The never-ending rhythm: Meshuggah - God He Sees In Mirrors

[@Brian80880]

And Tomas Haake will still try to tell you it’s an easy 4/4 riff

[@miserirken]

i mean, it's 4/4 for sure, but easy? ppfff...

[@FloppaTheBased]

bro you need to understand the concept of joke

[@t3hgir]

they never said it's "easy"

[@JayFFAFAlesanaES]

If you can get the timing, it is definitely easy, but that's the tricky part haha

[@oldrigenovy]

He's telling the truth it's 4/4, but he never said it was easy, there's a lot of permutations going on making the cycles from 4 to even 16 times longer than the average band riff.

[@Walexo45]

"It's just 4/4." - Thomas Haake

[@met-shuggah3845]

I had no fucking idea. Always ticking in the background even during transitions. Never gets truncated. Fucking awesome.

[@loganamaral]

It was such an enigma before seeing this chart!!!

[@sicdedworm09]

Bro those 3’s on the right. Thats what fuckin gets me. They some how make that little section sound like it’s going to fall off to another beat but nope it’s 6 consecutive beats back to back…then that break comes in giving me that “this ain’t the same shit?” BUT IT IS, smack dab in the middle of those 3’s and rips my face off

[@suniso370]

It move.

[@DC33879]

Only the real ones know…

[@static_motion]

*waves hand in a vaguely circular motion*

[@demirdokum7318]

AND it doesn't as well!

[@juggs7899]

No way you only have 9 videos. These are so good please make more!!

[@pseudonymeantipersonnelle2190]

His main channel, with unfortunately not enough videos neither 😅 youtube.com/@mathemusique

[@ruconscious]

I agree. Insta-sub!

[@9thmaggot]

I see only 4 tho :(

[@jonajon91]

Nine?

[@tjdjultima]

How someone can practice enough to do this is so cool

[@maudjito]

They first make the music, then they learn how to play it lol

[@pentexsucks43]

jazz rhythm studying

[@fromthesky1050]

still have yet to even attempt this and i can play tracks like by the ton and ivory tower as well as nostrum.. this song is insane

[@Shane-zo4mg]

Honestly, I doubt they even think about these cycles outside of the writing process. The relationship between the notation and 4/4 accents give "groove cues" that make it memorable. The patterns are the justification for it. The song literally writes itself.

[@c0mpuipf]

This is such a nice visualization of the rythm I have no idea what's happening in any of their songs I just nod&hope to hit smth

[@spimbles]

god people are so lame when they say Meshuggah fell off and stopped having unique ass riffs after whatever album, this shit is insane. wayyy groovier than anything Tesseract or Periphery have been putting out imo

[@Winterstormadvisory]

Tesseracts new album fucks wym

[@Ezra.G]

Fr, that last album they put out was amazing. Honestly it’s tough to say if any band has or will best them in their own subgenre.

[@Winterstormadvisory]

@@Ezra.G idk who you’re replying to or which band you’re referring to but in either case I agree I believe each individual member of both groups really belongs up there as one of the greats from this time period

[@darkphoenix2]

whoa whoa whoa I like all 3 of these bands but saying Meshuggah is groovier is stretching, part of a good groove is how easy it is to feel

[@blackgrizzly4987]

LOL Meshuggah fell off...what a nonsensical notion....these guys don't understand a thing. They don't understand that the approach of Messhugah is sticking to their guns and being absolute gods at what they do...unmatched and untouched!

[@crab-cake]

do car bomb - lights out

[@music_representations]

kzbin.infoTSFVmM1PxB4 ;)

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love this band!!

[@Thardus616]

Seeing this live was a blessing. Headbanging has never been so complicated

[@miserirken]

How to headbang Meshuggah: Follow the cymbals, those are almost ALWAYS in 4/4

[@agungkurniawann]

I think TesseracT doing something like this in Dystopia during the verse part, I dunno if it is the same or identical.

[@redbeast4552]

Instant sub

[@burnerzeroone-o8p]

jens kidman might be the only vocalist who can do polymeters using his voice lol

[@GoatMee]

Mathuggah?

[@BunsenMusic]

Gotta love sitting down for a night of learning a Meshuggah song only to always be humbled by this fuckery for 2 hours until it just clicks in your head lol.

[@EmptyKingdoms]

This channel is MAGNIFICENT! Keep the great work! Would you care doing a video for the introduction of Rattlesnake, by A Textbook Tragedy? I never really understood it.

[@JayFFAFAlesanaES]

Sounds like the ride is a polyrhythm on top of the rest.

[@drshemp1]

I love your videos! thank you so much!

[@25man5]

Would you be willing to upload this with the full song? I’m trying to learn it on drums rn and it would help me out a lot

[@Nik0SiC]

I LOVE THIS!

[@ryukan250]

Great breakdown! I was wondering what software you use to create these interactive time signature videos?

[@domwindom]

énorme !!!! vive la musique savante moderne

[@vanislelife]

Do the whole song please!!!!🙏

[@leonardotiezzi2904]

There's a video of Yogev Gabay for the whole song

[@mattinwinkymg]

Long live Metal

[@RioooosH]

You have my sub! More please!

[@Goettel]

Yes.

[@МундусЗагнивающей]

very good and interesting content❤

[@-212-]

Merci !

[@bsatyam]

Sick!

[@Necrom6]

I think Do Not Look Down does something similar, where the pattern change for like over 1 minutes, but the instrumentation changes mid pattern

[@kojiaudio]

yeah, the rhythm doesnt stick throughout the whole song but because that rhythm is in 17/16, it overrides the 16 beat pulse of the song so it gradually moves along switching from F to G# (and vice versa) until it they resolve it . Pretty sure this is called metamorphosis or thematic transformation 2 beats omitted

[@kojiaudio]

​@Iwantpoptarts96420 it is basically, I was just being abit extra nerdy I guess lmao

[@Necrom6]

@@kojiaudio Nerd.

[@asmrschloch]

For some reason Do not look down is easier to memorize for me. GHSIM has such a confusing feel...

[@ChadLPN]

OHHHHHHH

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

So like what would you call this timing? I dont understand enough about it to know is this like 16/46 or something?

[@schizophrenicenthusiast]

Despite how complex this looks, I bet this is only how the song was written, not how it's performed. It's way easier to play this style if you just let your muscle memory take over and play the notes as a series of variating patterns. Whereas if you were to try to consistently and perfectly keep count of the smallest subdivision and follow one pattern all along (like the video), it's nearly impossible and the groove certainly will throw you off, just like it does while listening.

[@Jmon808]

Still don’t get it 😂

[@music.sucks999]

Please make We insist - Oakleaves representation 😅

[@honk1419]

swedness

[@bbmcofsky1073]

I do not understand at all and meshuggah is my favorite band

[@earlymorning00]

Cool but too bad it sucks. Really boring to listen to

[@Heliosphan33]

Can you Private Visions of the World?

[@ellisd3165]

and they ruined it

[@joeyhathaway8447]

lmao they did nootttttttt oh, hi mark

[@bsatyam]

You couldn't have written something even 1% as awesome as this