Bass Teacher REACTS | POLYPHIA "Ego Death" feat. Steve Vai | Clay Gober HYBRID Picking On BASS?

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• LO

  @LowEndUniversity · 3 years ago · pinned

  The most challenging thing about Polyphia is simply describing what they do. Yeah - it's guitar, bass, drums...but hardly anything about it is traditional - maybe the chord progression, or some of the techniques used - but the presentation is so fresh. How would y'all describe it?

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• ET

  @EtoDemerzelSpaceBurial · 3 years ago

  Clays tone on “ABC” is really cool, too and that’s another really unique song

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• JI

  @jimschips940 · 3 years ago

  LISTEN TO THE AUDACITY!! It’s on the same album, and it has some absolutely fantastic bass. It’s my personal favorite Polyphia song for both clays.

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• PI

  @pippin45 · 3 years ago

  The thing I absolutely love about this song is how narrative it is. It opens with the main theme, sort of quietly almost from another room. Then you get a section of that frantic, kind of spastic development and exploration, before it comes back to the main theme again, but this time stronger and more confident. After that you get a second section of exploration and variation as it journeys even further from where it originally started. Then finally it quiets back down and you hear the main theme, but it has this new development to it as if you're hearing the "real" theme for the first time. It gets big, flexes for a while and ends on this massive epic moment, before we finally hear that main theme being played on a completely different instrument, as if someone else is telling the story of what happened. It's such a cool, cinematic composition and it's so uniquely Polyphia.

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• SL

  @slickydee5507 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Clay's hybrid picking on bass is so badass, just perfect.  It's like slap bass to my ear but the thumbed notes are picked.

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• EG

  @egress99 · 3 years ago

  You nailed it around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEp7-GPj6DI&amp;t=456">7:36</a> regarding Clay’s role…Scott and Tim are bringing a lot of bright, acidic, lemon-like quality to the structural tone while Clay is bringing that deep, oily umami. And in the middle you have Clay A. sort of tying both sides of that epicurean equation in….now I’m hungry.

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• TH

  @thebrownage8599 · 2 years ago (edited)

  your eyes kind of squinted at a particular part... &nbsp;and i was hoping you were going to bring up that, incredibly difficult looking, triple reverse slide thing scotty did at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEp7-GPj6DI&amp;t=338">5:38</a> of YOUR video... &nbsp;not theirs lol... &nbsp;that 3x reverse slide thingy he did blows my mind every time i see it. &nbsp;(correction... &nbsp;4x reverse slide)

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• T-

  @t-t-t-t-today_junior · 3 years ago

  You should check out The Omnific - Antecedent. It&apos;s 2 bass players and a drummer. That track features Clay Gober from Polyphia as well!

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• VE

  @vector_____ · 3 years ago

  One of the things I love about the ending with the trumpet is that if you listen to the album (where this is the last track) that would lead right into the first track &apos;Genesis&apos; that features Brasstacks. It reminds me of the loop of &quot;the hero&apos;s journey&quot;.

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• AU

  @auronsoverdrive4514 · 3 years ago (edited)

  It doesn’t matter how many times I listen to this track, it fills me with emotion. Such a euphoric sound and such clever interplay between the guitars, bass and drums. <br>The snare is so punchy, Clays pops on the bass too filling in just at the right time and the virtuosos solos are just amazing without sounding ridiculous. Just fantastic all round.

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• HO

  @hoomash · 2 years ago

  Clay is playing a special edition SR5005. Beautiful bass.

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• AR

  @ARSZLB · 3 years ago

  i am in fucking LOVE with the bass tone on this, i&apos;ve never heard a bass cut through the mix so cleanly while sounding absolutely RAW at the same time 🤘🏻

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