Hi Mark and all,
Of course it worked! I can stop making noise and start
talking to them while my performance continues . . .
But seriously, since we are all ‘fessing up (again—one
wonders how many times this thread has come up on LD), I might as well confess
why I find looping so attractive.
Making music is like painting the silence with sound—so
loopers enable you to accumulate those brush strokes.
I play plectrum guitar (as opposed to fingerstyle—hi Ted)
and so find it harder to play contrapuntally—although I am heavily into
harmonica now, that helps.
I have tried looping harmonica, but just putting guitar thru
the signal processors in addition to the free reed sounds seems to be enough
noise—and of course, chicks dig harmonica!
I am retuning harps, and have started really digging into
the tuning I used on my track for the 20th Anniversary clip
collection—I think it’s on Kris’ website.
It’s a IV6 blow/V6 draw tuning—so no tonic
chord. It’s fully chromatic with draw bends, only one note needs be
produced with the extended technique known as overblowing.
Brendan Power claims to have used it first on a recording, I
think he calls it Power Chromatic. But it is a 10 hole diatonic tuning.
I just retuned a Steve Baker Special 14 hole to this tuning
in C, and am reeeally happy with how it turned out. I have also built
chromatics with this tuning, but I don’t like it as well as bebop tuned
chrom.
Chaz, nice to see another harp player on these pages—some
great players are starting to show up.
I am also glad you like the RC-20, I want to hear when
people like the tools they have chosen.
I am on tenterhooks waiting for the next level of pedal
loopers, the LP-2 by Bob Amstadt. Even as we speak, he is assembling my unit in
his garage.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hamburg [mailto:mark@grubmah.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:10 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Why...?
On Oct 22, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Clayton Gary Lehmann wrote:
> We just did this six weeks ago . . .
> I was trying to get chicks-
Did it work?
Mark
