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Hello everybody,
I need your feedback and experience, suggestions etc, about something I am seeing in my rehearsals. Two things I notice. First, it's very difficult for me to create a method for learning/rehearsing, and follow it with discipline without falling in the temptation of wanting "results". So I never understand if I must be creative in my learning process, or if I must be patient and methodic. You know, you want to learn guitar or drums, you must accept that you will have to repeat and repeat beats, chords, training, boring things, and if you try immediately just to play things, you will not learn well. This is what I was told. What do you think? In my case, I am learning just the looping itself, and the loopers. I play no instrument, I sing and beatbox, and then use synths. Second, I notice that when I rehears I tend to search for a "final result", as if I am composing a theme with Cubase, something finished, a composition which must be all there in the looper. And so I lose myself because to do this I need lot of tracks and separate loops and patterns and change of patterns, or I have something boring and static. But at same time this happens while I am supposedly training for live looping performances where I will mostly improvise! So this is confusing me. And I guess that this can also be part of why I was so concerned about the undo/redo thing in the Octatrack. I mean, maybe if I just train with the intention and attitude of a live improvised music performance, where not all stays in the looper, you just loop some things, and above them you play real time, solo, not looped parts. I suppose that this may be happening because I am not so good musician so I try to give to the machine as many responsabilities as possible and to avoid me doing things in real time. But if all is looped, it is quite, circular, boring. What can you suggest me to avoid this, and be able to be more effective in my learning process rehearsing at home? Thanks!!! Ser |