The Abysmal Eye - Visual breakdown

Meshuggahs - 'The Abysmal Eye' visual breakdown.
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[@OdinComposer]

Guy grew an extra hand just for this 🙏

[@nickmasters8474]

I'd love to see a practice session with Meshuggah, when they are learning their songs. Can you imagine, one of the dudes keeps screwing up a tiny little bit, and one of the other boys yells "no, no, no, NO , NO!!!! It's not xlxlxloxxxlo. It's xlxlxloxxlo!!!!!!" Fun times! Love these videos. Love your way of explaining this stuff.

[@YogevGabay]

hahahah I'd pay good money to be there !

[@drumkidstu]

They actually don't practice together until right before tour. They write the music separately on the computer and share the files with each other. When the songs for the record have been selected, they record the songs having never even played with each other. They never jam together as a band.

[@morganshibby8941]

@@drumkidstu they did play together for the previous album, don't know for Immutable.

[@drumkidstu]

@@morganshibby8941 I meant jamming in terms of actually writing music together. They write on the computer. For TVSOR they rehearsed beforehand so they could record it live, at least rhythm guitars, bass and drums. Leads, solos, and vocals were recorded after the fact. For this album they recorded all separately again.

[@drunkship12]

I don't know how a group of people can remember and play such a complicated song, let alone play a whole set of (just as complicated) songs, over an hour long. To think that we've pushed music to this level blows my mind. Amazing what you can do with 12 notes. Playing that off-beat china over the top of this insanely complex pattern is heroic. Thanks for your efforts here. Glad someone is patient enough to deconstruct these songs. Peace!

[@chameleon-dream-band-official]

I don't know either how bands like Meshuggah and Tool can remember their set lists. Ok Ok I know it's masses of practice and experience, but when I was in a band in which songs were mostly verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, double chorus (all in 4/4!), it would still be a struggle to play 10 songs and not mess up at least once!! Super-human!

[@twls153]

I honestly find easy to lean the songs, because they are all written in pattern, is not random. After listened some time I learned the pattern of Bleed, Clockworks, Do Not Look Down, Demiurge and still learning Marrow patterns. At least is easy on guitars/bass because the drummer is who "says" when is time to change patterns, so if your drummer is good you won't have any problems. (So yeah, if you watch Haake playing live you'll see him always counting in some way, so I think the band is following him, which makes easy to the band in general, because only one needs to count, and the rest only need to focus on his instrument)

[@drunkship12]

@@twls153 Good job. Marrow is a head fuck. I guess to some extent, learning the complex patterns is just more interesting and forces you to really dig into memorising them rather than just remembering a load of predictable chord proggressions in different orders. I assume they play to some sort of click track so everything (including the lights) is nicely in sync

[@lebaguetteeater6306]

@@drunkship12 Like getting the fills and everything right was really hard to learn for me on drums i think everyone struggles at first with that song its really fun to play it tho so definetely worth learning it

[@MajykOyster666]

I'm a huge Meshuggah fan, but, since I've known Car Bomb, Meshuggah doesn't sound THAT hard anymore. :)

[@JustLilGecko]

That off-beat china is so sick, that for me is the standout element of this new track.

[@Goodstuff12345666789]

Totally! It’s amazing how such a simple thing can completely change the feel of the groove. It was, I don’t know, refreshing 🧐

[@EthanMckennaMusic]

Agreed

[@Sandemose]

Yeah, it just opened up the song for me. It sounds so funky and lazy. Really deep pocket. Haake is incredible, what a treasure.

[@YogevGabay]

YYEESSSSS

[@seymourtoa]

something magical lies just at the corner of the eye... and then you rip off the blinders and we can take it all in, fully devouring Meshuggah! thank you Yogev!

[@AidanMmusic96]

I love how enthusiastic the pen gets in the final riff :D

[@quarkdrumming6290]

That double bass roll at 1:35 kind of ignores the stops at riff 2 !!! Thanks for the great work man!!

[@YogevGabay]

Maybe it ignores it yes, BUT HOW COOL IS IT?!!?

[@quarkdrumming6290]

@@YogevGabay an ABYSMAL amount of cool !! (if that makes any sense)

[@jetardeshna3449]

@@quarkdrumming6290 I think you meant to say the opposite lol

[@quarkdrumming6290]

@@jetardeshna3449 yes hhahaah

[@nicksmith5202]

I'm not sure I fully comprehend what Meshuggah is doing, or how to really understand everything you're explaining, but both are phenomenal. Keep up the great work!

[@rooskadoodle5952]

Thank you Yogev for your insightful breakdowns of my favorite band! Much love from the United States.

[@YogevGabay]

Glad you like them!

[@rhino202]

You doing this for all their stuff is amazing. Really helps me understand and appreciate the complexity even more. How they can write and then perform these is insane. They're machines.

[@YogevGabay]

Ohhh I'm happy you enjoy these !

[@rhino202]

@@YogevGabay binge them every few months, brother🤘

[@CFChristian]

I love the (8 bars?) of the double kick pattern, during pattern #2.

[@bertogliofederico]

Dude, you are awesome. Thank you for your work. It helps me a lot. Have you thought about bringing a bit of animals as leaders to the channel, like The brain dance or the woven web? Greetings from Argentina.-

[@rorbot_SMF]

Meshuggah's music is like trying to do the aztec two-step, with two left feet, during a simultaneous earthquake and tornado. 😅

[@chameleon-dream-band-official]

I can't take credit for this, but I read a comment once that said "Meshuggah inspired me to give up drums"! Perfect 😀

[@YogevGabay]

hahahahahaha

[@carazy123_]

This is awesome man. This song goes hard

[@filthee1]

Unbelievable

[@matthewpowell2527]

Excellent

[@kurtrambus2728]

This is insane!!! Amazing!!

[@spencerj]

Thanks so much for this. Amazing educational content

[@sankharaYT]

You, Sir, are a goddamn hero. This video is amazing! (The song as well, of course)

[@mingnrich]

Riff 3 is such a mind fuck. Trying to keep track of a pulse and the number of measures makes you feel crazy. Doesn’t help that when Jens comes in it’s syncopated.

[@Egoblivion]

Great work as usual!

[@MikeorellanaT]

Perfect!

[@rafaelmarques1314]

Could you do "I" next, i think it's a simple one to do

[@claudiasolomon1123]

You're a *mad man* 😮

[@nipulkradmsinatagras8293]

*These "Swedish Meatballs" are just immutable!*

[@christophegragnic8681]

I'm always tricked by the start of #3 but I may understand it someday thanks to this video!

[@BractonSaul]

Awesome explanation! Thank you! If you could dissect "God he sees in mirrors" at some point I would be eternally grateful lol.

[@johnlazzari]

Wait are you the guy they based the ObZen artwork off?.. I see three hands!

[@alfonzog6327]

Have you ever considered covering Videogame Music? Things like the Metroid, Spelunky and LOZ soundtracks can get really, *really* rhythmically funky. In fact, I may or may not know of a game coming out soon with some especially strange rhythms.

[@YogevGabay]

OHhhhhh you have examples? I'd love to !

[@alfonzog6327]

@@YogevGabay Link's Transformation (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) by Toru Minegishi uses 13-tuplets for the majority of the piece. Cave (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) by Toru Minegishi is a way more ambient track, but when the least interesting time signature in it is 11/8, you know things are getting wild. One that I myself am working on uses polymetric Tihais. I think that it'd probably be best to discuss this though email, however.

[@YogevGabay]

@@alfonzog6327 I'd be happy to if you have the time ! [e-mail]

[@skameika-]

Breakdown The Sky is Red by Leprous!!

[@sezaiunver1454]

Leprous - sky is red. The last part is gore mate, can u do that too?

[@guerson99]

You got it, now play it into the drums!. :v

[@YogevGabay]

..... umm. No can't do hahahahahahaha

[@ronnierun5976]

Top

[@dinisvieira3570]

Guys do u headbang with the china symbal on the downbeat, or with the guitars ?

[@adrianthornton-mark3219]

Can you do “the violent sleep of reason”

[@dr.psycho5606]

You’re just making it more complicated with this breakdown

[@HeavyMetalAlpha]

🤓

[@bertogliofederico]

Dude, you are awesome. Thank you for your work. It helps me a lot. Have you thought about bringing a bit of animals as leaders to the channel, like The brain dance or the woven web? Greetings from Argentina.-

[@YogevGabay]

Thanks ! I probably will at some point yes yes

[@dmytrotsvyntarnyi799]

​@@YogevGabay Please do! Love your videos