Re: Fighting the temptation to noodle

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Nadia Salom wrote:
>   having one chord playing all the way through is not so much the 
> problem as having the same sound sample repeat itself through your 
> piece... that's just mechanical
> 

yep, can be. that's the time to kill it.

Certain types of loop seem to be able  sink into the background
and offer unobtrusive support, while others don't.



richard sales wrote:

> The musicians of India have done fine with no chord changes.  

I reckon it somewhat has to do with the way they carefully move
to different parts of the scale, focussing around one or two
notes for a while then moving on.

andy butler