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"But drummers that can play well along to a click track (which a looper essentially is, from his perspective) are so rare. Why is that? Probably because it's dead boring and totally unnatural as a musical activity." Studio drummers play like that. If well done it doesn't sound boring at all. It is so rare cause it is pretty hard actually. I have a pretty good timing myself (I am a guitar player). When playing to a overdub in the studio everything is tight. But when I am just playing to a click which I don’t hear good enough, I am just lost. This is something one really has to practise a lot. If I focus on my music the click track is actually really disturbing and I notice it is not fun at all to concentrate on the click track all the time. Greetings Jens -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Mai 2007 09:17 An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Betreff: Re: AW: looking for looper that syncs to real drums On 25 maj 2007, at 03.49, Murkie wrote: > I'll second that, Max. The drummer I used to work with wore ear > protection headphones with an "audio in" jack. I sent him a feed > from my Jamman and he locked right in. I saw a similar concept once when touring in Germany with a drummer that had huge all ear covering "hearing protection gear for construction workers" and inside those monsters he had normal audio headphones. So he could hear everything at nice and moderate level. He played fantastic! It wasn't a looping band though, rather hit oriented chart stuff with five musicians on stage and an eight track ADAT tape recorder filling up with backtracks like orchestral parts, huge choirs, drum loops or techno style synth sequences. Only the drummer had the backtrack channels in his monitoring. Everyone else played along with him - and as a result it all locked up well in the PA without sounding too stiff. But drummers that can play well along to a click track (which a looper essentially is, from his perspective) are so rare. Why is that? Probably because it's dead boring and totally unnatural as a musical activity. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://www.myspace.com/looproom http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/per.boysen/ http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/lo.fi.lazer/