The Polyphia song Memento Mori (Feat. Kiillstation) was blocking the video so I had to cut it out from the full album reaction. Here's the reaction to that song: czcams.com/video/86Sf1Q9W_Fw/video.html
Fun fact about ABC- tim wrote that 26 note riff in 140 BPM and then went to sophia and asked her if she could sing something to it, hence the alphabet.
I haven't counted the notes of the riff but I promise you she doesn't sing the full alphabet. Listen carefully. First of all it ends with Y. There is no Z. Second, if you really listen and follow along, it says ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST WXY It skips U, and V as well as Z. So she sings 23 notes.
@@shredgod6394 Yeah you are wrong lol, I just listened again and heard every single letter. The Z is absolutely tossed in almost breathlessly at the end slightly gapped from the rest, but is audible.
I love how they structured their album, it starts with jazzy and almost upbeat songs and then start getting more technical until it ends with straight up metal vocal, super cool
I think that Scott adds a lot to the band. It's like Tim and Scott complement each other. Many of Tim's riffs are great but don't always have a good melody, while Scott manages to give it that melodic metal guitar to relieve so many harmonics and chords. He's probably one of my favorite guitarists for being able to work so well in that frame.
Both tim and scott are very good at hybrid picking, where they with a pick whilst also using the other fingers to play notes, and they tend to utilize it in most of their music
09:33 yeah man they do thumping, it's a technique commonly seen in slap bass, they thump on guitars though! Love it 👌 when they use a pick and still use their pinky, ring and middle finger it's known as hybrid picking.... Which the bassist also does.... 🤯 Love you're reactions/analysis vids bro, keep it up 👌x
Yeah, Animals As Leaders made the thumping more popular. Incredibly difficult to pull off on guitar. Tried it myself lol. Mostly just muting the notes and plucking/somewhat slapping
@@darkstar8196 oh shit yeah my god I need to throw myself into a pit of fire for forgetting Tosin and Javier ripped thumping hard about 5 years prior to polyphia coming out. 🤦🏻♂️ Thumping maybe hard but it's so much fun! I've not tried it on guitar (I'm a bass player... Even though my pic shows me playing guitar 😅) at all but it certainly unlocks a lot of tasty riffage! 🤟
@@martyzilla Tim learned thumping from Tosin himself n then developed it into the mad hybrid stuff we see. Mastered it now. Genuinely don’t think Tosin could write anything like The Audacity.
From what I know, their live stuff is also very few pedals. They use a lot of Neural DSP now and I think they even run Quad Cortex's live, I know they do in the studio, but there's audio drop out when changing channels so idk if that's fixable for live. Scotty uses like two pedals though.
@@EnkiSvohden to be fair, polyphia did have a bit of trouble coming up with new original stuff for their new level new devils album, there are a few songs that sound a bit too similar, so having distinct tracks helped this album alot
Steve Vai doesn't come in until 3:14 in the song, or 34:17 in the video, the other part was Scottie Lepage, one of the two fantastic guitarists in Polyphia
@@EnkiSvohden I didn't hear about Hybrid picking until I got into Polyphia, I'm assuming it's a rare thing and I must admit I cannot do it. It's pretty difficult
@@SoappNuts Im not entirely sure, but i think when they hybrid pick they hold the pick with their thumb and index leaving the middle ring and pinkie to pick. when you hear thumping i think they put the pick down. If you watch ego death and playing god you can see both tim and scott with and without picks.
The Polyphia song Memento Mori (Feat. Kiillstation) was blocking the video so I had to cut it out from the full album reaction. Here's the reaction to that song: czcams.com/video/86Sf1Q9W_Fw/video.html
Fun fact about ABC- tim wrote that 26 note riff in 140 BPM and then went to sophia and asked her if she could sing something to it, hence the alphabet.
I haven't counted the notes of the riff but I promise you she doesn't sing the full alphabet.
Listen carefully. First of all it ends with Y. There is no Z.
Second, if you really listen and follow along, it says ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST WXY
It skips U, and V as well as Z.
So she sings 23 notes.
@@shredgod6394 there is a Z at the end before the verse hit tho
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Not an audible one
@@shredgod6394 nah it’s pretty audible imo, it’s just spaced out from the other a little bit
@@shredgod6394 Yeah you are wrong lol, I just listened again and heard every single letter. The Z is absolutely tossed in almost breathlessly at the end slightly gapped from the rest, but is audible.
I love how they structured their album, it starts with jazzy and almost upbeat songs and then start getting more technical until it ends with straight up metal vocal, super cool
33:35 that was Scott Lepage. My favorite part about this band.
I think that Scott adds a lot to the band. It's like Tim and Scott complement each other. Many of Tim's riffs are great but don't always have a good melody, while Scott manages to give it that melodic metal guitar to relieve so many harmonics and chords.
He's probably one of my favorite guitarists for being able to work so well in that frame.
Well said i agree!
Chimera and Audacity are by far my favorites on the album.
Also you should check out Thank You Scientist if you like the idea of prog and trumpets
The Audacity is so fucking good dude oml 😭
fusion fest; chick corea, snarky puppy
Both tim and scott are very good at hybrid picking, where they with a pick whilst also using the other fingers to play notes, and they tend to utilize it in most of their music
just found your channel bro, so awesome
You should check out the music videos for abc and ego death, ego death especially is legendary
09:33 yeah man they do thumping, it's a technique commonly seen in slap bass, they thump on guitars though! Love it 👌 when they use a pick and still use their pinky, ring and middle finger it's known as hybrid picking.... Which the bassist also does.... 🤯 Love you're reactions/analysis vids bro, keep it up 👌x
Yeah, Animals As Leaders made the thumping more popular. Incredibly difficult to pull off on guitar. Tried it myself lol. Mostly just muting the notes and plucking/somewhat slapping
@@darkstar8196 oh shit yeah my god I need to throw myself into a pit of fire for forgetting Tosin and Javier ripped thumping hard about 5 years prior to polyphia coming out. 🤦🏻♂️ Thumping maybe hard but it's so much fun! I've not tried it on guitar (I'm a bass player... Even though my pic shows me playing guitar 😅) at all but it certainly unlocks a lot of tasty riffage! 🤟
@@martyzilla I mean, technically its been around for a while, but they're the first I'm aware of to evolve it in that way.
@@martyzilla Tim learned thumping from Tosin himself n then developed it into the mad hybrid stuff we see. Mastered it now. Genuinely don’t think Tosin could write anything like The Audacity.
From what I know, their live stuff is also very few pedals. They use a lot of Neural DSP now and I think they even run Quad Cortex's live, I know they do in the studio, but there's audio drop out when changing channels so idk if that's fixable for live. Scotty uses like two pedals though.
This album is definitely in my top 3. I was afraid it would sound too Polyphia but they proved me wrong. 9/10
"Too Polyphia?!?!" lol
@@EnkiSvohden to be fair, polyphia did have a bit of trouble coming up with new original stuff for their new level new devils album, there are a few songs that sound a bit too similar, so having distinct tracks helped this album alot
thog
Nice reaction
Edit: bro you just talked over the solo in bloodbath the whole time…
💀
Can you tell us how to avoid getting copyright strikes when play other people music?
Steve Vai doesn't come in until 3:14 in the song, or 34:17 in the video, the other part was Scottie Lepage, one of the two fantastic guitarists in Polyphia
Did you really came into this without listening to ego death?
Yeah that was the first time I’ve listen to that song
@@RUNTY_OW Ego Death is a must-watch video.
They Mostly do Hybrid Pickiing which is Holding the pick with index and middle, using pinkie and ring for fingering and thumping with thumb
I have friends that have been playing guitar all their lives and when I tell them about Hybrid Picking, they're like, "uh, what????" lol
@@EnkiSvohden I didn't hear about Hybrid picking until I got into Polyphia, I'm assuming it's a rare thing and I must admit I cannot do it. It's pretty difficult
@@SoappNuts Im not entirely sure, but i think when they hybrid pick they hold the pick with their thumb and index leaving the middle ring and pinkie to pick. when you hear thumping i think they put the pick down. If you watch ego death and playing god you can see both tim and scott with and without picks.
pretty sure it's usually with thumb and index
Index and middle???? What! Hahahahaha
you didnt get flagged for copy right violations?
The video got copyrighted but I don’t get violations
Horns and Guitars? Yeah Chicago already did that. Polyphia is still awesome though.
mate stop talking over the video, pause it rq
That first song sounds like a hopsin song from a few years back it was damn good