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----- Original Message ----- From: "Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com> To: <loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 8:34 PM Subject: RE: Using Jazz Standards to Get Into a Venue for Looping > main point, and also looking for ways to circumvent this trend. I can > and have used the EDPs or the Boomerang to play standard jazz, but it is > very difficult to pull off with most standards, because the heads > (melody lines) are 16 to 32 measures long. It's easy with something > like All Blues. Has anyone played and looped the changes for "Stella by > Starlight," and played the head and solo over the loop? Yeah, this is one of the tunes I have worked up. The only thing I can't do is play the pickups on the melody at the beginning, because I have to finish recording my octave-divided bass and drums before beat 1, then quickly hit the Record pedal, flip the switch on the guitar to "Guitar mode", and start playing the melody a little late. Not easy, but it can be done with practice. Tunes with a melody that starts before 1 are kind of a problem. You either start the melody a litte bit late, or come up with somet BS to play for a full chorus before it comes around again. >That could take > up to 2 minutes for a long ballad. Yeah, on ballads there is a long delay before the medloy starts, but I don't think this is a showstopper. I like to do "My Foolish Heart". > It gets really redundant after about > 20 standards. I'd rather play traditional chord solo or play over > sequences. But again, I'm not disputing whether one can play jazz with > looping technology....it's playing jazz, loops or no loops, to get into > more mainstream venues in my locality, and then slipping in my more > obscure compositions. > > K- With my setup I hope it helps make it less monotonous that I have bass and drums sounds going before the melody starts. I hope... I can make some mp3's if you wanna hear what this sounds like. Mark Smart http://www.marksmart.net/