Re: Creating Space

[Daniel Thomas <danielthomas4@mac.com>]

ok.. one more response to this thread from me-- this one less philosophical.. perhaps more in alignment with the spirit of the thread :)

when looping, i create space by way of many methods:

some that come to mind--

-- Mute loop.

-- Stop loop. 

-- Stretch loop into such a length that its rhythmic elements become abstract pads.

--Create a short static loop-- like a beat box part-  then create a very very long loop, say 32 bars but play over only the first few bars of the loop.   This way, the part looped element comes around only once in a blue moon and the remainder of the loop length can be consumed with answer call parts across multiple voices.   I particularly like this method because, undo / redo provides on the fly terrace dynamic arrangement possibilities as you layer in an layer out the calls and responses that you have recorded into the long loop. 

d

On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:37 AM, daniel wrote:

TOTALLY!

I started playing guitar at 10 and am now 28. I think it took me until I was about 20 just to realize I don't need to play a shit ton of notes; and another four or five years to start implementing it in my solos.

Actually, now that I think about it, that's around the time I bought my first loop station (RC20). That little box really helped me out with dynamics and silence specifically. It's like, before the RC-20, I always started with 1; then I learned 0. The RC-20 was my Moors.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:15 PM, David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote:

On Jan 11, 2012, at 4:52 AM, andy butler wrote:

>> What do the members of this esteemed group do to help give silence her due?
>
> Put as much effort into the end of each note as into it's beginning.

Well said.  Learning when NOT to play has been a long-term undertaking for me.




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