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On 18 mar 2007, at 23.28, bill bigrig wrote: > Howdy, > > If you possibly can getahold of timothy Donahue. He > put out a video years ago playing a fretless "guitar > harp" the most awesome solo performance I have ever > seen. Try and get a hold of him. Fretless guitarist > for over 20 years.I'm sure he'd be awealth of > information. > Rig Rig, you must be thinking of this video? http://www.dominonight.com/Jim/td_nhktv_japan.mp4 He plays Norwegian Wood on Japanese television. Veeery inspiring performance! But it makes me a bit sad because you have to use a "dual" instrument, like his, to play that way; I mean with all those cool ritardandi and accelerandi going on under the melody. Sometimes I get bored with looping because the loopers stays the same tempo as you recorded the loops. Ok, you might use a Repeater with a tap tempo pedal, but I tried that too when I had a Repeater and it wasn't at all the same intuitive musical experience as being able to directly PLAY the tempo changes on an instrument. Yesterday I was listening through VAngelis' soundtrack themes (album: "Themes") and noticed that he does the same tricks with floating tempi almost all the time. That's easy for a guy like him that has learned two handed keyboard playing for decades ;-)) The best way to enjoy a floating tempo is still to play in real-time with a partner musician. Another thing in looping that sometimes bores me is that you have to build things up, as opposed to playing the full thing right away. The more you do solo looping the more you long for playing with a duo or a trio and the more you play with other musicians the more you long for those lonely building-up-the-loops journeys. Nothing is ever good enough! Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (CC donationware music releases)