The way you choose to visually represent musical concepts through shapes and colors is truly something special. This makes so much more sense to me than traditional notation. Thank you very much for tickling my creative brain sir.
Spot on! I don't understand most what is said without looking at the shapes and colors, and don't like Meshuggah but still here I am watching all the videos.
@@horseofunreason Man I wish more people like you exist. People that don't like Meshuggah but are mature enough to learn from them ! The amount of students I had that just simply DIDN'T agree to listen to them because of whatever reason, is embarrassingly high.
Meshuggah did a song called Don't Speak on their rather obscure compilation album Rare Trax in 2001, where they switch back and forth between different measures of tuplets and regular 8th notes, although the switches are pretty straightforward and isolated to individual bars.
I appreaciate what they attempted in TVSOR but I'm glad they went back to their more standard recording method because it feels more Meshuggah. This new album just sounds so precise like master surgeons effortlessly making incisions whereas TVSOR sounded more chaotic and out of control.
Yog is the best thing that could happen to polymeters. his science of konnakol and metal is unparalleled, so are his teaching skills. Long live this channel !
Although not technically "in the same riff", another time I can think of that Meshuggah changed subdivisions within the same song is in future breed machine. They play a quarter note triplet + release riff at 4:30, and then at 4:39 they play a VERY similar but distinctly different dotted eighth pattern utilizing the same phrase structure. One of the most epic meshuggah moments in my opinion. The difference between the two riffs is so small yet so big at the same time. Amazing video Yogev!
I just got done watching his video on Future Breed Machine and he addresses this! It’s one of my favorite Meshuggah moments, too. It’s so imposing and just keeps crushing you. It’s hard to beat the guitar tone off that album.
This song is really cool. The chords. The constant leads. The crazy thirds they played around with this album. THE ENDING BRUH. This record is on par with C33 and Chaosphere imo
I really do love this album a lot. Really straight to the point and so “Meshuggah” . Feels like they trimmed a lot of fat on this one yet still expanding with wilder rhythms. It’s grabbing me as much C33, DEI and nothing did
@@Max_Payn3 I love this album too. I think the first half is flawless, the second half has one too many instrumental tracks and some of thw weaker tracks (Kaladeiscope I'm looking at you) but still great. Overall it's my second favorite Meshuggah album right now after Obzen.
2nd riff is a heavy contender for best on the album. Along with the opening riff in The Faultless, the ending riff in Phantoms and THAT riff in Broken Cog for me*
This ending riff is one of the many moments that shocked me on this album and made me thinking what those people that say this album is just same as their older material mean) And i'm really kinda dumb with such stuff but not noticing loads of craziness Meshuggah put into this lp is crazy)
The only other time I can think of where Meshuggah combined different subdivisions is near the end of Future Breed Machine /watch?v=PoHa48lqsqE&t=268s where they have the triplets and duplets, but it's sort of two sections.
Am I the only one who watches Mr Yogevs' videos an excessive amount of times? So much knowledge and of course any song hes discussed has been absolute fire.
Your enthusiasm is absolutely contagious! I had a very exhausting day at work but since I have watched this video I can't stop smiling :) Thank you very much!
Just for reference: the triplet sections last 2, 4, 6, 8, 4, 12 beats respectively. Very very nice linear progression with the 4 thrown in to mix things up instead of a 10. Also, the fact that these are all even-length and that A is even-length (6 beats) while B is odd-length (3 beats) leaves that extra beat at the end, after the last version of C. Such a nice construction all together.
Your channel is amazing, Yagev. I've been a fan ever since I discovered it a couple years ago. You make me wish I was a drummer haha cheers from Latin America.
I love your videos! I always get the same feeling when watching them. If I just listen to your explanation I don´t get anything, but if I close my eyes and listen to the music I get it immediately. I guess it's my lack of theoretical knowledge thats behind it. And of course I have covered this song :D
Love love love the new album! It took a sec to get the rhythms down as I expected lol. Ligature Marks is my favorite I think, but I am that thirst is dope.
When I listened to this I was completely blown away by the ending. I could swear it was new. Never heard before. Cool to see it confirmed! First video of yours I saw :-) instant subscribe
This was incredible, I’ve noticed a marked difference in my time signature identification abilities. Hopefully you are enjoying that Frontierer album. Thank you as always, you are a gift to many sir.
always literally dying to see your MAYSHUGGAH videos. so effectively delicious for understanding the depths of Meshuggah. Thanks Yogev! any plans to do another cover with your fellow musicians like you guys did for Stengah? that was beautiful!
This album really is great. Familiar great stuff while adding a lot of new ideas that feel just so kickass! I'd love to see a breakdown of The Abysmal eye. The speraticness really throws you for a loop.
@@YogevGabay 65 years of additional real estate for your brain just for aligning the impenetrable aphotic brilliance of the polyswede chugtacular djentlefolk!
That had to have been the greatest video intro in all of youtube history lmao. This channel is awesome, I only wish I found it sooner than I did. Then again, finding it late gives me plenty of stuff to binge watch, so I guess its not so bad lol
That groove in the end is massive, but It feels like you have to unlock some hidden chambers in your brain to understand it. XD Thanks for helping with that.
The formula of the last riff where they used triplets is very similar to the formula they had used in Clockworks, isn't it? 🤔 Well, that's maybe why I like these two riffs. Good job, Meshuggah!
well in clockworks, its technically also triplets, but you can still count it as like 2 sixteenths notes (cause ,takin out the drums, the guitar usually play only the first note of it), where in this one they kinda mess them up and sometimes only play like the middle or the last note of it, so it kinda force you to count it as triplets. So yeah its a similar formula but even more complex, adding the fact that the triplets part change every time
@@Gojira135 You may be underestimating their picking skills, for example they have a guitar lesson video on youtube where Marten explains the main riff of Pravus is more complicated than it sounds, and he said he doesn't know why he would play it like that when no one can hear the difference anyway, but he does. The picking in Bleed is insanely fast as well ofc
@@Meurth It's funny he said that because you can DEFINITELY hear the difference in that Pravus, he was just being modest. He's talking about the pull offs in the riff, which are very audible.
@@Meurth I love this quote from Marten. The humility and self awareness , yet little does he know the 10s of thousands of Meshuggah fans analyzing every single nuance and complexity of their writing
It does look similar in a way that it employs similar writing technique. One constant static part that ends with different things a couple of times. The difference in playing though is huge. Clockworks is easy stuff. It's very linear and constant. The only tricky part is to remember all the endings and stretch your fingers enough to play them properly. I am that thirst, on the other hand, is much more complex rhythmically. This is the first album from shuga where I HAD to read notes and remember all their durations. Usually I remember riffs enough that I can simply learn where my fingers should be and that's it. Not the case here.
THIS is content. Not just because it's about my favourite band but because it's well thought out, well presented and has actually helped me understand what they're doing. Love your stuff man.
I like to play guitar for fun...meshuggah is the kind of stuff where you start smashing your limits hard because you feel the music when they play it,but when you try to reproduce you're just floating in thin air :'D
