i just thought about this, making his post completely redundant.. one of the hardest things you can do on double bass is fast-slow-fast transitions without screwing up. why the hell are you moaning at me about "simple patterns" yeah theyre simple on paper - but it took me a long time to get that down.
been practicing that meshuggah song, slow it down its actually simpler pattern and much easier to play than what i did there, what makes it hard is how long you have to do it for playing a whole song.
basicly all he's doing in that song is const 8th notes with the right foot - which is easy enough - and then basicly playing quarter notes on the upbeat with the left foot to give the triplets. i've actually done this alot as i liked the fast random triplets i got out of it...
the only hard thing about that song to me is WHEN he hits the left foot, as usual with meshuggah its completely and totally randomized... but if you had the whole thing on paper, after a small ammount of study you would have it done off by heart. im pretty sure its this particular pattern your talking about anyway, being the hardest one in the song...
it definately dosnt suprise me it took him 8 months to get it down (thats what the word is in the meshuggah forums anyway) because of how random it really is... took me a good year to get stuff like that good aswell.. although im not sure i have the memory of the meshuggah drummer, his memory of the songs is insanely good to be fair...
sorry if i sound like an arrogant asshole in this post - but you certainly sounded like that in yours so its justified
This post was edited by dysgenics on Apr 13 2009 01:48pm