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Thanks Andre, ya, I'm really routing for **** to win, I'm a huge fan... ever since he won the gold in Beijing I really love his beatbox/classical ukelele combo TEddy On Jul 31, 2009, at 10:57 AM, André Donawa wrote: > Hilarious!!! > Great inside the loop joke Ted. > > On Fri, July 31, 2009 6:48 am, Teddy Kumpel wrote: >> ahhhh yes, looping as an olympic sport !!!! >> awesome >> >> play by play by announcers talking quietly like at a gymnastic event >> >> BORIS: "yes, here's ****... of Hannover, he's been looping for 3 >> years >> now and comes from a beat box, singing and classical ukelele >> background. >> oooooh, he started off strong with a nice reggae beat, after tapping >> in the tempo himself... a lot of the younger looper are using tap >> tempo I noticed Jim, whereas the older loopers are used to setting it >> manually in a menu...." >> >> JIM: "yes, I've noticed that too... something about the new >> equipment, >> oh, he's added a fine ukelele skank part with phase shifter, a little >> lagging time offset in the hip hop tradition, the judges are going to >> like that.... ah yes, you see Ricoloop grinning..." >> >> BORIS: "yes, Ricoloop, the undisputed champion of looping here in >> Germany, one of our judges today.... oooooooooooh, he's added a nasal >> bass and a counter melody on distorted ukelele simultaneously, that's >> gotta count for extra points with the judges" >> JIM: "yes, in the rules of olympic looping the more elements you add >> in one pass the more points you get, especially if you make it so you >> can turn them off later individually..." >> >> (10 minutes later) >> >> BORIS: "he seems to be going for the big end build up now with the >> later multiple vocals.... ouch, he hit one bad note there... or is he >> intending to go for aeolian mode over the dominant chord structure >> he's set up... let's see how he gets out of it" >> JIM: "ya, the judges don't really care about harmony here, they're >> more concerned with the smoothness, execution and difficulty level... >> but it look as if he's saved it BORIS" >> BORIS: "oh yes, he, slipped the major third back in... what >> finesse... >> I think that should count for extra foresight points... and he's >> playing a little riff..AND AND AND.... wow... great ending, with a >> nice reverb blast final chord... a good showing by *** of Hannover... >> let's see what the judges have to say" >> >> etc..... >> >> Teddy