Evolution of Tim Henson (10 - 28 years old)

Time Stamps: 10 Years Old 0:00 Timi Hendrix 16 Years Old 0:20 A voice of entropy 17 Years Old 0:52 An Evaporation 18 Years Old 1:17 Bach Concerto No. 1 19 Years Old 1:38 Transcend 1:54 Impassion 2:19 Envision 20 Years Old 2:53 87 3:19 Champagne 21 Years Old 3:49 Bittersweet 4:20 Finale 4:50 Aviator 5:15 Nightmare 5:35 James Franco 22 Years Old 5:49 Euphoria 6:11 Lit 23 Years Old 6:41 Icronic 7:15 Tell me how to feel 7:45 New Space 24 Years Old 8:14 G.O.A.T. 8:31 O.D. 25 Years Old 9:00 Nightmare 26 Years Old 9:31 Jared Dines’ Biggest Shred Collab 10:03 Blood Moon 10:34 God Hand 11:05 Flex vs Melody 27 Years Old 11:29 Playing a guitar 12:00 Playing my new guitar 28 Years Old 12:31 Upside Down 13:01 Playing God 13:35 ABC 13:51 Ego Death 14:20 F**k Around and Find Out Also, thank you for 150k Views! And also, for 1k subs! Follow me for more content, and tell me who’s next? Tell me in the comments. Should I make another one with Scottie? 😊

He was shredding harder than most of us at 10…

The older he gets, the younger he looks. This man found the forbidden fruit.

I’m 18 rn. This man has literally been playing for longer than I’ve been alive. I’m new to Polyphia so I’ve been feeling discouraged that it’s been so hard to learn songs. But this gives me new perspective. I’m gonna keep going until I can become my own incredible guitarist.

This is what happens when natural talent meets hard work. Absolutely awesome musician

people get discouraged when they are newbies with 2-4 years of experience, forgetting these top guys basically memorised the entire fretboard in their head, every sound and technique is known to them after a lifetime of training all of you can play godlike. You think you lack Tim's potential? Wrong, you lack his dedication and hard-working demeanor. He is a titan of practice and dedication.

Tim is still 28. We are absolutely not ready for what another 20+ years of this guy's playing will bring.

I’ve just seen him metamorph from a core kid to an anime character

I heard tim say in an interview he "learned to run before he could walk" and you can tell in his playing it gets much more simplified down the line as far as speed goes. Like most musicians, the more advanced you become, the more you realize that emotion is far more important than speed runs "less is more". His recent playing reminds me a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughn. LOT of emotion. Obviously Tims techniques are way out there and much different than Stevie but he has that same soul now. What i wouldnt give to hear those two jam together... my god. . immediate projectile vomiting.

I love how, as he matured as an artist, he moved away from plain old shredding and got a hell of a lot more soulful and musical

Picasso could paint realistic portraits at the age of 16, yet only when he developed his own style, he achieved true greatness.

The change in style from 23 to 24 is brutal. Love it.

Guitar is the fountain of youth. The more epic you become the younger you look

It's a modern miracle that two of the greatest guitarists of their generation went to the same high school and didnt even know each other until they formed Polyphia. Edit: So, I met them both and had the chance to ask them this before their show in Dallas last weekend. It's a false Internet rumor. They've known each other since middle school. Tim even told a story about how he got wired on energy drinks and stayed up all night at a sleepover at Scottie's while they were in middle school.

Not sure what the hate has been about but this kid has done his homework and gives a nod to all genres and styles.

Wow! His quick melodic playing has been a foundation of his. He’s been able to use that strength to expand his musical expression over the years.

Henson's playing is never other than utterly fascinating. His sheer accuracy in both hands is extraordinary, his left hand fingers seem unable to miss and the whip-like elasticity of the motion is enough to make any guitarist green with envy. What is also apparent is his uncanny fingerboard awareness. His ability to manoeuvre around the fingerboard, making extreme changes both of position and chord shape without faltering is not merely the result of a faultless mechanism but also of an equally unerring visualisation of where everything sits. His rhythmic precision is equally amazing, nothing is ever other than bang on where is ought to be. His quirky demeanour as a person belies what an extraordinary virtuoso he is on the instrument. Then there is, of course the small matter of his having pioneered an entirely new approach to the electric guitar which will shape the course of the instrument for the next few decades. I think the term, "legend in his own lifetime" already applies and he's not yet 30.

Textbook definition of prodigy. To understand theory and composition at that young of age. His scales are flawless. This man will be around til he decides to sit down, and hopefully for us, it won't be for another 50 years.

Somewhere between 26 and 26-1/2 He really found a way to relay more of the song at once and he really shines through. Big break through musically that you can hear.

How amazing would it be to have a compilation like this for other virtuoso musicians from the past, imagine a video timeline of Niccolo Paganini, and his progress on the violin Tim Henson, what an innovator, very excited to continue to follow his music Thanks for putting the video together!