New Millenium Cyanide Christ (Meshuggah Drum Cover)

[NerdyMetalDrummer]

moongels cost like 7 bucks dude

[Stuppern]

Awesome, but you look too much like a robot ;)

[sickno5150]

pretty good. I just wish you wouldn't play like a timid little girl. This is fucking meshuggah man. I'm not saying you need to flip the sticks around and get all Morgan Rose up in there, just rock the fucking drum set bro!

[6pycatst]

@sickno5150 hehehehe, nice comment, im working on it, watch my transfixion cover, thanks buddy

[jayseeoh99]

@sickno5150 in his defense. he probably had to put all his focus on what he was playing. these drums are insane. and nice cover haha

[Swift016]

Those tom angles make baby Jesus cry.

[fallenland]

best cover i've seen of this song so far!

[xenoVirus94]

you suck

[wrightdrums]

check out my meshuggah drum cover mix. subscirbe if you enjoy cheers

[NoaOno]

The snare sounds perfect

[jdmullins11398]

I think you did good, but no offense meshuggah pretty much is repetitive throughout. the drumbeat doesnt change at all.

[explosionguy]

hey what is it called when the bass drum copys the guitar??? that has benn bugging me for weeks and i cant remember what its called

[cmakproductions]

@explosionguy It's called "what Meshuggah does with almost every guitar riff".

Oh, and to everyone else that might be curious about the polyrhythms and "math" of this song: The intro riff (the main riff of the song) is 10/16x1, 23/16x5, 3/16x1, played over a 4/4 beat. 10+23+23+23+23+23+3=128. 128/16 = 8. In other words, all the crazy rhythms and shit all sum up to 8 bars of 4/4 in the end.

[ObsidianImages]

@cmakproductions Arent you so profound! And what have you done, oh jealous fan? Let me guess...............fuck all. End of story.

[cmakproductions]

@ObsidianImages take it easy bro

[FathomThePower]

hard song. respect for the attempt

[TJCombo67]

Nice job, the base drum pattern is difficult IMO with the hands playing 4/4 and the feet all over the place.

[Slayer100]

that kit looks mega awkward to play. great playing nonetheless man!

[boundaries1unknown3]

sick

[jobencore]

agreed good video. i wouldn't even say the hard part is playing the various double bass patterns (which mirror the guitar and bass). individually each pattern not very bad, but I think it would take me some time to memorize and put it all together because they do continually change it up (kind of like in Bleed, the actual pattern gets switched up a lot and I didn't realize till I watched someone doing a bass drum demonstration of each part and was like wahhhhhhhhhh)

Good cover keep it up

[jbpabst]

someone deserves a better setup...

[pantera6sic6]

LOL! it's fun to see how people makes a mess from nothing... this is A 4/4 MEASURE and the ONLY difference is there isn't a 'strong 1st beat on every measure'.. thats all..

just listen to the song several times and catch the groove of the song.... THERE'S NO NEED TO MEASURE IT ALL!!!.... 23/16... WTF IS THAT!!

[braindead666monkey]

@pantera6sic6 here are no polyrhythms but on 'nothing' there are actually many of them

(first riff of 'rational gaze' cannot be played without seeing it as a strange rhythm into 4/4 signature)

[inhumatus]

well done!

[dxhjkg]

hahaha most drummers dont constantly count shit out... its about PRACTICE mostly and getting independence down, doin paradiddles around the kit wile keeping your hats going or sumthin... that helps

[Drumzzz22]

youre hella good you deserve a better kit!

[RedRokit57]

once you know the bass drum part, it's easier than most probably even know. even good drumers don't grasp some of the basic fundementals of this type of polyrythmic beat, originally used in jazz. but man it's beautiful bc it's so mathematical and scientific. future of drumming and music will have polyrythmic tendecies like this. watch out world!

[dxhjkg]

NO! hahaha you should watch more meshuggah interveiws bro... NOT polyrythmic... its all 4/4 with an oddly placed bass drum pattern... thats not polyrythm... 3/4ths, 5/8ths, 7/8ths, THATS polyrythm... trust me, iv played it. haha Cyanide christ is just 4/4 but meshuggah is fucking haaaarrrddd i agree... haha just make sure you know what your talkin about first

[FunkyAlfonzo]

WRONG WRONG WRONG. * The intro riff is five measures of 23/16 and one of 13/16. * The verse is 9 measures of 3/8 and one measure of 5/8. You are right about the root being 4/4. but their guitar riffs are in odd time sigs as you can see. the odd time riffs over the 4/4 makes a poly rhythm sir.

[dxhjkg]

it makes it layered shit... hahaha poly rythm is when two beats are being counted at the same time and sync togather... the guitars MAY have odd time sigs, but just because theyve been layeered in multi track recording doesnt make the song polyrythmic... cuz thats like playing an ACDC drum beat over a fuckin canniblas corpse riff, just cuz they have two dif timings dsnt make them "polyrythm" watch some youtube on like the description of polyrythm stuff...

[Desterimos]

@dxhjkg 23/16?

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[dxhjkg]

haha i kno right. who takes the time to find out what the fuck 23/16 is... ???

[Th3Congregation]

Hello wikipedia.

[Orancube]

4/4 with hands and 3/4 with feet is a polyrythm.

Bleed for example is 4 over 3.

I'm not sure what time signature this is, but the feet isn't in 4/4.

I can tell because when I drum it I easily misplace the snare beat, because the hands are in another measure as the feet.

[dxhjkg]

yeah... the feet are in three's i think and they altrernate in between 3s and 4s with the guitar riff

[caffeineaddict213]

a 4/4 rhythm can also be hard to coordinate with feet and hands. Bleed is 4/4.

[Orancube]

@caffeineaddict213

You can write it down in 16/78 for all I care.

Count the Herta, it's 3/4.

Hands are in 4/4.

You can write it down as a 3/4 or a 4/4, even as a 16/78.

[caffeineaddict213]

ur right, you can write it down however you like but in Bleed tomas keeps the pulse in 4/4 on his china cymbal in the intro (with 8th note ghosts) so its obvious that you write it in 4/4. Idk about the feet. write them in seperate time sigs.

and i hope you mean 78/16 btw :D

[AxisGravity]

Why does your bass drum sound like SHIT?

[Nokterne]

this song rules. nice vid

[iLoveOlivaMunn]

respect.

[maddpiklz48]

If you admit yourself that you can't play the song perfectly, resist the temptation to twirl your sticks like a fucking jackass.

Nice video.

[Jakasio]

I'm in awe :o

[1juspe]

0:38 mmm.. classy like primusbassslap3 said. Srsly. Rofl. :_D

[primusbassslap3]

0:38 -- classy lol

[Johannson6990]

these are this these are that this is that that is this WHO CARES! GREAT COVER!!!!!!!!!

[Beastmond10]

amazing cover. insane you can do that. 5/5

[viktornolsson]

The intro riff is five measures of 23/16 and one of 13/16.

The verse is 9 measures of 3/8 and one measure of 5/8.

The passage from the lyrics "Self-inflicted fractures" changes to 3/4, 9/16, 3/4, 9/16, 3/4, 5/8

The passage from the lyrics "Baptized in vitriolic acid" and the guitar solo alternates between 7/16 and 9/16

The passage from the lyrics "Disciples" changes to a 4/4 rhythm, but with a triplet feel. The ending riff is 6/8, 8/8, 6/8, 8/8, 4/8

But the beat throughout is indeed a 4/4

[massive0random]

lol no one understands this.

[okogel]

man i`m really impressed by your counting-skill. could you please do a how-to-video?

great cover btw :-)

[666LordVomit666]

Yeah =)

[pearldrums1012]

if you can do the cymbal and snare part sort of in the back of your head without thinking about it, you can focus on just the bass pedals and the song becomes really easy to play

[666rubix666]

Fuck!!!

it takes a lot of skill to whip out a cover of insane polyrythmic shit like meshuggah

U are really goood man

[toolfan92]

its all 4/4 behind the 23/16 guitar riff. actually, its all 4/4. most of meshuggah's songs are like this. listen to Haake's cymbal crashes and count ''1, 2, 3 ,4''. you will see it all adds up. if it isnt 4/4 it wont add up, but here it does.

[redrum36105997]

haake said that the 4/4 on whatever it may be in the song helps him stay in time

[toolfan92]

yup but only his cymbal part is 4/4. the bass drum which follows the guitar and bass is 23/16 and some other crazy ass timings. if his cymbals werent in 4/4....this song would would be real hard to play lol.

[redrum36105997]

i know its a beast of a rhythm

[plopenstien]

snare is also in 4/4 playing a halftime groove. so that makes it a polyrhythm and where the difficulty comes in. if it were just the cymbal it would be solely for timekeeping and not putting more layers over it to make it sound more bad ass

[BlogsofWoolhouse]

Job well done dude....

[6pycatst]

thanks man,

[tanman1234543]

this song has a good beat

[notochrasy]

*is impressed*

you are awesome

[skelt030]

meshuggah are mad scientists of the time signature, but this song keeps a soild 4/4 despite the nearly spastic broken sixteenths that the guitar and bass mirror. that shit is for the sheer awesomeness. get that down and its just gravy. on the other hand, some of their songs have parts that are mind fucking. one of a kind!!

[thingy12345678]

Mmmmmmmm.... Gravy

[concreteandlashire]

Don't they go into 23/16 at some point or another? o.e Crazy ass shit.

[thingy12345678]

If you count it right, you'll find that it is indeed in 4/4

[plopenstien]

yeah but its put in a way so that the odd times all add pretty much up to 4/4 so they can just say nah we dont have any odd times in our music you be crazy boy is all in 4/4. like gangsta's :D but yeah lots of weird shit thats meant to confuse

[thingy12345678]

There are no odd times, just odd rhythms. Polyrhythms

[plopenstien]

off the point totally unfortunatly. there are odd times and polyrhythms just means more than one rhythm at once, so basically every single song in the world is polyrhythm. but no there are odd time signatures

[flyagaricleech]

from someone who knows how fucking hard this seemingly simple shit is to play, i must say this is awesome. meshuggah is one of the most technically challenging bands to cover for a drummer. at times it requires playing 2 or 3 completely different ass-backward time signatures simotaniously. good job.

[rololoo]

I agree, I really appreciate this guy, I'm almost done learning all the patterns from this song, I love the intro signature 23/16

[flyagaricleech]

yeah that shits crazy. even though they admittedly dont pay attention to that shit. i think counting the signature is interesting, but you usually just got to learn it by ear. im about done with the autonomy lost songs from catch 33 on bass and drums. its like 3/8, 9/8, 9/8 ,9/8, 2/8 or something. with 4/4 on the ride, and something indescribable on the snare. fucking nuts.

[rololoo]

Yeah I agree, its often easy to learn just by ear

[mjuchler]

omg thats really sick

actually didnt know that people produce such sickness^^

[vGoRnaKi]

someone needs to donate a proper kit to this guy. He's really good.

[BuckyDuncan]

It does sound really solid though. FIX THAT PROBLEM OR KILL YOURSELF!

[BuckyDuncan]

left handed drummers on a right set bugs me. fix it!

[Reapzor12]

Nice job. is it just me or do all meshugga songs sound the same after a while? Pretty boring =X

[plopenstien]

its just you

[YouCanCallMeJustin]

It's definately just you.

[Japhet86]

great job man.

[ZurPol66]

nice work man!

[EquilibriumInSpace]

nice cover man! 5/5!

[akoijam]

This is just epic.. it was one of the first NMCC cover i saw on youtube and realised that it was actually playable by us mortals !! :)

[tiki2188]

Not bad, its not perfect by any means but I probably couldnt do nearly as well. Meshuggah is some crazy stuff.

[FedorLove27]

A for effort. Just a little stiff.

[breakinknucklesruler]

good idea deafening everything down a lil for the bass

[dragea]

Geez, losen up.

[Llyud]

Did you dub the snare and cymbals out? We can all here your footwork but that snare sounds cleaner than a will smith album.

[6pycatst]

sounds like that mostly because the acoustic of that room... and because i hit 'em really soft so the footwork could be hear, thanks for the comment.

[ObsidianImages]

@Llyud *Hear*......another fuckhead.

[pimpon1956]

excellent interpretation. good cover. i will upload the same song soon. i hope you to watch that.

[mattnsim]

good on you, very hard song. i can't do it on the guitar and I have been playing for 16 years...I suck

[deuchemasterpro]

wow, you do suck

[mattnsim]

We can't all be awesome.

[utnapishtim23]

Hey it's ok, Meshuggah is a pretty difficult band to play. I give them alot of credit for how creative their rhythm and riffs are for metal. Drums, Guitar and such. I play guitar and I cringe at some Meshuggah songs, but with alot of patience and dedication they can be done.

[bigjosh0315]

Great drum cover!

And meshuggah's guitar riffs are easy... It's just a matter of remembering the rhythms. Once you've heard one song, you've pretty much heard them all.

[polock2112]

nice playing ...but you need to hit the drums man..your just tapping the cymbals..and start using your wrist

[superkob2]

jw, have u heard the song b4??

ne ways.... freakin nice job man!!! very impressed.... ive been tryn, and ima just say it aint lookn all that pretty lol

[superkob2]

i was refering to polock2112... sry

[NamesPissMeOff]

you understand the beats atleast and you even say it's not perfect. It's an honest attempt. Good job keep it up bro.

[MAJIDAQ]

left handed player on right handed kit? How long you been playing, and straight up A+ on the song.... nice to hear your kick solid with the track.

[6pycatst]

thanks dude, i´ve been playing around 8 years.

[amurphy111]

this video is awesome

if i learn this song my friend will give me $50 so thnx for putting this video on

ur awesome

[6pycatst]

hehe, thanks man, try looking for the drum tab on internet, it would help you a lot, good luck.

[WyldeBLSdrummer5]

This song is confusing as hell...just the fact that you can play it and i can't here anything wrong is a feat in itself

[StupitRetart]

Good cover.

[libertycaps666]

nice fucking footwork dude

[mikor7878]

fuking beautifull

[HereForJRock]

Nice playing!

[btr1133]

awesome job, dude!

[94mrwhite]

how do you hold your sticks? try to use the wrists and not the arms.

[johnnybgood12345]

true.

[sumoivar]

When playing a song like this, do you sit down - listen to the song over and over again, define the rythms, write down patterns and stuff..? or do you just listen to the song a few times and just rember the patterns and rythms aso (does it come naturall playing polyrythms)? nice playing!

[6pycatst]

i have to listen lots of times with headphones, i try to tab the hardest parts while listen to them. at first its very mechanical and challenging but after practicing the song lots of times those polyrythms gets natural, thanks for the comment.

[lewisn27]

your playing metal, but your hitting like a jazzer drummer.

[iresibuh1988]

good job..

[Strahovuk]

Fucking brilliant. Awesome man!

[Hipporangerz]

yeah good playing, but you hardly hit the drums with your hands. practice with your hands and arms. very good.

[Soupman3452]

Awesome drumming but use your wrists more. Good job!

[AsumeNuthin]

really good it seems. seems like your sticks are really short, could just be the video but what size are they?

[ystein3000]

really nice playing !

[iand93]

Awesome footwork.

Also, just curious, why do use your left hand for hi-hat and your right hand for snare?

[6pycatst]

thanks man, i am left but play in a right handed setup.

[westhamsandwich]

yeah its called open handed playing. it's akin to a guitarist playing right handed while being lefthanded, or flipping a right handed guitar upside down and learning that way. it's cheaper than finding a left-foot double pedal setup and some people just learn on more common right handed sets.

[metalshredmaster]

I cant stand bass drums unless there recorded haha they just dont sound bassy enough, sweet cover though!

[creeppari]

you're supposed to comment this video, not to advertise your own

[plopenstien]

because it is spam...

[misanthrope3]

Hahahaha you look so funny playing drums XD

NICE WORK DUDE!!

[MVateroXD]

great job on the bdrum

[BigshotSpike]

The opening beat always gives me trouble. The verse and outro parts aren't that bad though.

[Juone87]

Nice foot work :)

[orre666]

mirageus. I guess he is concentrated, that is why he looks bored. haake dont make the easiest tings on the drums hehe :D

[mirageus]

Bro you look stiff as a board, but your sense of rythm is unbelievable.....GREAT work....long live Haake

[gutarkd]

haha duck tape nice

[cancerparty]

Man, is there is a funeral happening next door or what?! Hit the damn things! Seriously, though, nice chops. Really good footwork, especially. I can't get close to this song.

[DevWil]

not perfect, but not easy.

[supermot34]

That is so frickin hard to play and you play it really well.

Excellent!

[likitorma]

wow great job man

[jacket5541]

its a shame that a good drummer like yourself is using an awful kit, but seriously that takes some skills nice job.

Oh and if i were u and tune your bass drum lower

[Shadowdrummer]

Very nice. Pretty much right on.

Good to see that there are still people out there who belive in dynamics have have a cleaner sound.

Props.

[pyroseed13]

Woah are you ambidextrous, cause at times you are leading with both of your hands.

[6pycatst]

indeed, thanks for the comment :)

[MattEVT]

Crazy polyrhythm!

[swifft]

nice job!

[gavallan]

That was amazing, tomas haaks stuff is hard as fuck to do! well done, but, save a bit of cash and get another kit!

[strandedathome]

Dude that was amazing! I can't even air guitar this song, let alone air drum it! Very well done!

[6pycatst]

thanks man, i just uploaded my version of bleed, check it out, hope you like it. cheers.

[KhaLa90]

Umm, kind of repetitive...

[JaIbanez18]

not the most entertaining to watch but if i were playing at that crazy stuff i suppose i'd look the same way!

[yeleikdaags]

Very very impressive!!

[FranklenWylder]

holy smokes! not bad at all!

[Shreddersebbes]

Kudos for great control

[thorri789]

You are great man! :D

[n0win0u]

i dont like the sound of your drums at all, but ure playing very gd ! 4/5

[kotarotakashiro]

Agree'd

[Insanesomeone]

solid job really impressive!

But why bother buying a kit if your going to tape them up like that? Drums are supposed to resonate and sing out, not just thud!

[TJCombo67]

Nice job...I'm impressed.

[austinkoble]

that sounds dead on to me...the only thing is that you look a little awkward while your playing, other than that its perfect

[miragerunner]

What you talking about? tomas looks awkward playing this shit! lol. good work man!

[12ealDeal]

He's playing from the elbow. I guess he's doing that to stay in rigid time. Dude, that's what your neck and head are for!

[COLUMBINE1818]

Don't use your whole arm. Use your fingers. You will get more power and more speed for less effort.

[FrankP1969]

very good cordination and excellent feet but you must work on your sound, on the movements of your arms.

[mohitoness]

The coordination a human being can get to. I can't do two different things with both of my hands, not to mention my hands and legs. Amazing!

[COBHC3000]

Great cover!! just dont care for the sound of your kit to much...unless just shitty sound from what you used to record, but none the less! GREAT JOB.

[the686man]

A retardedly hard song to play, nice job..

[mattasspirate]

great job on the kicks....

[eljueta]

i'm not a drummer, but i gotta say that sounds and looks perfect, amazing job!

[almightyzelos]

You're quite good! From one drummer to another, I gotta say you did quite well. I attempt Meshuggah now and then but the crazy time signatures usually throw me off.You've got insane control over your feet. If I may ask, what kind of pedals do you use?

Keep up the awesome work by the way :]

[chrisfrenette91]

LOL wow, check out that dude calling meshuggah emo-pussy shit hahaha... dont bother explaining the theoretical reasons why meshuggah is brilliant. they write polymeters like no one ive ever heard. and obviously the rhythmic displacement is falling on deaf ears.

[doomcult]

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[SHOMMPEYTORX]

muy bueno amigo ,sigue trabajando esos dobles pedales meshuggah is the best.....