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On Oct 6, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Travis Hartnett wrote: > On 10/6/07, Paul Mimlitsch <pmimlitsch@mac.com> wrote: >> >> >> Which brings me to a topic I've been wondering about lately: >> >> 1) how many people on the list do solo non looping gigs? > > Never. >> >> 2) "the beauty of the single not line" - how many guitar players/ >> players of multitimbral instruments can do an improv. gig using only >> single note lines and hold an audiences attention? for how long? > > Never tried it. It certainly get dull for me pretty quickly (as a > player). Maybe a new approach/ something to explore? > >> >> 3) if you're not comfortable doing this, is that because of >> preference (ie: vertical vs. linear hearing)? Being raised on a >> particular instrument? Or did you gravitate towards your preferred >> instrument due to how you hear things? > > Personally, the percussive note envelope of the guitar (the sound is > dying off almost as soon as its sounded) does not lend itself well to > unaccompanied single lines. I so envy the bowed instruments or horns > that can make a note get louder after the initial attack, and for > years used a compressor, volume pedal and reverb/delay to cop some of > that ability. Not sure I agree with the "does not lend itself to unaccompanied single lines". > >> >> 4) if you play a mono timbral instrument (horns etc) is the desire to >> "loop" a means of filling up vertical space to compliment your single >> note line play? > > Yep. I like harmony, and the amount of effort required to learn how > to do it all at once via advanced fingerpicking (a la Kottke or > Bensusan) is beyond me at this point in life. There's only so much > time in the day and so many days left on my calendar.