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  • čas přidán 11. 02. 2014
  • Full interview for Village Green Records Album Testimonial Series
    Derek Johnson on Meshuggah's "Catch Thirty Three"
    December 8, 2013. Shot at General Public Collective, Fountain Square, Indianapolis, IN
    Directors of photography: Steven Clay, Julian Dalrymple
    Produced and directed: Travis Harvey, Julian Dalrymple

Komentáře • 234

  • @bicboi1930
    @bicboi1930 Před 10 lety +205

    thank you for validating my nerdy obsession with this band.

  • @Slayyyer84
    @Slayyyer84 Před 5 lety +117

    Catch 33 is too damn underrated!

  • @kaakatin
    @kaakatin Před 9 lety +290

    Some bands have fangirls, but Meshuggah has us hairy men.

    • @PanasonicTooth
      @PanasonicTooth Před 9 lety +5

      +kaakatin Fanbear it up!

    • @guybuddy1
      @guybuddy1 Před 7 lety +30

      *smart hairy men*

    • @Death2Dust
      @Death2Dust Před 4 lety +16

      @@guybuddy1 *Smart stupidly handsome hairy men*

    • @Wookash666
      @Wookash666 Před rokem +1

      When i try to play their masterpiece i feel like small bitchy fangirl...

    • @Itsunclegabby
      @Itsunclegabby Před rokem

      @@Death2Dust Well, are you single??

  • @djoverkin
    @djoverkin Před 4 lety +44

    if you look into his eyes, you see what we all felt when we discovered mesuhggah. sheer admiration, respect, awe, love. It's basically a religious experience for so many of us

    • @TTGTanner
      @TTGTanner Před 4 měsíci

      Meshuggah makes my leg days at the gym feel like psychedelic journeys

  • @NACHOTHEIST
    @NACHOTHEIST Před 2 lety +35

    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.

    • @MassHysteriaHD
      @MassHysteriaHD Před 3 měsíci

      I'd like your comment but its at 33 likes 😂

  • @armelind
    @armelind Před 7 lety +18

    I was bored with current music back in 1996. My friend went through great lengths to contact me while I was out of town. One of the things he HAD to tell me about was this band called "My Sugar". I was like... "ummm ok whatever." I got back into town and he showed me Destroy, Erase, Improve. I was blown away. I have been hooked ever since. I get it. I love it.

  • @mrjazzvids
    @mrjazzvids Před 8 lety +100

    I took an advanced rhythm class at music school back in 2010 and Tigran Hamasyan was also in the class - he transcribed this whole album for his final project that semester.

    • @vm7969
      @vm7969 Před 8 lety +15

      +mrjazzvids Thats crazy. Thanks for sharing that, I am a huge Meshuggah fan and a big Tigran fan. I always heard a little bit of Meshuggah in Tigran's music,

    • @HexaneLake
      @HexaneLake Před 8 lety

      +mrjazzvids Super badass, thanks for sharing!

    • @ThePhobophile
      @ThePhobophile Před 7 lety +2

      That's sick, I had heard Tigran was a big fan of Meshuggah. What school were you guys at?

    • @JS-tm1gq
      @JS-tm1gq Před 5 lety +3

      First time I heard Tigran that piano djent just cut through the speakers so purely. Some artists just make the hairs all over your body prick up and both meshuggah and tigran gave me that experience

    • @oscillator_
      @oscillator_ Před 4 měsíci

      Wow! Now that is a cool story.

  • @derekjohnsoncomposer
    @derekjohnsoncomposer  Před 10 lety +87

    Thanks for all the comments. It's coming along. Thank you so much for your support and interest! \m/ derek

    • @dreamopeth
      @dreamopeth Před 10 lety +17

      Catch 33 is a very special album to me. I love your enthusiasm and passion for this album, just like mine. When I first heard this it blew me away and being a drummer I started to memorize it note for note. Humming to the guitars and enjoying the musical journey it sent me on. It really put me in another place, I can't describe it. Like an outer body experience. I really hope they compose another masterpiece this way. It's so ahead of it's time..

    • @MetallicOpeth
      @MetallicOpeth Před 9 lety +2

      this album really is just that incredible.
      great talk man. I love this band to death

    • @kevindoyle2890
      @kevindoyle2890 Před 7 lety +4

      you were born in dissonance

    • @GregorySkidmore
      @GregorySkidmore Před 2 lety

      Yarr! This interview is truly wonderful to hear. Your devotion to the craft is admirable.

    • @santiagogarcia9436
      @santiagogarcia9436 Před rokem +1

      I'd buy that transcription in a heartbeat...

  • @royetinger6322
    @royetinger6322 Před 10 lety +49

    There is no other band in metal like Meshuggah who can make the simple and the complex co-exist so beautifully

  • @mcrocks536
    @mcrocks536 Před 3 lety +31

    catch 33 is one of the greatest albums of all time, i used to blast that shit EVERY night for months while i delivered papers.

    • @lostinlucidity
      @lostinlucidity Před 7 měsíci +1

      It never fucking gets old, timeless record

  • @doom-mantia
    @doom-mantia Před 4 lety +26

    This is one of my all-time favourite videos on CZcams

  • @shirty2
    @shirty2 Před měsícem +1

    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!

  • @hamsandwich6685
    @hamsandwich6685 Před 3 lety +16

    I think the "Entrapment" section is like a solo to the album, when I hear the album as a single song.
    It used to sound so random at first, but the build is felt more than melodically understood, yet, there is undeniably melody weaved within the syncopation of "random" bends and notes combined with the driving crash that holds the feel of 4.
    Meshuggah is so primal and visceral while also sounding as tight as a breaking machine.
    They have mastered the studder of rhythms to the point of breaking up notes in very exciting ways with surgical precision while maintaining a beastly rawness.

    • @devendasmusic
      @devendasmusic Před 9 měsíci +1

      I’m so in love with that whole section.

  • @obzen6803
    @obzen6803 Před 3 lety +9

    i remember i read some critics about catch 33 that it changed the modern music blah blah blah...i was 16 listening other complex music like BTBAM Dream Theater etc...i could not grasp this thing...i was like wtf am i listening, im on the third song and its the same fuckin riff with displacements..after my 4-5 time the music started to absorb me, like the force of a black hole and its gravity pulling you inside it...
    Now the best thing about it is, that i still feel mesmerized by catch 33 every fuckin time i listen to it...its like a new level reached where the absence of air lets me breathe.

  • @MateuszJagocha
    @MateuszJagocha Před 10 lety +84

    Dont cheat me! This is Adrien Brody!

  • @fleamarketfloppydisk
    @fleamarketfloppydisk Před 4 lety +14

    I wish meshuggah could get back to something like catch 33 or I again. Two of my favorite pieces of music ever.

  • @Elmothefuzzle
    @Elmothefuzzle Před 9 lety +34

    I am also a classical composer that loves Meshuggah!

  • @Consural
    @Consural Před 4 lety +8

    Meshuggah = Gods.
    They are otherworldy beings sent to make extremely heavy, extremely groovy and extremely complex metal music.
    I must have listened to Catch 33 hundreds, maybe thousands of times and the "Shed" part still gives me goosebumps every time.

    • @rickdiggler9680
      @rickdiggler9680 Před 2 lety +2

      Mate I've listened to that record for 16 odd years and it still changes itself on a regular basis. One of the all time great compositions

  • @killswitchhabib
    @killswitchhabib Před 8 lety +14

    *eloquently describes his love for, and the beauty of, Meshuggah's music.*
    "Thanks, Derek!"
    "YARRRRR!!!"
    Amazing.

  • @BrendanBaldwin
    @BrendanBaldwin Před 7 lety +16

    I feel the same way about Catch 33 in particular. I listened almost exclusively to that record for a whole year- like, my only musical diet that year and I did not tire of it. what an amazing project! I can't wait to see this app.

    • @mikuspalmis
      @mikuspalmis Před 6 lety +2

      Brendan Baldwin
      This interests me. I can't imagine listening to mostly one album let alone mostly one band for any extended length of time. I will delve pretty deep with a band... but eventually, sooner than later, I have to balance that out with something else as the situation or mood calls for.

  • @derrickwardell886
    @derrickwardell886 Před 10 lety +33

    Damn and i thought i geeked out to Catch 33

  • @23ograin53
    @23ograin53 Před 3 lety +5

    Until you figure out how to hear the song in 4/4, you virtually feel no groove at all, just complex, almost chaotic patters. When you do finally discern the rhythm, the groove is absolutely crushing!! Check out the verses on Perpetual Black Second. So exhilarating!

  • @SweetMangoMuncher
    @SweetMangoMuncher Před 4 měsíci

    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

  • @kevindoyle2890
    @kevindoyle2890 Před 7 lety +3

    you spoke of a deeper rythmic understanding....its amazing how your mind hears it and recognizes it...but its the most enjoyable thing to learn it and own it...it reels like deep learning...so awesome man.much respect

  • @johanneskarlsson6535
    @johanneskarlsson6535 Před 5 lety +4

    The members of Meshuggah must be delighted to have people like you as their fans.

  • @apsolyte4123
    @apsolyte4123 Před 3 lety +2

    You sir are a beautiful person. It just soothes my ears listening to someone talking so passionately about music, with so much care and love.

  • @doesthissmelllikechloroform
    @doesthissmelllikechloroform Před 10 lety +43

    This may sound crazy to some. I heard that album 6 years before it was ever released. I took 5 hits of double dipped blodder acid, sat in my room in total silence for about 7 hours. I was able to access the ether of our world. I heard their beautiful segmented rhythms, pulsating through this ether. At this time i had never even heard of Meshuggah. So i have an idea that the 5 guys in Meshggah have also tapped into this ether. Listening and bringing back sounds and ryhthms of the planets actual voice. Our planet is an oganic machine, very much like their music. So when Catch Thity Three came out, its was like stepping back in time for me. Like dashfu but 50 times as powerful. I know people are going to say, Oh "Acid flashback" but no. I dont have acid flashbacks. It was an absolute 100% overwelming feeling that i had heard this during my time in the ether.

    • @AKS9
      @AKS9 Před 10 lety +7

      makes sense to me

    • @doesthissmelllikechloroform
      @doesthissmelllikechloroform Před 10 lety +4

      AKS9 Thank you. All my friends think im nuts when i talk about the ether.

    • @pauljam98
      @pauljam98 Před 10 lety +4

      Dude , that was deep , and when i listen to meshuggah while smoke or eat pot , something strange happens , ive never feel this way with any other band ...

    • @TheBandFake
      @TheBandFake Před 9 lety

      Stuff like this happens to me too! Only it happens via dreams instead of acid trips.

    • @continuum288
      @continuum288 Před 7 lety

      That's super interesting.. PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!! Couldn't resist haha..

  • @samuelbenson1792
    @samuelbenson1792 Před 10 lety +2

    Derek! Besides discovering that you and I have the same musical background and appreciate composition on the same way, you have blown my mind. I prided myself in being the most appreciative listener and participator of Meshuggah until now. I feel like I've found my mental twin. I no longer feel alone in this world.

  • @dirtyharry1881
    @dirtyharry1881 Před 6 lety +5

    Hey, this is the dude on that Bleed video!

  • @cozinheiro9
    @cozinheiro9 Před 10 lety +4

    Thank you for this video. Up til now..I considered myself THE Meshuggah fan..but I tip my hat to you sir. The feelings you shared about how the music touches and influences you truly hits home with me..and I am veerrry jealous of your friendship with the guys..but you earned it!

  • @maladjustedtv
    @maladjustedtv Před 5 lety +10

    2019 - still watching

  • @maladjustedtv
    @maladjustedtv Před 8 lety +5

    Ive watched this video 6 or more times...I love the passion in your eyes!

  • @warcurse7
    @warcurse7 Před 10 lety +1

    I already Meshuggah for all the reasons you gave but seeing this just makes me want to listen to them even more. You have made me appreciate and love their music and music like it even more. Thank you!

  • @kennethdemeester4069
    @kennethdemeester4069 Před 10 lety +11

    Indeed, so deep in it, I share the same feelings sometimes, especially Tool, Steak number 8, Meshuggah, but also Techno and other electronic music (Schlomo, boards of canada, Eeprom, The Haxan Cloak, Holy Other, Fever Ray, ...) Music goes beyond styles and songs, it's pure emotion, that is what gets touched in my case. Even Industrial noise, that is not beautiful at all, but if you listen to whitehouse, you'll find pure agression and emotion, it brings me to places where I like to be. So anyway, I love enthousiasm, and look forward to seeing Meshuggah (again) on GMM in Belgium this summer.

  • @Pericles777
    @Pericles777 Před 4 lety +3

    I started listening to Meshuggah about a year before this album came out. I got to see them on that tour, playing for 50 people in Norfolk VA lol

  • @srpilha
    @srpilha Před 10 lety +5

    Dude. I have no words. You are the best bestest ever besting best. Much love to you, you Bartók of metal.
    From now on I'm hearing "sweet-ish" when you say Swedish, that's it.

  • @neomaredi5922
    @neomaredi5922 Před 10 lety +1

    Wow! Fantastic interview! Almost she'd a tear listening to how thoughtful, insightful and impassioned this guy is. Bravo man really, awesome awesome awesome.

  • @adambartlett1458
    @adambartlett1458 Před 7 lety +1

    how much this speaks to me is way too powerful to just be putting in a CZcams comment.
    I have loved music my whole life. I am a musician and that is what I was meant to do. When I first heard his band, they changed music for me forever. It was absolutely different from everything I've ever heard before it. When I first heard catch 33, it became necessary for me to also learn the music. I sat there on my word pad on my computer and played section after section over and over again learning every single exact note. Then that is all I played for years. Pretty much anyway. I have Meshuggah covers on my Channel right now. I covered in death is life and death is death. I also covered the album itself up until and death is life and death is death. catch 33 I have named my favorite album for many years now. Watching this testimonial of yours reminds me that I am not crazy for worshipping this music the way that I have and for it changing me the way that it has. I have so much more to say but I will leave it here for now.

  • @progfan234
    @progfan234 Před 10 měsíci

    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.

  • @ramellbass5225
    @ramellbass5225 Před 10 lety +2

    Wow this is my favorite interview on metal EVER!
    Honestly, that's how I've always felt listening to Meshuggah,
    I was just never able to explain it as well as Derek Johnson lol
    Meshuggah's music takes me elsewhere EVERYTIME!!
    I'm so hype to see them at Best Buy Theater June 21st ^____^
    Join the shuggah trance and change your life

  • @Brosephosaurus
    @Brosephosaurus Před 7 lety +3

    One of my favorite albums of all time, and the album that exposed me to heavy metal as a whole, and you managed to explain it perfectly. I really don't have any deep understanding of music theory or basic knowledge in how music "works" in general but even then everything you said is everything I've felt about this album since listening to it 10 years ago. And it's crazy to think I have been listening to this album for a decade! I was 14 when I first listened to it and never would have guessed what a profound impact it would have on me. It is art in it's purest form. It's hard not to smile listening to this album. Every time the riff from Dehumanization kicks in it is like falling in love all over again. Great video man.
    Do you think you'll ever upload some covers of you playing this album? Also, what do you think about the latest album?
    Keep doing what you're doing man! Thanks for the video.

  • @TheRumbles13
    @TheRumbles13 Před 3 lety +5

    I love introducing people to meshuggah,
    They always hate it.
    Then a year later they are obsessed

  • @continuum288
    @continuum288 Před 3 lety +3

    Concerning why programmed drums were used-
    Why did Meshuggah decide to use programmed drums for Catch 33?
    Tomas-------Mainly for the same reason that we had whoever wrote the riff record both bass and guitar for those riffs. We’re very used to programming drums because that’s how we usually write songs but then we learn them, rehearse them, then I record live drums. Everyone’s really good at programming drums, so everyone’s kind of a drummer in that sense. Even if you look at the Nothing album, most drum parts that are on there are not written by me but are written by whoever wrote the part or the song or whatever, so they do a lot of drum patterns for our music, for most of them. And for this very album to be able to just come up with a riff, record it, record the bass and be able to record the drum part immediately, we programmed the drums. And what we noticed was for what we wanted this album to be, like a very guitar driven album. What we wanted was basically like a super steady emotionless rhythm section behind it. We have such great samples. We have access to such great stuff as far as drum samples and all that goes.
    So, we just noticed early on that this just sounds fucking good as it is and if I were to go in there and record like super steady kind of held back drumming, it wouldn’t have come out this way, it would have been a totally different album. Also it would have taken forever just to learn this part that we play for 13 minutes, which that took us a month to learn and it’s not at all like the harder parts of the album to learn. It would have taken like half a year to learn all the drum parts especially with the way we did it. All the riffs were rewritten and revamped throughout. It would have meant going in and rehearsing something silly like for weeks maybe and record that, then a week later relearn it slightly different, record it again and maybe at the end of the week you’re not even using that part.
    So for this album it was just the right thing to do and it’s kind of cool for our music. What we have always done, the drums are pretty prominent and it’s such a taboo for this style of music to say yeah, this while album is programmed drums. People kind of scratch their heads and we like that aspect of it as well because it’s definitely taboo in a very percussive Metal scene.

    • @derekjohnsoncomposer
      @derekjohnsoncomposer  Před 3 lety +2

      that's really awesome! could you site the source? Cheers!

    • @Maldito011316
      @Maldito011316 Před 3 lety +2

      @@derekjohnsoncomposer Found the source: www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/musicians/tomas_haake_meshuggah.htm

    • @derekjohnsoncomposer
      @derekjohnsoncomposer  Před 3 lety

      @@Maldito011316 Cool! Thanks!

  • @44SuperShredder
    @44SuperShredder Před 6 lety +1

    After hearing how deeply you understand the band and its progression. I’ll bet the violent sleep of reason was a gift from heaven to your ears.

  • @newfound_glory
    @newfound_glory Před 5 lety +6

    Catch 33 sounds like you're machine. I remember there was some vid, where it was used the song "Paradoxical Spiral", where Terminator was spawned from the future (the first one with Arnie). And it looked pretty awesome.

  • @NoEasyFeet
    @NoEasyFeet Před 10 lety +1

    I found this band a couple months ago. I'm terribly late to the party. As I try to catch up on their albums or attempt any of the drum compositions, I can't help but "zone out" or "in" or whatever to it. It's enigmatic to me. One does not simply "listen" to Meshuggah. Soooo happy I found this band.

  • @abstractobjection
    @abstractobjection Před 10 měsíci

    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.

  • @grabatar
    @grabatar Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for this.
    The way of thinking really clicked with me.
    i work in business but my heart is really in wanting to create art in form of painting and music.
    I really hope you keep enjoying life and will be able to (the world sadly require money also).

  • @meshuggahdave5607
    @meshuggahdave5607 Před 7 lety +27

    if you ask me, meshuggah is the sound of all that is opposite of the metal scene. this is not music of evil. Meshuggah is the voice of humanity and good will cutting through the cacophony of hands scrambling for power and wealth in selfishness... in my opinion.

    • @muffmuff3631
      @muffmuff3631 Před 7 lety +8

      EXACTLY, people say meshuggah is very dark and all because of the imagery in videos like "Bleed", but you can hear in their lyrics that they despise everything evil that's goin on in the world

    • @isaaczaladar1174
      @isaaczaladar1174 Před 7 lety +1

      MuffMuff36 catch 33 is unbelievable constructed amazing!!!

    • @JS-tm1gq
      @JS-tm1gq Před 5 lety +3

      Evil is a broad word that could be applied to meshuggahs lyrical content depending on your perspective of the world.
      For me, meshuggahs lyrics always give this vibe of killing your humanity and rebirthing yourself as a machine but still being unable to strip yourself of the negative emotions that make you human.
      It’s a very introverted, introspective reflection of the inability to shake the evils of humanity no matter what extent you go to to achieve this.

  • @petitlouis5010
    @petitlouis5010 Před 5 lety +1

    I stopped listening to metal in the 90's. Listening sometimes briefly, no feelings whatsoever. And, like a lot of people who got there a little bit late, I stumbled upon... Bleed's drum bass pattern... Hooked since then, and still, just trying to bang my bold head. Correctly. That testimony was badass, we really feel the passion.

  • @highervibetribe9137
    @highervibetribe9137 Před 7 lety +1

    My 1st taste of Meshuggah was from my Friend/Guitarist in 98/99. Shortly after Chaosphere was released. I didn't know what to make of it, it sounded insane, I never heard a Drummer like that. I was hooked from then on, missed them on their last Tour, hope they come back to Fl.

  • @Star_Sn1per
    @Star_Sn1per Před 7 lety +7

    If i could only choose one a metal album to bring on a desert island.. This would be it.

  • @yorvenezia3724
    @yorvenezia3724 Před rokem

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

  • @captainron4470
    @captainron4470 Před 7 lety

    this man existing makes me happy Derek Johnson... fucking thank you for this contribution

  • @fabiocuccu3689
    @fabiocuccu3689 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @Tgatwg
    @Tgatwg Před 8 lety +18

    Has the app been created yet?

  • @genebrady
    @genebrady Před 10 lety +8

    Amazing video, i can relate so much. I highly recommend you listen to the album Masstaden by Vildhjarta. It's also swedish prog death metal, but confers its emotion through hauntingly dissonant beauty and batshit crazy riffs. It has always seemed to have the quality of a metal concerto to me, and I'm sure you would enjoy its compositional difficulty.

    • @mikuspalmis
      @mikuspalmis Před 6 lety

      Etchei
      You might like the now defunct band Means End.

  • @akrizik
    @akrizik Před 8 lety +3

    Thank you. A more eloquent explanation for their style has not been uttered. TY.

  • @MorbusMactabilis
    @MorbusMactabilis Před 10 lety +1

    Did my undergrad thesis on this album just a few months ago and really wish I'd seen this video before it. One of the best talks about anything I've ever seen, never mind that Meshuggah is has been my favorite band for a decade and so has this album. Never been so awestruck and jealous at the same time haha

  • @FLS713HTX
    @FLS713HTX Před 6 lety

    This is MAN music dude, i’m a jazz drummer myself, but those rudiments, so well musically coordinatedand powerful beefy sound they create is just unbelievable, it’s just so immense and aggressive you can’t quench the thirst for it, I know exactly how you feel. words are just not specific enough to describe it, you have to just shut it and listen to see what it is.

  • @darylsmith5930
    @darylsmith5930 Před 3 lety +2

    Meshuggah is a personal experience.

  • @mountainstepper
    @mountainstepper Před 10 lety +2

    Bravo man, wow all of a sudden I don't feel alone!

  • @DioGhark
    @DioGhark Před 8 lety +1

    Listening to your words about Meshuggah is such a beautiful thing, i feel absolutely the same way. Meshuggah has such a distinct and interesting sound, while still holding all the aspects of metal. It's wierd, they have a simple idea (although it's not fucking simple at all), yet they're so different from everything i've listened so far.
    I'm interested in every single genre of music and i'm still trying to find bands that blew me away like Meshuggah did, and still does, in all the other genres.

  • @schpleeb
    @schpleeb Před 3 lety +2

    This alb is a *MASTERPIECE* ❤️

  • @davidolbing9029
    @davidolbing9029 Před 11 měsíci

    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 ❤

  • @xXxThelegend27xXx
    @xXxThelegend27xXx Před 6 lety +2

    This guy validates how I feel about music

  • @guybuddy1
    @guybuddy1 Před 7 lety +1

    "I never get sick of the music" this exactly. I don't know any other band or type of music that you never get sick of, even when you listen to the same album over and over every day for months. If regular music is paper, Meshuggah is a tesseract.

  • @Jath2112
    @Jath2112 Před 3 lety +2

    I agree, it causes goosebumps

  • @XxBeboxX360
    @XxBeboxX360 Před 10 lety +1

    Very talented band! Keep those riffs! Greetings from Puerto Rico! \m/

  • @Maldito011316
    @Maldito011316 Před 3 lety +2

    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

  • @maladjustedtv
    @maladjustedtv Před 7 měsíci

    2024 - still here!

  • @eyemoeba
    @eyemoeba Před rokem

    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.

  • @TheGinglymus
    @TheGinglymus Před 5 lety

    Catch 33 have never been one of my favourites. I will have to check it out again now.

  • @Egoblivion
    @Egoblivion Před 8 lety +2

    Also ironic that this masterpiece, the album that gave you the final push to want to learn drums, is the one with programmed drums. It's another built-n paradox that Meshuggah included. That's how ingeniously paradoxical Catch 33 is!!!

    • @nut8856
      @nut8856 Před 8 lety

      Nice on pointing that out! Really cool to see how the theme of the paradox spreads out in the real world

  • @meshuggahdave5607
    @meshuggahdave5607 Před 7 lety +1

    I completely concur and agree with everything you said. Truly a life changing album. I wish I could be a part of something new that follows along some of these same lines.

  • @MaurizioMezzatesta
    @MaurizioMezzatesta Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @scottashe984
    @scottashe984 Před 2 lety

    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

  • @JohnDJonesIII
    @JohnDJonesIII Před 10 lety +3

    hmm, I never thought I'd find someone as obsessed with music as I am... :-P

  • @hg1651
    @hg1651 Před 9 lety

    Thank you for sharing this !

  • @44SuperShredder
    @44SuperShredder Před 4 lety +3

    When will I have access to this god program sir? I watch this video once a week just to remind myself that I’m not crazy for loving this band so much.

    • @derekjohnsoncomposer
      @derekjohnsoncomposer  Před 4 lety +6

      good news coming soon. hang tight! \m/

    • @johnhutchinson5015
      @johnhutchinson5015 Před 4 lety

      @@derekjohnsoncomposer I'm just finding this video/interview now and please god yes the iPad app pleaaaaaase. Lemme beta test that shit!

  • @davh8741
    @davh8741 Před 5 měsíci

    Please let this still be being worked on

  • @nope44589
    @nope44589 Před 9 měsíci

    9 years ago haha. youtube sending me everything meshuggah

  • @TheRumbles13
    @TheRumbles13 Před 3 lety +1

    Don't know who you are but I click if I see catch 33

  • @andresludmer
    @andresludmer Před 8 lety +5

    what happened with the app? did it came out

  • @isaackmojica8302
    @isaackmojica8302 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @YukonASMR
      @YukonASMR Před 2 lety

      lateralus is metal, maybe the lateralus of "Djent"

    • @isaackmojica8302
      @isaackmojica8302 Před 2 lety +1

      @@YukonASMR "djent"the fuck is that suppossed to mean????

  • @kylegross9923
    @kylegross9923 Před 4 měsíci

    And I thought I was obsessed with this album….

  • @fromthesky1050
    @fromthesky1050 Před 4 lety +2

    The John Wick of transcribing

  • @geighsects2519
    @geighsects2519 Před 2 lety +2

    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.

  • @meshuggahdave5607
    @meshuggahdave5607 Před 7 lety +1

    I learned up to that octave break before the crazier stuff and that in and of itself is a forearm workout no matter where you play it or tune it. mental and physically difficult if not semi impossible...

  • @TheMoonchild1969
    @TheMoonchild1969 Před 6 lety +3

    Adrien Brody loves Meshu...awesome!

  • @BaphometRael
    @BaphometRael Před 9 lety +4

    How could I get those transcriptions?
    I have ALWAYS felt the same way you do about this record.
    An absolute masterpiece.

  • @Parfashrek
    @Parfashrek Před 7 lety +5

    Derek johnson, how far did you get?

  • @looseunit9180
    @looseunit9180 Před 3 lety +1

    What a cool dude

  • @SCT__
    @SCT__ Před 8 lety

    Excellent interview!

  • @Israeldenadai
    @Israeldenadai Před 10 lety

    This made my day!!

  • @goatman3057
    @goatman3057 Před rokem

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

  • @TheShoryuken
    @TheShoryuken Před 8 lety +2

    Hey whatever happened to this? I would love to buy this, whether it's in an app form or a PDF form!

  • @eliash8903
    @eliash8903 Před 6 lety +1

    Shit, I found this SO interesting! Thank you for your thoughts man! \m/

  • @charmanfer
    @charmanfer Před 2 lety +1

    And, is that transcription available?

  • @WhiteRussianDolls
    @WhiteRussianDolls Před 2 měsíci

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