Chords for Metal Guitarist Tries Learning Math Rock (Polyphia/Chon/Ichika)

[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ [N] Okay, this is a little harder than I thought it was going to be.
This is like, _ super jazz. _ _ _ _ _
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As much as you'd like to think that all I do is listen to breakdowns all day, which
is mainly true, I also like to stay up to date with the guitar-centric side of the music
scene because, well, I like to think I'm still mainly a guitarist and not just a dude who
does weird, stupid faces on the internet.
Now, a thing that seems to have been really popular in that scene for the last couple
years now is this new wave of guitarists that are doing this kind of like, _ math rock,
modern prog rock, _ _ _ Instagram famous guitarist rock kind of thing.
Artists like Polyphia, Achika, _ Khan, Sean, however you say it, they've been doing this
kind of weird new style that's become very popular very fast.
And I thought, in order to stay relevant on Instagram, this might be a bit easier than
trying to take a bunch of pictures of my butt.
Okay, how does it sound like Khan guitar tone? Let's go.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ [E] Okay, I believe him.
[G] This amp is [Gb] very, very good. _ _ _
[G] Oh, what?
All right, guitar gear for math rock.
Um, [F] Ateli.
_ _ Yeah, yeah, good start.
Your pedalboard.
Oh my god, this is like a maze of pedals.
Is that, is he just taking a photo or is that in the pedal? _ _
Oh, he has a crispy tone, dude.
I [Dm] want that.
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ That's, that's, that's, that's close enough.
[C] This is how to get Ichika's guitar tone in 30 seconds.
So first, plug your guitar.
He's just, he's going at me, man.
What is math rock?
Influences, John, math rock, jazz, _ _ _ progressive, experimental, punk.
All right, screw the system, fam.
And this is a C major nine chord. _
_ _ [Em] All right, that's a pretty big stretch.
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_ _ _ _ _ Associate with these styles [Am] of music.
Just show me how to get famous on Instagram, dude.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] Oh, okay, yeah.
_ Yep, just shove the tapping in there like it's nobody's business.
How to play math rock guitar for noobs.
Oh God, I didn't even spell noob right.
All right, Reddit, number one choice of absolute truthful information.
I will learn some simple poly rhythms.
Hmm, some sugar.
I see, now you're speaking my [Dm] language.
_ My [E] tone still sucks.
Learn to play Ichika style tapping with tabs.
Let's go.
_ Buy Ichika, of course.
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Wait, I'm [E] not supposed to use a pick?
Oh, God damn it. Okay, easy.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ Damn it.
I literally feel naked without [A] my pick.
_ _ [F] Nope, nope, nope.
[A] Uh-uh. _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ Oh, double tapping.
What?
Oh, _ _ what?
Yeah, they didn't teach me this in _ metalcore school.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay.
_ _ Oh, Zide, okay, getting fancy.
Oh my [A] God. _ _ _
This is going, this is bad. _ _
Nope.
_ You can't, no.
You can't go from that to this.
Why is it called spider? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ [A] Okay, easy. _ _
This is easier than Spider-Man.
Okay, what's step number seven?
What is he going to call [E] Cthulhu?
_ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ _
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How do I do that? _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ Oh, you don't.
I get it.
I get it, okay.
I am so lost and I feel bad for anyone trying to learn this because I feel [B] much bad at guitar.
_ _ [Bb] _ _
Bass.
_ _ _ Ugh.
[N] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [D] _ [Gb] _ I don't [Eb] know what, what are you doing there, pal?
_ [Db] _ _
_ _ [E] I'm so bad at guitar.
[F] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [Ebm] _ _ No, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ no, _ no.
I want his hacks, bro.
He's got some hacks.
What, what, no. _ _ _
_ _ Okay, this is a little harder than I thought it was going to be.
This is like _ super [Bbm] jazz. _
_ _ _ [Abm] Jesus, if I could play as well as this dude, I probably wouldn't even make memes.
_ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ [Em] It's like he's singing me a lullaby with his guitar.
Alright, so for like techniques, it seems like it's very simply _ get good.
Alright, I need to pretend I'm at least a little good at guitar.
So I'm going to go do a backing track, something I've done ever since I was a kid when it comes to learning really anything.
And just kind of jam and see what we can do. _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ [G] Alright, _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [G] _ I've failed quite a bit and tried my best.
_ And it's going interesting.
That's how I'll describe it.
And for my last goal here, _ I'm going to try to do something that everyone wants to do.
And that is play the beginning riff of Goat by Polyphia.
So I could indeed be the goat.
Ba-ba.
_ _ _ Polyphia shows you how to play Goat.
So this riff is fairly difficult and requires a lot of hybrid picking.
That's, I never want to hear that.
_ [Em] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ Okay, this is easy.
_ Oh _ my god.
[Em] _
[Dbm] _ _ _ _ [F] I like his sandals.
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ What?
_ _ _ _ _ Alright, teach me hybrid [Gbm] picking my dude.
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [C] This is a starter thing. _
Oh [Eb] hell dude.
[Gb] _ _ _
[E] _ It sounds like I just launched a Zelda [C] game.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
Okay, okay.
I think you need to be good to play this type of music.
Alright, that took me the entire day.
And I didn't get very far. _ _ _
I'm going to try one last thing here.
And that's going to be attempting to write _ a riff in this genre style.
[Dm] _
Using the techniques and everything I've learned today.
The tapping and the finger picking.
All of that.
_ Let's see if I can do it. _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ Well, there you have it.
Final thoughts.
_ _ It's not easy.
[Ab] _ _ I guess I've got to wait a little longer to be Instagram famous. _
I guess memes until then. _ _ _
Yeah.
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[B] _ [Db] I'm [D] gonna dance [G] like [Bb] [B] I'm so [Bb] sorry.
[A] _ _ [G] _ [N] _ _ _