Re: Re: Ambient noise fun...

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

The downside is that this sort of thing makes it easy to build up a big static loop with lots of overdubs but once you are there, you can find yourself in a bit of a corner. Or maybe it's just that I'm not a drummer/percussionist...

Mark

 This is what I love about the freedom afforded us by  being a live looper.   It gives us the ability to
learn simple skills on other instruments..........not mastering the instrument, but musically useful skills.

I said in an article on live looping in DRUM magazine,  "I don't know a single live looping drummer
who hasn't become a multi-instrumentalist."

For what it's worth, Mark,  I'm setting up my studio so that I can teach drum/percussion/rhythm theory
lessons on SKYPE to melodic musicians who don't live in my area.

It is quite easy to develop some finger/hand or stick skills and a very, very simple holistic understanding
of world music theory that allows one to make one's loops more sophisticated in real time.

Rhythm..........the next frontier!

....and cool loop,  by the way!

warmly,   Rick