Riff Analysis 064 - Cannibal Corpse "Necrogenic Resurrection"

Daaaa du du du du du bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu daaa du du du du du du du du-ba-daaaa du du du du du bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu daaa du du du du du baaaaaaaa
The album: cannibalcorpse...
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Rick Cohn's article: Cohn, Richard. 2001. “Complex Hemiolas, Ski-Hill Graphs and Metric Spaces.” Music Analysis 20 (3): 295-326.
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[@shemsuhor8763]

One of the guys actually discussing the music itself and not just "reacting" or telling us "that sounds cool" or something generic. Gigachad.

[@j_c_93]

We need more of this. React content is the lowest of the low

[@olfrud]

100% prefer this over the reaction format. But I guess the problem is, that a react-video is zero-effort, whereas with this the creator has to put in some thought and work beforehand. Hope this channel get's more views in the future (:

[@DreamPurpleFloyd]

7:26 Dude I've be discussing this many times with some friends. There's a tremendous gap between how Cannibal Corpse's music is perceived VS how complex and technical their music actually is.

[@MrJeezus]

Absolutely. Not only are they greatest death metal band of all time, but they metal virtuosos too.

[@beterborker4808]

I’d love to hear you dissect an artificial brain riff!

[@deathmetal_gf]

would love to see a video talking about their approach to harmony especially

[@KilpatrickProductions]

Without a doubt my fav band in death metal right now

[@beterborker4808]

@@deathmetal_gf you read my mind dude!

[@DreamPurpleFloyd]

This riff sounds like something Defeated Sanity would do, so it's a big win in my book

[@cdsmetalhead99]

Pretty interesting. Not sure if you take requests but I’d be really interested in a video about some Suffocation stuff, especially from Pierced from Within or Breeding the Spawn. I’ve been transcribing some of those songs and there’s some weird rhythmic things going on for sure.

[@romanparfenov9441]

Learning this album on guitar now, It would be interesting

[@lloydbonds9268]

Every now and again I’ll get this riff stuck in my head and scramble through my death metal playlist trying to find out which song has it

[@JustLilGecko]

The new Vildhjarta single is worth a look, it's doing a really cool thing where it slowly reveals bits and pieces of a motif until it all finally comes together in one go and it's fascinatingly interesting to listen to

[@ruan441]

I just can't get enough of Vildhjarta, den spanska känslan is an absolute banger

[@WesleyKhalil]

Man, would love a dissection of that song. It's borderline abstract to me, so fucking cool

[@Hooeylewissukz]

what is that cursed despacito at the end.

[@matthewwilliams6788]

That airhorn despacito at the end 😂

[@beanzthumbz]

This rhythm is waaaaay easier for my brain to digest if you just listen to less clicks than it says in the tab. In the first bar of the pattern, just think of it as 2 beats. So the chugs are 8th note triplets, i.e 3 notes per beat. Then for the second part, it's just 1 beat divided into 32nd notes, i.e, 8 even notes per click. ezpz

[@metalmusictheory5401]

Good call!

[@BehappyBhairava]

Everytime I watch your channel... I end up wanting to make something new (Annoying currently as I'm knee deep practicing, and have two unfinished tracks waiting drum mixing..).. must... not... start new project, must tie up loose ends... must practice... god this is good.. no.. no resist

[@TheSquareOnes]

Seriously, it's amazing how every single video on this channel manages to highlight a cool theory concept that can be spun into dozens of new songs. It's great for inspiration but horrible for option paralysis (the condition not the album, would love some more DEP analysis).

[@itookallthenames]

Get back to work!

[@Blackerer]

Looking at their current lineup, there is no wonder it slaps so much. This one is credited to Alex Webster, no wonder :D. I also, somehow, like Cannibal Corpse with Erik Rutan in much more.

[@masterchain3335]

@3:37 "Boojadabajapadapa!" Forget "the licc," this is the SICC.

[@FreepowerUG]

Hmmmm thats so interesting what you mention about how moving to "4 land" is rare... I guess this means there are many cool riffs to mine there 👀

[@nespith]

It’s strange no matter how many times I hear that 8/12 riff in my head I always hear less notes then I’m looking at on the sheet music.

[@rivo9980]

Great video as aways, also DAAAAA DUDUDU POTUNTERUNTERUN DAAA...

[@AManOfMusic]

HE'S BAAAAAAAACK

[@nopicks1]

Sick! Haha also how have they not run out of gory title names after all these years

[@Facundoviscarra34]

Vine por Cannibal Corpse, me quedo por Deathspacito 🤘🤘

[@maudjito]

If you notate the song in 4/4 and 2/4 in tuplets, the B section just becomes sixteenth notes

[@anthonytenkku43]

Just wanted to say that your content is awesome and I really appreciate it. I've always wanted to better understand harmony and especially how it relates to death metal music.

[@MrJeezus]

7:33 May all your resurrections be Despacito

[@BehappyBhairava]

I've never heard of them, ever.. not once, sounds like a movie. But hell I'm here for the theory lesson anyway. Daaaa du du du du du bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu daaa

[@MrGul]

In this particular instance, I would have chosen the same concept (tuplets) but written them as two fully separated 4:3 tuplets. I think that is a much easier way of quickly calculating the note lengths in your head when reading them, and I also usually prefer to have the lowest possible denominators for a tuplet (4:3 is half of 8:6). Sheet Happens did a good job on this one, but there are multiple occurances of not-up-to-par notations in many of their other books (Symphony X and Circa Survive comes to mind). Not in terms of mathematical accuracy, but rather in terms of time signatures and most importantly beaming, especially in odd time signatures. They also have a habit of often writing 6-tuplets as two separated triplets, which I certainly don't agree with notation-wise.

[@metalmusictheory5401]

Agree completely!

[@bookofsounds014]

Very neat. There are some interesting tempo changes and melodies/harmonies in Morbid Angel. It would be cool to hear your take.

[@EdenPorterMusic]

as another parallel example of a 'dotted eighth note that feels like a tuplet' zone, the very end of Gordian Naught off the newest AAL uses the same tech! there's the dotted eighth riff which is essentially playing a 4:3 polyrhythm and at 4:22 in that song Garstka removes the quarter note and plays some dotted sixteenths which gives the impression of a new tempo because of that surprising ternary->binary transition direction.

[@xSaintxSmithx]

Dude PLEASE analyse the ending solo from An Autopsy by The Faceless

[@cornelis4220]

Would you like to do an analysis of a Cynic song? Something from Focus, maybe?

[@gregoryritchey2457]

I am enjoying your quasi-intellectual comments immensely.

[@cdsmetalhead99]

If this is “quasi-intellectual” then what is actually intellectual? He’s discussing music theory. Sorry you don’t understand it.

[@sahamal_savu]

At least you're enjoying yourself 👍