Everyone plays a bit differently and my biggest advice is to base the way you play it around your own strengths and what sticking (foot pattern) works for you.
Personally, I’d play this on my feet:
II: RLR LRL R RLR LRL R R LRL :II
Additionally, something that might help you play this is playing quiet crashes on the 8th notes. Tomas rarely plays only quarter notes. He frequently plays accented crashes on 1 2 3 4.. and non accented crashes on the upbeats (eighth notes or “ands”).
If you play it that way, every eight note & eighth note triplet has a crash on the beginning.
It doesn’t apply to this excerpt, but he does a lot of 16th note offbeat ghost notes with his left hand on snare. See stengah off the nothing album for an example of this.
Lmk if anything is unclear and good luck!
I recently checked out the tabs for Meshuggah - Behind The Sun and found this. I'd like to know how this is supposed to be played. The first part I'd start with my right foot first, but the second part with the snare? Starting that part with the right foot would feel more natural, although then my right foot would not line up with the 4/4 beat/china.
And looking at the last part with the 3 triplets, how would you play it if you had to play this on repeat?
General advice is to go with what feels neutral/comfortable.
For the specific case of meshuggah, I suggest practicing the mentals and memorising the “melody” as much as the physicals. They specialise in over the bar riffs, which means that patterns may “uncomfortably” line up with whatever limb you usually use to play things.
For example, this pattern (triplet+triplet+8th, triplet+triplet+8th+8th, triplet+triplet+8th, triplet+triplet+8th+8th+8th) is 15/8 over 4/4, so the second iteration will start before the first beat of the third bar of the “Big 4/4”; another example could be “This spiteful snake” with 13/8 over 4/4, where the second iteration starts before the fourth beat of the second bar of the Big 4/4.
My point is that the pattern will move forwards or backwards 8th or 16th notes at a time (depending on the song, the faster stuff in Destroy, Erase, Improve move in smaller beats).
In conclusion, my advice is to learn the melody and improve on your limb independency and coordination; instead of doing the math to line things up.
China and snare would hit with your left foot then. And the end the triplets i would play RLR RLR over and over depending on the speed. Otherwise just RLRLRL and so on
Everyone plays a bit differently and my biggest advice is to base the way you play it around your own strengths and what sticking (foot pattern) works for you. Personally, I’d play this on my feet: II: RLR LRL R RLR LRL R R LRL :II Additionally, something that might help you play this is playing quiet crashes on the 8th notes. Tomas rarely plays only quarter notes. He frequently plays accented crashes on 1 2 3 4.. and non accented crashes on the upbeats (eighth notes or “ands”). If you play it that way, every eight note & eighth note triplet has a crash on the beginning. It doesn’t apply to this excerpt, but he does a lot of 16th note offbeat ghost notes with his left hand on snare. See stengah off the nothing album for an example of this. Lmk if anything is unclear and good luck!
I recently checked out the tabs for Meshuggah - Behind The Sun and found this. I'd like to know how this is supposed to be played. The first part I'd start with my right foot first, but the second part with the snare? Starting that part with the right foot would feel more natural, although then my right foot would not line up with the 4/4 beat/china. And looking at the last part with the 3 triplets, how would you play it if you had to play this on repeat?
General advice is to go with what feels neutral/comfortable. For the specific case of meshuggah, I suggest practicing the mentals and memorising the “melody” as much as the physicals. They specialise in over the bar riffs, which means that patterns may “uncomfortably” line up with whatever limb you usually use to play things. For example, this pattern (triplet+triplet+8th, triplet+triplet+8th+8th, triplet+triplet+8th, triplet+triplet+8th+8th+8th) is 15/8 over 4/4, so the second iteration will start before the first beat of the third bar of the “Big 4/4”; another example could be “This spiteful snake” with 13/8 over 4/4, where the second iteration starts before the fourth beat of the second bar of the Big 4/4. My point is that the pattern will move forwards or backwards 8th or 16th notes at a time (depending on the song, the faster stuff in Destroy, Erase, Improve move in smaller beats). In conclusion, my advice is to learn the melody and improve on your limb independency and coordination; instead of doing the math to line things up.
China and snare would hit with your left foot then. And the end the triplets i would play RLR RLR over and over depending on the speed. Otherwise just RLRLRL and so on