This is a musical monument of transcendental dimensions, and a journey to the outer realms of the practicable! And the end of this journey sees us staring into the abyss. Nothing more is left, nothingness awaits us...
Polyrhythms are where music is heading now, once you learn a couple you can feel the rhythm better than you ever could. It's like a drug except instead of building a tolerance you enjoy it more and more. Never will I hear music the same, if you don't train your ears to hear it you will never know what your missing.
@miceskin EXACTLY, people can't appreciate bands like animals as leaders or chimp spanner, they think it's just blasting non-sense....i especially love it when someone says a band sucks at transitions just because they can't keep in tempo those changes! ohh and also mats and morgan band....and the jimmy agren band are VERY VERY tight!!!!
@miceskin i'm glad that people see music for what it is! it's sad how very few people TRULY have a feel for music...even the majority of non percussion musicians because they like music for the melody and harmony...but they lack the capability of hearing the harmony of rhythm, they only appreciate the tone and so they think stuff like this sounds like garbage...some may appreciate it, but they miss out on so much...plus rhythm will accelerate you at ANY instrument and make you more creative!
and ignore my name, i hate slayer now, i made that when i was 14, lol...but check out my favorited videos, i have a huge variety of music....and i've even uploaded a few clapping music videos (steve reich) over some ostinatos...and the piano video is the first song i've ever learned on piano, it's a shame that my keyboard has no velocity because i can play the song with the proper dynamics...everything is so loud and annoying, and it butchers the song...but like i said, first song i've learned!
Surely if there's more than a few polys there should be instances when more than 2 pieces of percussion fall on the same beat. AKA physically impossible.
meh! i play the same song warming up. but i do it with many more instruments than only drums. I got all kinda leads. Give me a paint bucket, one complete single-serving of silverware, 8 paint spatulas in 8 different sizes (1/2" wide, 4" long or 1" wide by 8" long, you get the idea), one set of nepalese prayer chimes (d-) and a Rwandan 6' "Elephant's foot" ultra-bass "ta the face' base drums. I'll whip 3d quadrorythmic next level beats that can't even be transcribed. Yeah, this guy is good.
what? How is that possible! Dude was picking incredibly odd meters to play in. There was like 8 I think! What the FUCK! That's fuckin' ridiculous ha ha!
@yoitscaleb oh wow, good thing you have no sense of how he is doing almost the impossible. imagine multitasking in the most unimaginabley difficult way. this guy might as well be working on a human heart while repairing the side of a space ship at the same time. probably would be easier
thank you! i do listen to music for easy listening every now and then....but i absolutely can't stand it when people call this mindless and can't even appreciate it because they can't follow it....but im a musician so i mainly listen to shit that will blow my mind i.e. jeff loomis, john5 AND OF COURSE MESHUGGAH!!!!!
Well people are always looking for structure, rhythm, etc.. and you cant always find it, but that doesnt mean its bad. This guy is just demonstrating what the brain is capable of. Its very difficult to do.
If he is trying to keep the steady beat on the bell, I don't understand why he stopped keeping it. It should have been the base for the whole concept he built on.
Dear geebee1985, I think what this guy is playing is far ahead your comprenhension capabilities. It might not be PERFECT (which is always boring), but it is pretty solid, creative and f...ing difficult.
Why don´t you try to write it down to see if it is tight or not. Would you?
I agree with you about Pete Zeldman, he´s another freak.
I´ve never seen Tomas Haake play nothing like this.
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
help if it where actaully all in time haha like hes trying to keep in one signature, but cant keep it solid, its cool tho, i can appreciate it for what it is, check out pete zeldman if you really want to be amazed, also pissed off because where can you apply that to any sort of modern music at all lol
K I'll try to explain this in terms of a band to make it easier to understand. Let's say the guitar riff is in 3/4. The drummer decides to play a 5/4 beat. That guitar riff would have to be played 5 full times, while the drum beat would only have to play it 3 full times for them to be synched up again.
Essentially it just means 2 or more time signatures playing at once.
Actually what you're talking about is a polymeter. alot of people mix those two up. a polyrhythm is where one set of notes plays a steady beat, while another set is shortened or extended to play a different number of equal notes in the same time. In a 5:4 polyrhythm, for example, one hand plays 4 steady notes in the 4/4 measure, while the other hand plays 5 notes but shortens them so they are equally lenthed and fits into the 4/4, and both hands will hit at the same time on 1 of the next measure
Yeh I def overlooked that. I knew what a polyrythm was, but decided to use polymeters as a basic way of explaining how they work. I didn't know the term for polymeter's though so thank you!!
Badass is right, freaky in fact. I have been searching for a good poly example for a week now, this guy shows the best example by far. Seriously!? Thats inhuman...
You do realize he is doing something that is pretty much impossible for many people. He is thinking of 8 things at one time.. On average, humans can only retain 7 things in their active memory at a time, until we forget. This is remarkable.
in fact it's just one thing. simple example is 2v3. in the beginning it might be two things, but it gets one single rythms with time. same happens here.
@luksta11 this and of course any song by animals as leaders!
xxxslayerxxx666 8 months ago
Total Genius!!
DennyAJD 9 months ago
this is like the game SIMONx1000000000000
elliotkim13 11 months ago 2
Tomas Haake actually uses mostly polyMETER, not polyrhythm. Polymeter is FAR easier than what this guy is doing.
JatinderGill9 11 months ago
This is a musical monument of transcendental dimensions, and a journey to the outer realms of the practicable! And the end of this journey sees us staring into the abyss. Nothing more is left, nothingness awaits us...
InMusicWeTrust1000 11 months ago
Polyrhythms are where music is heading now, once you learn a couple you can feel the rhythm better than you ever could. It's like a drug except instead of building a tolerance you enjoy it more and more. Never will I hear music the same, if you don't train your ears to hear it you will never know what your missing.
miceskin 11 months ago
@miceskin EXACTLY, people can't appreciate bands like animals as leaders or chimp spanner, they think it's just blasting non-sense....i especially love it when someone says a band sucks at transitions just because they can't keep in tempo those changes! ohh and also mats and morgan band....and the jimmy agren band are VERY VERY tight!!!!
904Jags4life 11 months ago
@miceskin i'm glad that people see music for what it is! it's sad how very few people TRULY have a feel for music...even the majority of non percussion musicians because they like music for the melody and harmony...but they lack the capability of hearing the harmony of rhythm, they only appreciate the tone and so they think stuff like this sounds like garbage...some may appreciate it, but they miss out on so much...plus rhythm will accelerate you at ANY instrument and make you more creative!
xxxslayerxxx666 4 months ago
and ignore my name, i hate slayer now, i made that when i was 14, lol...but check out my favorited videos, i have a huge variety of music....and i've even uploaded a few clapping music videos (steve reich) over some ostinatos...and the piano video is the first song i've ever learned on piano, it's a shame that my keyboard has no velocity because i can play the song with the proper dynamics...everything is so loud and annoying, and it butchers the song...but like i said, first song i've learned!
xxxslayerxxx666 4 months ago
@luksta11
AND it sounds fucking great too!
whatshendrix 11 months ago
Fuck my life, Oh my god. I'm going crazy just trying to listen, this is crazy.
SnootyWimbledon 1 year ago
Holy fucking shit, if you're any sort of musician you'll realize how fucking incredible this is!
spracketskooch 1 year ago
blood started dripping out of my ears as i focused on keeping track of every subsequent sequence added. this is intense
oldlampsfornew 1 year ago
lol! "how many brains does he have?" .. love it. haha
myxomata 1 year ago
shoot me in the FUCKING FACE.
winner0loser 1 year ago
Amazing
italianguerrilla 1 year ago
well done
boganishwaysv2 1 year ago
how many brains does he have
speedyy231 1 year ago 5
Surely if there's more than a few polys there should be instances when more than 2 pieces of percussion fall on the same beat. AKA physically impossible.
venusasaboy 1 year ago
@venusasaboy poly's don't have to be on the beat. a box triplet starting on the and of 1 for example.
spenserbsmith 1 year ago
meh! i play the same song warming up. but i do it with many more instruments than only drums. I got all kinda leads. Give me a paint bucket, one complete single-serving of silverware, 8 paint spatulas in 8 different sizes (1/2" wide, 4" long or 1" wide by 8" long, you get the idea), one set of nepalese prayer chimes (d-) and a Rwandan 6' "Elephant's foot" ultra-bass "ta the face' base drums. I'll whip 3d quadrorythmic next level beats that can't even be transcribed. Yeah, this guy is good.
BorisKafka 1 year ago
And this is probably Tomas Haake's father.
ilhadosmacacos 1 year ago
My fucking head hurts
r34perpwnz 1 year ago
What if when you die you hear a 40 layered poylrhythm???!!!!???
foodmunkey 1 year ago
my sense of rythym is has been left a mere puddle at my feet.
TheScottishDreamer 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
that sucked so bad...
jazzlyzack 1 year ago
@jazzlyzack
What a fucking tool you are... Do you even know what he's playing?
whatshendrix 1 year ago
this is what they should play before lethal injection
TranslucentPlenum 1 year ago
My brain...it has been defeated...
surtursfire 1 year ago 13
@surtursfire hahaha, best comment ever!
xxxslayerxxx666 1 year ago
what? How is that possible! Dude was picking incredibly odd meters to play in. There was like 8 I think! What the FUCK! That's fuckin' ridiculous ha ha!
AttemtpD 1 year ago
O.O the guys from Neurosis seriously have to hear this
Power2theFlyingV 1 year ago
this is rhythmic harmonics! incredible!
ponderingwanderer 1 year ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
this is ive never even drummed before and i can do this,it just sounds like retarded ass piss out of my ass
yoitscaleb 1 year ago
@yoitscaleb this is for grown ups. go and play like a good boy and STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MUSICIANS BUSINESS YOU CUNT!!!!!
dayiiv 1 year ago
@yoitscaleb oh wow, good thing you have no sense of how he is doing almost the impossible. imagine multitasking in the most unimaginabley difficult way. this guy might as well be working on a human heart while repairing the side of a space ship at the same time. probably would be easier
smitty010493 1 year ago
holy fuckin shit is all i gotta say. This dude is a badass!
dpflug89 1 year ago
amazing, who the fuck are those 4 retards who disliked it?
zaccsalter 1 year ago
brain failure 404 - rhythm not found *bang*
great!
Akira0ws 1 year ago
someone make this guy stop... it's REALLY scaring me.
LOL!
great!
d4n13lsd 2 years ago
this sounds so terrible lol, but its fucking genius. i have trouble understanding polyrhythms.
Tb0neZ5 2 years ago
i wonder what he sees in his mind when hes playing that
meegel 2 years ago 4
@meegel
pure fear, probably :P
quasarwaves 1 year ago
Sounds like tribal indonesian rhythms.
real1acer 2 years ago
"erm, Houston we have a problem.
Glenn Larsson has just blown our minds."
:)
CosmicTurtle21 2 years ago 3
lol this guy is a genius, really.
qwertyfelix 2 years ago
Wow, that is amazing.
Javdoc 2 years ago
god i can't play past just 3 of them at once lol, i wish i could find the sheet music for this! and im not very good at writing it out myself lol.
xxxslayerxxx666 2 years ago
reminds me of my windchime
Inconspicuonymous 2 years ago 2
hahahahahaha; this is ridiculous!
Drub808 2 years ago
Damn.. haha nice.
arthurxanimal 2 years ago
good heavens, glenn!
counting 4 or maybe 5 layers is possible; but this is not human :O
Akira0ws 2 years ago
Lol like reading 8 things at the same time
PeponeNRC 2 years ago
Jesus!
ArtOfPhire 2 years ago
Thats intense. I might need 8 hands to play that.
philnoll 2 years ago 4
eight brains
hatedrivesus 2 years ago 4
Four brains for eight hands, you mean.
iforgot120 2 years ago
wow, what the fuck. i lost him at like 5 or so. haha
rockonmetal83 2 years ago
This is fucking INSANE!!
HjalmarGuitarMaster 2 years ago
MESHUGGAH. for real polyrythms.
Morgan Agren for a real polyrythmic percussionist better than Bruford.
AcusticDave 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
it sounds like a bunch of shit to me :/
x0scimy0x 2 years ago
It does sound like shit, but its not about that. It's just about what his brain is doing, not about making something that sounds great.
trenken 2 years ago 2
thank you! i do listen to music for easy listening every now and then....but i absolutely can't stand it when people call this mindless and can't even appreciate it because they can't follow it....but im a musician so i mainly listen to shit that will blow my mind i.e. jeff loomis, john5 AND OF COURSE MESHUGGAH!!!!!
xxxslayerxxx666 2 years ago 5
Well people are always looking for structure, rhythm, etc.. and you cant always find it, but that doesnt mean its bad. This guy is just demonstrating what the brain is capable of. Its very difficult to do.
trenken 2 years ago
@xxxslayerxxx666
Yes, it's always an interesting thing to see people do things as crazy as that. Great job.
TheGrandBrand 2 years ago
Bruford yes? you think we are idiots yes?? -_-
Rollojay is right
Stupness 2 years ago
OH MY GOD ------ :O
KillerDrummer88 2 years ago
i guess this only sounds good to drummers
RolloJay 2 years ago 4
what is he hitting for that low note???
matthewlesco 2 years ago
I can't count this!
The drum kit is really beautyful. Nice!
HighOnMetal 2 years ago
Ffuck from 1:24 it's just, no words 0_0
Stupness 2 years ago
Holy fuck O_O
peachy901 2 years ago
Comment removed
Stupness 2 years ago
Music Kung Fu, I'm going to set something like this up for meditation, exercise and of course to play Chopin's Trios Nouvelles Etude No. 2
You can have the pebble now, I've got get to work. Loved it.
drivenhome 2 years ago
I guess it's not about the doublebass after all. It's nice to see a pro that can show that.
shanebieda 2 years ago
That's pretty good especially how it sounds like some creepy stuff
superjam18 3 years ago 2
amazing
lismore21 3 years ago
this is incredible
gretschdrummer1218 3 years ago
If he is trying to keep the steady beat on the bell, I don't understand why he stopped keeping it. It should have been the base for the whole concept he built on.
erikeepper 3 years ago
this guy is actually amazing. this would be absurdly difficult to play.
archerman3000 3 years ago 4
when you understand the concept of polymeters and polyrhythms and such, this is actually a beautiful thing to listen to.
anybody that didnt know anything about it would think its just noise i thnk
Moshwell 3 years ago 5
Dear geebee1985, I think what this guy is playing is far ahead your comprenhension capabilities. It might not be PERFECT (which is always boring), but it is pretty solid, creative and f...ing difficult.
Why don´t you try to write it down to see if it is tight or not. Would you?
I agree with you about Pete Zeldman, he´s another freak.
I´ve never seen Tomas Haake play nothing like this.
monkfishmusic 3 years ago
Tomas Haake of Meshuggah can play a polyrhythm where each of his fingers and toes plays a different time signature.
amjan 3 years ago 30
@amjan XD
thepie567 1 year ago
@amjan prove it
gibbsies 1 year ago
lol
OnTheRoof1 3 years ago
hah, meshuggah's drummer can do anythinnnng!
x3megansGOTfLOw 3 years ago
I doubt meshuggah's drummer could play this.
skinlessdwarf 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
help if it where actaully all in time haha like hes trying to keep in one signature, but cant keep it solid, its cool tho, i can appreciate it for what it is, check out pete zeldman if you really want to be amazed, also pissed off because where can you apply that to any sort of modern music at all lol
geebee1985 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
this is like if i could poop out of my mouth... it's interesting... but i don't want to listen to someone poop out of there mouth.
this sounds like crap.
aytches 3 years ago
why does this video have only 7k views :| lets hear the meshuggah drummer play this kinda beat on drums
V1C2 3 years ago
Ironically he can't get any tail cause he practices so much.
Spunkles 3 years ago
I like the build up in complexity. Great performance, great piece.
grandpascorpion 3 years ago
OMG that was so fuckin' cool !!!
elkdf20 3 years ago
the sounds are great. this guy is amazing.
Mugetu 3 years ago
I prefer tool or meshuggah over this :P
explicatus 3 years ago
omg coordination freak too!
andrevth 3 years ago
So basically he split his brain into 8 different rythms at the same time? Wicked
dougefresh85 3 years ago 3
Not exactly, he just fits 8 together and learns how they sound and feel as one.
isaydudelikemad 3 years ago 2
wats Polyrhythmic mean?
cyrusvillanueva7 3 years ago
K I'll try to explain this in terms of a band to make it easier to understand. Let's say the guitar riff is in 3/4. The drummer decides to play a 5/4 beat. That guitar riff would have to be played 5 full times, while the drum beat would only have to play it 3 full times for them to be synched up again.
Essentially it just means 2 or more time signatures playing at once.
Hardcorepunk87 3 years ago
Actually what you're talking about is a polymeter. alot of people mix those two up. a polyrhythm is where one set of notes plays a steady beat, while another set is shortened or extended to play a different number of equal notes in the same time. In a 5:4 polyrhythm, for example, one hand plays 4 steady notes in the 4/4 measure, while the other hand plays 5 notes but shortens them so they are equally lenthed and fits into the 4/4, and both hands will hit at the same time on 1 of the next measure
freakyperks 2 years ago
Yeh I def overlooked that. I knew what a polyrythm was, but decided to use polymeters as a basic way of explaining how they work. I didn't know the term for polymeter's though so thank you!!
Hardcorepunk87 2 years ago
listen to lateralus by tool..perfect example of polyrythms
doublethumpbass89 3 years ago 2
that was really cool
brenzig 3 years ago
I thought Meshuggah had crazy polyrhythms!
someguynamedmason 3 years ago 2
This is SOOOOO amazing!!!!
zampuk 3 years ago
This is alot of fun. That must have taken awhile to get hammered out! Sounds like Korean Court drumming and Gamelan fused.
musictflo 3 years ago 2
That was badass.
Well108 3 years ago
Ditto
TheDayIsNotLost 3 years ago
Badass is right, freaky in fact. I have been searching for a good poly example for a week now, this guy shows the best example by far. Seriously!? Thats inhuman...
Avenged9198 3 years ago
Uhhhh yeah....amazing
Rammstein99 3 years ago
that was epic
tamadrummer21 3 years ago
it seemed random at first,but as the video goes on you realize he's getting tighter and tighter!!!excellent performance/huge skill/talent!bravo!
steveharrismetalgod 3 years ago
reminds me of Geinoh Yamashirogumi... i wonder why nobody has videos of his orchestral pieces.
bemjamin 3 years ago
this makes me cry
i've had dreams about being this good
at polyrhythms but i'm not :(
i give this guy uberprops this is amazing
no its more than amazing
FabFoes 3 years ago 3
Can he do it backwards? Actually, very impressive.
Hubie59 3 years ago
heaviest polyrhythmic sound i ever heard!
very good job
Akira0ws 3 years ago
he could probably do more if his feet were involved
nocampin 3 years ago 5
He could probably do more if he was an octapus too ,lol
janken919 3 years ago 6
holy shit
sk8bd15 3 years ago
might be technically good but it sounds shite
toppleme 3 years ago
Might be technically good but it sounds AWESOME. Fixed that for you.
phaudraig 3 years ago
dude u are fucking insane 3 thumbs up
superfrog69 3 years ago
hail yeyah
amboshell 3 years ago
You do realize he is doing something that is pretty much impossible for many people. He is thinking of 8 things at one time.. On average, humans can only retain 7 things in their active memory at a time, until we forget. This is remarkable.
abubacar 3 years ago 3
in fact it's just one thing. simple example is 2v3. in the beginning it might be two things, but it gets one single rythms with time. same happens here.
trollock 3 years ago
it's like A|AAA|A|AAA
AlexiLaiho227 3 years ago
god himself is doing this all the time
the result is creation
the rythmic layers are infinite
mikejarr 3 years ago
Not perfect. But pretty good. :)
Dystisis 3 years ago