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Dan said, > Do any of you guys know what I'm talking about? Heheheh. From personal experience, I can only wish I did. Since I could never sing and play at the same time (even now after 45 years of guitaring and 25 years of loping) I never really got into "songs" and such -- as far as my own playing goes anyway. I love a good "song" as much as the next person. But it's always been beyond me to put one together -- or at least to do so AND to perform it. I've been looping now for just a few years short of half as long as I've been alive. I started looping mostly because it seemed to fit into my limitations and the way my brain naturally works. I organise "tunes" and "compositions" in a sort of sideways to normal manner anyway -- if I do so at all (even when I'm not looping). Mostly I just extemporize. I can try to understand a little bit how somone could get "out of the habit" of doing things a certain way because of looping. But mostly I have only experienced benefits from the practice. I can't lose a facility that I never actually had. I admire the heck out of people who can write a good song though -- most of all because I can't. Just thought I'd toss in my 2 cents. Cheers, tEd ® kiLLiAn "Different is not always better, but better is always different" Flux Aeterna: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=6378076 http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html http://www.CDbaby.com/cd/tedkillian http://www.guitar9.com/fluxaeterna.html http://www.garageband.com/artist/ArsOcarina http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2845073 http://www.netmusic.com/web/album.aspx?a_id=CBNM_17314 http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=193 http://www.loopers-delight.com/cgi-bin/profiles.cgi?step=view_profile&id=121197000042 Ted Killian's "Flux Aeterna" is also available at: Apple iTunes, BuyMusic, Rhapsody, MusicMatch, MusicNet, DiscLogic, Napster, AudioLunchbox, Lindows, QTRnote, Music4Cents, Etherstream, RuleRadio, EMEPE3, Sony Connect, CatchMusic, Puretracks, and Viztas. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Blah, blah, blah. So??? ---- Dan Katayama <dan.katayama@gmail.com> wrote: > I've gotten so used to "looping" music that it's now really a part of "my > sound". > It's a way for me to express what I am feeling in its purest form. I >don't > really think about what I'm doing, > I don't calculate, so if I can just get a moment of what I feel on tape, >I'm > pretty happy. > > But from an instrumentation perspective, or creative aspect, I lose the > opportunity to "push the envelope" with my music. > And that is actually my choice. I want to leave my music in its most > natural form possible, mistakes and all. > But I still wanted to put myself in a situation where I had no control. > So I joined a band on the side. A kind of wierd rock band. And I feel >out > of control each time I play with them, > and it has been exciting as hell. > But I've come to notice, that I've lost the ability to "write" with a >band. > If they give me an idea, I can contribute, but to sit there and "write" > spontaneously has been difficult. > Because I'm still thinking in layers..I'm thinking slow...and somehow >I've > lost something. > > Do any of you guys know what I'm talking about? > > > -- > kosukeweb > http://home.comcast.net/~kkatayama76