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Meshuggah pits are also very audible, so remember to put your big girl panties on and remember, if someone falls pick em up

This is the album that introduced me to Meshuggah back in 2008, and I sat on the edge of my bed in silence and listened from start to finish. Absolutely blown away it felt like a religious experience. I still listen to it now everyday at the gym!

This is awesome, and wonderful documentation of this late, great composer/guitarist's artistic vision. You did a great job at playing what sounds like a very challenging piece. Scott Johnson's website and publisher's website lists this piece as having been composed in 2004 rather than 2003.

I added this to my "Contemporary classical music for electric guitar and/or electric bass guitar" playlist.

Philip Glass: "Two Pages" (for Steve Reich) (1968), for piano or electric keyboard, later performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble

Nicely done. I added this video to my "Contemporary classical music for electric guitar and/or electric bass guitar" playlist.

Did you find the Fibonacci sequence that runs through all the major riffs?

Hello Derek! Just discovering your channel now and I'm really found of the music I'm Hearing. Is there a place I can find more of your interpretations or compositions?

And I thought I was obsessed with this album….

Sweet. I'm the worlds foremost expert on Tomas Haake and his drum parts, but people dont know me xD

I don’t know much about music, just playing electric guitar growing up, and listening to some hard rock with my dad as a kid. But I just love Meshuggah. I have never had a band that has stuck for so long like Meshuggah, they’ve been with me through everything. Although my room is decorated poorly, I have a catch 33 poster in the middle of my room. Great words sir

Dude.. This is a serious fucking addict. I feel much better about my life now, thanks.

Please let this still be being worked on

wow love it

2024 - still here!

9 years ago haha. youtube sending me everything meshuggah

This interview is profound. I am going to dedicate the next year and a half of my life transcribing it into all languages and sounds.

There is not a single boring Meshuggah moment indeed. Thanks for this sincere treatise -- almost a love letter -- to an album, and to a band, dare I say, that will not be surpassed.

Beautifully storytelling ❤. And so smart! Like all of us musicians 😉 Who ever you are, you are beautiful in a way we don’t se people anymore ❤

This guy would love Gran Hechicero Afro Cuban punk is wild as hell!

Where this at i wanna jam

So did this ever see the light of day? Shame to let that effort go to waste if not. Can you share the transcriptions in whatever state they're in?

Fantastic sonic experience! At the beggining came to my mind the presence of Kerry Minear from Gentle Giant... Totally amazing work man.

Elliott Carter as rock guitar. Why not? This really works.

Did the project end abruptly? It's been almost 10 years :(

Did the app ever come out? I’m trying to find it

Thank you. I just want to tell you, don't be anxious. You are on the right path. Catch 33...

wow their sound really pulled you in! such brilliant music as this deserves geek-level obsession. eye had a similar experience the first time i heard Tool. after hearing Stinkfist on MTV in '96, i bought Aenima, and proceeded to listen to it through (77 mins) at least once every day for well over a year, and it still sounds amazing to me. i began as a drummer and have moved through instruments, currently learning piano. Meshuggah is a fairly new obsession for me. i believe that Tomas Haake is a true master of his craft, and the fact that the band somehow manages to keep up with him blows my mind. their music is truly astonishing to behold. i think i have had a similar obsession with Rick Wakeman's amazing piano playing on David Bowie's Life on Mars. the idea of being able to play it had never really been an ambition, because it felt way beyond me, almost incomprehensible to me until fairly recently - 40 years on. i still don't fancy my chances of nailing it, but i understand it now. for a musician and composer, what better project is there than to immerse yourself in a ridiculously ambitious project - a real challenge that sits you in amongst the most amazing music? learning drums is such a great challenge for our brains, and to aim so high as this means you will be busy for a good long while. good luck on your continuing journey.

16:55 interviewer feels the need to make an awkwardly political and completely irrelevant plug for horseshoe theory in the middle of this as though music and ideology are somehow congruent... weird.

This album is like “The Dark Crystal” of music, to me. So unique, an entire world designed for only one immense story. It just sounds like it was made on another planet, or in another dimension.

A lot of online music educators are a bit snobbish when it comes to metal so I really dig this. Catch 33 is a masterpiece.

Were you at the Meshuggah show at Pop’s in St. Louis in 06 or 07? I remember vividly a guy talking to Thomas Haake on the floor out in front of the stage before the show started. He looked just like you but without a beard and was sipping a drink. Was that you? They were there with Mnemic supporting.

This is a fun video

Is this app available?

I really enjoyed your episode of Banged up Abroad. Still amazed at how you escaped the jungle and the blood thirsty cannibal cartel. Cheers from Zimbabwe

Well-done, Derek! This works so perfectly on electric guitar!

33k views 😉

Máster...

I just discovered this and as a composer and electric guitarist I can relate so much on these thoughts and I'm really inspired by the speech, so I just wanted to thank you! Also I'm looking forward for the transcriptions. I couldn't find them anywhere online but I'm sure you are still working on it even if it's been quite a few years.

This is so amazing. Sheet music please?

Very beautiful and inspiring piece of music. I really liked the "warble" modulation effect.

And, is that transcription available?

Yarr!!!

simply put..catch 33 is the lateralus of metal....the best wroten concept metal album ever put to tape!!

is that app available now?

I agree, it causes goosebumps

phenomenal

Meshuggah is in to something interesting.

I transcribed Autonomy Lost and Imprint of the Un-saved to Guitar Pro 5 today :D I hate how I can't get the drum cymbals right because there aren't that many on midi so I keep changing it every time I go through it :P It's fun how it alternates between how it truncates each part and how it rotates the riff 1 beat. I never seen that rotating thing before, ever. Whoa