos like this!

for only 30 minutes to study it, that was incredible 😮

Tim needs to see this! Amazing skill man, well done!💪🏼🙌🏼

damn bro, you totally nailed it! Hard piece, complex techniques and tricky tempo, you made sure to attain yourself to all of those components. Congratulations on your accomplishment, you really are an exceptional player!

I DID NOT EXPECT THIS. Two of my favourite artists, sort of connected lol. Such a pleasant surprise! Ray absolutely slayed

Damn man, that was genuinely awesome. Such a beautiful instrument player masterfully. Keep up the good work brother.

this is the best unofficial collaboration of all time!!!

@lukebenfer100

6 ай бұрын

now all we need is a two set polyphia collab

Let’s Go! You crushed it with your limited amount of time and all your sweating the details you still came out swing hard and just knocked it out of the ball park!! 😮 Super impressive performance thank you so much for sharing this video! 😊

Playing violin and tryin to play guitar quite some years i adore your passion, awesome playing and recognizing how outstanding this song / piece of art really is. Your version was quite inspiring, thank you ❤

Absolutely amazing! Kudos to you man.

Amazing! I can't believe you learned that in 30 minutes! I hope to apply myself more to music after I finish nursing school, been playing for about 14 years since I was a teen, but I feel like there's some barriers I need to breakthrough. Definitely going to try out that tonic app

Glad Tim and the band is getting lots of credit for the song. A lot of musician is giving this piece a go and they all raise their eyebrow.

YES!! seeing polyphia in concert this wednesday and im so happy the skill is being recognized 🥹

Absolutely fantastic work, my friend. Keep up the good work.