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Can't believe I'm only now finding out about your channel. Great video, and huge props for nailing my favourite guitar solo of all time.

Telos doesn't get neeeeeeear enough attention as it deserves. Amazing album, phenomenal song, but the middle jazz lounge section is beyond with its "hidden lyrics" in the form of a letter. My wife absolutely adores this song and that says A LOT. ❤❤❤ Thank You BTBAM for all of the years of inspiration.

Intro to this track is also an ode to Impetuous Ritual’s “Ritual Of The Crypt”

I've been saving this for a treat, and wow absolutely unbelievable! Honestly, I've been focused on more composition but this reminded me why music theory content can be awesome and I feel like doing it again for the first time in ages! Some thoughts: 1) If intellectual difficulty == heaviness, theres a few interesting things about complex pattern combinations as a listener. Things are only really heavy to us conceptually if we know they are liftable. Eg, general relativity to me is a "heavy" concept to me not because *I* can lift it, but I know others can lift it. When you have a stretch of music produced by multiple generative rules, theres an interesting effect where you can a little intellectual traction on various components and can actually feel the "weight" move before you hit failure. 1b) I notice that often, learning to play this kind of material actually has to happen before the intellectual understanding. Its odd - youd assume the patterns would jump off the page but actually they only jump out to me once the whole thing is in my ears and fingers. 2) sometimes, when I've learned music like this, theres an odd sensation that I've closed some gap between me and the musicians. Like I'm allowed to walk all the way around a sculpture instead of just view it from the front. Do you get anything like that? 3) I think this video supports my thesis that kicked off my own analysis videos - a lot of people hear a few rhythmic tricks but Meshuggah actually have deeply interesting pitch choices that influence the rhythmic choices and not just the other way around. Whatcha think? I am immensely proud to counted as your friend. ❤

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dude... love the car bomb representation in these videos

The final section of Finally Free by Dream Theater may be another good example.

Is there anyway to get the notations of this? I've been trying to ear transcribe the song for awhile

when I first listened to this album after curiously clicking on a cool cover artwork in my recommended videos, I _knew_ I found something truly special~

Heliophobie by ni?

oh wow the end video music

can we please talk about the band the locust ????

HEY have you ever done a car bomb song? They play in free times check them out

You metal af. Meshuggah the best piece of ass shaking music ever written

A thing I noticed when you mentioned Meshuggah counting is, that Mark Holcomb explained the Make Total Destroy chorus part the same way. He also mentioned that Matt Halpern hated that they counted the part that way xD

Immutable is 2 years old now wtf

Hi! your videos have been very inspiring. Over the last few days I've been conducting my own analysis on the entire record and I found something really interesting that I've not come across before. If you look at all of the time signatures you can spot the fibonacci sequence. in the major riffs.

Ah Uneven Structure. Their album Februus is still one of my favorites of all time

Hey, would you ever consider looking into King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard? While traditionally not exclusively metal, they have a few albums going into metal territory. I don't think they're half as complex as Meshuggah or Carbomb, but they might be interesting, perhaps.

You should do a riff analysis of the Band Off Minor anything from Heat Death of the Universe. It's really "jazzy" hardcore.

Absolutely insane, the layers of patterns that construct these riffs. Not just in rhythm, and pitch but even in pitch displacement

This is one of my favourite Meshuggah songs! And not in small part due to that outro ... It's really the icing on an already really tasty cake! Love your channel BTW. Especially all the work you've put into the meshuggah analysis!

LET'S GO ive been waiting for this!

Frances the Mute and BTBAM. Say less

Hell yeah man! Freaking incredible break down as always I was wondering you ever heard Gran from Miami? That guy is super weird and kinda sounds like an in between of Tool and Meshuggah to me if that makes any sense haha, if you haven’t lemme get you a link cause I never spell his last name right haha czcams.com/video/ZBKIUi1eG1A/video.htmlsi=hTAeaYiRkyqCdtvL CC is in English, lmk what you think!

cynic - how could i

I searched for in the presence of enemies analysis and this gem popped, brilliant take and breakdown for such a very complex piece of music

catch 33 is amazing in its scope. One of my tops. They really took the concept of familiarity from prior tracks to build a cool tonal story. Damn, I'm gonna have to spin it again. lol Awesome vid

Nice

Absolutely mental, deranged, masterful, and wonderful. Insane props to CJ and Danny for enduring the torture of learning this one. It's time to update that website, doctor!!

Oh shit, stop everything, Metal Music Theory released a video!

damn that yawn song is insane

Great video, full of amazing content that really helps to figure out what's going on in this song! That's also very nice to see Danny performing with you on this one. His skills as a bass player are impressive. I am a fan of his Meshuggah playthroughs.

JFC. Worth the wait. Thank you. And the cover, really really insane. Especially considering its no secret that every 16th of a meshuggah recording is quantized to perfection.

I can't remember if I mentioned this to you before, could've sworn I did, but I was surprised you didn't mention it either way - the "altered snakes and ladders" riff coincidentally seems easier to play - in terms of fingering - if you treat the octave-displaced notes as the first notes of descending minor 7ths. Compositionally its mind-blowing that it works out this way, and it only does because of the ascending whole-tone nature of the original riff (ensuring that any evenly staggered octave displacement creates minor 7ths/major 9ths). I couldn't play this riff for ages because I was trying to orient my fingering from low to high notes, which results in some massive 5-6 fret stretches, and when I started orienting myself from the high notes and treating the riff as a series of descents, that's when I noticed how almost all the octaves form minor 7ths on the descent, and suddenly it became a piece of cake to play. Its just really cool that it works this way, and makes me wonder if the un-altered riff wasn't composed in such a way as to allow this.

That snakes and ladders riff is what got me into Meshuggah. That was something so mind twisting to me back then, that it was only matched by Gorguts, but Ive enjoyed this somehow more, because of the real sense of vertigo it induced in me. I still cant work while listening to Meshuggah :D. I have caught myself humming In Death - Is Death many times. It is also so satisfying to nail the "patterns". This song always feels like the riffs are jumbled in a massive knot and they are trying to sort themselves out, but end up tangling with each other in between. A truly unique exprience. I saw them live couple months ago, and they played all (MM, IDIS, IDID) sequence. One of my top experiences at a live performance of anything.

How do you like your legator x6? Im thinking of getting an x8

Finally! You delivered and you delivered real good

I'd love to hear an arrangement of meshuggah stuff for string quartet

love the POUND shirt man

Needed me anotha shuggah breakdown. Thanks

Pound shirt

Good to see you back

HE HAS RETURNED. I AM SO EXCITED

FLORID EKSTASIS IS FUCKING BRILLIANT.

"Altered snakes and ladders" that's the best description I have seen for all of those parts you've written there LOL. Thank you for dissecting this piece of art, really fan of your work!!

you are a blessing to youtube guitar. invaluable knowledge. thank you, man

i was SO surprised by the playthru

HALF STEP. This is awesome man! Top 5 meshuggah track for me. Up there with GHSIM, Pineal Gland Optics, Stifled/Nostrum, and TVSOR. I love just the absolute reckless abandonment of these riffs. Just reflections of themselves over and over. So intricately written and thought out. They never really go in depth about their compositional approach, just usually scratching the surface, but you can tell they can go to just huge lengths to write interesting music and they absolutely do. Proper nerd stuff on Meshuggah’s part.