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Re: only a A part?



During my JamMan days, I was more about making 3 or 4 parts and 
toggling between them.  I did it in an improvisational style, so I'm 
not sure if I was every true to the ABACA form, but I bet I was.  
Raised in the Lennon/McCartney tradition, it's a wonder if I'll ever 
escape that!

Upon switching to the Repeater, I find myself doing that a lot less.  
Like Matthias, I find the more liquid free form musical morph (gotta 
bring that buzzword back!) to be more interesting.  At least to play.  
While I LOVE the things Amy X and Brian Kenny Fresno do with their 
loopers (Brian's a JamMan guy) I always get the feeling that they're 
just trying to get away with not having to deal with not having a band, 
you know?  Amy seems to have her act down to the note.  Sure, the 
looper helps her do her show more easily, but is that what loopers are 
about?  Not for me, I think.  I still am toying with the idea of 
returning to my "pop" roots and seeing how the Repeater could fit into 
doing a live performance.  To me it seems to be the difference between 
making soup from a receipe or going to a market, buying what seems good 
and then making it up from scratch.  Sure, you'll come up with stuff 
that's not so edible sometimes, but you learn with time.  Maybe this 
not so interesting for the audience, but it's a hell of a lot more 
interesting to me as a musician, and to be honest, with the money I 
made doing more pop structured music, I'm in this for fun now.  
(weirdly, I seem to make more money with my music now...)

Mark Sottilaro

On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 05:31  PM, Matthias Grob wrote:
>
> But I am seriously interested in this trends for structuring.
>
> First off: I only saw a demo of Amy and have one piece of here here, 
> but I was deeply impressed by the way she works, really worth a listen 
> for all of us!
>
> I wonder where the so typical forms ABACA and such come from and 
> whether they are needed for the understanding of the public or maybe 
> are overcome tradition?