RE: Drummers playing to metronomes and loops live

["Dennis W. Leas" <dennis@mail.worldserver.com>]

Thanks for the great posting, Rick!  Wonderful info!


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Walker/Loop.pooL [mailto:GLOBAL@cruzio.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:24 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Drummers playing to metronomes and loops live


Jonathan wrote:

"Besides having the drummer play to a metronome, instead of the real loop 
is
no fun for the drummer..."


Au contraire, mon frere,

As a professional drummer who has done hundreds of studio sessions I have 
to
say that playing to a metronome is a difficult task to learn and I
, for one, really enjoy it live.

There are tricks to learning how to be able to be 'expressive' and 'human'
while doing so.
. . .