Re: Question of the Week -- when do you NOT loop?

[KB305@aol.com]

In a message dated 09/29/1999 5:29:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mbiffle@svg.com writes:

<< They're all gigging standards mostly but want to do some real 
stretching.  
 >>


I gig standards too, and when I do, I leave my EDP at home with the Loud 
Rig. 
 But previously (on NYPD Blue, I can't resist following that word with 
those 
other ones), in our trio, we played standards and incorporated loops.  
How?  
Good question.  Certainly not during the form of the tune... because over 
a 
12, 16, or 32 bar form, no one could keep such metronomically correct time 
(nor would I like them if they could...).  But in other parts of tunes, 
over 
a vamp, sure.  And getting into and out of tunes, especially the more 
modal 
things....  I remeber a version of Marc Johnson's 'Samurai Hee Haw' that 
had 
a good 10 minutes of ambient loopy space in front of it (in the tonality 
of 
c# melodic minor), making the real entry of the tune (in A major 
pentatonic/lydian) all the more... erotic.
And I recently made a loop of Steve Swallow's 'Sweeping Up', a 7-bar tune. 
 
Dialed in all the parts (it has simple chords, and just a moving inside 
line, 
no real melody), and then soloed over it.  
k