The Latin vibe I get from this song is sooo strong like an almost Bossa Nova-esque style and then the infusion of the Jazz chords in the bridge was so tasteful. Polyphia are honestly the complete package with so much variety to their sound. Genuinely unbelievable talent.

@Dragon Ball fans can't read I do hate courtiers replies, not saying I agree with you on Tim Henson music, I do agree that courtier reply are a fallacy, and it’s pretty common in YouTube.

@Strife Courtier's reply.

@Dragon Ball fans can't read let’s see your music big dog :)

@Rlainey no

@Dragon Ball fans can't read ez b8

It's crazy to think this song was played on a Nylon string guitar like for the harmonics to ring like that is insane

Definately still sounds even good on clean nylon

The piezo pickups on their nylons are doing some of the heavy lifting, they are also likely using compression to help bring out the harmonics. But most importantly, they have solid technique.

As a Spaniard I would be remiss not to point out the incredible Flamenco influences this song has. It's like they took a little bit of a lot of genres and made it entirely theirs. Polyphia are on a level of their own and their craftsmanship and writing are really something else.

My thoughts exactly. Flamenco goes *incredibly* well with a boatload of genres. First time I heard this I immediately thought I'd love to have seen Paco de Lucía play this with them.

Animals as Leaders' "Brain Dance" needs to make its way next at some point after this. Another track from a Metal band that uses nylon guitars in a fantastic way and mixing it in with some heavy and chunky riffs

Tim's technique is so organic with his personality he can say everything he needs to through his guitar

i could be wrong but i believe the initial inspiration behind this song came from Tim watching others cover his songs, he was absolutely blown away by the acoustic cover of nightmare by Evgen Tsibulin.

I think that Tim was inspired in the cover of GOAT played by Robert Svärd with a flamenco style

i recommend a new song by the band 'Architects', called "When We Were Young". also, the band 'Silent Planet' will literally change your life if you can ever get the chance to listen. love the vids, thank you!

Great reaction! For a technical sound on the level of polyphia with more flamenco inspiration, I recommend Syncatto's Coloratura album, particularly the opening track "Coco".

My friend’s brother knows the guys in Polyphia and I’ve only heard that they’re some of the nicest guys in the modern prog scene.

Playing God is an interesting name choice especially after listening to the second half of the song. It sounds like something I’d hear back in The Sims gaming years! Not to mention the combination of different genres they used to create this “of its own” unique sound 🤌🏻

best thing about the reaction is you playing along on the keys and it sounding pretty good. usually when reactors play along it sounds weird

You should check out “Is It Really You…”- Sleep Token and Lothe. Its a beautiful and haunting song, i know you would like it!

I’m pretty much self taught in guitar. I’ll be honest, I wish I’d had someone like you tell me just to take it slow and get good with repetition and then clock up the speed. Learning hybrid picking has been SO much easier just taking it slow and not trying to dive in at 120 bpm :P

One thing that helped me learn tough passages, was to start at the normal speed (with a met), and then slow the met down a couple clicks every time that you play through the passage. Then, after you've gone down to a ridiculously slow tempo, bump it back up to the starting speed! It's a bit counter-intuitive, but it's a really helpful way to practice!

Judging by your piano skills, it would be awesome if you did a reaction to the build music from sims 1. Very beautiful and nostalgic.

I saw them live with Dance Gavin Dance last fall, and they were absolutely amazing!

I've been to your channel before while watching Lawrence videos but the Dance Gavin Dance and Polyphia ones got me to subscribe recently. Love your musical insight and just how damn much you get into the music.

Whether it's on your own time or for the channel, Playing God by Paramore is worth checking out

Thank you for the good words from 7:14 on. Very inspiring

I love how he does not only include textbook but also put in some of his experience.. i think this guy is a great teacher.. not saying with sarcasm or anything.. its just that i cant find anymore genuine words because of how people use it nowadays

Falling in Reverse dropped a new song today: Voices in My Head! Also, a couple weeks ago, Lorna Shore dropped another single which is outstanding: Sun//Eater. You should definitely check out both when you get the chance.

@Vladimir Corvera lmaoooooooooooo

Falling in Reverse is thrash

Yaya Lorna n fir

There has never been this much hair. Clearly, this is the best we have seen of them yet!

loved the reaction. Definitely nothing wrong with stopping throughout the video, that' s part of the process. A suggestion is to rewind 5-10 seconds every time you pause so that you're not missing the transitions and any specific sections. you just have to hit the left arrow key to do it, might help

I love how he says before the headbanging comes in, fast forward to a beautiful symphonic solo

Yeah, the last few years I’ve really taken my practicing very seriously on guitar, made massive gains. This track is so good, they let there be space even within all the great playing..

Another album or band worth checking out is Berried Alive’s The Mix Grape. Charles Caswell is on Tim’s level of guitar talent and possibly as a composer as well, I’ll let you decide that since I’m more of a vocalist.

One of the best bands instrumentally.

That's Bossa Nova influence! This song tastes like brazilian harmonies and groove!

If polyphia need a vocalist it has to be jesus, cuz they were playing god

Swing and a miss.

Falling in Reverse (which I just re-discovered) has dropped Voices in my Head, which is... beyond words. And since your reaction videos are my personal favorite, I would love to hear your opinion on it 💖 Anyway, another great video, keep it up!

Even if you don't do a full video reaction to them, check out Tim Henson's "meditations." He'll pick a subject, like "Quintuplet Meditation" and grind for 9 or 10 minutes just drilling the idea.

Sick. If you dig this, react to “Thrash” by Emery. They’re a post hardcore band, but the song Thrash is something diffffffferent from them. Give it a shot.

Gotta listen to more of them! Also Chon and Animals as leaders!

Chon for sure! If you like Polyphia, you'll like Chon.

You should react to Manchester Orchestra and the Brook and the Bluff! Both are so freaking talented!

you need to dp a first time reaction to i'll try to make it to the other side by Kelaiah, it had incredible chords

Was waiting for you to do this song! Tim Henson has made me give up guitar though 😂

What nah !! For me its Tim and Ichika who makes me want to surpass them in the near future

Don’t ever ever give up guitar!

Would love to see a reaction to “Valhalleluja” by Nanowar of Steel. They’re a great band and from the same label as Jinjer

they just get more powerful the more hair they grow.

Get Elton on the phone RIGHT NOW! He's GOT to sing that tune!

Man love your reactions. Please react to Yamandu Costa, a super virtuose brazilian guitar player!

Can you do a reaction video to Justin Lee Schultz - do I do ? That's the most complex arrangements on Jazz fusion song, thanks before 👍

As far as their hair goes, most of the videos you've likely seen are from 3-4 years ago so they've had plenty of time plus a pandemic to grow out their hair. Tim Henson in particular has a large plethora of tattoos now that many people who only saw their previous videos thought appeared out of nowhere even though if you followed him you'd see that they, like their hair, was a steady progression over time.

Yes, their technical command is excellent and their musicianship is top level. But, playing god, suggests something far more, new, breakthrough, something we haven't heard before. Like Jimi Hendrix coming onto the scene and revolutionizing the guitar and rock. I don't hear that I hear that, stripped down I hear Flamenco and Brazilian jazz...

If you consider Jimi Hendrix as godlike, he wouldn't even be able to play this. So that basically vouches for the title.

You said yourself, Jimmy did revolution the guitar and rock, which, stripped down was just rock, what changed it was the techniques, the style and the way he used them to flavor and spice something that was there already. Same can be said about polyphia, yes obviously anyone with a sense of music diversity can tell what style of music they are being inspired by, but the way they play it, the way they mix it with completely different genres and, sounds and techniques, just makes it as fresh as it can get. They also don't just do it with their guitars, which we all know they are at the top (with some others) on raising the game for others, in showing what else can be done and pushing the guitar, as an instrument to its limits. Their percussion game is also on another level. The way that and the bass are used to a lot of times implement a mix of rap/trap beats to their tunes is truly something new, especially when they do it with genres no one ever thought to add that kind of stuff to. They combine so many techniques, so many rhythms, so much stuff a lot of times in one single piece, it's crazy. I'm sure Jimmy would have been so filled with joy to see what these guys are doing and how much more effort they are putting into growing and evolving the way one can play the guitar. that goes for every other guitarist that is on this level. At the end, I feel most new, fresh stuff perhaps... It's just a combination of many things that already existed but used in a completely new and unpredicted way. thus, something new is born. Just a different perspective

They topped GOAT, this is next level, like when the mars volta hit the scene

You should check out the band Unprocessed, they just released a new single called “Dinner” and they’re touring with Polyphia this summer. Seeing them in August.

@Luka Dončić 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

@Hoochie Goochie Živjo

Luka? Wtf?

@Carmalarms yeah you’re right I forgot haha

He reacted to the song Real awhile back

There's a distinct difference between practicing until you get it right...and practicing until you CAN'T get it wrong. :)

Amen

This is gonna be a good one 😁

Mac Miller - Cinderella You need to check it out this musical masterpiece!

Lmao you're exactly correct on the hair thing. I noticed that too! Rock and roll mullet on Tim looks dope.

Love it! U should check out a band called Vitalism! And maybe the song Pagan, or Pagan part 2 it’s amazing!

7:50 in other words: Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Plz for the love of god, Ronnies done it again with a fuckin' banger dude! You HAVE TO REACT TO IT! It's "Voices in my head."

"Its not gonna come overnight" tell this to danny. The guy literally got it in ONE FUCKING NIGHT, the hole song, in a fucking ukulele............

Waooo!!!....Congratulations my friend David!! ...Have you seen a vocalist with a huge range that your piano doesn't have enough keys to explain all the notes that he can sing?....Well here you have your best gift of your life!!....Today it is very rare to find reactors like you who have never reacted to the best singer in the world, Dimash Kudaibergen, who has 7 octaves and 3 semitones vocal range (An alien)... I am going to dare to recommend that you meet Dimash, because when you do it for the first time, your life as reactor will change forever ....For example, the number of views that you have today, it will increase by 300% in a matter of a few hours and you will get a lot of new subscribers.....But when you react to Dimash, don't do it with his most recent songs ... I recommend that you go to the year 2017 and react to the song that made him a global idol ... I mean the performance he did Dimash from the famous French song called "SOS D'un Terrien en Détresse", when he participated in the famous Chinese reality show The Singer in that year 2017 ... With that performance Dimash earned the reputation of being the best singer on the planet, so I recommend you start with that one...And I have to give you a warning: Never react to The World Best videos, because they suck!...Your life will never be the same again, after reacting for the first time to Dimash...And your first reaction to Dimash will be something very special, so I recommend that you do the best job of your life as a reactor, because that first video will be seen by thousands of people around the world, maybe millions...I hope to see you first reaction soon and if you don't mind, I'd like you to mention me as the person who recommended reacting to Dimash....Here you have the best high quality video of Dimash performing S.O.S. Live 2017.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDX3FhmyNac

The opening riff reminds me of a way more complex version of Hotel California. It’s weird cuz you have a Hotel California license plate on your wall.

Note on the hair: from their G.O.A.T. video, Tim has grown out his hair significantly, Scott and Clay have stayed the same but they swapped bass players the last had a crew cut so you're definitely right to notice more hair 😂

They've had the same bass player since the beginning.

It's the same bassist, actually! Clay Gober. He just grew his hair out (it has been almost 4 years since G.O.A.T., after all)

“Have they always had this much hair?” My man asking the real questions 😂

What’s more impt!!!

Somebody made lyrics for this and it kinda worked.

hey david! please give a listen to "the devil thinks i'm sinking" by good tiger. i think you'll enjoy it :)

Can you do a reaction to that new Kelaiah song people are talking about calles I'll try to make it to the other side, it was on the radio yestarday and it's such a lovely song x

Hello ! Can you react to Tupac - Dear mama? Its a song that he made for his mother, no swearing, amazing instrumental, the lyrics almost had me in tears

It's a double entendre. Its Tim Henson being A playing god, or a god of playing.

It’s Satire on humanity. They’re a Christian band remember.

Hey DAD... Ronnie just dropped a new video today! nothing like some falling in reverse to start off the weekend

DAAAAAAAD!!!!

This is gonna melt his brain

The bassist looks like a french actor too, Patrick Dewaere :O

you're really talking about their hair? that's your reaction to one of the most sublime pieces of music you'll ever hear? you stopped the video for that?!

Of course I did

acoustic alchemy vibe type of music

Your hair looks good today actually :)

Aw, shucks, thanks

FINALLYYYYYY I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE IT DROPPED FOR YOU TO REACT!!!

Can't wait to watch this.

Please react to "Love Is The Message" by Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist Ft Mansur Brown & Rocco Palladino (Live At Abbey Road Studios)

Hey I think a band you should listen to and give your thoughts on is Dream Theater? Song recommendations would be Paralyzed, The Enemy Inside and Forsaken

you changed from a music teacher to a jazz musician!

I did. I’m still both! Lol.

Holy shit man I've been waiting for you to do this

You shoud see the cover made by Lucas Brar!!

Father, there's a brand new song by falling in reverse there, check it out!

Great review!

You should check out Phantom by Makari

I like your sense of humor lol. Just subscribed 👍

"They have a sound" yeah its called Ibanez lol

Please do the new Panic at the Disco song next!!

Between the Buried and Me - Extremophile Elite (Live)

Have you reacted to John butler trio ocean I haven't seen it on the channel but absolutely amazing

please react to Tim Henson's Sunset with cory wong and plini

Esteban has found some equals!!

I can hear some spanish flamenco style as well. Am i wrong?

Please, for the love of god, stop pausing the song right on the breakdown or dropbeat. Seriously, you're killing the vibe. Just listen to the song and then give a review. ffs...

Totally agree, but YouTube doesn’t let us do that. Pause or get blocked

where can i see YOU playin chords??

IT'S FINALLY HERE :)

Pity you had to pause during the best bits without returning to the beginning of those parts

Please react to I'l try to make it to the other side by Kelaiah

it would be so cool to see you react to some of Nirvanas live performances and analyze kurt cousins voice!

Can you please do a reaction to Plini – EVERY PIECE MATTERS!!

Please do some more sleeptoken 😊

will you please react to Clowncore!!!

Yo Ronnie radke back at it again with voices in my head

Yes the hair has always been there.

I always thought Tim looked like Chow Yun Fat. Lol

he does kinda look like Bradley Cooper

Manchester Orchestra - The Silence

Please listen to bad omens and starset I think you would really like them and please listen to more Ice Nine Kills

React to I'll try to make it to the other side x