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Mark, interesting post. I've actually gotten the whole CD response from another musician no less, during a festival! I and a friend were playing guitar synth, and electric dulcimer synth respectively, and were not looping at all. A drummer from the next band was setting up behind us for their set when we finished. anyway, he mentioned afterward after realizing that the sounds he heard were us, that he'd thought it was a CD playing. Go figure. I think sound choices have something to do with it as well. If people are seeing string instruments being played, and hearing all sorts of layered well-produced rich chordal sounds, they may not realize what's happening. My friend was playing with an effected dulcimer sound along with a synth patch, and I was playing various synth patches. So there were in essence, three tracks of music going on, to someone listening. So it may not always be easy for people to tell what's being played live and what's prerecorded. <smile> As for the whole improv thing, I actually find that to be incredibly more relaxed than prepared stuff. -just my thoughts... Have an awesome day!, K? Smiles, Cara At 08:40 AM 11/14/02 -0800, you wrote: >Greg House wrote: > >> Stewart said many people think he's playing to backing tracks. That's obviously a >> statement that says his looping technique is very seamless and >effortless. > >After a particularly good performance, I had someone come up to me and say, "Wow, >that sounded great. Like you were playing a CD." I think that most >people's >experience, these days, with music is recorded, not live. That's a tough act to >follow. Any of us that record know the time an effort that goes into make a good >sounding recording. It's no small task to recreate that on stage, especially with >improvised music. > >I'm thinking of abandoning my 100% (except for drums sequences) improv method of live >music because I'm realizing that it's just too hard to be "there" all the time. To >be honest, I'm jealous of the attention that people get who show up with polished >"pieces" when I'm flying by the seat of my pants. I think I'll confine that "flying" >mainly to my home. I just can't complete with a DJ that's playing something that >took a month to produce in a recording studio. Not live anyway. Right now I'm >composing basic chord structures and a riff or two that I can then improvise off of. >I'm hoping this will increase the "wow, that sounded like a CD" response, meaning >people feel it's a polished well thought out piece of music. I think the total >improv thing is just contributing to the basic stress level of a gig >anyway. > >Mark Sottilaro > > --- "The only things I really think are important, are love, and eachother. -Then, anything is possible..." http://home.earthlink.net/~thefates Please visit The Guitar Cafe. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-guitar-cafe