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Re: Re: Re: livelooping workshops
In all the clinics I have given I strongly stress one point to further
support what BIll has said, below:
In my 35 year professional career as a studio
drummer/percussionist/producer I have played with hundreds of click
tracks, drum machines and sequencers.
I've played and recorded with musicians with 'great time' and with
'truly terrible time'. I've been blessed to play in different cultural
paradigms,
rhythmically speaking (the Brazilians feel time differently than the
Algerians or Southern 'fat back' R&B
players) with many different master musicians (and drummers) from around
the planet.
I can say, categorically, that I have learned more about the concept of
TIME and TIMING from performing and recording with live looping devices
than
all of those experiences put together.*
When you loop (unless you have quantized looping that is triggered by
another midi instrument) you ARE the loop. You are the TIME.
If you have any minor amount of timing problems they will appear
instantly in your loops.
I call them the 'lumpy loops' and they can be the bane of our existence
when playing live or in a recording studio.
There are, of course, strategies for how to practice making one's loops
sound 'better', rhythmically and there
are strategies for how to survive a lumpy loop in the middle of a
concert (it still happens occasionally after 18 years
of digitally assisted live looping) but that's fodder for another thread.
Every single musician that I know who has time problems, I highly
encourage to buy an inexpensive live looping stomp box pedal.
Rick Walker
* which is not to denigrate all that I've learned from those wonderful
experiences and master musicians.
On 11/10/2013 11:12 AM, William Walker wrote:
I play with 3 different keyboard players in various settings, one of which
is seriously in to looping. Guess which keyboard player has the best sense
of rhythm and is the most fun to play with because his timing is so solid?
That would be the looper guy.