Tool - Lateralus video

Here is a 5-min video I made for a music class I had. It explains the song's connection to the Fibonacci sequence. Hope you enjoy.

Oh, and a shameless attempt to promote my other venture - http://www.thenflblog.com

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• tool
• lateralus
• fibonacci
• sequence
• video
• music

[BigBenP]

I'll just say this.

If Bach were alive today, he would love Tool.

[49ers1013]

Since this is all math, they should teach Tool in school!!!!!!!!!!

[Nothingtearsthebeast]

@babytweeze85

Can we stop fucking arguing about which time signature is right? This conversation is pretty much just you trying to ejaculate all over this video with your intellectual wankery.

I haven't looked at any tabs, I figured the whole song out by ear. Maybe you're right, that the entire song is focused on Fibonacci. All I know is that the way I play it sounds like how it's recorded. Who knows, maybe I don't really give a shit if it's Fibonacci or not, because it's just a good song.

[babytweeze85]

@Nothingtearsthebeast and online tabs mean nothing. They're going to dumb down the songs because 996 is easier for kids to learn than rotating times. It makes way more sense that math nerds Danny and Adam would write it 987

[babytweeze85]

@Nothingtearsthebeast considerably easier? Yes...right? No...it's 3 sets of one measure of 9 one of 8 and one of 7. Adam's chord changes are dead on the downbeat of 1 of each measure. If you count the 2nd 5th and 8th measures in 9 the changes happen mid measure. And more to the point 987 is the 16th number in the Fibonacci sequence which is what this song is written around. 996 means nothing. I'm more inclined to believe Danny and Adam wrote it in 9 8 7 time.

[Nothingtearsthebeast]

@babytweeze85

Actually, it's considerably easier to count it in two measures of 9/8, and then one measure of 6/8. If you listen, you'll hear where the accents fall, and where the pattern repeats.

[babytweeze85]

@Nothingtearsthebeast don't forget the main riff..one measure of 9/8 one measure of 8/8 then one measure of 7/8 then repeat the order.

[jEDAKISS999]

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[SeethingGreen]

@Nothingtearsthebeast Thanks very much. That really helped, man. Be well.

[Nothingtearsthebeast]

@SeethingGreen

The entire song is in compound time signatures. The introductions and interludes are in 6/8, the verses are in 5/8 and the chorus varies. The chorus has two bars of 9/8, and then one bar of 6/8. That repeats through the chorus.

[DrummerXx311xX]

My mind= BLOWN!!

[murrayadam89]

Very good analysis. I think they like to tuck things like this away in their music sometimes. For instance, look up one of their new tracks, Jambi, and you might be interested to find out how the lyrics were formulated for that. cheers