Tim just has that 30% concentration, 30% "hold my beer" and 40% "just vibin'" face throughout this. Dude's comfortable playing stuff that makes you question the biomechanics of human fingers and he's able to just do his thing, chill and enjoy himself. Watching someone do their thing at this level is inspiring.

@kenyattacoleman7284

Жыл бұрын

the fact that he's wearing a comfy sweater adds to the "just vibin" feel of his playin

Steve's part sounds almost proud. Almost like "look at what the new generation has to offer" like a proud father

@williamwhipple2855

Жыл бұрын

ikr? It's like he finally get's to play in something he started...lol

@philliptoole6439

10 ай бұрын

Though I read an interview with him after they recorded this and apparently Polyphia chopped up his solo (as they often do). He seemed a little miffed.

@SSenderling

10 ай бұрын

@@philliptoole6439 oh really do you remember where the article was from?

@molestotheclown987

8 ай бұрын

@@SSenderling I think he said this was at the initial stage and they still hadn't met up yet, still sending bits and pieces to eachother. He'd send one thing which he thought was really good, then the band sent it back heavily edited or shuffled around, and he felt a bit "Like why do they want me , if they keep editing what I send them" kinda thing. The collab obviously progressed past that and he said he understood anyway and was really happy with it all

the bassist and drummer are a match made in heaven

@nondescriptcat5620

Жыл бұрын

held together with Clays.

@firdauszainudin7118

Жыл бұрын

Only Clay know Clay

@Judas.of.cuntshire

Жыл бұрын

@@firdauszainudin7118 a rhythm structure made of clay

@owaisahmad8344

Жыл бұрын

They literally have the same name lol

Funny you mentioned Tim's face at the beginning! In a twitch stream he said he was FUMING because he kept messing up his take since it was the last shot of the day and he was tired. So much so that they almost had to pay more money to stay and shoot longer. But, despite that, he still looks calm as a cucumber lol

@kylel8605

Жыл бұрын

Cucumbers have nerves?

@BrittanyNgo01

Жыл бұрын

@@kylel8605 old idiom lol

@kylel8605

Жыл бұрын

@@BrittanyNgo01 "Cool as a cucumber" Calm implies nerves

@BrittanyNgo01

Жыл бұрын

@@kylel8605 I have brain damage so I mix words like that sometimes or remember things incorrectly 😅

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

I’ve can definitely imagine this, I’m surprised his fingers were still able to move at the end of the day! 😂

You mentioned clay(drummer) shadowing the guitars percussive rhythm. Other people don’t do this because they flat out don’t have the competency and capability that clay has on the drums. These guys are masters of their instruments, as well as composition and arrangement.

@nondescriptcat5620

Жыл бұрын

it's also composition style. Tim writes most of the rough drum and bass lines in Logic or whatever he uses, then the Clays adapt and develop them into the final parts, so everything is super cohesive, while also incorporating drops and odd hits that only really make sense in the context of the whole piece.

@Daggroth

Жыл бұрын

This is what I was going to say! This drummer literally never misses a beat and plays perfect 32nd triplets over and over

@Motosportz

Жыл бұрын

there is an 808 drum machine in there too... And a bunch of other studio tricks and techniques. See Rick Beato interview. Fun stuff.

The horn at the end is super cool because of how it ties the album back around. First song was ft. brasstracks so the horn at the end is a cool call back.

I really liked when they changed the chord progression to that Dm > Bb > Gm7 > Bb on minute 3. It's Hendrix influenced music right there. one of the boys best musical moment for sure.

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s always cool when you play a m7 of a relative major because the Gm7 includes the Bb chord, so it feel like the chord isn’t too different but it’s changed colour and turning darker 😊

@astraluniverse5928

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood It's not just that. it's also that they moved away from the descending pattern that ends in a the major 5th chord with that classic latin vibe into a 'major lift' when they move to Bb in the second chord instead of C and I cannot stress how much I personally had enough of these diminished or 7s chords people just shove everywhere these days so I'm very glad (and also not surprised) that they did it on Steve's part and it sounds SO much better than their usual dominant 7 progressions I really think they chewed through by now.

This is the only reaction on KZread that actually made the song better

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’m glad you think so 😊

Favourite piece of music for around 5 years , phenomenal

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

I can see why! It’s a great song! 😊

So, typically Tim writes his stuff in a DAW first, outlining the chords and melody, and then he figures out how to play what he wrote on guitar. After he's figured out the rough structure, chords and melody, he brings that to the band and they work out the other parts together. I think that's a big part of why the drums follow the guitar so much: the guitar rhythm is already there when he's working out how to play along with it. Given how much of the rhythmic element already exists in the guitar work thanks to Tim's use of harmonics and other techniques, there's already a lot of rhythm to play off.

That chord rhythm you point out at 5:00 is absolutely gorgeous. I love how they only use it a couple of times and don't overdo it.

First time viewer here and this one of the best reacts to the song imo. The way you got the notes right by just listening is so impressive

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it and I know that there are quite a lot of reaction videos so that’s very high praise! 😊

It's pretty neat how the song is set up in acts where the first 3 each highlight one of the guitarists, then have them all come together at the end.

the piano made this VERY important in understanding the song. Especially at the beginning when you highlighted the minor flat 5, after the very polyphia i,vii,vi,v, flat 5, i. As someone learning any polyphia song, learning that bass line, chordal backbone, and applying it all over the fretboard BEFORE attempting to learn the specific notes, makes the exercise a lot easier. This was a VERY helpful part for me

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you found it useful!! It’s a tough song for guitarists to learn 😊

@terdroblade

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood Those insane bends at the start of Steve's solo are a technique he literally invented in the last year or two. Cant even begin to describe how difficult those are. He has a video on it on youtube, a good insight on how his brain works and his approach to music and guitar. Highly recommend you take a look, I promise you will enjoy it.

Amazing reaction and breakdown! I like how you make quick and succinct comments without talking for 5 minutes every time you pause. Subbed!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it 😊 I tried to balance not ruining the experience but also adding some level of insight 😂

@beensavage390

Жыл бұрын

​@@matticawood you do a freaking great job of it. it's the perfect way to do it in my opinion bc as soon as I start to hear the melody start to fade in my head you have added a concrete point and good knowledge and boom it's back to the melody all before its even left my head. very good timing on the pauses and it's always to give us an actual insight on some aspect. my favorite channel I've seen react to polyphia! by a long shot!

from g.o.a.t. to this...i love how they're breaking ground, hip-hop is featuring legends from so long...finally rock is catching...

Loved your reaction to this! You have an incredible ear as well. You easily picked up on the notes and structure and all. It’s always cool to hear other people’s reactions. You didn’t take away from the song just added some great comments but kept it moving! Well done! Great energy!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that and I’m glad you liked it 😊

Great take! I've listened to this song on repeat so many times it's now rooted in my psyche.

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It’s a great song isn’t it 😊

Your channel is going to grow. You have an excellent analysis and ear to boot. Well done.

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate that! 😊

underrated af channel the fact you can decompile the music theory very fast and playback and the elaborate on the different styles is so good this is also my favorite band since album Inspire and they genuinely made me pick my guitar up

Honestly the best reaction/review of this song. The way that you noticed small little details and nuances throughout the song is so satisfying. Hopefully you do more metal/metalcore or any other subgenres of it like this one in the future!

One of the more interesting reacctions I've seen in a while. The way your able to break down the music onto the keys is really cool to see.

men ! this was one of the best reactions i've seen to ego death , and i've really watched a lot of them keep it up ps : pleeaaaaaase react to the album when it comes out on 28/10

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate that and I’m glad you liked it! Il check out the album when it comes out and maybe do a video 😊

@LiQuidQuo

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood chimera and bloodbath are sick songs

When Steve Vai enters the clip it feels like a group of young warriors meeting the legend to join their fight, and they having a conversation at the throne

@owaisahmad8344

Жыл бұрын

This whole song just feels like a Power Rangers team up episode, where the old guard meets the new guns and they all kick ass together.

@regulatormachine2788

Жыл бұрын

new challengers from the movie Crossroads Steve was in b4

amazing reaction man. good in depth and you know what you’re talking about and as a guitarist myself it makes me praise you even more🤘🏽🖤

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate your comment 😊

one of the coolest, different, unique, incredible, amazing songs written in the last 30 years.

This song feels like the started out intending for it be a riffoff then it turned into a jam sesh and that is soooo cooool!

This is just incredible. Really. Somehow I’ve never heard of this group.

Great reaction and insight. Love the editing too!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that! 😊

Matt changed my life forever!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Well..what can I say, I’m glad you came to that conclusion all by yourself 😉

Loved your reaction. Brilliantly done. On point. No extra drama!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Tim : cool calm cold collected guitar playing machine Steve : sensual showman he’s playing like his making love with his guitar

Just your bit at 2:58 makes me want a full piano cover. Oh it sounded beautiful.

I can’t wait for a drum play through

I like the way you react and are able to dissect it! Subbed bro

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Saw him live a few years back (Vai) it was an unreal show tbf. Him and the musicians that played with him were just so solid.

Its incredible

awesome react man! im learning piano so this is perfect

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it 😊 Piano is the best, it’s very rewarding!

That’s a throne not only a chair bro. I think they mention Steve is a king

Oh snap... I never picked up on the fact that they opened using the room mic then transitioned the recording in

I love your knowledge, it was extremely fun to watch

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it 😊

Wow your analysis is good. Got you a brand new subscriber. Thank you for the video!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate that and I’m glad you liked it! 😊

Love it ❤

A great song and a very nice video about it. Thanks!

What a Wonderful Reaction! Great thoughts... Subbed!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! 😊

This has become my favorite song from them, for sure

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

I think so too! 😊

I love your quick intterventions, very efficient.

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😊

One of the few songs that you should watch the video... many songs are just that - speakers - ears - you are good. This one you need to add your eyes to the mix.

Excellent video! Happy to see a pianists viewpoint. Also, welcome to the point of the song 4:17 hah

For me they are showing off stylistic elements with brief transition pieces - rather than a traditional structure. First you have Tim's technical fingerpick, Second you have Scott showing off some of his more Shreddy style from their earlier work, then Finally Steve Vai bringing in a bend and tremelo heavy very Vai style that blends seamlessly. Transitions of course are the whole band with the two Clay's brought out in the mix a little more.

That sweep into the pick tap, culminating in the glitch drop is the perfect example of progressive modern fusion. Collabing with steve is impressive just on its own. But hearing Steve's rock sensibilities and melodic interpretation, over a musical device that doesn't normally exude the emotive elements he's using... Is astounding

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

It’s nice to see Steve being able to experiment with these guys, I bet it was fun for him to work with them and such a unique sound! 😊

Never seen Slap Gee-Tar before. Tim does it amazingly well.

Please make a cover on this song! Love your videos!

It's a heavy ass chair, and they had to bring it to every place they recorded this clip 🤣

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

I think I’d just settle for an IKEA fold away chair 😂

new fav band

Tim explained one time that he creates a beat and the band learns those parts. So clay the drummer transcripts the drum parts from the beat into a tangible thing an actual drummer can play

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

That’s interesting! I wasn’t sure if they wrote collaboratively, but I thought it could be that Tim produces a midi version or something like that! It’s very specific and tight 😊

@cthulu4774

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood their beats usually have simple trap drums and then they send the songs to both the clays so that they can write their parts that fit with the style but can still add the things they want to like hybrid picking

6:36 nobody talks about the fact that this note is NOT available on any guitar... how Does he hit that note ?????

Some of my most favorite lyrics!

Perfection

This is honestly just such a good fucking song. It's kinda unbelievable.

You are so genius too❤

its not unplugged, its actually mixed heavily at the beginning with a room mic fading into the actual DI signal

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely mixed, mastered etc. I just thought the footage onscreen is him playing rather than miming like the rest of the video?

@RogerPham

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood its not. The official audio also features the roomy sound from the first riff. You can catch it on Spotify my point is all the riff is from the same input source, he just mixed in a ton of room verb for the first 10 seconds

the trumpet is throughout the whole album. the player, Brasstracks, is featured on the first song, Genesis, on their new album so it's only fitting that he closes it out since this is the last track.

This dude is going to be know as the best dude

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I always appreciate your comments 😊

This was awesome, please do a piano cover!!

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

I might do that 😊

🔥

Yeah, and notice that it ends with the moon over the head of the trumpeteer. holy imagery batman

It's cool...at 1:25 Tim's on the throne doing his thing, at 3:29 Scott's on it. And at the end, there's Steve...and at the apex of the building (roof).

was wondering, did you speed up the original by any chance? loved the breakdown btw! thank you

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks I’m glad you liked it! 😊 it’s very slightly sped up because the frame rate of the original video was 24fps and mine was 25fps so it was very slightly sped up by a frame a second 😊

@aaditey3775

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood alr, cheers! love your content man

@SoumilSahu

Жыл бұрын

Glad you pointed this out, I could hear it as well. Crazy how sensitive human ears are

Full Piano cover when?

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Maybe….I should 😉

@samarpanwaghmare

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood Yes, Please!

The structure with different segments and also the drum echoing the lead instrument (synth or guitar) are typical from j-pop ( dir en grey, malice mizer/moidixmois)

"At this point it's just showing off" that's prog in a nutshell

Steve Vai be like: I don’t need to show any expression at all because I’m so cool! Others: I am nothing compared to Steve Vai (aka Guitar god)

@mainakmaiti1534

Жыл бұрын

VAI GOD bro VAI GOD!!!!!!

americans are jsut really good at showmanship..and with material to back...its awesome...!!

For reasons this song demonstrates I’ve hard some people call guitars a melodic rhythm instrument,

hey matthew , just wanted to let you know about some other songs by polyphia that i think you will find very technically interesting. you should check out playing god and neurotica by polyphia both great songs

Steve Vai's solo giving me David Gilmour vibes in the beginning

Damn that band is nuts

3:02 Piano needs Jacob Collier's harmonizer to be able to do that or come close to that guitar sound 😂😂

The instruments are tuned down to a D tuning to get the harmonics to match.

This is the last song on the album and the first song apparently opens with the trumpet, so it's a bit of a book end for the album.

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

It’s a very clever device to make the album cyclical! 😊

@Tagiau

Жыл бұрын

Brasstracks tied the entire album together perfectly.

Steve Vai LITERALLY single-handedly set the standard for guitarists. He wrote and recoded a whole song only by playing with his left hand. rather funny, isn't it?

@russellward4624

Жыл бұрын

And a song based on his son's baby talk Yayo-gak, one of my favorites

What does the name Polyphia mean? It comes from the word "Polyphony", meaning "music whose texture is defined by the interweaving of several melodic lines". Playing off this definition, as a band, we capitalize on musicianship and that, musically, each member of the band is a cornerstone of our sound.

fun fact, Tim is playing ibanez steve vai 7 string guitar :)

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

That’s so cool! Imagine playing Steve Vai’s guitar! I knew Tim is associated with Ibanez, I wonder if Steve is too?

@woolfel

Жыл бұрын

@@matticawood steve has been an ibanez musician since the 80's

Most drummers don't do that more often because it's really hard to do well

Not a chair, a throne

Ngl I love their songs and their like atstic

This band has the ability to make 1/4,2/4,3/4 feel like its all 4/4 if you know you know.

The whole song is just to summon the trumpeter

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

…and it’s worth it 😉

Wooooooo!! That was intense..I really liked parts of that song but it sounded too precise and over-engineered half way through.. It was flawless in its precision and Timing with all members in perfect unison with one another... I wonder if they sound the same live..🤔 I'm going to check them out, I think they are worth more research..

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Definitely check them out, I’ve seen a couple of videos of them playing other songs live. They have a track with the synths on in the back, but the guitar work is still pretty flawless 😊

@ObsidianSnake12

Жыл бұрын

Polyphia started out as a very djenty metal cramasmanynotesintoasinglesecond kind of band, so I think that’s a little homage to that fact

@usuallyclueless4477

Жыл бұрын

Do keep in mind that their newer performances live are better as they used to perform intoxicated until a couple years ago and it used to mess them up. They perform sober now.

when you don't have enough budget and so the background is in an abandoned building.

I feel like on the panio it talking while the guitar is the sound box

@moktan289

Жыл бұрын

It needs Jacob Collier's harmonizer to sound like guitar 😂😂

I believe ego death is essentially "Hello im post modern guitar, are you ready?" lol

0:47

Love you to react to Guthrie Govan, especially with Hans Zimmer.

Is it just me or Mat actually accelerated the music speed a bit, like 5% or something.

Plz react to the accapela version 🤣

I think you mentioned something very poignant at the end there about the trap beat, and how the song is an amalgamation. The name of the song "Ego Death" seems to be a nod to this, with having an electric guitar instrumental song suddenly sharing the stage with a hip-hop beat and some jazzy trumpets. It's like a bunch of rockstars suddenly developing emotional intelligence and killing their ego to share the stage and make beautiful music harmonize together no matter the style or genre. Another element of that seems to be of the grizzled guitar legend killing his ego to play alongside some controversial new age guitarists. And what beautiful music they make together when everyone can just appreciate each other's differences.

You should react to Polyphia - The Audacity feat Anomalie 🔥

very good video, I want to make a similar video on my channel in Spanish, I'm Mexican, a video was recently blocked, you didn't have a copyright problem for this video?

@matticawood

Жыл бұрын

Gracias, es una canción bueno para reaccionar! Vería una reacción en español 😊 I did get copyright claimed on this one, but I was expecting it would because of how much of the original song I used (all of it 😂), but sometimes I’m happy to take the loss for the long term good of the channel 😊