Motif development in Meshuggahs 'I Am Colossus'
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Күн бұрынTime Consuming Ep #75 and week 4 of 'MAYshuggah' is a deep dive into "I Am Colossus".
I love this song and the rhythmic ideas behind it are super simple yet super effective!
'I Am Colossus' original song:
• MESHUGGAH - I Am Colos...
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And his cover video !
• I AM COLOSSUS - Meshug...
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Intro by Sharon Renold (@sharonrenold on Instagram) and myself
Intro music by Shwesmo (@shwesmo on Instagram)
#musicanalysis #iamcolossus #meshuggah
0:00 intro
1:02 some background
2:14 the HUGE riff
6:09 riff 2
7:14 mini riff
7:39 the HIGH riff
9:34 the MESSY riff
11:11 Rickys thoughts
12:18 GTR solo
14:05 the OUTRO
15:37 my public humiliation
@crownjewel555 2 ай бұрын
You know the band is crazy when you need to invent a calculator to understand their rhythms
@solidground2024 2 ай бұрын
Meshuggah ironically also translates to crazy
@Jalabhar_Xho 2 ай бұрын
You know the band is even crazier when they convince you that you need a calculator to understand their rhythms, but it's actually all 4/4
@lefeesh938 2 ай бұрын
By far my favorite track on Koloss, it’s so ambient and groovy
@coloripple 2 ай бұрын
Agreed! Especially that middle part with how much it plays with groupings of 4 at 8:56 , can give you a false sence of a different 4:4 (or kinda 2:4) to follow. And how accented every triplet is at 10:34 (which makes following that false 4:4 quite intuitive at times), makes that realisation of "Oh that's the 4:4" so satisfying at the whale solo of 13:29
@BackflipsBen 2 ай бұрын
Koloss IS SERIOUSLY underrated
@Sol_1nvictus5813 2 ай бұрын
Koloss from top to bottom is my favorite album. One groovy banger after another ending with Demiurge. Demiurge live is something to behold. 🤘🤘
@Chronic_meshuggah_face 2 ай бұрын
You and Riccardo nailed this one! The reason they didn't end the song with a complete 192 beats is so that you don't accidentally play the full cycle three times in a row, which will actually summon Colossus. Pretty sure it was their label that made the ultimate decision, purely from a legal point of view.
@ricky.groppi 2 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot! It was a fun one;)
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Ohh that makes sense yes. They care about us so much !!
@zetterstroemaudio Ай бұрын
:D
@Toxoplasmosis679 2 ай бұрын
The music video for this song is also fucking incredible
@Flaeron1 2 ай бұрын
fr
@tarkenton3895 2 ай бұрын
Anything will be better than the one for I Am That Thirst lmao But yeah I Am Colossus is amazing
@JunkieMonkey321 2 ай бұрын
one of their best tracks ever. “i am that thirst” is also sick. that whole last section where they go through like 5-6 different mini riffs is too sick
@Sol_1nvictus5813 2 ай бұрын
Breaking down these song makes me love Meshuggah even more. Pure metal genius!
@lallomes 2 ай бұрын
Awesome! Btw, in that 'messy' riff (10:00): the 5+3+3 can be written as 5+4+2, and then you get a nicely repeating 5+4+2+4 pattern throughout. The guitars match this too, the higher accented notes follow this pattern not 5+3+3
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
OHHH you're right !!!!
@dan.j.boydzkreationz 2 ай бұрын
Nice T00L hoodie
@Wojacksamillion 2 ай бұрын
Day 2 of requesting ObZen
@josephtattum6365 2 ай бұрын
Yeah that’s a good idea
@Wojacksamillion 2 ай бұрын
@@josephtattum6365 DUGUDUN DUUN DUUN DUGUDUN DUGUDUN DUGUDUN
@josephtattum6365 2 ай бұрын
@@Wojacksamillion lmao I heard it in my head immediately
@EthanMckennaMusic 2 ай бұрын
Oh baby!!!
@cclark3564 2 ай бұрын
OBzEN, I second this! It's criminally underrated as a song, and my 2-3rd favorite song! Plz Yogev.
@peaceindarkness.darknessis3494 2 ай бұрын
I’m so ready for yogev’s breakdown of kaleidoscope!
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
uhhhhh interesting
@AidanMmusic96 2 ай бұрын
I hope there's more from you on KZfaq this year after this, Yogev! Thanks so much for this year's Mayshuggah! *Please discuss God He Sees In Mirrors...! ❤ *
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
hmmmmm it might be the next video coming out. maybe
@AidanMmusic96 2 ай бұрын
@@YogevGabay 👀👀👀👀
@thomasreuter1614 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the shoutout Yogev/Ricky! Great analysis :)
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
UUUHHHHHHHH yeahhhhh
@tobiasschmuecking4958 2 ай бұрын
Thank you again, Yogev! And the very ending is priceless! (Thank you, Riccardo!)
@ricky.groppi 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching :)))
@mariohelbig9877 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this one. Probably the one Meshuggah song that grew most on me. What a mons... äh Koloss.
@OlmezDrums 2 ай бұрын
At this point Yogev is a band member of Meshuggah as far as I'm concerned 🤘🏼
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
hahahahahaha
@tkachenko9584 2 ай бұрын
Awesome as usual! No, even more so with these isolated guitars
@lucasradeuil4888 2 ай бұрын
You finaly did it ! Awesome work as always =)
@honk1419 2 ай бұрын
one of my favorite meshuggah tracks ever thank you the atmosphere feels so real
@Peemanufacture 2 ай бұрын
So glad I got to see this song live while it was still in the rotation
@welcometonebalia 2 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@lucalorenzo 2 ай бұрын
Great keep it up man! Love your vids, even if I'm more confused afterwards than before
@milanimilani 2 ай бұрын
Hey Yogev, Nice video as always, so accessible for those like me who don't know music theory, and with luxurious material. As someone said below, I hope your come back will not end after May. After all, I am still hoping for those analysis of Tigran's "Ara Ressurected" and a lot of songs of Koenji Hiakey and Car Bomb... 😭 It was a bit of difficult for me to ear the song when you were counting. I don't know if it's just me, but it sounded not perfectly balanced (like the song volume seems to be too low, comparing to your voice). Not a great problem for me, because I know the song and more or less my memories filled that difficulty by just remembering the song, but have a check on it, because it may be crucial for those who still don't love Meshuggah (yes, this exist). Btw, just to mention that not only this song is one of their heaviest, precisely thanks to how they managed this rhythmic structure, but also the video clip is really beautiful and very disturbing at the same time (maybe my favorite clip of Meshuggah).
@bigpleys2688 2 ай бұрын
Yoga wtf, so many videos in a row! Bless you.
@smokejc 2 ай бұрын
that section in the middle with the ebow is one of my favorite Meshuggah moments ever
@sheldonwright8770 2 ай бұрын
Didn’t know Fredrik used an ebow on this track!
@smokejc 2 ай бұрын
@@sheldonwright8770 that's what I'm guessing it is, but I could be wrong
@sheldonwright8770 2 ай бұрын
@@smokejcsounds like it but watching Fred’s play through of it seems his not.. possibly in studio he did tho
@efdempe 6 күн бұрын
Awesome video
@CFChristian 2 ай бұрын
Admiral Angry is a great example of less being more.
@SullyShreds 2 ай бұрын
This is my favourite music channel on this platform. Thank you for your hard work!
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Thanks !!
@lerk. 2 ай бұрын
Finally, I needed this. One of the most confusing Meshuggah songs imo.
@muddydave01 2 ай бұрын
That was colossal.
@stanislawrybinski 2 ай бұрын
absolute mammoth of a song, just rips your head off
@A.B.H_da-goat 2 ай бұрын
סרטון 🔥🔥
@guitaristssuck8979 2 ай бұрын
You should print and sell as merch all those little paper pieces 😁
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Not sure if you're joking or not, but someone actually suggested that a few years back hahaa
@guitaristssuck8979 2 ай бұрын
@@YogevGabay I was expecting it 😁
@NoStickTricks 2 ай бұрын
This is one of my ABSOLUTE all time favourites my Meshuggah! It grooves so damn hard. I can't count how many times I found myself dancing and twitching to it obsessively! The lyrics are just so very uncompromisingly crushing. I love how it keeps escalating towards the middle and than just collapses into that big beautiful void before the final verse. And all that while being entirely accessible since, as you're pointing out, it is actually not very complicated. It's that song you feel like you got from the first listening (even if you surely don't, haha..) This song is super close to my heart and just a few weeks I shot a drum cover of it, where I try to release all that emotion this track evokes in me. God I love Meshuggah..!
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Thanks ! And yes, same ! This track always stands out to me, it just SLAPS
@kennyagoplease3621 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this content, it's really interesting. Groove is really something Meshuggah championed imo. Could you do ObZen also?
@ryanpetriello3461 2 ай бұрын
The heaviest Meshuggah songs are the ones in 12/8, sorry I don't make the rules.
@davpcot 2 ай бұрын
or 36/32 in that one case
@slimefudge 2 ай бұрын
Boy, you've got me trippin'. I love this. I never knew how this song was to be counted, but I could bang my head and hum the rhythm by heart cause it's too groovey. And here you come with a perfectly clean counting of the parameters, and it's all making sense, and life is good, and butterflies are flying, and gondor is westfall when they needed aid, and holymoly.. This is just too good. Thanks for being such a great deconstructor and explainer! Salute 👏👏👏
@slimefudge 2 ай бұрын
Also, definitely time for you to make a video deconstructing your own songs. Give us a dumbdown of Methylene Blue :D
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Bro. Anything for Gondor !!!
@NemoK 2 ай бұрын
YEEEES my favourite Meshuggah song
@maxyboy9648 2 ай бұрын
Ive listened to this song hundreds of times of times and i never noticed that they truncated the opening riff into the ambient guitar section
@goatman3057 2 ай бұрын
Great summary of one of my favorite tracks! You ever listen to Gran Hechicero, he also blows my mind with timings
@josephtattum6365 2 ай бұрын
Yogev I love your videos even though they make me think about the numbers in Meshuggah songs when I would rather just try and feel them lol
@maudjito 2 ай бұрын
When you play a string strongly it sounds sharper
@danielemmanuel6261 2 ай бұрын
This was way more complex than I thought. I swear they really try to fuck with musicians trying to break down the music and end up writing some of the best songs I've ever heard.
@Metallicainjection 2 ай бұрын
Hmmm...i pretend to understand your videos and I'm a happy man :D
@prathameshkulkarni226 2 ай бұрын
This is one of the greatest piece of music ever written period. Pure art!
@Morphnoz 2 ай бұрын
I think the DING sound is too loud in your videos, it makes me turn down the volume and then I have trouble hearing everything else. I love your content, keep it up dude!
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Oh ! Noted ! Thanks !!!! You mean the high bell thing?
@Morphnoz 2 ай бұрын
@@YogevGabay Exactly, at 6:06 for example :)
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
@@Morphnoz Yup yup, noted ! I'll be uploading another vid soon, let me know if it's a better volume setting !
@dasczwo 2 ай бұрын
ok: more is more and less is less. period. if you have to much, less is better. if you aint have enough more is better. fantastic break down. those round cutouts: theres a nice tool in the hardware store called "punch" . like a circular stencil you hit with a hammer. will give you dozens of nice circles in seconds. Cheers!
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
OH BOY THAT'LL SAVE ME SO MUCH TIME
@galielkarmi995 2 ай бұрын
Yessssss
@jamespacia8610 2 ай бұрын
Crazy shit 🔥
@l.a.s8274 2 ай бұрын
Meshuggah is so good. It took years to its musics "click" in my head and since them i love this band
@shelveDEMO 2 ай бұрын
This is one of the hardest songs of theirs for me to feel the 4/4 (the chorus and bridge).
@TheAllAroundMan 2 ай бұрын
What was the best subdivision 32 years ago?
@HerbalistGuybrush 2 ай бұрын
12/8 is the best since at least the 40s
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Indeed !
@HerbalistGuybrush 2 ай бұрын
How about an matt gaugustka month?
@davpcot 2 ай бұрын
What song's gonna be next? I hope it's Straws Pulled at Random
@gluonpa6878 2 ай бұрын
Can you please do something about Vildhjarta ? It's my favorite band but just don't understand anything about there time pattern. I like "Kaos2" song btw.
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Will check it out ! I hope I can dissect it, they have some REALLY challenging stuff
@g0ze879 2 ай бұрын
Could you do a number version of Colossus just like you did with Marrow? Pls :))
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
I'm making one for Patreon subscribers !
@ywenp 2 ай бұрын
I am really trying but for this one I can't feel the regular quarter note pulse, the metronome added on top kinda feels weird to me... The first verse e.g. doesn't sound like triplets in 4/4 to me, it sounds like straight 4th and 8th notes in alternating bars of 4/4 and 3/8... Drums (besides the kick) are mixed pretty low compared to guitar & kick so it doesn't help.
@drumkidstu 2 ай бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNx8q6-Uy9eVimQ.htmlsi=TxPX96L4LzvS7dJk the snare is always on beat 3.
@casinosquare8169 2 ай бұрын
Feel the same. It sounds to me like a 4 subdivision, with a slower bpm...but I'm only a guitar payer...so 😅
@Garagieraryhir 2 ай бұрын
I always wanted to ask you that question: Who cuts out all this little circles with numbers for you?
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAAH it's just me and a shit ton of podcasts
@SamBrockmann 2 ай бұрын
I don't believe in "Less Is More", and I don't think any band that created timeless hits, such as Meshuggah, does either. That said, yes, this song is an perfect example of restraint. Also, as a guitar player, this song uses a lot of upstrokes. Typically, as guitar players, we use a lot of downstrokes. This entire song **could have been** played with downstrokes. But it wasn't, which creates an interesting tonal difference compared to most metal songs.
@ricky.groppi 2 ай бұрын
I agree, the original song sounds great as it is, but I’m always an advocate of trying stuff out, and changing parts if necessary to get different sounds! Not saying down picking is better, just different:)
@iwaer 2 ай бұрын
New Millennium Cyanide Christ please, if it wasn't analysed yet
@raresbibire6855 2 ай бұрын
Can you do also Car Bomb?
@milanimilani 2 ай бұрын
He actually did The Sentinel, if you haven't watched it. But yes, it's not enough, the entire album deserves an analysis...
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
I wanna do more yeh yeh, stay tuned !
@le0_fx 2 ай бұрын
This is such good analysis, but bro, I, a guitarist who covers meshuggah, too, misses all those 'melodic' patterns I found in their music. They are so intense and add a whole new and much more complex layer to the rhythmic patterns you depict here.
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
True true, i do indeed want and need to discuss that as well. And lyrics too !
@louisdattin2345 2 ай бұрын
Did you only choose the triplet time signature because the math checks out, or did you have other clues ? I must say for once, I really don’t feel it, even the click track seems wrong to me haha. To me it just sounds like an odd and uneven time signature 🤷🏻♂️
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
hahahaha no no. The triplet feel is definitely the subdivision here and I think once you get used to it, it feels so good !
@louisdattin2345 2 ай бұрын
Haha i’m not saying you are wrong, just that I have for once a hard time feeling it and the click track is not helping at all 😅
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
@@louisdattin2345 hahaha no no, I didn't take it that way hahaha
@louisdattin2345 2 ай бұрын
Anyways thanks a lot for your videos and your answers, I really like what you do as a KZfaqr and musician, and you made me discover some really good songs and bands
@YogevGabay Ай бұрын
Oh man I'm happy!@@louisdattin2345
@pbish89 2 ай бұрын
Huge fan here Yogev! Thank you for all your knowledge. I’m a solo artist that has roughly 6 songs in the working. I would be honored to send you my musical sheets on these songs. I really don’t have any like minded individuals to get feedback from. No pressure at all, but I think you’d enjoy some of these. It would fill my heart to hear your thoughts on them, good or bad. Much love!
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
Sure I'd love to !
@pbish89 Ай бұрын
@@YogevGabay You are amazing! Where should I send them? Is there an email or something? Thank you so much!
@YogevGabay Ай бұрын
@@pbish89 send here: gabayyogev@gmail.com
@pbish89 Ай бұрын
@@YogevGabay Thank you Yogev! I just sent them over to you. Titled Original Content - Musical Sheets - Patrick From KZfaq lol
@GabiBrooks 2 ай бұрын
Day 2 asking for a Ritual analysis.
@galielkarmi995 2 ай бұрын
Is this a Tool Sweatshirt I see?
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
..... NO ...... Yes it is hahaha
@bobbydigital8111 2 ай бұрын
Another day at the office
@Onamorata 2 ай бұрын
Meshuggah is the best band of all time Lmao
@mcAzcrew 2 ай бұрын
No one: ".." Yogev in 3:06 "Paaaaumb"
@simonlatendresse2229 2 ай бұрын
I guess notes don't really matter in Meshuggah anyway... There are only drummers in Meshuggah.
@OBGynKenobi 2 ай бұрын
Love your channel brother, but would it hurt to get away from Meshuggah? How about Mahavishnu Orchestra, or Tool, or DT, etc...
@ChairFoldersUnited 2 ай бұрын
You don't love it enough to know he already has done videos on Tool and DT I guess..
@lukesorensen9432 2 ай бұрын
Bro does not understand mayshuggah
@A.B.H_da-goat 2 ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree with that statement
@AmrddH 2 ай бұрын
It's literally Mayshuggah, and he has done other bands 😅
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
HAHHA yes yes. May was always dedicated to Meshuggah so there's one more to go and then I have some more videos that you might like ! I have one coming that is surprisingly close to Mahavishnu !
@hakkenarsk 2 ай бұрын
As a non-musician I find it completely hopeless to follow 4/4 in this song, this video didn't help me, haha. It's still one of my favourite Meshuggah songs, but man ...
@derluke9674 2 ай бұрын
That was much 1234 1234 1234 1234 12 1234 .... 123 12345😮 good recovery for your mouth for that much time consuning and vomiting
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
HAHAHAHHAHA YOU HEARD THAT
@robdubent 2 ай бұрын
LOL This is LITERALLY 4/4 the entire song and I love the serious comments thanking you for explaining polyrhythms in such a complicated, unnecessary way 😂😂😂😂 This goes WAY over their heads lol
@LxE9799 2 ай бұрын
For understanding the guitar parts, that fall asymmetrically on the 4/4 beat, these explanations are actually very helpful. There's more to rhythm than just what the drums are playing
@ricky.groppi 2 ай бұрын
@@LxE9799the voice of reason
@LxE9799 2 ай бұрын
@@ricky.groppi your guitar tone is great man :) very close to the original
@ricky.groppi 2 ай бұрын
@@LxE9799 thank you! :)
@EugeneChooms 2 ай бұрын
As an Israeli, can you please publicly state your position on your country's genocide of the Palestinian people so I can know whether or not to keep supporting this channel? Thank you.
@drayne3750 2 ай бұрын
I like farts
@noahjones2545 2 ай бұрын
hey, Yogev! love the video but the background music sort of took me out the immersion. there's something about hearing you break down the song and only being immersed in those two things that make your videos so unique. though it was relatively brief, I just like it better without. hope it doesn't sound rude...
@YogevGabay 2 ай бұрын
NO not at all ! I love hearing feedback. I always wonder about background music. Sometimes it feels like it's "boring" without it, but maybe you're right and I'm overthinking. Again hahahaa
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