@@forthelove0godFrederik Thorendal takes really heavy inspiration in his solos from Allan Holdsworth, a jazz guitarist who famously wanted to be a saxophonist but couldn't afford one, and so developed a style on guitar that emulated saxophone. Being translated to piano is more like translating it back into a more standard instrument for the style of music the solo is.
I'm a pianist, and there are no pianists that can do this. There are plenty that could learn it over whatever extended period of time.... but the style and precision would probably not hold up. I think this is a bona fide example of "This is IT." And Sequoia Sounds has 6.37k subs, as of July 2021. It doesn't make sense that more pianists don't know about him. I've followed him since 2017, and I still return often to see real playing. MESHUGGAH!!
Huge thanks for your comment, Alex, although I wonder if you ever noticed the sentence I wrote at the bottom of the video description?: "I couldn't get this in one-take without considerable mistakes, so I've adjusted some notes post-recording" I'm highly unlikely to ever get a note perfect performance of this arrangement!!
@@SequoiaSounds I did see your comment re a note perfect performance, but I doubt it would change my opinion since I'm listening for groove, stylistic choices and if the player "gets" the music. When I say that no other pianist could do it - I went to school with Tigran Hamasyan and he was playing Meshuggah (or Meshuggah-like pieces) way back in the day, but I doubt he'd put in the work to truly inhabit Frederik's solo, and he'd probably do his own thing. There are plenty of classical pianists who could read a transcription, and possibly hit all the notes, but pretty sure the groove would falter and/or the Meshuggah spirit would be lacking. Your humility is much appreciated tho, which again shows an aware approach! I feel like I'm in a unique position to comment on this - I've played classical and jazz since I was 5 (I'm 46 now), and Meshuggah is my all-time favorite band :)
@@SequoiaSounds I just realized I conflated you with Sam Abbott... since you both have similar repertoire I guess I need to say there are 2 of you out there doing similar things :) Though I still think Dancers is top of the heap in difficulty
This will suit as a theme in a horror movie perfectly! The anticipation building!!! Will the victim escape? Or will the killer leave his mark on the victim?
This sounds like the music that would play in a film adaptation of a Lovecraft story, while the main character is reading some ancient grimoire about the Old Ones and slowly going insane.
I'm a Meshuggah worshiper since 2004, and an amateur musician since 2010. People really see the hard work you've put in this. This video is no normal feat. Thank you for being an inspiration.
I'm speechless. After listening to this on piano you can immediately tell Meshuggah has to be inspired by jazz music. Some crazy, dismal subgenre but for me - jazz vibes are clear in here. Amazing work, amazing arrangement and flawless performance. Only a true Meshuggah fan and a great pianist could do something like that!
@@user-el5mg4it9t I wasn't being clear enough - you are totally correct, of course! - I was meaning to say that writing it all out simply in 4/4 made it much easier for me to facilitate as I didn't have to think about any polyrhythms :)
Everyone now and again you see a video that stuns you into silence and you don’t know what to do with the rest of your day. This is one of those videos.
Hey brother I've been playing drums for about 18 years and guitar for 12 and I knew when I watched you cover meshuggah you were talented very hard band to cover seriously as always I enjoy watching you play keep it up nice work.
This is so incredible to watch! Sounds amazing, and even the lighting choice is awesome. Makes it really look like his hands are actually dancing on the keys. They’re literally dancing to a discordant system.
@John Mawby Thanks so much, John! Yeah, it's interesting how much closer certain experimental rock/metal songs sound to 20th Century/Contemporary classical music once put on piano!
Omg your left hand belongs in a lab so we can run tests...I want one! Seriously though, I cannot believe how tight you got those parts from around 1:15ish. Incredible it's one take too. Just awesome.
Also as a drummer… imagine having limb independence on a per finger basis! And also, now you have to control the dynamics of each finger separately… And you have to worry about scale, pitch, chords, melody. It’s unfathomable. It’s not just up and down it’s left and right too.
It's also kinda anxiety inducing playing the damn thing :) Thanks, again, for your support! I also rerecorded an improved version of this one here: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
I drummed along to the song. This was super well done! You were able to capture the heaviness, and put me in a trance like state that I get into while listening to this masterpiece.
@Sam Abbott I am sooooo happy to hear this, especially coming from you!!! (I'm a HUGE fan of your own pianistic onslaughts!). I'm finally in a position to record things again, so I hope to throw out lots more Meshuggah in the near future!
Hisokana Pianisuto awesome. Looking forward to it! And to reiterate, amazing work here. My biggest struggle w this song was that I could never keep it sounding like the 6/8 dance groove that it is; all the way through - I feel like you absolutely nailed that here, esp w the super organic time keeping stuff in your right hand.
Блин чувак как ты это играешь???????Я 30 лет занимаюсь музыкой и для меня это разрыв шаблонов!Я пытаюсь её учить,но это нереально.Ты наверно начал играть на пианино когда еще не родился?
Holy shit man! Holy shit! I'm totally, totally impressed! I'm a keyboardist/pianist too and I love Meshuggah, but I'd never be able to do it after hearing. Do you plan to release a sheet on any platform? Or maybe you alredy have one? I'd appreciate it so much if you would link me, or anything... and again, congratulations, you're stunning
2021 and I'm just now hearing this? Possibly the most Amazing thing that I've ever heard/seen. If you have the time, PLEASE make another Meshuggah cover!
Thank you so much! I have sketched out a number of other Meshuggah pieces, but I'm still working on making them playable. I have, however, more recently uploaded a revised version of this one: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
Whats more fucked is that this guy is doing rhythm with one hand and lead over it with the other, which are both doing time differently. Mind blown dude. Subscribed!
Great job, I play Meshuggah on drums and have always wished I knew someone competent enough to jam along to this kind of music, songs like this are typically way out of most people's abilities. This was definitely one of their harder songs for me to learn on drums.
@@tuxedo1557 It's kind of hard to explain across a youtube comment, but if you know anything about music theory and can read music then you should be able to write it down on paper in some way. I originally used graph paper when I first got into Meshuggah in the late 90's and early 2000's. I would use a different color marker for cymbals/snare/bass drum and write it out across the graph paper with 4 bars in each line. Nowadays I just use music software like Guitar Pro and Propellerhead's Reason.
Many thanks, Giacomo! I have been working on several other Meshuggah piano arrangements and hope to do something with them at some point in the future :)
@@SequoiaSounds man, the thing that makes your arrangements great is the fact you focus on the melody of those nasty djent riffs is the purity of the sound you have taken out of the song, I mean just listen to the solo part yourself it's astounding. I would like to see that woth other instruments too but I think the piano solo is way better for what you are doing.
![MESHUGGAH - Dancers to a Discordant System [piano cover]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OV-fI6XQz34/mqdefault.jpg)
Both sides of his brain remain disconnected to this day.
Haha, thanks!
I would more say its a ... Discordant brain system !
Are you okay after playing that!? That was a fucking trip. Make sure you get a nice cup of tea and a mental health plan
Do you mean metal health care?
Today on watch mojo we're discussing the top 10 songs forbidden to be played in the 1500s.
you played the solo with one hand and held the rhythm with the other!?!? what kind of cyborg shit is this?!? seriously, fantastic job
Fantastic and beautiful man!!! Oh boi what a piece of music
Standard piano player tbqh.
What I find really interesting is that the solo seems like MADE for the piano, somehow
It's called being a pianist.
@@forthelove0godFrederik Thorendal takes really heavy inspiration in his solos from Allan Holdsworth, a jazz guitarist who famously wanted to be a saxophonist but couldn't afford one, and so developed a style on guitar that emulated saxophone. Being translated to piano is more like translating it back into a more standard instrument for the style of music the solo is.
bro this is still the best meshuggah cover on youtube to this day.
I'm a pianist, and there are no pianists that can do this.
There are plenty that could learn it over whatever extended period of time.... but the style and precision would probably not hold up.
I think this is a bona fide example of "This is IT."
And Sequoia Sounds has 6.37k subs, as of July 2021.
It doesn't make sense that more pianists don't know about him.
I've followed him since 2017, and I still return often to see real playing.
MESHUGGAH!!
Huge thanks for your comment, Alex, although I wonder if you ever noticed the sentence I wrote at the bottom of the video description?: "I couldn't get this in one-take without considerable mistakes, so I've adjusted some notes post-recording"
I'm highly unlikely to ever get a note perfect performance of this arrangement!!
@@SequoiaSounds I did see your comment re a note perfect performance, but I doubt it would change my opinion since I'm listening for groove, stylistic choices and if the player "gets" the music.
When I say that no other pianist could do it - I went to school with Tigran Hamasyan and he was playing Meshuggah (or Meshuggah-like pieces) way back in the day, but I doubt he'd put in the work to truly inhabit Frederik's solo, and he'd probably do his own thing.
There are plenty of classical pianists who could read a transcription, and possibly hit all the notes, but pretty sure the groove would falter and/or the Meshuggah spirit would be lacking.
Your humility is much appreciated tho, which again shows an aware approach!
I feel like I'm in a unique position to comment on this - I've played classical and jazz since I was 5 (I'm 46 now), and Meshuggah is my all-time favorite band :)
@@SequoiaSounds I just realized I conflated you with Sam Abbott... since you both have similar repertoire
I guess I need to say there are 2 of you out there doing similar things :)
Though I still think Dancers is top of the heap in difficulty
That fucking polyrhythm must be insane for one person to play
The desynchronization between your hands is insane.
This is honestly excellent - sounds like some 20th century atonal piece.
@maco de blacko
Thank you, Maco! Yes, I agree! It's interesting how some of these hardcore rock/metal songs sound on just piano!
Or a progressive rock piano, Keith Emerson
I've always enjoyed their dissonant and discordant lead guitar expressions, avant garde af!
This will suit as a theme in a horror movie perfectly! The anticipation building!!! Will the victim escape? Or will the killer leave his mark on the victim?
well, it is.
This sounds like the music that would play in a film adaptation of a Lovecraft story, while the main character is reading some ancient grimoire about the Old Ones and slowly going insane.
Thanks! :)
God it sounds so terrifying on piano, ha. Amazing work.
@SYL Ben
Heheh... thanks very much!!!
This might be the most impressive cover I've ever seen on youtube. Incredible arrangement and performance. 11/10
skies bellow that's the time sig of the piece
@skies bellow
That means a lot to me - Thank you!!!!
@Lucas Gerth
Haha! :D
I give it a 12/8 (he he)
No doubt
When I tell you my jaw fucking dropped during the guitar solo….
This person has two brains, only explanation possible.
Hahaha.... if only!
I feel as though I should pay you money for doing this. I mean, this is just to good for being a free concert.
@Max Voloshin
Ha! Thanks Max! I'd love to get to a position where I CAN put on concerts of my arrangements, fingers crossed!
you did the solo. you fucking beast
@Erin Lee
Haha! Thanks! :)
IMO it is the most beautiful solo of Meshuggah.
I'm a Meshuggah worshiper since 2004, and an amateur musician since 2010.
People really see the hard work you've put in this. This video is no normal feat.
Thank you for being an inspiration.
The way the fingers move, particularly on the left hand, looks like clay animation.
Ahhh, that's because I'm a huge fan of Bruce Bickford :)
This is the best thing I've ever heard played on a piano.
Many thanks, Mitch!!
You even did the guitar solo... outstanding... BRAVO!!!
@Chainheart Machine
Thank you so much!!!
*puts the lights on* ....well that was way more scary on piano O.o
@Xelepteüs
I had no idea it could have that effect from piano alone!
Who else comes back to this regularly for the rest of their life ?...
Still the greatest thing I've heard come out of a piano.
100% his other recording sounds a little more similar to the original song but I like this version and love watching it played.
When you get to the solo it’s like you’re suddenly watching two versions of thing from the Adam’s family playing each half.
Man you crushed this! Sounds like Schoenberg and Stravinski wrote a piece together.
Many thanks, Matthew!
YESSS!! UAH! poliritmo e dodecafonia! bellissimo... immagina un soprano che canta: Alban Berg avrebbe amato questa possibilità
I'm speechless. After listening to this on piano you can immediately tell Meshuggah has to be inspired by jazz music. Some crazy, dismal subgenre but for me - jazz vibes are clear in here. Amazing work, amazing arrangement and flawless performance. Only a true Meshuggah fan and a great pianist could do something like that!
Many, many thanks!!!
Allan Holdsworth
Stravinskij e Schoenberg too!
This sounds more like Ligeti than jazz.
@@ioannisalexandropoulos2616yes, indeed.
As a musician myself this is extremely hard to do I was blessed with being able to play by ear but this is incredible this guy is a fucking genius.
Thank you so much!!
this is the side of the piano I love.
@Carver Ivens
Many thanks, Carver!
Linus & Lucifer
It's amazing how well meshuggah translates to 20th century classical.
I can't believe you just did that.
Incredible.
@Shadowmoth
Thank you so much!!!
Bach himself would have trouble trying to understand the odd time signatures and polyrhythms. Awesome.
It's actually 4/4 all the way through :)
@@SequoiaSounds It's 4/4, but the guitars and bass are in 11/16 and 13/16. It's a polymetre.
@@user-el5mg4it9t I wasn't being clear enough - you are totally correct, of course! - I was meaning to say that writing it all out simply in 4/4 made it much easier for me to facilitate as I didn't have to think about any polyrhythms :)
We would have been burned as a witch with all the dissonance being played 😅
The shadow on his left hand got my mind all fuxked up. It's like his fingers went all tentacles over the keys.
This is the sound you hear as you slowly tumble toward your death in a blackhole, slowly being pulled apart as you go deeper into the abyss.
Everyone now and again you see a video that stuns you into silence and you don’t know what to do with the rest of your day. This is one of those videos.
Here I am watching this guy again you are one coordinated human being my brother I know for sure believe me.
Brother how long have you been playing the piano.
For about 40 years!
Hey brother I've been playing drums for about 18 years and guitar for 12 and I knew when I watched you cover meshuggah you were talented very hard band to cover seriously as always I enjoy watching you play keep it up nice work.
Who is the 1 dislike from? SMH.
I wonder what a Meshuggah cover would sound like on an organ...
The 5th circle of hell O.o
BLEED ON ORGAN
we must call to rob scallon
Who ever dislikes this doesn't understand what it takes to do this.
well, it's technically been done now
It's my top favourite song of Meshuggah and thus cover is, as mind boggling as the Meshuggah version.
you don't even realize how insane this is while you listen or watch. No words, just admiration.
Thanks so much!! I've uploaded a revised version: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
The way covered the solo while keeping the main riff going is absolutely nuts. Amazing cover!
so fcuqing swakky
posts like these actually make me wish there was a super like button
I've listened to this like 4 times. It's film-score grade perfect. This is one of the best thing's I've heard like, this YEAR
Thank you so, so much!! I've recently uploaded a revised version here:
ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
Superb! impressive!! Awesome! Cant undrstand how your hands can play as two different beings! ,🤟👌
The chorus is so satisfying
incredible work. i was already blown away, then came the solo... i can't even begin to comprehend how difficult this must be
This is so incredible to watch! Sounds amazing, and even the lighting choice is awesome. Makes it really look like his hands are actually dancing on the keys. They’re literally dancing to a discordant system.
Bartok eat your heart out.
:)
I uploaded a revised version here:
ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
I love how the solo is like, almost easy... lol
12/10, complete insanity, that left hand precision makes my whole body hurt.
How is it even possible?!
Phenomenal work
@sa21sa
Thank you so much!
Great left hand work! The section around 4:00 reminds me of Prokofiev - Sonata no 7 in B flat major. (3rd Movement/Precipitato)
@John Mawby
Thanks so much, John! Yeah, it's interesting how much closer certain experimental rock/metal songs sound to 20th Century/Contemporary classical music once put on piano!
I honestly believe that the last minute and a half of this song is the most amazing piece of music ever created.
sounds crazy good
Omg your left hand belongs in a lab so we can run tests...I want one!
Seriously though, I cannot believe how tight you got those parts from around 1:15ish. Incredible it's one take too. Just awesome.
I've played drums for 35 years, and all that work is nothing compared to your interdependence. God bless you, man.
That was wonderful.
Also as a drummer… imagine having limb independence on a per finger basis! And also, now you have to control the dynamics of each finger separately… And you have to worry about scale, pitch, chords, melody. It’s unfathomable. It’s not just up and down it’s left and right too.
Many practice hours were spent bringing us this one take performance
It’s so fucking anxiety inducing on the keys. So much respect!
It's also kinda anxiety inducing playing the damn thing :) Thanks, again, for your support! I also rerecorded an improved version of this one here: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
@@SequoiaSounds you should cover “easy like Sunday morning” there’s no soulful covers. I know you’d execute,
Majestic
This is beyond incredible.
I drummed along to the song. This was super well done! You were able to capture the heaviness, and put me in a trance like state that I get into while listening to this masterpiece.
Many thanks, Michael!
Give this person a trophy
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this cover. It’s still absolutely mind blowing!!!
Many thanks, Teddy! I've uploaded a revised version here: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
Never thought I was gonna see this meshuggah cover on a piano fucking awesome
Thank you so much!
@@SequoiaSounds no thank you for doing something that I thought would be very difficult to do keep on brother that's what I call talented
FUCK TO THE YES!!!!!! YOU DID IT!!! I've been trying to do this for like 7 years. I'm so amped right now. This was so much fun to listen to.
@Sam Abbott
I am sooooo happy to hear this, especially coming from you!!! (I'm a HUGE fan of your own pianistic onslaughts!). I'm finally in a position to record things again, so I hope to throw out lots more Meshuggah in the near future!
Hisokana Pianisuto awesome. Looking forward to it! And to reiterate, amazing work here. My biggest struggle w this song was that I could never keep it sounding like the 6/8 dance groove that it is; all the way through - I feel like you absolutely nailed that here, esp w the super organic time keeping stuff in your right hand.
This sounds like fucking hell, damn. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you so much! I more recently uploaded a re-recording:
ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
This is awesome, and it sounds like boss battle music in a Zelda game.
Many thanks!!
I'm just speechless. F*kin' awesome, Man! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Блин чувак как ты это играешь???????Я 30 лет занимаюсь музыкой и для меня это разрыв шаблонов!Я пытаюсь её учить,но это нереально.Ты наверно начал играть на пианино когда еще не родился?
I keep coming back to this one. Amazing work!
Holy shit man! Holy shit! I'm totally, totally impressed! I'm a keyboardist/pianist too and I love Meshuggah, but I'd never be able to do it after hearing. Do you plan to release a sheet on any platform? Or maybe you alredy have one? I'd appreciate it so much if you would link me, or anything... and again, congratulations, you're stunning
@Gyulai Sámuel
Thank you so much, Gyulai! I plan to make readable sheet music available to the public at some point in the future. Watch this space!
Hi. I'm just cleaning up my scores now, so please private message me if you still want any sheet music.
Sorry, I didn't see your message but I came back and fortunately found my comment. How can I contact you?
Truly scary and amazing. I love the fading at the end. Thank you oh great Sequoia.
This is actually insane
2021 and I'm just now hearing this? Possibly the most Amazing thing that I've ever heard/seen. If you have the time, PLEASE make another Meshuggah cover!
Thank you so much! I have sketched out a number of other Meshuggah pieces, but I'm still working on making them playable. I have, however, more recently uploaded a revised version of this one: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
Whats more fucked is that this guy is doing rhythm with one hand and lead over it with the other, which are both doing time differently. Mind blown dude. Subscribed!
that fade-out was fucking fantastic ...you carried me like a baby through that, thank you.
Many thanks!!
Great job, I play Meshuggah on drums and have always wished I knew someone competent enough to jam along to this kind of music, songs like this are typically way out of most people's abilities. This was definitely one of their harder songs for me to learn on drums.
Im an absolute beginner to drums, how do you recommend going about learning meshuggah songs?
@@tuxedo1557 It's kind of hard to explain across a youtube comment, but if you know anything about music theory and can read music then you should be able to write it down on paper in some way. I originally used graph paper when I first got into Meshuggah in the late 90's and early 2000's. I would use a different color marker for cymbals/snare/bass drum and write it out across the graph paper with 4 bars in each line. Nowadays I just use music software like Guitar Pro and Propellerhead's Reason.
Incredible
Thank you, David! I've recently uploaded a revised version:
ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
Absolutely spellbinding!!!!
🤘🤘🔥💯🔥🤘🤘
This is the point where rock music merged with the academic avant-garde.
I have been waiting for a long time whether this will happen or not.
Wtf how? Man this is fuckin unbelievable! How are your fingers able to play so many different keys in a fraction of a second 🤯, speechless, fantastic!
This is astonishing
Thank you so much!
I subsequently uploaded a better recording here: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html
@@SequoiaSounds thanks for the link💣
"I have no idea to this day what those crazy swedes were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know."
-Red
That was bad fucking ass. Incredible job.
Thanks so much, John!
Look at that crazy starfish on the left, just freakin out on them keys XD
@Luke Ferra
Heheh.... thanks! :)
@@SequoiaSounds you've got unbelievably impressive skills
It's realy impressive ! it sounds good and we can feel the jazz inspiration of Thordendal and Haake !
thx for that :)
@0ook
Thank you so, so much!
sounds more like modern classical music to my ears here
@@matsmcmats Exactly. If it were jazz, they'd kick the pianist out of the bar for playing all these ugly intervals constantly lol
awesome ! You should do more Shuggah
@DryZe
It's certainly my intention!
DUUUDE this is fucking amazing. Well done!!!
Thank you so much!!
@@SequoiaSounds keep coming back to this one. even better than the original! you are so talented!!
killer arrangement
Many thanks!!
Incredible.
Many thanks, Opal!
This is pure brilliance!!
Hey man, there are spiders on speed on your piano - oh, sorry, those are your hands.
@faselblaDer3te
Heheh! Great comment, man! Made me smile heaps :D
Absolutely insane
This is one of the best things I have ever heard on RUclips
The most talented musician on planet, meshuggah would be amazed yet proud for watching such a thing,
@Taki Clinton Harness
Many, many thanks, Taki!!
This is phenomenal!
@Zach Buddie
Thank you so much!!
Dude holy shit he played the rhythm guitar and the solo at the same time
I sent this video to a cutting edge AI and it replied to me: "What version are you?"
Love every minute of this... incredible music
@cybergrind
Thank you so much!!!
This is so impressize man - the fact that you do the solo as well and so brilliantly is amazing. Such a great cover. Well done
It's awesome man. I would listen an entire album of your meshuggah cover. Try doing it. Would be awesome like all koloss in piano!!! I'll buy it
Many thanks, Giacomo! I have been working on several other Meshuggah piano arrangements and hope to do something with them at some point in the future :)
@@SequoiaSounds man, the thing that makes your arrangements great is the fact you focus on the melody of those nasty djent riffs is the purity of the sound you have taken out of the song, I mean just listen to the solo part yourself it's astounding. I would like to see that woth other instruments too but I think the piano solo is way better for what you are doing.
And obviously I hope you'll be able to play with meshuggah themselves one day.
Thank you so much for such a considered comment!!
It would be a dream to perform with Meshuggah one day, but I'm not sure I'm quite up to their technical/rhythmical standard!
Just keeping the 4/4 on this with my hands made me feel as Haake 😂😂 big up man, such an experience, that's one of my favourite song by them
Love it! That was just tremendous! Who knew a piano could sound so terrifying!
Thanks so much, Rich!
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY BADASS
Thank you so much!!
I've since uploaded a better recording here: ruclips.net/video/OV-fI6XQz34/видео.html