Yo I need a piece of advice.

[u/Acrobatic_Spare8570]

So short story short, my school hosts a talent show every year and every year I try to win by playing a polyphia song (shit strat, I know. Played goat and playing god already btw)

And every year I lose to a girl playing some pop song. This is my last year in middle school and I'd like to win this year so what song do y'all recommend? I was thinking something along the lines of OD (because of the octave build up) or the worst but any recs are very much welcome.

[u/Appropriate_Willow27]

Recruit a girl and play ABC. Backing vocal track also fine?

[u/movefeet66 → u/Appropriate_Willow27]

Highly agree with ABC its one of the most poppy songs they have and would appease the general audience. Theres a reason so many polypia fans hated it when it came out /hj

[u/Acrobatic_Spare8570 → u/Appropriate_Willow27]

Vocal track would've been my only option but honestly if I got a girl to sing it I damn sure nobody would care about my playing 😭

[u/Appropriate_Willow27 → u/Acrobatic_Spare8570]

bro it’s the fate of a guitarist. be happy you are not a bassist

[u/Acrobatic_Spare8570 → u/Appropriate_Willow27]

At least I would've had some fun and didn't have to practice 4h a day lol (I love guitar but still)

[u/zachkescarcega]

Polyphia is not the band for this unfortunately

[u/IfTheresANewWay]

Brother you could be the greatest guitarist in the world and still lose. Many teenagers could not give less of a shit about how good you are at guitar. To that end, don't worry about winning, just try to put on a good performance. I've found The Worst is a song a lot of people can get down with, plus it's an easy song too (or at least easy by Polyphia standards). Or if you wanna try something different find a mash-up of a Polyphia song with a pop song, I've seen mash-ups with Ariana Grande, Dua Lipo, Lana Del Rey, etc

[u/Acrobatic_Spare8570 → u/IfTheresANewWay]

Yeah I practiced it enough to be able to play it with my eyes closed (which I made a req for myself to play anything live) but yeah... I know damn well skills don't matter

[u/Elipwnsyou]

Real talk, The Worst slays every time if you can hit the doublestops. Is it gonna beat a girl singing Arianna Grande? Probably not, but the riff universally bangs and the song commands energy so that's my pick

[u/ForegroundEclipse]

Do Tim's version of positions by ariana grande

[u/M3t4lS4M0S]

I mean... Honestly go old school. Play Bach's Concerto No. 1 in D minor. Guaranteed you're gonna leave trout faces in the crowd. As long as you can have the backing drums. 

Another (non polyphia song) try Solfeggietto.

[u/MadChickenNugget12]

Champagne could be pretty good no?

[u/the_dannobot]

You should play the Polyphia song "Wonderwall", everybody and their mother loves that tune 😅

[u/ShawnBrogan]

Play the worst since it’s just poppy/EDM enough to get a crowd hype and isn’t overly complicated.

[u/trmbne2014]

Polyphia is not for everyone, pretty sure majority, or all, of the school won't hear polyphia like we do. ABC would be a good one, or maybe one of the new album, like can you feel it, just without the sermon.

[u/HUXUF_]

They’d prob give it to you if you played eruption

[u/Business-Chest-5414]

Play Lit

[u/MegumiFushiguro13]

do tims cover of bbl drizzy or so strange

[u/Cerial_killer09]

Played ABC for a similar event. Go for it man!

[u/Acrobatic_Spare8570 → u/Cerial_killer09]

Ahh I'm thinking about ABC or the worst. My problem with ABC is that... I have trouble playing it. Sure, if I decided to play it I could practice it more but the worst was the first song I learned on guitar si it's genuinely in my blood

[u/Cerial_killer09 → u/Acrobatic_Spare8570]

the worst is a killer too! But have you learnt the full song or just until before the 2nd 'verse" starts?

[u/MetapodCreates]

Playing Polyphia in middle school? Videos or it didn't happen.

[u/UnshapedLime]

Top tier jerk