all_sins_undone
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Rorflolzthis band sounds interesting!!!! where do i start??
this band sounds interesting!!!! where do i start??
Martin Hagstrom, one of the guitarists:
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif]MU: With so much going on in the music, do you spend a lot of time planning out the music and counting out parts and things like that? [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif]MH: Well, actually, if we're talking music theory, when it comes down to what we're doing, we're in 4/4 most of the time. It's just we have these odd patterns going over it. Sometimes that leads to the conclusion that it's all something we CALCULATE. I can see why people would think that, and on hearing it, I would probably think the same. But the truth of it is we were writing tunes like this back in the day when we were still being influenced by the thrash era, and Metallica type stuff. So we've just grown into ourselves sort of, it's just the way it comes out, I don't know why. [/FONT]
Don't make me find interviews with the other members too
dudes, who the fuck cares? just listen to the music and shut up.
There is a little something called polymeter, and perhaps thats whats going on and you two are ignoring it. Someone claims that the drums are in 4/4 and that the guitars arent, and that if you add up the sequences of the riffs and divide it comes out to 4/4. Well thats all well and good (even though its not how you figure out time sigs), but if one person is saying the song is in 13/8 and another is saying that its in 4/4 because the first is talking about the guitar and the second about the drums, theres going to be disagreement until the very end. From what I've noticed in Meshuggah songs, its really the polymeter that makes for the hypnotic feeling of the music.