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Bill you're point about "being in motion" and grrrrroooving helping to make accurately timed button presses is spot on. With regard to drummers and fills I'd say actually, 99% of the drummers I know have had to work very to: 1) ensure their fills don't get ahead of the beat -- seems fills can be somewhat destabilizing for a myriad of reasons; and 2) just stop "filling" in the "change-space" so other players can make a move. Of course there are devices now you can get equipment with "beat detecting" features to synch the midi up with the drummer which I'm guessing is a more socially desirable was to go. :-) I'm not certain, but I think the Electrix Repeater has this feature. Has anyone on this list used "beat detection" on the Repeater and can let us know how well it works?? Thanks David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Fox" <billfox@fast.net> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 8:24 AM Subject: Re: Akai Heardush, (band looping, sit or stand, etc.) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net> > > I find it easier to hit time sensitive buttons when I am standing. If the > > music is groovy then I am bouncing along with it, and the button >presses are > > just an extension of that bounce. > > Exactly! Here's my take: If you start moving your foot to press a pedal's > button on a beat, you're already too late. If your foot is in motion before the > beat and you're aiming to hit the floor beneath the pedal when the beat arrives, > your button press will be much more accurate. The drummer must have excellent > monitoring of the looping device(s) and be willing to follow it's tempo instead > of lead. (The drummer's fills are still required to lead the band >through a > song's changes. But that's not a tempo issue.) > > Cheers, > > Bill > ============================================================================ === > Host of EMUSIC, an electronic, ambient, and space music show. Thursdays at > 11 pm on WDIY 88.1 FM, Allentown and Bethlehem and 93.9 FM in Easton and > Phillipsburg. http://wdiy.org/programs/emusic All times are GMT-5:00 > Listen on-line to WDIY at http://wdiy.org and click LISTEN > To subscribe to the EMUSIC on WDIY list, go to > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emusic-wdiy and click on [Join This Group!] > Host of the AM/FM Show on WMUH Allentown 91.7 FM every other Saturday at 6 am. > Host of Afterglow on WMUH every Thursday morning from 8:00 to 9:30. > http://soundscapes.us/~bill/amfm http://soundscapes.us/~bill/afterglow > Listen on-line to WMUH at http://www.muhlenberg.edu/wmuh and click REAL AUDIO > Personal site: http://soundscapes.us/~bill All times are GMT-5:00 > SOUNDSCAPES Concert Series: http://soundscapes.us > >