I have been playing drums my entire life, over 25+ years at this point... And I have to say it took me FOREVER to properly transcribe this song and actually master playing it correctly. It really stuck out to me as something I had to learn ever since their last album came out. Not only because the song is amazing, but because the main base riff that the song is structured around is quite slow paced and deceptively simple sounding. I have spent a lot of years learning Meshuggah songs (I first started listening to them when Chaosphere came out in the late 90's, so I've been learning Meshuggah's songs for a long time) and It was driving me insane that no matter how many times I listened to Broken Cog, I would still occasionally slip up parts of the beat and have to find the rhythm again. Each time I thought I had finally figured out the main riffs in the few variations that they're played, I would realize I'd taught myself part of it wrong or was wanting to combine different versions of it from different parts of the song... I would get so annoyed with myself because the song makes you think you can just learn it by ear, but you really need to write it out or program it into music software to understand it correctly. I eventually just had to physically transcribe the whole thing out in visual format with my music software and play along with it over and over at slower tempos with a metronome so I could finally understand it. Once you've finally gotten that main structural polyrhythm into your muscle memory, you will feel like a genuine beast jamming along with it though lol.
Get you. I'm not a drummer but not that bad at finger tapping to (some) Meshuggah songs. But this one is just weird. Sounds too easy, but I can't even do the whole intro.
They all have IEMs (in ear monitors), they listen to a click so they can play all sinchronized and the lights are programmed to the click as well, they also hear themselves and a mix of their preference of the other instruments/vocals
@@svengah there's pros and cons to which ever position you view the show from and it's great to see the footage from your perspective. Where I saw them at Bristol I put in quite a lot of effort to get to a central position near the front so I could see the man in action. My persistence was rewarded when it came to the end of the show and he tossed out the drumsticks! (No drum heads - or cymbals - though!!)
Damn this song is on another level, how does this band get better and better with each album?
Each of them standing in front of those lights at the beginning is so bad ass.
had the most intesnse tingles seeing that shit. Jens literally looked like some evil demon wizard just stood there
Nice pfp!
The lighting guy is the 6th member of the band, without question.
I have been playing drums my entire life, over 25+ years at this point... And I have to say it took me FOREVER to properly transcribe this song and actually master playing it correctly. It really stuck out to me as something I had to learn ever since their last album came out. Not only because the song is amazing, but because the main base riff that the song is structured around is quite slow paced and deceptively simple sounding. I have spent a lot of years learning Meshuggah songs (I first started listening to them when Chaosphere came out in the late 90's, so I've been learning Meshuggah's songs for a long time) and It was driving me insane that no matter how many times I listened to Broken Cog, I would still occasionally slip up parts of the beat and have to find the rhythm again. Each time I thought I had finally figured out the main riffs in the few variations that they're played, I would realize I'd taught myself part of it wrong or was wanting to combine different versions of it from different parts of the song... I would get so annoyed with myself because the song makes you think you can just learn it by ear, but you really need to write it out or program it into music software to understand it correctly. I eventually just had to physically transcribe the whole thing out in visual format with my music software and play along with it over and over at slower tempos with a metronome so I could finally understand it. Once you've finally gotten that main structural polyrhythm into your muscle memory, you will feel like a genuine beast jamming along with it though lol.
Get you. I'm not a drummer but not that bad at finger tapping to (some) Meshuggah songs. But this one is just weird. Sounds too easy, but I can't even do the whole intro.
Great footage my man. Can’t wait to check out the rest if you Did, cheers from America
Man, can't recognize Fredrik with that beard...funny.
Meshuggah feat. Santa
I also didn‘t at the concert in vienna :D
Brilliant lights! Does someone know how they and the light engineer start the song together?
They all have IEMs (in ear monitors), they listen to a click so they can play all sinchronized and the lights are programmed to the click as well, they also hear themselves and a mix of their preference of the other instruments/vocals
@@baraldobumpa3447 Thank you !
Great explanation, but meshuggah don't program their lights, Haakes cousin performs the lights :)
@@GingerDrums thats correct but they stoped doing that in 2017 i think, when the violent sleep of reason came out
@@GingerDrums he used to do it himself yes but you can read in interviews that since the previous tour (almost) everything is programmed
Great footage man, did you get any of straw pulled at random?
Sorry, I didn't record any of Straws.
@@svengah ah no problem man thank you for looking!
@@svengah no bleed? Combustion? I am that thirst, faultless? 🥺
@@nobodyspecial7205 www.setlist.fm/setlist/meshuggah/2022/royal-albert-hall-london-england-43b4ff37.html
@@TheKerrby just found a short clip here from almost the same position: instagram.com/tv/CeYvVu1DWu8/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
They look like band of five copies of Justin Chancellor
I'll take it.
I was at this gig and it was a religious experience. Thank you for uploading!
sometimes you hear a solo but nobody's playing fucking solo, wtf
Its probaby Marten but he is outside of the camera
Seeing em' next month here in the states. I could not be more excited!
Dallas in Oct! cant wait!!!!!
it was lit
Fredcam, great work my dude
Killer seats
jens really be standing there like michael myers 😂
Love this
Man those looks like great seats!
Can't see Haake though.
@@tubthump I'm guessing he does not like being recorded while he plays, there are not a lot of drum cams around.
@@charmanfer I'm pretty sure he's just obscured by the stage set and his drum kit from the perspective of the camera
I sat a bit too close to the stage. During the show they removed these flame monitor things. I could see some drum kit movements of Haake then ;)
@@svengah there's pros and cons to which ever position you view the show from and it's great to see the footage from your perspective. Where I saw them at Bristol I put in quite a lot of effort to get to a central position near the front so I could see the man in action. My persistence was rewarded when it came to the end of the show and he tossed out the drumsticks! (No drum heads - or cymbals - though!!)
Is that the old guitar guy or is the fat Nintendo rental boy ?
Can't tell ..