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Great thread Rick, thanks for bringing this to our attention. I have seen many many responses to this email but I've not opened them yet because I wanted to give you an un-biased and neutral reply :) > Of course, one (and specifically, me) run the risk of not having a > cogent enough performance > or , worst yet in live looping, taking too long to create a piece of > music and letting it go > on for longer than it is musically interesting for the audience. It's a > constant worry for me and > I frequently blow it live. My way of preparing the shows we did last summer existed of several components: - technical preparation: make sure you know how to use your gear => many hours of just playing and playing - sound preparation: programming synths and effect patches - 20 to 30 minute live improvisation rehearsals at home And although you will notice similarities between the shows I did, they are all different because I decided to improvise; the only fixed components were the key and the length of the piece. The reason I did this was that I always hope a 25 minute live improvisation piece contains 5-10 minutes of realy good stuf and than I'm happy. But your right, there's always the risc you blow it. But the trick is that, if you prepare yourself well, you can avoid most "live blooping" situations ;) The other but most important factor is "experience": you only learn on stage and nowhere else. Mistakes will continue to happen, performing solo on stage can be very stressfull but I think you should just think "I don't give a ...." and try to enjoy the playing and the music. Not easy. > Personally, just because I teach a lot of live looping in my hometown, > I tell newbies to set > up a clock and to force themselves to start, develop and cogentally end > a piece of music > every five minutes so that they have six pieces of music in a festival > set of thirty minutes. Imo this depends on the style of music you play. For the ambient stuff I do, I think it's often better to have a piece of 30 minutes rather than 2 of 15 or 3 of 10 minutes. And now I'm going to read the other responses :) --- Sjaak http://euroloopfest.com/ http://sjaakovergaauw.com/ __________________________________ Scarlet Mobile, Gratis abonnement in combinatie met uw Scarlet One of ADSL, surf naar http://www.scarlet.be/nl/mobile3g