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?

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.

Thanks! :)

@SYL Ben Heheh... thanks very much!!!

@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.

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

@Max Voloshin Ha! Thanks Max! I'd love to get to a position where I CAN put on concerts of my arrangements, fingers crossed!

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

Ahhh, that's because I'm a huge fan of Bruce Bickford :)

@Xelepteüs I had no idea it could have that effect from piano alone!

Many thanks, Matthew!

YESSS!! UAH! poliritmo e dodecafonia! bellissimo... immagina un soprano che canta: Alban Berg avrebbe amato questa possibilità

@Chainheart Machine Thank you so much!!!

Many thanks, Mitch!!

Thank you so much!!

@Erin Lee Haha! Thanks! :)

IMO it is the most beautiful solo of Meshuggah.

100% his other recording sounds a little more similar to the original song but I like this version and love watching it played.

Many, many thanks!!!

Allan Holdsworth

Stravinskij e Schoenberg too!

This sounds more like Ligeti than jazz.

@Carver Ivens Many thanks, Carver!

@Shadowmoth Thank you so much!!!

Thanks so much!! I've uploaded a revised version: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

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.

@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!

Thank you so, so much!! I've recently uploaded a revised version here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

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

@sa21sa Thank you so much!

Many thanks, Michael!

Hahaha.... if only!

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 😅

Many thanks!!

Many thanks, Teddy! I've uploaded a revised version here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

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.

@@bullheadshitface2023 I have recently introduced one of the UK's foremost organ-builders (who is also an ex metal drummer) to Meshuggah, and his response was basically "why didn't I discover this band twenty years ago!". I will see if I can persuade him to attempt a Meshuggah organ transcription...

@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

Many thanks!!

@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.

Thank you so much! I more recently uploaded a re-recording: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

Thanks so much, Rich!

@DryZe It's certainly my intention!

@Taki Clinton Harness Many, many thanks, Taki!!

@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.

@Zach Buddie Thank you so much!!

Thank you so, so much! I really appreciate what you wrote to me!

Thank you so much, Matteo!

@bobakoff Many thanks!

@Luke Ferra Heheh.... thanks! :)

@@SequoiaSounds you've got unbelievably impressive skills

@cybergrind Thank you so much!!!

Thank you so much, Thomas!

Thank you! I'd have to sort out all the copyright stuff, but it's something I'd like to do in the future! I actually made a better recording here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

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!

@Septhim It's actually 4/4 all the way! (there are just a lot of patterns that go across the barline)

HA! BURN!

Its so surprising to realize that most of meshuggah is in normal time signatures. Polyrhythms and odd patterns are confusing!

This seems to be an endless discussion on this - 4/4 is strong in them but If patterns are crossing bar lines there's a pretty good argument for polymeters so there arey ou can argue it 4/4 and something else implied across the top (it's a kind of either and or both if you like) - I think the final phase I count out as as ,off the top of my head, 12/8 ? there's a strong 4/4 feel and and top guitar lines something else so far as I can see

The 12/8 could be felt as triplets in 4/4 is my guess (because there is a definite "swing" feel to this, along with many other Meshuggah songs), although I would think it simpler just to call it 12/8...

Thank you so much, Tim!

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.

Many thanks, Khalil!

Thank you so much, Paulo!

Thank you so much! I've since uploaded a re-recording here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

Thank you so much! I more recently uploaded a revised recording: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

Thank you so much!!

@@SequoiaSounds the last third or so is so beautiful and creepy at the same time. Meshuggah is so hard for people to get the first time, i think hearing it like this maybe easier for then to understand the level of complexity..... or not. Amazing cover nonetheless!

@Carsen Moore Thank you so, so much, Carsen!

Many thanks!!

Thank you so, so much!! I've since uploaded a revised version here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

@klick2destruct Thank you so much!

Thank you so much! I subsequently uploaded a better recording here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbxdmaxnvbfeY2g.html

@@SequoiaSounds thanks for the link💣

Thanks so much, John!