Chords for Polyphia 2017 Guitar Clinic Tour | Presented by Ibanez & Swee Lee Music Academy

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Firstly guys, welcome to Singapore.
Thank you.
It's good to be [E] here.
I know you've had a really packed trip the last few days
Definitely.
Oh, yeah, you're one want to go?
Yeah.
Yeah, I've got a questions for you today.
The first one is about Ibanez
And your relationship with the brand.
Is there any anything else that really attracted you to [B] Ibanez in the first [E] place?
well, Tim and I [G#m] have like our first guitars [A] that we ever got when we [E] were kids were [F#] Ibanez guitars [Em] _ [F#m] and
So we've always [E] kind of had like that nostalgic value [G#m] with them
_ Tim's always wanted to play them [E] when we got the opportunity.
We kind of like jumped at it _ and
We really like the guitars [G#] too.
[D#m] They're just [Em] aesthetically [B] cool [C#m] and like [E] fun to play and feel good
[F#] Feel really good
[B] Yeah, and there's sick.
The place [E] is gonna be packed out tonight
_ [A] Everyone's listen to proliferate and [B] love your music.
The stars very very [E] precise _
[G#m] I've been listening to [F#m] it and wondering yeah, how do you get that?
[E] How do you achieve that?
_ _ Pretty [G#m] much just like practice all together [C#m] practice individually and then we come together and practice as a [B] whole
_ [F#] and just kind of like fix up the parts, _ [C#m] but _ Yeah
_ [G#m] When you're working separately, [F#] do you [E] use software to kind of stay in touch?
[G#] _ Yeah, _ [F#] I mean [C#m] usually like parts are already written.
[E] So we're just like okay like [F#] practice this [C#m] part and we'll pick like a
Pick guitar tracks or something like that from [A] the song [E] and then just stick with one [A] and like make sure [E] that
They're not like there's a lot of [B] guitar tracks.
So sometimes you gotta pick the [C#m] ones that like match I guess
You just roll with it that [B] way
But do you still [E] spend time practicing?
Oh, yeah, [F#m] actually working on your chops.
[E] Yeah
_ [C#m] How many hours would you practice for a day?
Um, we I [G#m] try and get right like three to four a day
Yeah, anywhere [E] from like two hours to four hours [F#] seems [C#m] to be like a good _
_ _ [E] amount of [F#] time
[E] On a similar topic.
[B] How do you approach the [C#m] songwriting process?
[B] Do many of your old tunes go out of jams or do you come to the rehearsal room with like fixed structures in mind?
_ _ [E] There's there's a lot of different ways that we write music
_ [B] Sometimes melodies just come straight from the head
_ [C#m] _
And those tend to be the [G] best kind of melodies where they're just [E] the easiest, you know, [A#m] you just come out easy [B] and they're easy
_ _ and [C#m] then other times Scott and I
[E] _ We sometimes we've worked on songs together
sometimes I'll have a
[B]
you know a few riffs [E] and he'll end up finishing the song and he'll have a few riffs and I'll end up finishing the song and _ _ _
[A#] Recently we've been [C#m] doing [E] production first
_ Scott [F#] and I have been [E] really like working on producing
_ So we'll like be composing like the rhythm [G#m] sections and everything before we [F#] actually layer the guitars on
[C#m] _ In [G#m] some earlier interviews.
I [F#] saw you said you were looking for a [E] vocalist.
He's still looking _
[G#m] No, no
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
Can [G#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
you [C#m] talk a little bit about how your sound has [B] developed and [F#] changed over [C#m] time
we really just _ _
We just like playing [A] things that are fun for us like
[B] _ Whatever we're [C#m] into currently.
Yeah music that we like listening to it started [E] out as like death metal like way way [A] back in the day _ [B] and
Then like gent [C#m] kind of stuff for like inspire and then [E] Muse
Around the time that we [G#m] didn't use we like discovered [C#m] radio music and [B] mainstream music
so like a lot of [F#] pop and [E] hip-hop [C#m] and rap influence _ [C#m] and
same with Renaissance _ [G#m] and then our [C#m] newer stuff is [B] like a really like
_ _ electronic [E] future bassy trap kind of like
[A] _ _ [C#m] _ all the [E] cool soundcloud genres
So yeah, so it kind of develops with like [A] our
Interests in music at the [Em] time whatever it is. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ I
Think you've done some cool [C] versions of [Em] Mozart and Bach
_ [Am] I could hear
_ [G] _
Definitely hear classical [C] [G] influences in some of the [C] stuff you play.
[Bm] What do you think [Am] young modern musicians [C] can actually learn from [G] classical music? _
Oh [Am] everything
_ [Em] Yeah, _ _
[G] a lot of [C] stuff.
He has more experience [G] with the classical [C] stuff than I do because he like actually
_ [D] _ [Am] Really the
interesting part about the Mozart and the [C] Bach cover was that so like my brother is a pianist and and he's got like a
Ton of sheet music just lying around the house
So I just took [G] the [C] right hand and the left hand and transcribed it to guitar
I played the right hand and he played the left hand and
The cool thing about [Am] that is that like for pianist
_ _ This is kind of like doing the melody and this is kind of like holding it down, you know
and then they'll intertwine sometimes and that's like a really [E] fun way to like go about like
Composing guitar parts is making [D] sure that like the [Am] whole spectrum is filled
but also like [E] a nice interweaving of like melodies and [Am] things like that, so _
lots of guitarists could learn [C] a lot from just
_ [G] Transposing like piano sheet [Am] music just left hand right hand stuff
[Em] You guys are both from Dallas, right?
A lot of great [G] bands have come out [Em] of Texas
_ [F] What was the scene like for you and what [Dm] bands influenced you [Em] we kind [Am] of were one of the first
instrumental bands so like do our own thing _ [C]
and _ [Am] _ and
well long time ago, we had vocalists and then we kind of just said like
_ [C] _ _
And
_ We were instrumental and then [G] it just kind of like worked [Am] out for us because you know people _
Liked the [C] music anyway, _ because it didn't [Am] really need vocals I guess so to speak
_ Finally this place is gonna be packed out tonight.
A lot of people really interested to live here
[G] Are [Am] there any plans to bring the full band out this way? _
No plans like well the plan is done.
Yeah, not yet in [G] the stone, but yes, [C] yeah
We will be here after doing this Asia run and realizing that like everybody like there's like a [Em] ton of [Am] demand here
Like we're definitely gonna be telling our management agents like hey, we need like be doing [G] things here.
[Am] So
Yeah, so we'll be back with the clays
We sick.
Yeah, it's it's [G] really cool to step foot in a place that you've never been to ever and there's people [Am] that are just
I don't know last night like when we're meeting everybody like
_ [A#] People were like crying and like shaking their hands like you're my [Em] idol kind of things [F] like that
_ [Dm] The coolest thing [G] in the world, it's pretty [Am] crazy.
Well, thank you very much indeed for coming to sing.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you
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