No one knows how I goes.

The day they play "I" live on its entirety I'll go see them, no matter where they are...

It's totally possible to record something and never learn how to play it. I improvised a badass solo on the ending track of my former band's album and I still don't know where most of those notes are on my fretboard. I never wrote a solo for that song, so I always improvised it live. When we got to the studio, we decided to continue that tradition. Enough about me. Meshuggah is EPIC!

If they were going to play "I" live, it would have to be a 20 minute first set, then they would have to take a break. He's saying that the music isn't arranged into patterns like most of their other stuff is. It would be really difficult, but they are actually re-doing I in the studio, so maybe we will hear it live after they record it again.

I've learned at least 45% of the whole song so far.

Hahaha "No one knows how 'I' goes."

And I hear this right after watching a guy play the whole song on the drums... -.-

Interesting...It's funny because ever since I found about it, I have planned on learning it. I think that it's very feasible for them to learn it, and if they advertised that they'd be playing it live, ticket sales would go through the roof (as if they're not already)! I think "I" is a fantastic piece of music, and really ought to be a staple of the band's live catalog; it would be great marketing to put it on a live DVD. Perhaps the more the fans ask for it the more they would consider it?

It's totally possible to put a song together in the studio without ever having played it completely as a band. The same thin.g happened with Supper's Ready by Genesis. They didn't know what it was going to sound like as a whole until they played the recorded version back. The difference is that Genesis then did learn the song and play it live...

Chuck Norris is Meshuggah in disguise.

Its sad that i is one of my favorites

how they composed it = how were the pyramids built

except you can't compare a solo to a song. There are so many parts in this song where bassdrum guitar and bass form a unit, so ONE can be improvised, but the others must have learned it(and this is only for the rhythm,the 3 stringinstruments must have figured out a common melody too).it also would be pretty weird if they didn't put ANY pratice in playing these sometimes pretty messy polyrythms. For the solos... they improvise other solos live, like you do, so np:) Idg why they dont play it live

In my opinion there is no way that you can improvise 21 minutes of this type of music. The fact that the instruments are being played in synch with each other, drum machine or not, means that this isn't random noise. And why can't they chop it up and play those portions of the whole track live like they did with Catch 33?

@sicjustinmagot I think you are correct... If they are two separate entities though... Chuck Norris has godly competition.

@sicjustinmagot Chuck Norris in Fredrik Thordendal in disguise.

tomas looks like my uncle =D

It's surprisingly non-random. I totally believe that it was written without any real structure in mind, but when you jam stuff out in a musical context, you're going to intuitively adhere to subjective understanding of "how" music "works". It even falls into the same multiples-of-four patterns that most music does, albeit on an extremely large scale and often in kinda weird ways. I sure as fuck couldn't learn it though.

Lol, no one in the band knows how to play it? I spy a challenge...

@schmorganic not going to lie my uncle is a pretty smelly man ^.^

They're definitely capable of learning it, they're probably just too lazy xD. But I agree, it would be a great crowd-puller.