“It was extremely humbling. It made me want to get really good at it”: Polyphia's Tim Henson on the challenges he encountered while learning guitar after playing the violin for years

Guitarist Tim Henson of the American band Polyphia performs live on stage during a concert at the Huxleys on June 17, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.

Before Tim Henson changed the progressive metal game with and stretched the very boundaries of guitar playing with his expansive playing style, he began his fledgling music journey playing violin.

“I had started when I was, like, three years old, and I picked up the guitar when I was 10,” Henson reveals in an interview with The Music Zoo. “And I just remember thinking, ‘Oh, that's [referring to the guitar] really similar to a violin. And because I've got seven years of violin, I could probably be pretty good at that.’”