So I watched Polyphia’s new song Ego Death and it was absolutely incredible. It sounded amazing and Steve Vai was in it too and did a crazy cool solo and there was one whammy bar trick that blew me away. It was around 4 minutes and 12 seconds in the song. I looked at it slowly and thought it was a sweep harmonic into the whammy bar and staccato. I just couldn’t seem to get it and I was wondering if anyone else might know something about it?
Steve Vai whammy trick in new Polyphia song
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He appears to be dipping the bar on the descending arpeggio, and then releasing it slowly for the ascending part, ending with the cha-cha-cha-cha accent of scraping the edge of the pick across one or two of the plain steel strings perpendicular. Cool song - great to see old and new playing in the same sandbox!
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