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---- Dan Katayama <dan.katayama@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. I subscribe to the idea that "composition" can be described as "slow motion improvisation". This gives you can improve composition abilities by practicing looping - but only if you practice looping in a split vision mind set (see below). >> Because I'm still thinking in layers..I'm thinking slow...and >> somehow I've >> lost something. Do you mean that you visualize music as layers? And because layers in a long loop are laid down in a linear way, one after the other, you have gotten used to proceed slowly? If that's the case you need some medicine to recover ;-)) As a healthy practice you can focus on looping much faster. Make short loops and put new layers in on every round. Never "wait", play something all the time, while taking out old stuff (by feedback or SUSSubstitute etc.). That praxis will teach your brain to visualize music not as "layers on a time line" but as "a mess of many layers heard at once". You need to re-learn how to see the forrest, not only the specific tree you walk by. I think this is the most important factor in all music making, not only in looping. You have to master it, since it's a foundation. The very same skill is learned by ice hockey players, then called "split vision" - the ability to keep a true vision of all players positions while still being able to fiddle around with the puck right in front of your toes. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (latest music release)