Re: Using Jazz Standards to Get Into a Venue for Looping

["Mark Smart" <mwsmart@insightbb.com>]

I dashed off a rough recording of "West Coast Blues" and posted it at
the very bottom of the page:

http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/jazzpedalboard/jazzpedalboard.html

Recording the 3 background loops in took about the first 1 minute 20 
seconds. 

Mark Smart          
http://www.marksmart.net/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:03 PM
Subject: RE: Using Jazz Standards to Get Into a Venue for Looping


> Yes, definitely send me some MP3s.  You're a maniac, Mark...you may
> inspire me to play jazz more often. It's been over 2 years since my last
> professional gig....I'll have to get my Abersold CDs out to sharpen my
> incisors.  Jazz on the EDP...what an ass kicker.  Imagine looping the
> head of Donna Lee and then playing the chords over the top of it...it
> doesn't always have to be chords first, I guess...lots of
> possibilities...
> 
> K-
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Smart [mailto:mwsmart@insightbb.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:58 PM
> To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Using Jazz Standards to Get Into a Venue for Looping
> 
> 
> ----- 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/
>