RE: hearing a mistake repeated ad infinitum can be especially painful.

["Joseph Buck" <josephbuck@hotmail.com>]

One of the truly trancendent things in my quiver is to tap it to set up 
a polyrhythm...

>one of the "charms" of the looping technique is to figure out how to 
make
>that clunker sound like it was meant to be there. I have found two ways
>(other than stopping and beginning again, of course):
>
>1. cover it up. play something else very loud to drown out the mistake. 
>maybe stack a chord with that interesting, extra note :-)
>
>2. add some things around the mistake that make it sound intentional.
>this can be tougher to do, but can lead the loop in interesting 
directions.
>
>does anyone else have any suggestions?
>
>Pete Gilbert (PeteGilbert@msn.com)
>
>----------
>From:  Kim Flint
>Sent:  Tuesday, October 28, 1997 13:19
>To:    Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject:       Re: hearing a mistake repeated ad infinitum can be 
>especially 
>painful.
>
>I always use the mistakes to develop the loop in a different way. Even 
more
>of a growth inspiring challenge than listening to how badly my playing 
has
>gotten lately, which I'm already keenly aware of.
>
>Or I just press Undo.....
>
>kim
>
>At 10:55 AM -0800 10/28/97, Julia & Dave wrote:
>>IMHO, After you've heard a mistake looping ad infinitum, maybe it's 
time
>>to ask yourself if it should still be considered a mistake.
>>
>>DK
>>


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