Re: Is using Pre-Recorded Loops Cheating?

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

I guess then all those great lounge groups i love like
thievery corporation,Kid loco,Kruder and Dorfmeister
who often use hynotic canned loops without many
variations live and in the studio and even legends
like Bowie who is know for using backing tracks live
are a bunch of cheaters!
if we had a set of rules of the things we should be
allowed to do or not do live then we would still be in
the middle ages!I once saw the Jazz guitarrist Ronny
Jordan who was just playing with an upright bass
player and at the end of the night he triggered this
really cool hypnotic drum sample that just went on and
on and grooved along with minimal repetitive guitar
phrases on and on,instead of jazz soloing and people
went nuts!
if it sounds good why not,sometimes steady and
repetitive is great and hypnotic and the way i want
it,sometimes it is boring and steril, but it aint
gonna make me happier just because its "organic".But
One thing is for sure,lip syncing is never gonna do it
for me live!
Luis





--- Teddy Kumpel <teddybut@mac.com> wrote:

> then again... Miles Davis' favorite patch on the
> D-50 was the  
> nightmare patch with no customization.
> 
> go figure.
> 
> rules? what rules?
> 
> Teddy
> 
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> On May 15, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Wavecomputer360 wrote:
> 
> > Why should it be cheating? After all, itīs you who
> created the  
> > loops so why
> > bother? As a performing musician you ought to keep
> an eye on  
> > delivering a
> > decent show with as little flaws as possible, this
> is what your  
> > audience
> > paid for. If using pre-recorded loops help you
> accomplish this,  
> > great! Of
> > course itīs great to create everything on the
> spot, giving an awe- 
> > inspiring
> > demo of your musical skills but sometimes things
> tend to go wrong,  
> > like
> > little fluctuations in line voltage, or the sushi
> you had before  
> > the show
> > that was slightly, erm, fishy...
> >
> > I would only have a serious problem were I to use
> loops that were  
> > created by
> > someone else, i. e. a sampling library or
> something along these  
> > lines. Itīs
> > neither my own stuff, nor does it require a
> particular amount of  
> > musical or
> > technical wit to reproduce this. As long as itīs
> your own stuff,  
> > why bother?
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
>
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