Tomas Haake CLOCKWORKS drum playthrough REACTION and BREAKDOWN
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- Опубліковано 5 бер 2023
- It's finally here! My reaction and a breakdown to Tomas Haake's drum playthrough of Clockworks, from Meshuggah's 2016 album, The Violent Sleep of Reason. This song was my first time actually giving it a proper listen, because it has been so highly requested so I wanted to give an authentic first time reaction. I also attempt to breakdown what I observed with the music, and put it into a simple structure that is hopefully easy for most to understand. This was an amazing performance and I look forward to checking out more! If you enjoyed the video please talk to me in the comments, and dont forget the usual call-to-action for a like and subscribe! (also dont forget that bell notification :)
#metalmusic #drumplaythrough #theviolentsleepofreason #clockworks
#djent
Link to the original video - • MESHUGGAH - Clockworks...
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Band - Meshuggah
Title - Clockworks
Music used in this video Clockworks
Album Info:
album The Violent Sleep of Reason
released 2016
Genre Djent
Label Atomic Fire
Drumset information and Amazon product links:
Tama Rockstar double bass kit
Meinl Cymbals
Sound Percussion and Gilbraltar hardware
Pearl Demon Drive bass drum pedal (x2)
Vic Firth drumsticks
Evans Heads
Microphones:
CAD mics for toms, snare bottom and bass drums -
Shure SM57 mic for snare drum batter side
CAD condenser mics
CAD mic for room audio
Behringer B-5 mic for Hi-hats
Camera:
GoPro10
Software:
Presonus Studio One 5
Video edited in Filmora Wondershare
Hardware:
Presonus Studiolive AR16c
Presonus Monitors
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This was just as incredible as I expected it to be! Thank you to everyone that suggested this!
Dude... do you realise you're so articulate and eloquent that most drummers do not have a clue what you're talking about? 😜 Loved it! Yours, a lawyer-guitarist 🤪
Have you reacted to Nils "The Dominator" yet? Check him out, he has some live drum cam videos.
@@vaettra1589 yep! Here you go
ua-cam.com/video/BaF7AnBVya8/v-deo.html
@@alteroccatv very kind words my friend!
@@DrumlionMusic Credit where credit's due my friend! Keep posting!
Meshuggah is essentially a jazz band. A very intense jazz band. Love it!
So correct. Tomas actually is grooving in the pocket and swinging. His ghost notes, accents, cymbal work and overall dynamics are jazz influenced. I would love to se Vinnie have a shot at a Meshuggah playthrough. Btw, I have seen them live twice. It time London Roundhouse 2012. Unbelievable. And their lighting rigg is the best I have ever seen. Like a 6th member. Totally in sync.
Jazz usually has harmony. Meshuggah is more like undulating microtonal frequencies. I would never relate Meshuggah to jazz in a moment.
@@enijize1234 you should really check out "Entertain me" by Tigran Hamasyan. It'll really change your mind on that. Tigran is a jazz composer and pianist, and a massive Meshuggah fan, and it really shows in this song lol
@@alihijazi4451 I love Tigran Hamasyan but just because he has some Meshuggah influence doesn't mean Meshuggah has influence from him, and even if Meshuggah did it doesn't make them jazz (maybe they play some drone Armenian Oud in a breakdown or coda a la Future Breed Machine). A's and B's and Logic and that. If crops only grow when the sun shines does that mean that the sun only shines when crops grow?
I mean look, at the end of the day its just art bullshit and perceptions. You call it muzzy wuzzy chim chum and I'll call it flam flum hugh mungus and it doesn't even matter. I'm just pointing out my unpopular opinion that generally Meshuggah is about as jazz as my morning visit to the porcelain office.
There's shit-all harmony.
Harmonically its like an undulating microtonal bass frequency- which I think is fking awesome because there's nothing else quite like it.
In my experience, the iconic Jazz sound whether Dixieland, Hard-Bop or Contemporary Fusion is all about extended harmonies, the 7's, 9's, 11's, 13's and altered extensions.
The most jazzy that Fredrik Thordendahl gets is in Zeta Reticuli 2 on the album Sol Niger Within.
ZR2 sounds like if you were listening to John Coltrane trippin balls on a kilo of mushrooms blastin through the Milky Way on the Millenium Falcon. Its the most frayed ends of experimental jazz they maybe stretch their arms out and tickle each others fingers for a second.
Still if I found Sol Niger Within in the jazz section of the music library I'd have a laugh and wonder what tripper was sorting out the music on that day.
Djazz, if you will.
Meshuggah: The band I always show people when they say that Tool is so complex. Keep at it Nephew.
Tomas haake is actually Danny Carey’s favourite drummer.. that’s what they say Tomas is their favourite drummer’s favourite drummer
Hold on now... You're treading in dangerous waters, my guy.
@@QuamtimeConers What can I say? I live dangerously.
Meshuggah really knows how to let those riffs just play out for extended periods. Most bands have some really cool riffs but they only last like 15 seconds. Love that about this band. And there is no one like Meshuggah's live performances with there light shows. Just insane
I’m not a musician, so I just hear the song and think, “yeah! Dum dum diddly dum dum dum daah! Awesome!”
Then I see drummers hold their head in their hands like it isn’t possible to do that. You guys are all awesome
Lol, as a drummer myself, sometimes i still just hear dum diddly dum stuff myself with some of these guys lol
It all starts with the diddly dum
"my bad I got cought up in the music that I forgot to pay attention to Tomas" I think that is one of the best compliments you can give to a riff.
15:43 one of the most "FUCK YEAH" moments in the Meshuggah discography.
100 fuckin' percent!
saw em live when the album had first come out and the entire crowd was waiting for that drop, one of the wildest moments on a concert floor i've ever experienced the way everyone just paused then exploded at once
I've honestly learned a few of their songs on bass, since I've mostly been a bassist. Every single song I've learned of theirs has REQUIRED me to see a kick drum cam, or for a drummer friend to explain it to me. I can keep basic rhythm with the hi-hat because it's almost always in 4/4, but matching those polyrhythms is a flipping task. Big ups to you for breaking this down.
I’m a guitar player myself, I’ve probably learned maybe 5-10 full Meshuggah songs over the years, and a lot of riffs here and there. The trick for me has been just listening to the song a gazillion times and finger tapping along, as soon as I feel comfortable with the patterns it’s easy enough to play it, the tricky part for me is finding the right notes, I usually need tabs because it’s so downtuned and built on chromatic sequences. Even with tabs it’s hard to remember a song you’ve learned if you don’t play it often because it’s never normal scale patterns.
@@adamnilsson566 you kinda get used to the chromatics, wholetones and all that stuff after some time. a long time lol
That mandatory stank face moment was great, you knew it was coming and just went in for it 😅
Haha, ill admit, i couldn't help it
@@DrumlionMusicya well, I'm back watching again - I've heard this song a hundred times, but that drumming still gets me wrecked
This is pure controlled chaos.
Would be good to see you react to their song Stengah, it's used in some school drumming for polyrhythm.
Bro you just opening up about ur personal struggles with life is maaadddd respect. Ur the man. Loved the review as well!!
I really appreciate this. For real...
Absolutely love the in-depth explaning
Meshuggah is too advanced to give an in-depth analysis on first listen. You would need to be some sort of musical prodigy to catch everything on the fly. Your reaction was great, I would be at a loss for words and just going "Thomas doing Thomas stuff".
I’m honestly stumped that you were able to point out so minute changes in the drumming that keeps the track interesting…as someone that has seen this play through many times it was gratifying to see you break this down in a simple but effective such that many more will be able to identify these subtle details…and finally…I do hope you will pull through whatever troubles currently you face….you seem like a very eloquent,humble and level headed person….and that must count for something…
Thanks so much for your words! When it comes to Meshuggah i tried a good while back to breakdown what i was hearing in a more metronomical and music theory kind of way. But then i realized (and people in my comments confirmed) that its better to just listen for patterns instead of trying to analyze things like time signatures etc. So that's why as soon as this song started playing i immediately just watched and listened for a structure pattern and it honestly helped me doing it that way instead.
@@DrumlionMusic Makes a lot of sense…. Identifying the method to the madness goes a long way to help one really enjoy this band…once again great breakdown my man…
When you sit back with closed eyes and count their usual 4/4 underlay, that’s where you see their massive slow groove well defined. Then the appreciation gets way deeper because they unify in a 3D wave and pull, push, swell, punch like seawater.
One of my favorite things about this song is how the double kick in the verses sounds like a ticking clock almost.
I've managed to figure out certain parts of this song, and even if I can't play them I've learnt to hear the patterns almost. Credit to Yogev for explaining the intro but you're right when you said its groups of 3s and 2s, but if you break it up into those 3s and 2s visually you get:
33 2* 333 [2] 3(3)33 2 3
* this is a actually a quick triplet in the space of 2 16th notes
(3) this is where the accented long guitar note is
[2] this is where the pattern resets after 3 full repetitions
What's fucking confusing and what Tomas does best is that the polymetric way he plays it means that the pattern SOUNDS like it resets on the long note and tricks you into thinking it does because the same # of 3s follow it as the real beginning, up until the actual reset and then you realize he's thinking in 4d chess and the rest of us all are stuck doing checkers bc he's also keeping consistent time with the hat in the middle of all this.
The breakdown pattern is actual hella cool because the accented guitar notes where the double kick follows them actually increase in amount from 4 to 7 then reset each time. Next time you listen, count along with the accents on your hands and its both incredibly fun and immediately apparent.
As a side note, I'll never forget the first time I caught the patterns for the songs pravus and the hurt that finds you first by ear. Interestingly enough they share a similar pattern, since pravus' is 1-12-1-123, 1-12-1-1234 while the hurt that finds you first's opening pattern is similar to pravus' with 1-1-1-123, 1-1-1-1234 if you're only going by the accented hits, but in the verses is 1-1-12-1- 1-123, 1-1-12-1-1-1234.
God I feel like I just wrote a whole ass thesis at this point but the TL;DR is that every meshuggah song requires memorization of a unique pattern with a crap ton of small variances throughout the song, which means trying to learn each and every song is both a unique and involved process that really connects you to their writing and the song itself on a rhythmic level, which considering the fact that they typically play 10 or so songs a night when touring makes it that much more impressive.
EDIT: I can't recommend checking out Eloy Casagrande's cover of their song Marrow enough. Ghost note city once again but its much easier to follow for most of the song and the raw power he puts into the cover perfectly matches how brutal that song is.
This is an awesome analysis! Holy shit! Saving this comment
Thanks for explaining this so visually and conceptually! I don’t know much about drumming but you broke down the complexity of what was happening in sections and how it integrates with the rest of the band beautifully and coherently. Thank you!
Great take on this masterpiece. Not drum related but this is one of my favorite solos from Thordendahl
A Drumlion Meshuggah post makes thy day.
More ghost notes than a graveyard!!! 🔥👻🔥
YES!! finally!! Man so happy you did a real reaction to this one 😂 Your face right from the start is absolutely priceless. I did ask if you were afraid of ghosts a while ago 😂😂
Up next Hellhammer - Crystallized pain in deconstruction(drum cam) the channel is lur fias. He’s no slouch 😁
Awesome as always my friend 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸 till we meet again brother 👊👊💪
I think my favorite part is during the verse when he's ultra focused on his right hand. It interests me because that hand is keeping time, it's his other 3 limbs doing stuff. It's a bit of a clue about how he's doing patterns; they're purely and entirely muscle memory. Just always amuses me that we're all so focused on the obvious things that make him talented, but that his focus is still on the thing that matters: time.
Master Drummer 👌
I would love to see you do a reaction on mikkey dee maybe something from when he was with king diamond
The hardest question one can ask themselves about a meshuggah song is "where's 1?" Time ain't where it seems.....wildly talented!
exactly! I wasn't even trying to look for the one lmao! Just the tempo and the structures within the measures 😄
@@DrumlionMusic I just want a relationship as consistent as Tomas' right hand 😂
@@cattleman1873ify lmao! Ok now this some funny shit!
Time is a flat circle
All the best man. When things get tough we should remember that there are good things in life now and in the future ahead.
Definitely needed to hear this. Thank you...
Great reaction! All tracks that Dick and Tomas write are AMAZING. You should definitely check out the rest of Violent Sleep, the title track is one of my favorite tracks of all time. Phantoms and GHSIM are must listens from Dick and Tomas too.
we are here brotha, take care of you and yours! much love!
Drive on brother, stay strong. Wishing you the very best.
demon's name is surveillance next :D
The GoPro overheating only seems fitting. I feel for it.
Nice.Keep going🙂🙂🙂🤘
Good morning from New England..I came across your channel when you did the Mario Duplantier reaction..I enjoyed your breakdown of how he takes bare bones rhythmic structures and builds the song around them.. He's great at foreshadowing how the songs are going to progress.. Now about Tomas..I've rarely seen a drummer so relaxed and in control of his facilities..Every beat has a purpose and is placed at the exact spot it needs to be... When it comes to getting a handle on the feel for complicated songs like this I focus on the cymbal work..Many times if it's in 4/4 you'll hear it in the cymbal patterns..Very cool vid man..Peace from the Northeast 🤘✌️
have you ever checked out troy wrights meshuggah drum medleys? he does 10-15 minute blasts through highlights of whole meshuggah records...and kicks ass while doing it.
This band is nuts. Your take on this track is greatly appreciated.
Great ear! happy that you acknowledged the preparing transition to the breakdown. The sudden regularity in it, not only prepares for the breakdown, but gives a feeling of 'absolute determination'. It tosses all the chaos before it to say 'that's what we're doing now.'
So cool. Great edits too.
Lol this whole playthrough absolutely twists my brain into horrifying shapes. It is hypnotic watching him do his thing. Great reaction as ever. I have been dealing with a whole heap of stuff offline too (nothing awful just time consuming thankfully) so it's good to see yer insights again. Love you growing use of inserts and funky graphics toooooo
Looking forward to the Monument cover
Impressive insights. Found your channel thru this vid and i've now subscribed!
Another fantastic breakdown, i would have not captured many of those slight changes. This guy is incredible.
Good to have you back and hope you resolve all the curveballs thrown at you.
Perfect track to wake up to 😂. Love your breakdown. Now maybe play it ..... 🥁
Nice video
Pretty interesting analysis.
I love Meshuggah man every single member of that band are absolutely insane musicians.
i`m not a musican nor do i have any solid grasp of musical theory. And i will admit that i listen to a lot of music that musicians would classify as difficult, like prog metal and what Meshuggah manages to do consistently blows my mind.
Great reaction and incite on this playthrough. Their is Never a dull moment in Tomas's drumming. I really like the starting section of the track. And how it begins. The structure giving this build, while providing this kind of anticipation wondering when the next faze of the song is going to begin.💀🤘
Thank you for your time checking it out 🖤🔥 im a simpel women I see meshuggah I liked
Nice seeing someone do Clockworks. Everyone suggests Bleed, which is a great song, but it's really not that complex for a Haake tune.
Drumlion thank you for your in-depth analysis. Not a single word wrong in there. You would be a perfect teacher, not only drums I mean. Thanks! Love
Excellent reaction video, and thanks for speaking in laymen terms! No videos that I've ever seen but give "phantoms" and "the demons name is surveillance" a listen when you get a chance. Again excellent job on this!
Hey man, first listening?! Very well done job!!!! No Joke!
Really awesome breakdown/reaction. I like how you touch on the intentions of the musician and how the parts serve the song. Subbed 🎉
Томас, самый непревзойдённый барабанщик. Слушал многих, один из любимых Дэни Кэрри - шикарен. Но, Томас - слов не хватает)))
The sounds you hear they call “Meshuggah” is actually recovered sound affects from the “WOW! Signal”
Id been listening to meshuggah for years hyper analysing and trying to learn all their riffs detuning the fuck out of my light gauge stringed 6-string guitar.
My brilliant drummer friend asked "do you notice the ghost notes" and starts finger tapping them on my shoulder.
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
My fucjing mind just melted like i shelved 20 tabs
Hey there! :)
I see a meshuggah (reaction) video, I upvote!
It's so funny when (especially) drummers do their first reaction to meshuggah songs.
It's almost the same everytime: "WTF??"
As an old or longterm meshuggah fan, that's a completely normal phenomenon! ^^
I also want to mention that at 15:47, meshuggah dropped one of the hardest bombs ever!! (Imo)
They're so great in what they're doing.
Thanks for sharing your experience with these amazing guys. 🤘🏼
Take care!
Some of his ghost notes I believe are used for balance in his right hand. I’ve found myself doing that kinda subconsciously.when you’re playing busy music it’s hard for one of your limbs to go stagnant. It’s a flow with balance
My favourite part about this song is how everything makes so much sense when you dig more into the patterns. For example, in the last half of the song (the breakdown so to speak) the pattern of 2s always alternate between the up beat and the down beat. The song is really complex but the grounds for each part is very simple, except maybe the intro/outro
Awesome reaction my dude. Really enjoyed your low-key approach to the technicality and musicianship. If you're looking for another Meshuggah song to do a "whole song" (lyrics included) analysis of, I cannot recommend Dancers to a Discordant System enough; hands down my favourite piece of art across all mediums.
Keep up the great work bro.
Nice breakdown of a complex track
Meshugga and Rush, or more specifically, Thomas and Neil, are and were masters of creating a lifeline or pulse in songs with different time signatures. They made it easy for everyone to rock out, whether you're a musician, a normie, or just a music nerd. It's a skill not many have. That's art right there. And mad skillballs. Next level, man.
cool tsirt😳
When it comes to Death Metal there are none better IMO. Don't know if they still want to be known as Death Metal, but remember them and At The Gates in the Stockholm scene in the early 2000. One he'll of a blast!
afaik "death metal" is the only genre name they've ever given themselves
I LOVE ALL THE POLY RHYTHMS!! Ok, here is one you gotta react to; Drumcam CuntCrusher by Infant Annihilator.. The absolute fastest and most precise drumming I’ve ever seen!! Mad love from Oklahoma!
Good luck
Live...these guys are EXACTLY on point.
Dear lord
Listen to the song called Bleed if you haven't already. The drums in that track are just insane.
Yes! A fellow brother who loves metal
Best believe it!
I’d love to see a comparison of the song “Concatenation” from Chaosphere vs the remix they (Meshuggah, of course! Haha) released on the Rare Trax EP a couple of years later.
🤘🏻🔥
Meshuggah works on 2 levels for me: If I want I can try to break up the song in my head and learn some really cool stuff because of the extreme technicality of the songs. Then if I just let go of that and listen to the songs it´s a cathartic experience. It´s just unfiltered, raw emotion through and through and it usually calms me down and let´s me let go of some heavy shit that I´m sometimes dealing with. I could never listen to Meshuggah as background music, it´s always one of those 2 things for me. Some bands (not gonna name them since I do not want to start a flame war) just have the extreme level of technicality in their songs but otherwise the songs are complete duds that do nothing for me.
Hey man, no problemo-we all are at times busy: I haven't checked your channel in a week 😳! Always interested to hear musician's comments on *Meshuggah* as I have no musical ability myself and therefore cannot _hear_ the intricacies, but _can_ understand things if they are explained. Also, a big fan of the band, of course 😁!
Good to hear from you! And yes i hate my upload schedule has had to slow up. Im hoping the people that rock with me will still stick around regardless. But yeah i tried my best to interpret this song and it took a ton of concentration just to even catch the little bit that i did manage to hear lol!
Sick T-Shirt. Where did you get it?
3:35 hehe love that!
14:27 'bout to get heavy and the face we've been waiting to see [ I wish I was able to listen it for the first time again ] its a part of my DNA right now hehe
Thank you breaking it down [ 19:50 ] & what's the pattern on that section
Experience the whole - Alive tour On Spotify and whole concert as dvd on UA-cam its gonna flip yr mind take you for a trip! A lot of people will agree on that with me! especially the '' Holy Trinity" NMCC-Stengah-TWYB in Montreal!!
Appreciate this comment! Thank you!
You have a very chilled voice . You should lead mediations
Awsome t shirt yopu got there! What is it? Band shirt?
The layered polyrhythms remind me of the Mayan Calendar but moving in real time.
Hope you come back brother 👍
If you pay close attention to this video there's several hits that happen that you dont hear or hits you hear but not see so this audio isn't from this video drum session he's just playing along. Case in point 11:10 theres a crash cymbal you hear but dont see then 11:15 you see him hit a crash but dont hear it. There's a couple others as well too these are just the first ones.
Atomic clocks ask Tomas Haake for the time!
The fact that he has some kind of nerve damage so one, I think right, leg sometimes folds in under the chair makes it more impressive
Whoa! I had no idea he had this going on with his leg!
I love watching first time listeners get completely disorientated by that section at 15:48. It such a mind fk rhythm section.
Yes, he has 2 hi hats 🤔🤔🤔🤯🤯🤯😂😂😂
And there's also Nostrum playthrough!
Noted my friend!
Please react to Marrow from the album Koloss! I cannot seem to find many reactions to that one and I'd love to know if someone appreciates the extreme-metal-jazz solo as much as I do lmao
Also I see you liked Stengah from ''The Genius of Tomas Haake'' reaction video you did. Be sure to check that out too.
I personally love Straws Pulled at Random and I think it's the only song where Meshuggah actually uses a major scale, but I could be wrong tho. The final segment is astoundingly gorgeous. It's a whole feeling...
Ill definitely note that song on my list to react to!
@@DrumlionMusic hell yeah brother, count on my like/wiew 🥰
If you haven’t already, do Broken cog from their immutable album
Yogev Gabay has a similar level of knowledge.
He's an Israeli who uses verbal classical Indian notation
He writes the lyrics too.
It can be physically a thing, but as a drummer just listen to the rhythm. I played with guys that just groove like this, they cannot play bas stuff. But just h
Jamming to something odd. Best moments for me playing with ppl
your shirt is sick, where do i get that
Appreciate it! I got mine during basic training at Fort Benning. A vendor travels around and sells a bunch of designs to new soldiers.
16:58 xD
Another awesome review🤘🤘 and this time on my favorite Mesh song ever. Fuck yeah
Hey buddy sorry I’ve been absent! I hope you’re doing well!
Welcome back bro!
Check out meshuggah - soul burn
14:22 14:34 🤣
Metal Mick Fleetwood
i watched a doc on them and i think thomas writes lyrics and guitar parts, via computer. and then presents it to the band. if that’s correct….. jeez
Bro's biceps has biceps.
😂
What'8:27?