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Way to go Scott!! Just keep playing out, it becomes easier. Good move in not introducing the looping first time around. THis past Saturday I had a situation where my cool mellow percussive looping that was supposed to kick into reverse to lead into the next song took quite a different turn when the sound person made an on the fly tweak to the monitors which ended up with a bass rumble that got picked up by my in-guitar mic and thus was unceremoniously placed into the loop. What started out mellow ended up sounding very hendrix-esque and I had to totally change the arrangement so I could glide into the second song more cleanly. People thought it was cool and different and didn't even realize how much more I was improvising than I intended to. Was an interesting experience and definitely what makes playing live looping interesting and fun. Buuut...If that had been my first time out ever with a looper and something like that happened 3 minutes into a song, I may have been a wee bit more intimidated the next time out.;-) Rock on Brother!! ~peace~ Michael www.michaelplishka.com www.myspace.com/michaelplishka Quoting scott hansen <evanpeewee@yahoo.com>: > well, inspired by all the posts of people who talked about their live > performance over > the last 5 yrs (yes, it took me 5 yrs), i decided to try an open mic > night and attempt to play a few of my "singer-songwriter/folk" songs > (sorry for slight OT). > even though i teach college art (drawing/pntg/art apprec) and have > to lecture, i would not say that i'm a real outgoing individual, was > very shy during most of my public school days, hated speeches in > college...but then for some strange reason back in '98 started > writing songs, etc....around 01-02 thought about trying to play them > live, and practiced them and recorded them (ad infinitum, working on > recording etc-endless problems), finally decided after so many yrs of > worrying, fear,to just bite the bullet. that happened monday nite, > 4-10 at the open mic at the mill restaurant in iowa city. i was > nervous, but remembered being more nervous for speeches in college. i > had practiced my stuff over the last 2 weeks, got my rudimentary > tools together..... > i even debated doing a bit of looping, brought my new digitech > digitdelay, but in the end worried about all other things and being > my 1st time, decided to not hook it up. played my 8 songs in 25 > minutes, and thought i did ok-i figured everyone there would be too > into their bar thing so no pressure. i definately learned a lot of > things in that 25 min, like boy those 2 spot lights are HOT, and > BRING WATER (my throat was killing me after the 3rd song). my wife > asked me if i could tell people were watching/listening, and i would > say: i don't know, i really couldn't see due to the spot lights (it > is very weird) and i really couldn't hear what my guitar or voice > sounded like due to my inexperience w/ monitors. the girl who played > after me (who is on a national tour for an album) asked for the voice > to be punched up in the monitors, and who i should add was very good. > i should say that for the most part my tools served me well. my 100$ > hohner guitar stayed in tune and performed > great (i had the cheapest guitar there by far), the seymour duncan > single coil woody pu didn't do great, there was some hum, but the > guitar did sound pretty good. since i have songs in 2 different > tunings and was afraid of tuning onstage i brought my parker nitefly > for the standard tuning stuff w/ its piezo (acoustic like sounds), i > couldn't really hear it from the stage, and i made some mistakes of > not playing it as much as i should have, and 9's are probably too > thin for live stuff-strumming wise (i hit some klunkers). i listened > to the live recording the guy who organizes the event made yesterday, > and thought i sounded ok. the one thing i was proud of was i didn't > forget any lyrics to any of my songs. could tell 1/2 way through i > needed water. my timing was a bit rushed (& i will say my timing is > for sh*t), but overall, i did ok, survived, and no one died.....sorry > for the long post....next time i do it, i will stick w/ my original > intent and when i change tunings, > will do a li'l loop thing to fill air/space... > just wanted to thank all for their live post reports that inspired >me..... > s--- > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low >rates.