While watching a YT video featuring pianist extraordinaire Marc-Andre Hamelin (wherein he discusses some of the most difficult classical piano repertoire), I perused the comments and found a passing reference to Polyphia, a band heretofore unknown to me. Turns out Polyphia has some damned impressive prog guitar licks going on. Check this out:
The reference, btw, was a response to Hamelin's having memorized Ives' Concord Sonata at age 13 (without recourse to the sheet music), which was mind-blowing enough. The commenter remarked that kids are even memorizing Polyphia pieces now. Of course Hamelin didn't have YouTube videos or Internet-posted scores to refer to.
If interested, you can view the Hamelin video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdykXfa6fnc
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