Re: is using Pre-recorded Loops Cheating

["Matt Davignon" <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

Hi Luk, 

Thanks for your thoughtful post. I'm seeing interesting insights from a lot of people. I like your pie analogy, so I'm going to take it a little further. 

If a band is a pie, let's say the drummer is a crust, the bassist is whipped cream and the guitarist is strawberries. A solo guitarist doesn't have all the ingredients, so he takes a picture of a crust, and takes a picture of whipped cream. If you hold the photos up next to the strawberries, it might look tasty, but it won't actually taste very good unless you pick out the photos. Likewise, when a musician performs with backing tracks, I find myself trying to tune out the stuff that's not actually happening on stage. It just gets in the way. I'd rather just have the strawberries.

or a mouth full of whipped cream. Yum. 

So anyway, if you don't want to deal with other musicians, I understand, but does every musical performance really need to have drum sounds?

Matt

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Luk Van Lieshout <Luk.van.lieshout@telenet.be> wrote:

Hello Loopers all over the World,

I'm Luk (33 y.o.) I play electric guitar in various styles.
This is my first post to you.  Respect.

I just recently bought me a Digitech Jamman, because after yet again seeing
a band breaking up where I play in I've gotten dissappointed in making Music
as a groupeffort.

When looping I can avoid having to depend on other people that often turn
out to be quitters.

I would choose to be using pre-recorded tracks/loops in order to not having
to bore people having to see me recording every part live on stage.

For example... when I buy a pie I don't want to see all the stages of making
it,... but I want to enjoy the finished product as it is ment to be enjoyed.

Have a look at these video's... I think they prove my point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkLmOOnBCU

and ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQej5bUWTsg


Any -Joe- can see they're playing to a pre-recorded backing track.
But does anyone really mind??  Just don't pretend to play everything
yourselve when you are not. Then you are cheating people.

I think these guys prove there is nothing wrong with using pre recorded
backing tracks/loops when you're a true musician who knows what Music is all
about.

The only problem I see is that it might get boring for non-musicians.
But hey... you can't please everyone.


Peacefull greetings from Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, Europe , Earth ,
Infinity



Luk Van Lieshout
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