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Re: Strategies (was: Re: Improv loops (was Re: Upcoming gig)
I'm over in the "conventional" camp myself. For the last few years
I've had a working rule against using effects (other than reverb) on
my solo acoustic guitar looping gigs, I have lots of recognizable
pieces I can perform from gig to gig, and I avoid all the EDP tricks a
la Andre.
Occaisionally I'll throw in some reversed parts on a loop, but
that's about it. My idea was to stretch my ability to make music just
by "playing notes" instead of taking advantage of all the
sound-processing abilities I'd made use of in my electric guitar work.
TravisH
> This is interesting to me as well. Most of the time I am a bass
> player, so it's obvious to me how to get warmed up, practice, be
> prepared, etc. When I do looping, being a bass player is almost
> irrelevant, as the electronics become the instrument, so it's a
> completely different mindset. The fact that the sound may originate
> from a bass is not part of the equation and certainly all my bass
> skills have little to do with the music being made. In fact, if the
> sound is recognizable as a bass, I feel that I have failed somewhat.
>
>
> I am curious how many of us use looping as a way of playing more
> "conventional" music and how many of us are making the beeps and
> bloops?
>
>
> Edwin
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> Edwin Hurwitz
> Boulder CO
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