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Re: the side effects of looping
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
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---- 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?
>
>
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