Riff Analysis 038 - Animals As Leaders "Arithmophobia" 

For sure! Definitely not trying to say that this is how they feel it-just trying to wrap my head around what happened for me as it got faster before I really learned it

Been really digging it but haven't looked into it, excited to though! AAL is another band (like Meshuggah, Defeated Sanity, BTBAM, a few others) where I could easily make a full video about every single riff they've ever written and have something new and cool to talk about

Music

I see you Stephen! Yes this channel is amazing

haha thank you I have fun with those

Is that an insult?? This dude is awesome, tf are you talking about

Good eye!

Haha I wish there was any reasoning behind it-just wait until I start filming in front of my actual book case in NYC

Really digging the album so far!

Probably by starting with the angular riff, calculating where they would need to land back on 1 after a few bars of 4/4 and then adding the slower pattern on top. It doesn't seem that much more difficult to come up with than any other djenty riff, the real difficulty probably came in when it was time to actually learn to play the ridiculousness they just wrote in time with one another (although given the band, that might not have been too challenging either in the grand scheme of things). In a post-computer world it's actually surprisingly easy to come up with some really mathy, complex music in very little time. Once you understand the basic theory behind it you can often just throw numbers at the screen and get a quick sense of whether or not it will sound cool enough to invest the time learning to perform it.

I sure am!

Lol