Very, VERY cool video! Enjoyed this very much. That’s something I’ve kinda done for years, reimagining straight rhythm riffs like Crazy Train as triplets instead of 8ths. Fun video!
I think Ligature Marks is one of their best songs off the new album. Pure filth. Continues to be rhythmically genius like practically anything they create.
Phantoms was probably my favourite. But saying that it isn't overly standout compared to the other tracks. Just like most of their discography it's an overall awesome album.
Listening to Broken Cog is still very trippy even now. That opening riff just deceived you with the pattern. And then, the drums kicked in and all sense of rhythm instant collapsed. It really makes you go, "Wait, the pattern didn't go like that?! What?1?!"
"God He Sees in Mirrors" is one pattern for the whole song!!! Surprised this song hasn't gotten more attention. No breaks in the pattern, the only song to have 1 pattern go the entire time without any resolution or change that doesn't happen naturally in the pattern in all of meshuggahs discography. Even when the rests occur the pattern remain unchanged underneath, where they join back up with the pattern once the rest ends. Undoubtedly my favorite on the album. There's a great video on UA-cam going through the visualization, strongly recommend.
I've been thinking a bit on this for some time, for harmony we have "tonal gravity" from George Russell's work on the Lydian Chromatic Concept. I postulate that there is a similar "backbeat gravity" for polymeter. When sufficient emphasis (ala Meshuggah) is placed on the quarter or eighth note pulse, one can immediately lock in to a 4/4 backbeat despite the surrounding complexity.
Fu**! So this is what I was trying to describe. In some places I couldnt find the "time-keeping cymbal" and latched myself to a chug, then I realized that drums are actually doing a sick groove, I just had to understand it. So now, I listen to a "time-keeping groove" and its the sickest thing Ive heard in a LONG time.
The opening of alan Parsons projects 'I robot' does something similar, where the bass synth comes in but it's hard to place, and then when the back beat comes in it actually manages to shift the way you hear it without the line actually changing
Definitely why I tend to gravitate towards any music. I need that complexity. Earlier that would most often mean the process of making sense of what I'm hearing, and that's still a factor, but lately it's the same with harmony. Which is why I love Tigran so much. And Jacob Collier. And Meshuggah. And frikkin Joshua de la Victoria, Animals As Leaders and so on
This video - after all your previous Meshuggah videos - is an excellent primer to a lot of meshuggah-ness in general: Massive tension caused by ambiguity - resolved by a steady snare.
Yes, the anticipation when introduced to an idea before the groove results in a massive reward, especially if on first listen the reveal is surprising enough to make you take note and want to return to the track again and again.
I also love the fact that you KNOW you'll never be fooled by that song again. That 'NEW' feeling. You head it for the first time, and I know that once I know the answer, that feeling will never repeat.
Your scientific explanation took me back to their song "In Death-Is Death. The pattern is exactly similar to what a cross product multiplication looks like. I don't know if Marten meant it that way but it is very sick realizing things like that.
This is the same thing.. but metal. Holy hell man I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you are the absolute best. Melding metal and shrodinger’s cat!?!? LOL and YES Thank you and don’t ever stop.
Your video presentation style & story telling method is extremely entertaining & memorable! It always makes showing my non-musician friends way easier! props!!!
yep, that's typical Meshuggah alright. Like Alan Moore said, a good writer uses misdirection to make better writing. Same goes for Meshuggah. I remember when I first started listening to them, especially their older stuff, you start banging your head and then suddenly the beat just "breaks apart" and leaves you confused and a little shaken lol. Great vid as always
Between your videos and The Art of Drumming HQ, my understanding of musical rhythms has been greatly improved. Thank you for making such entertaining, informative content. \m/
When i first started to break down broken cog for myself, I too feel into the idea that the opening guitar riff was in straight 16trh notes. I found where the loop restarted and did the maths relative to 8 bars of 4/4 and the maths didnt add up. At which point i became very confused and listened to that intro riff over and over again thinking "what is going on" and the snare wasnt falling where it should be according to what i surmised. At some point i thought i heard Tomas accenting some triplets on the toms during the intro so i switched everything to 12/8 and calculated those number and in that moment of elation i leapt from my chair and just yelled "FUCK YOU GUYS, WHY HAVE YOU DONE ME LIKE THIS?" to think i was deceived so early on in the album by such an innocent sounding riff. Just thought id share.
The funniest part is that the riff is triplets but not a full bar, so it's like... 22/12, or something? And then it's 8 of that + a 16 quarternote triplet bar so 22 * 8 + 16 = 192 triplets, which is 16 bars.
There are many things I am beginning to understand from your videos. THANK YOU! I have a disconnect though. For myself it’s easier to learn by constructing rather than deconstructing music. It would be great to see you walk though constructing some rythms in the future and I think that would help connect things into that “Oh wow, I finally get it’”
You are making some great points in your conclusion about music being challenging. I feel this to be true in any art-form / medium. You articulated it well. Good stuff.
It's funny it's saying Schrödinger's cat related to Meshuggah... I'm litteraly waiting on something to be revealed which is kind of all or nothing... also Meshuggah-related :')
Years ago when I roomed with maths students I remember debating with one of them that music rhythms exist in quantum states. They debated I was bullshit. Thanks for backing me up here Yogev!
@@YogevGabay Harmony is also. Think of the subdominant triad IV in a Mixo/Gospel (an F), then compare the supertonic triad II in a Phrygian-Major/Flamenco (an F), which are both the same chord transposed to the frequency, but wildly different when affected by their outside influences. (btw love your vids since forever MASSIVE THANKS!!)
I can't feel the "Light the Shortening Fuse" pattern in 16th notes even with the backbeat. My mind latches onto it being in triplets and interprets the backbeat as an intricate snare pattern.
Fabulous aproach to this perspective/subjective rhythm phenomenon that is a kind of mistery in the space-time matrix, of wich the Shuggah boys are genuine wizards, and personally can't fin the way to explain, so, THANK YOU!!! 🤘🔥
My more musically educated friend sort of enlightened me of this occurrence. He called them ghost notes and having to headbang to what you don't hear instead of what you. Not so sure if that applies here, but it's how I began to grasp Meshuggah.
Dead and alive cat until you open the box and observe it. Some take it further and suggest the act of observing tiny sub atomic particles actually brings them into reality, that is Meshuggah is actually playing in triplets, sixteenths and quints until you listen and perceive one into reality.
I still have trouble feeling both of these songs in their respective sub-beats. Broken Cog feels more like 3/4 than 4/4 with triplets, and the riff for Light the Shortening Fuse sounds like it's BEGGING to be felt as triplets. My brain still hasn't been able to hear them any other way. When I listen to them carefully it's obvious that my intuition is wrong but somehow I can't "unhear" the way I'm used to hearing them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but "Ivory Tower"'s beginning (TVSOR album) is constructed on an ambiguity - or a transition from a binary to a ternary backbeat isn't it ?
Isn’t combustion by Meshuggah also a Schrödinger’s rhythm then? Because of the offputting rhythm of it making it sound like it’s on offbeats but it’s on the downbeat? Just like the intro hi hat being on the downbeat
Very, VERY cool video! Enjoyed this very much. That’s something I’ve kinda done for years, reimagining straight rhythm riffs like Crazy Train as triplets instead of 8ths. Fun video!
Uncle Ben!!!
BENNNNNN
Your murshuroommBurger video was priceless. BEETTSSSSS
Love your stuff!
@@YogevGabay hahaha cheers, man, thank you!!
@@BenEller I have some thought about future videos, and I wonder, would you be down for a collaboration?
@@YogevGabay of course!
Dude Light The Shortening Fuse in triplets and quintuplets is fucking killer tbh
I think Ligature Marks is one of their best songs off the new album. Pure filth. Continues to be rhythmically genius like practically anything they create.
Honestly I really love the broken cog, sets the tone of the whole album, and the groove is so sick.
@@JustLilGecko yeah you know you’re about to get confused as hell 😂
Phantoms was probably my favourite. But saying that it isn't overly standout compared to the other tracks. Just like most of their discography it's an overall awesome album.
For sure, the second half of the song has a very groovy but heavy feel. With the interesting lyrics, amazing.
@@bryanlewis8777the section in which they play the chugging on the same note and then the higher note comes in just sends my body flying.
Listening to Broken Cog is still very trippy even now. That opening riff just deceived you with the pattern. And then, the drums kicked in and all sense of rhythm instant collapsed. It really makes you go, "Wait, the pattern didn't go like that?! What?1?!"
EXACTLYYYYYY
I'm trying to learn it on drums and it's an absolute nightmare trying to coordinate the back beat with the rhythm
It reminds me of swarm but kind of the reverse. With broken cog you assume it’s in 4 but it’s in 3 whereas swarm you assume it’s in 3 but it’s in 4.
I vibe to rhythms by clicking my teeth. I love it.
Dude, same. I'm mediocre with drums, but practically a god with teeth-drums.
"God He Sees in Mirrors" is one pattern for the whole song!!! Surprised this song hasn't gotten more attention. No breaks in the pattern, the only song to have 1 pattern go the entire time without any resolution or change that doesn't happen naturally in the pattern in all of meshuggahs discography. Even when the rests occur the pattern remain unchanged underneath, where they join back up with the pattern once the rest ends. Undoubtedly my favorite on the album. There's a great video on UA-cam going through the visualization, strongly recommend.
It's also probably my favorite on the album, and now I have one more reason why that's so ;) thx
!!
I've been thinking a bit on this for some time, for harmony we have "tonal gravity" from George Russell's work on the Lydian Chromatic Concept. I postulate that there is a similar "backbeat gravity" for polymeter. When sufficient emphasis (ala Meshuggah) is placed on the quarter or eighth note pulse, one can immediately lock in to a 4/4 backbeat despite the surrounding complexity.
Fu**! So this is what I was trying to describe. In some places I couldnt find the "time-keeping cymbal" and latched myself to a chug, then I realized that drums are actually doing a sick groove, I just had to understand it. So now, I listen to a "time-keeping groove" and its the sickest thing Ive heard in a LONG time.
Great point about rhythmic complexity/resolution and audience investment. Dead on! Broken Cog is one of the gnarliest Meshuggah songs yet.
Ngl I wouldn't mind the Schrödinger's cat experiment being a cat and a dog simultaneously
The opening of alan Parsons projects 'I robot' does something similar, where the bass synth comes in but it's hard to place, and then when the back beat comes in it actually manages to shift the way you hear it without the line actually changing
Definitely why I tend to gravitate towards any music. I need that complexity. Earlier that would most often mean the process of making sense of what I'm hearing, and that's still a factor, but lately it's the same with harmony. Which is why I love Tigran so much. And Jacob Collier. And Meshuggah. And frikkin Joshua de la Victoria, Animals As Leaders and so on
I'm glad UA-cam algo got me to this channel a while ago.
This video - after all your previous Meshuggah videos - is an excellent primer to a lot of meshuggah-ness in general: Massive tension caused by ambiguity - resolved by a steady snare.
Agreed !
yogev is single handedly responsible for the upcoming flood of meshuggah cover bands!
Alive and dead, alive and dead! I felt so teased the whole video the same way we feel so teased missing the backbeat.
Best explanation I've ever seen of the underlying concepts of rhythm and meter theory.
Yes, the anticipation when introduced to an idea before the groove results in a massive reward, especially if on first listen the reveal is surprising enough to make you take note and want to return to the track again and again.
I also love the fact that you KNOW you'll never be fooled by that song again. That 'NEW' feeling.
You head it for the first time, and I know that once I know the answer, that feeling will never repeat.
awesome. nice reasoning and educational approach. hell of a speaker / teacher you sure are.
Wow, thanks!
Years of questioning schrodinger equation come to an end
PLEASE do a full breakdown of broken cog!! I mapped it all out in FL studio and it is nuts
gosh, amazing video, amazing channel.....
u made me a meshuggah fan... love this
Your scientific explanation took me back to their song "In Death-Is Death. The pattern is exactly similar to what a cross product multiplication looks like. I don't know if Marten meant it that way but it is very sick realizing things like that.
Can't wait to see your analysis of the new Meshuggah songs (and also 'I' lol). Always love your videos! See you in 7 hours. :)
Someone on reddit did an analysis of I not too long ago!
3:34 is funky as hell!
This is the same thing.. but metal.
Holy hell man I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you are the absolute best. Melding metal and shrodinger’s cat!?!? LOL and YES
Thank you and don’t ever stop.
thankkkssssss
Your video presentation style & story telling method is extremely entertaining & memorable! It always makes showing my non-musician friends way easier! props!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
still love schrödingers work and yours!!
This is actually so good, not only the content but the production as well.
Thanks Kevin !
oh no... I have to listen to those songs one more time now... (like everytime a heard meshuggah)
yep, that's typical Meshuggah alright. Like Alan Moore said, a good writer uses misdirection to make better writing. Same goes for Meshuggah. I remember when I first started listening to them, especially their older stuff, you start banging your head and then suddenly the beat just "breaks apart" and leaves you confused and a little shaken lol. Great vid as always
Schrodinger's Rhythm: It's both grooving and not until you count it.
hahahahahah nice
Excellent video! This channel is so underrated!
Man I love your videos and the atmosphere they have
Between your videos and The Art of Drumming HQ, my understanding of musical rhythms has been greatly improved. Thank you for making such entertaining, informative content. \m/
Ohhh nice !
Watched the first semi-final of Eurovision and then this. I think I have brain damage now.
hahahahah wow
When i first started to break down broken cog for myself, I too feel into the idea that the opening guitar riff was in straight 16trh notes. I found where the loop restarted and did the maths relative to 8 bars of 4/4 and the maths didnt add up. At which point i became very confused and listened to that intro riff over and over again thinking "what is going on" and the snare wasnt falling where it should be according to what i surmised. At some point i thought i heard Tomas accenting some triplets on the toms during the intro so i switched everything to 12/8 and calculated those number and in that moment of elation i leapt from my chair and just yelled "FUCK YOU GUYS, WHY HAVE YOU DONE ME LIKE THIS?" to think i was deceived so early on in the album by such an innocent sounding riff. Just thought id share.
The funniest part is that the riff is triplets but not a full bar, so it's like... 22/12, or something? And then it's 8 of that + a 16 quarternote triplet bar so 22 * 8 + 16 = 192 triplets, which is 16 bars.
Wonderful video! Thank you!
I beg you, do I Am Colossus. I've been listening to that piece for years without ever fully grasping it.
There are many things I am beginning to understand from your videos. THANK YOU! I have a disconnect though. For myself it’s easier to learn by constructing rather than deconstructing music. It would be great to see you walk though constructing some rythms in the future and I think that would help connect things into that “Oh wow, I finally get it’”
Thanks ! I may do that in the future !
You got me at "Kinetic Response".
Entering into car bomb material when you put that shit into quintuplets
I didn't expect to get rickrolled here but, here I am
Yogev, I feel like we’d be pretty good friends. Also, as always, AWESOME SEIKO! Great video.
hahaha you like seiko, I like you.
Light the Shortening Fuse in quintuplets actually sounded pretty sick.
Could you do analysis on animals as leaders? More specifically, the breakdown in infinite regression?
one of your best videos! thanks:)
Thanks !!!
Oh boy!!!! Best Mayshuggah ever
You are making some great points in your conclusion about music being challenging. I feel this to be true in any art-form / medium. You articulated it well. Good stuff.
Thanks a lot !
awesome i love your content. you gotta do Kaleidoscope next
Quintuplets sounds so nice on both of them.
This was VERY satisfaying❤️🔥👍🏼👏🏼💥🤟🏼
It's funny it's saying Schrödinger's cat related to Meshuggah... I'm litteraly waiting on something to be revealed which is kind of all or nothing... also Meshuggah-related :')
Years ago when I roomed with maths students I remember debating with one of them that music rhythms exist in quantum states. They debated I was bullshit. Thanks for backing me up here Yogev!
You're very welcome !
@@YogevGabay Harmony is also. Think of the subdominant triad IV in a Mixo/Gospel (an F), then compare the supertonic triad II in a Phrygian-Major/Flamenco (an F), which are both the same chord transposed to the frequency, but wildly different when affected by their outside influences.
(btw love your vids since forever MASSIVE THANKS!!)
Absurdly good video!!
the best video title about rythm in the universe!!!!
Good video my friend!
I can't feel the "Light the Shortening Fuse" pattern in 16th notes even with the backbeat. My mind latches onto it being in triplets and interprets the backbeat as an intricate snare pattern.
hahhahah what a groovy problem to have !
Good stuff as always!
light the shortening fuse is quintuplets actually sounded pretty dope.
that triplet broken cog bit sounded fucking awesome 5:05
Fabulous aproach to this perspective/subjective rhythm phenomenon that is a kind of mistery in the space-time matrix, of wich the Shuggah boys are genuine wizards, and personally can't fin the way to explain, so, THANK YOU!!! 🤘🔥
Glad you enjoyed it!
Goddamnit, I asked for Brogen Cog and got it, now I guess I have to subscribe to this channel :(
hahahahahah it's only fair
Meshuggah as quintuplets sounds killer
I love Tuesdays!
now i wish light the shortening fuse was in triplets! i thought i was listening to a destroy erase improve out take!
My guy Yogev has just Car Bombarded thoses Meshy's songs.
My more musically educated friend sort of enlightened me of this occurrence. He called them ghost notes and having to headbang to what you don't hear instead of what you. Not so sure if that applies here, but it's how I began to grasp Meshuggah.
Yes it's exactly that !
I now expect somebody to (if someone hasn't already) make a metal cover of Catdog
2:22 for one second I thought it was going to be mambo number 5
I think the shrodingers cat thing is the cat is both alive and dead
I like your Fisix!
That's what you get when you buy Physics from Ali Express.
אהבתי את הריקרול יצירתי שלך מאוד
Broken Cog is probably one of the best Meshuggah grooves.
Agreed.
My two loves Physics and Meshuggah in one!
Dead and alive cat until you open the box and observe it. Some take it further and suggest the act of observing tiny sub atomic particles actually brings them into reality, that is Meshuggah is actually playing in triplets, sixteenths and quints until you listen and perceive one into reality.
yes, that is the exact explanation of the schrödingers cat problem :D :D :D :D
Dude, I'm an expert in biology. I know all of Eddie Schrodingers work.
Polyrhythmic Synth Jazz by Stuck in November
I really enjoy the whole "I'm a simple minded Israeli" thing.
hahahaa
Thank you for finally answering the age old question… is broken cog’s subdivision quintuplets?
I still have trouble feeling both of these songs in their respective sub-beats. Broken Cog feels more like 3/4 than 4/4 with triplets, and the riff for Light the Shortening Fuse sounds like it's BEGGING to be felt as triplets. My brain still hasn't been able to hear them any other way. When I listen to them carefully it's obvious that my intuition is wrong but somehow I can't "unhear" the way I'm used to hearing them.
I always assumed they secretly wrote in 1/8 time signature, with any number of measures in a phrase, playing at ridiculous bpms.....😐
hahahahahaah
What's up with that middle section of Abysmal Eye?
ua-cam.com/video/a1RwXRzcv_4/v-deo.html
here you go ! hope this helps
Ok but can Schrodinger explain how a fuse can be shortening when you haven't even lit it yet?
The fuse is both lit and unlit at the same time ;)
Спасибо за видео, Йогев..)
1:18
Instant recognition
Light the shortening fusr sounds like early mrshuggah
I’m begging you please analyze Born In Dissonance 🙏🏻
yeees please
Another example: intro of Don't Tread On Me by Metallica.
Totally !
Digital Elephants could be in a Wangan Racing game intro.
YO!!!! Did you just Rick Roll us?!?!?! LOL
Correct me if I'm wrong, but "Ivory Tower"'s beginning (TVSOR album) is constructed on an ambiguity - or a transition from a binary to a ternary backbeat isn't it ?
Light the Shortening Fuse in triplets is downtuned Lamb of God, and quintuplets is Dream Theater lol
Isn’t combustion by Meshuggah also a Schrödinger’s rhythm then? Because of the offputting rhythm of it making it sound like it’s on offbeats but it’s on the downbeat? Just like the intro hi hat being on the downbeat
Hell yeah !
Did you see my video on it?
Is Broken Cog Meshuggah‘s version of a Purdie shuffle?
Wow.
This comment is the most niche comment ever I love it hahahahahahhahh
LTSF in quintuplets fried my face off
Such a good video
Personally i feel broken cog in 3/4 with 16th notes subdivsion.
"Let's user a half Shekel coin and see who will recognize it"
only יחידי סגולה can do it
I'd love mirage from leprous