10 Levels of Math Rock (Feat. Manuel Gardner Fernandes)

10 levels of Math Rock & Midwest Emo with ‪@ManuelGardnerFernandes‬
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#MathRock #Guitar #NikNocturnal

[@ManuelGardnerFernandes]

Thank you for inviting me bro! Turned out sick ✨

[@derith7081]

It was sick 🔥

[@NikNocturnal]

[@ethereal_guitar]

Manuel ❤️ killed it as always, can't wait to see you in Philly

[@tornoutlaw]

Hey Manuel, wie wäre es mit einer Collab mit Charlie Robbins?

[@joetalento5486]

That whammy bar flutter and slide thingy was........ wow

[@MyNameAkhim]

Math Rock makes me want to simultaneously practice and jam but also give up

[@NikNocturnal]

:D

[@borisrios2218]

lol

[@GozMaster]

and strangle the kid that can do all this crazy stuff when you're still strugling with pentatonic scales for the last 20 years, with a broken E string.

[@harrisontownsend910]

I know right.

[@Kaboom_inTheRoom]

You can hear that Nik seriously practiced for this. Sounds awesome \m/

[@NikNocturnal]

I actually did

[@rusifuru4228]

@@NikNocturnal well played bro

[@smegmosisjones5645]

Manuel is just absolutely insane. I wanna hear more stuff with him and Tim Henson

[@NikNocturnal]

^^^ Same

[@user-eh6th9wj5k]

Nik did great too! He downplays his ability too much.

[@averyhagaman9310]

Nik brought the sauce on these, love it

[@lauritsdineskristensen9235]

well they colabed on REAL by unprocessed

[@MrRizoable]

"In The Cut - Manuel Gardner Fernandes and Tim Henson"

[@tingachhakchhuak6083]

I can't believe I'm bad at Math, both in Music and in School.

[@borisrios2218]

lol

[@Smagal]

But you can still be good at Meth

[@zebzer1]

That’s the GOAT cover we all deserved

[@NikNocturnal]

I gotchu

[@Jib_]

The collab we didn't ask for but we all needed.

[@Andrew_-nr7zt]

Agreed

[@NikNocturnal]

Manuel is a beast!

[@dizydeus]

@@spite_beeekilled3643 Nik

[@meszorax]

@@spite_beeekilled3643 now you know

[@danielszendrei9214]

@@spite_beeekilled3643 it's Nik

[@NikNocturnal]

*Smash like for more rain & asmr guitar noises*

[@guy_autordie]

Please, could you make a 7-10 min track, with rain/storm and some sweet lo-fi/asmr guitar ? Something we can put on loop for hours.

[@oddball_covers]

I would never expected a collab like this. Manuel's a monster. Awesome vid

[@NikNocturnal]

^^^ He's dope!

[@andre8273]

One day Nik's gonna have to turn all of these into actual songs

[@NikNocturnal]

That's scary, but ok

[@guy_autordie]

@@NikNocturnal New group name: Mister Nok. Put a bowtie too. ^^

[@DanielAkproh]

@@NikNocturnal especially level 9!!!!

[@felps_br9339]

And now its happening 😂😂😂

[@MrCk1234567890]

Nik: “lemme get this backing track for the percussion” MGF: “lemme just use all 43 of my fingers for the percussion”

[@TobiasDettinger]

The Polyphia is strong in this one.

[@vexedpixels]

i mean this is somewhat mathrock but i’d argue people don’t remember or understand the roots of it anymore. math rock now just kinda means “sounds like polyphia”, when polyphia are hardly a math rock band themselves

[@swatchcovers5401]

Very true! When I think math rock I think ttng, giraffes giraffes, delta sleep, tera melos, Don cab, hella. Math rock is so much more than just polyphia lol. Chon and Yvette still don’t get enough credit tbh.

[@Jacko4859]

@@swatchcovers5401 100% bro. TTNG are definitely my favourite mathrock band cause animals is just purely amazing. And yes, Yvette definitely needs more recognition as Covet is definitely instrumental mathrock as she actually does do stuff that isn’t 4/4

[@ttsfa1]

Dillinger escape plan and norma jean are some earlier examples of math rock

[@dragon-id5uj]

hard agree

[@jappie989able]

This was more like; 10 levels of sounding like Polyphia 🤷‍♂️🥳

[@monsieurfrank1]

Manuel is my favorite guitarist of all time. He's on another level and have is beautiful own style

[@kevinandelkovic7331]

To be honest, that level 3 what Nik did was my Favorite in the whole Video. Sounded lot like an Anime ost to be honest😅🤌 Didnt expect he would do that great👌

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you! :D

[@trulydumb506]

This is actually really awesome. This is the kind of music I want to be able to play. As much as I love metal this music just ... *chefs kiss* .

[@NikNocturnal]

^^^^

[@EldongDaddyvic]

The "unplug your guitar" joke was underrated. What a throwback lmao. Manuel was so fucking revolutionary in the guitar world that he split the guitar community in half; people who believed it and people who demanded he redo the video with a metronome LOL

[@vulpix8998]

And don't forget the one about people thinking that his videos are sped up LMAO Good times

[@BHPOfficial]

I think that was the best thing that ever happened to Manuel. Took the criticism in stride and is 10x more respected now that he’s proven everyone wrong.

[@Frogmilk]

He's very dedicated to his craft. I do think the callouts were necessary to push some guitarists to provide more content and showcase more raw ability. Always feels great to prove people wrong. Not pointing fingers but there's 2 "guitarists" who are severely lacking at proving themselves. I'll just say the first names Charles and Lucas

[@chrisegonmusic]

Solid reference

[@amaire_ov]

you both are wonderful guitarists!!

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you!

[@DarthHall65]

That last one “all of them” is badass

[@NikNocturnal]

Manuel is a beast

[@Simoran]

Phenomenal playing! But one thing: however much I love this style of music, math rock is so much more than just Polyphia and clean guitar over trap beats. Check out Invalids, TTNG, Delta Sleep, Standards, and begin the journey into literal insanity.

[@Badrique]

New Standards Release is amazing.

[@therewasascene]

Thanks for saying this.

[@ChrisTheHero65]

The bands you mentioned are exactly the bands I think when I hear "math rock" especially invalids, they go nuts

[@cheesist6998]

Sup dude

[@weirdchris555]

The Human Abstract

[@pokecuzes]

You gotta make the lofi part into a whole song Was fire

[@NikNocturnal]

Glad you dig it :D

[@thegreenembers]

I love how he unplugged it then plugged it right back in

[@NikNocturnal]

D:

[@coldmoonlight6361]

Don't fret Nik, you're still the G.O.A.T.

[@MadaraUchiha-ot4om]

🤣🤣🤣I see what you did there well played

[@dr.death4207]

This ain't math rock anymore. That is some wild algebra.

[@NikNocturnal]

Lmao

[@OfficiallyMaidenless]

Oh this is nuts, I've loved math rock ever since The Fall Of Troy, This Town Needs Guns and Foals (Antidotes album) 00:08 Level 1 - 'Foals' as they are today 00:20 Level 2 - 'Bilmuri' 00:36 Level 3 - 'Two-Door Cinema Club' 00:52 Level 4 - 'Foals' on Antidotes 01:09 Level 5 - 'Ben Rosett' 01:22 Level 6 - 'CHON' 01:38 Level 7 - 'Polyphia' 01:54 Level 8 - 'Animals As Leaders' 02:10 Level 9 - 'The Number 12 Looks Like You' when they're feeling spicy 02:23 Level 10 - 'Unprocessed' interlude track

[@Panjok7]

Can't find level 10. It's not on spotify ?

[@tippidink]

This definitely isn't the Math Rock I grew up with in highschool, lol.

[@Josh-it6uy]

Math rock but non-binary

[@ProdDJD]

You know you've reached an impossible level when you make your guitar sound like a furby

[@tubadude07]

Yessss the collabs! Manuel is an animal on guitar. You got some nice mathy tunes too.

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you!

[@xinxu4456]

LMAO the aggressive "NO" at the end was really relatable for when you fuck something up on guitar

[@Alexej2oo8]

I'm always mostly excited for the faces in the top right corner especially from the collab partners. luv it

[@NikNocturnal]

Lmao

[@dw732]

This may be my age showing here, but I honestly thought it was gonna be like a botch, Dillinger escape plan sounding video. This was a pleasant surprise tho! Amazing playing by both you dudes

[@aelrecs015]

i would say that dillinger and botch are more mathcore than math rock

[@SonStashu]

Out of every guitar player I’ve ever seen Manu is the best, he makes consistent FIRE and makes it look so effortless.

[@sb632]

Manuel has an unbelievable gift for guitar. Love his music

[@pallettown3358]

It sounds like they combined every Polyphia song ever into one, and I'm not mad its kidna fire

[@envik5474]

Love lvl 10 man 🤩

[@KellAllH8rs]

Awesome vid! The play like Tim Henson hit hard for me

[@pablosan161]

Please make a full version of level 10, that was BEAUTIFUL.

[@orangsucc]

Level 6 was probably my favorite (other than 10 of course), I just love those high notes breaking through everything else that is happening

[@lchu666]

Hilarious. Although I’d say this is more ‘modern math rock’. As an old head, I consider proggy stuff with weird time signatures and frequent key changes like Rush and King Crimson to be the archetype for math rock.

[@mazterford]

Love that harmonics!

[@orangsucc]

Is he just slapping the whammy bar for those wiggly notes at 10? I love that so much and I don't think I've ever heard that before

[@aarontouch9852]

The outro 😆 I can't tell if Nik genuinely cannot play GOAT, or if he's just messing with all of us LMAO

[@IamZeus1100]

Despite all the toxicity social media and the internet has brought to our society , one thing it’s done so well is to allow awesome musicians like Nik and Manuel to collab . It’s done so much for music overall and while many genres have over saturation , when you get to the level of Manuel , Ichika , Tim , Scottie , Tosin etc you can’t really oversaturate that because it takes raw skill and talent to do as well as years /decades of dedication

[@thomasraymond3612]

Absolutely love Nik’s jujutsu kaisen shirt

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you!

[@merayzer]

This is not levels of math rock, it's levels of Polyphia

[@sithil]

Trying to play the riff from G.O.A.T. at the end then just saying NO was my favorite part.

[@spadeking6151]

The level 10 done by manuel was beautiful rlly need a whole version of this

[@zokora3656]

Nik´s Guitar during this: "i have never been touched this way...."

[@joelwhite2361]

Manuel playing circles around Nik was pretty amazin

[@clinthorne291]

"Get your fingers all juicy then just quit" 😂 literally how I feel when looking @ math rock for "beginners" videos.

[@oohdahloop9283]

That ending where you're trying to play GOAT... I felt that lmao

[@eldorado5699]

i fell in love with mathrock in 2005 and even if i not hear it that much anymore, i always come back to it :) as a former drummer im always into the combination of harmonics at strings and nice progressive drums

[@dippy3404]

2:39 wtf was that??! sounds so cool

[@HitMarkersAreFun]

those thumbnails totally nailed each segment, lol great stuff guys!

[@billbyrd5150]

Perfect. When you were on L2, I thought "Level 11 is any 30 seconds of recent Polyphia."

[@vedantbhard]

that harmonics part was basically covet. fucking love that band so much.

[@chaoschaoforever]

I hesitate to actually call this this Math Rock. I don't really know what to call it because it has some influence from Math Rock but this seems to take influence from a few other areas too. I'd say this Polyphia style of rock takes quite a bit of influence from Tosin Abasi's style from early Animals As Leaders, Aaron Marshall's style from Intervals, and probably some of that Jazz Fusion style from Plini. Which makes sense as Polyphia started around the same time as all three of them. But it also has some of that midwest emo kind of sound and the obvious hip hop influence. I'm not quite sure what to call this genre of music, but I don't think Math Rock is the right one for it. When I think of Math Rock, I usually think of bands like: Converge, American Football, Agent Fresco, Oceansize, Arcane Roots, Black Peaks, The Fall of Troy, Protest the Hero (kind of cheating on this one but whatever) and stuff like that. I don't really know what to make of this...Polyphia/Chon/Covet style, but I don't think it fits in Math Rock. This is just my opinion though and I think this style of music is an entirely different beast.

[@mlim9858]

personnaly i think chon and covet really fit into the genre of math rock, they fit all of the criterias. But polyphia and unprocessed are absolutely not math rock, it's another genre that has yet to get a name

[@chaoschaoforever]

@@mlim9858 Alright, I'll give ya Chon and Covet.

[@FJness]

Please check out my band fighting jazz, we also feel weird calling our stuff math cause we actually don’t know

[@TFE22]

Fucking love this, you guys are monster musicians, each in your own ways 🔥

[@catalinapetrescu6060]

The cursed GOAT at the end is hilarious

[@NikNocturnal]

:(

[@bryantmcdougal6953]

the skill level difference is massive ngl 😂

[@tubadude07]

I mean, we all knew this but this isn't Nik's wheelhouse, can't blame him. The low fi licc was nice.

[@hiveschool]

Level 10 = God Mode

[@willwhittaker8816]

love the description of the tuning 😭

[@buster04guitar]

Nik underrates himself

[@river4088]

I am legit terrified the new avenged album is gonna be 70% math rock, 25% Kanye and 5% Gates' beatboxing

[@TheJammerman]

Level 1: WHATEVER TOMORROW BRINGS I’LL BE THERE!!!!!!

[@kadenromig8374]

can’t wait to see Nik struggle

[@NikNocturnal]

I do that everyday fam

[@derith7081]

Omg Nik Math- turnal . Jokes aside immense talent my man keep it up 🔥

[@zacharyjames4121]

I love how the whole genre now just memes upon itself.

[@firdauszainudin7118]

nu metal : no need to be too technical to sound heavy mathrock : need to be too technical to not sound heavy

[@TheHorrorExperiment]

If anyone is interested to get into Math Rock here are some recommendations. - Ahmi - Alpha Male Tea Party - And So I Watch You From Afar - Chon - Covet - Delta Sleep - Invalids - Jr. Clooney - Loose Lips Sink Ships - Low-Pass - Patchwork Natives UK - Piglet - Six Gallery - Sorry No Ferrari - Stage Kids - Stuck in November - The Bulletproof Tiger - Via Luna - Zef's Chasing Cara

[@solarnewborn]

BRO I haven’t riffs that tasty IN A GODDAMN WHILE

[@Y20XTongvaLand]

My eyes are tearing up from #10. Good shit.

[@Laevus2321]

Waiting for the surprise drop of Nik blasting out a full Ichiko-Polyphia medley and making it look easy ;) Until then, I'll be appreciating the excellent Level 3 with those slides. That was still pretty damned sweet,

[@loopyzreal]

I guess Ichiko-Polyphia’s a genre now 🤣

[@TheHorrorExperiment]

Glad to see Math Rock getting more attention, we still miss you Piglet.

[@joturna1]

Mr Fernandes face in the right corner at lvl 8 😂😂 but damn this man is so brilliant btw I absolutely relate to lvl 11 😁

[@Magdalena8008s]

Math sounded like some Number #12 Looks Like You.

[@huntermoren8301]

How is it possible for EVERY SINGLE PART of this to sound so good? Guitar wizardry like this should be illegal! Anyway, this was my favorite of your 10 Levels videos. Stay awesome!

[@killiammusicandgaming]

manuel is so good unprocesseds discog are all Ws. EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES

[@calypso1145]

Next... 10 levels of modern metal by Manuel (feat. Nik)

[@alexandreluiz281]

Level 4 is amazing.

[@jaimyyelvingtonmusic]

Tim is nodding in approval

[@natesanp9088]

When did you become an expert in math rock? Nik : since last night

[@NikNocturnal]

Lmao

[@ankit.joshi30]

Dope Collab!

[@theoduch5051]

Nik found the perfect practice motivation system tbh. Doing all those videos keeps him learning new stuff and he his killing it

[@Oh_its_Mike]

Manuel is such an absolute monster I can't even handle it. Saw him in one of Jareds shred collabs and been a fan ever since. He's on that inspirational level of talent.

[@Tr1s]

Noice one man Cool that u seem to be getting a better understanding of the modern scene of this genre since the reacting to match rock vid. Would definitely recommend checking out some of the roots if you haven't already like toe and american football and tricot

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Level 11: Travis Bean and a harmonic percolator

[@Emily-qd5gz]

I love your GOAT effort at the end. Admirable af

[@JUST_Sl3nderTWO]

1:15 nik's face in the corner looking like the mask of the father from dark souls

[@lyconxero457]

Manuel always seems to bring it and HARD with these collab videos! This was also just a great idea for a video showcasing some of the fundamental techniques and then putting them all together at the end.

[@Hipno702]

I still remember when I watched you attempt math rock for the first time. Just incredible. I know we joke a lot about quitting as musicians but fr don’t. Your playing and your compositions get better with every new release

[@eightpathshellsgate6983]

The moment you can play G.O.A.T, you'll get your license to Math Rock

[@eljacoboese.in4k]

We agree that nik looks kind a cute with that hoodie

[@cristian-.-]

0% math rock 100% trap track with a polyphia tricks and fireworks Delta Sleep, TTNG, that is math rock brrroh

[@yas_____]

sir, would you like to add don cab on the list

[@Kattastrophy248]

Don't know how many times I repeated the Lo-Fi section. It's so nice to listen to

[@nazliuz]

1:40 cicada hihat 🤣

[@waki_walk7361]

Nik! You’ve been working hard! I was really amazed to see this side of you as a guitarist!

[@Cookie179]

Number 4 reminded me of listening to Ewan Dobson ages back.

[@DarkestofTimes]

The ending is way too relatable

[@shawndabizkit3380]

I'm just learning how to add tapping to my riffs, watching this made me have a stroke lol