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Post by petea on Jun 4, 2019 22:06:46 GMT
Done well it can be very effective, but often the lead-ins just become a bit tedious. However, there have been some fabulous performances, notably KT Tunstell at the Brits a while back. This evening I stumbled upon this young lady. I thought it was not only a good performance but thought the way the song was built went very well it.
I'm sure there are many others (especially without the initials ES!).
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Post by petea on Jun 4, 2019 22:13:46 GMT
And here it is being done with a cello. It's a bit more subtle and is not particularly obvious in the video, but I was in the audience that night and I can confirm that is was impressive. In fact their whole performance was.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 5, 2019 8:19:13 GMT
Here's the K T Tunstall...
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Post by John on Jun 5, 2019 9:10:20 GMT
As a practise tool to create your own backing track when playing the guitar it is a great tool. I think quite a few solo artists are now using to this to layer the sound
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2019 10:08:57 GMT
It all seems very clever to me, I think Ed Sheeran does a lot of this with his music.
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Post by petea on Jun 5, 2019 10:39:54 GMT
Yes, there are some pretty sophisticated systems out there now (compare the looper that KT Tunstell is using with the one in the first video), but using them live to interesting effect is quite a talent I think: now that the novelty has worn off though, getting to the core of the song is important I think, rather than entrancing the audience with the build-up.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 5, 2019 12:03:45 GMT
I would be terrified of kicking the wrong button and losing my loop mid-performance!
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Post by Slinger on Jun 5, 2019 12:26:57 GMT
The looper pedal swerves between being another useful tool in the performers trick-bag to an overdone gimmick. Where it does score is in allowing a solo artist to perform tracks from his or her album(s) without having to bring a band onstage. The original tracks may actually have been built up with the artist playing all of the instruments anyway, but one at a time, and using overdubs in the studio. As has been mentioned, watching the artist build up a track can get a bit boring so once or twice in a set is probably all you really want to experience. You really don't want the audience to start chatting amongst themselves while they wait to hear something recognisable as the song you're playing. They range from cute little things like this, which is the sort I've got... ...to the bridge of the star ship Enterprise. (This dem also includes some quite tasty playing).
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Post by petea on Jun 5, 2019 13:12:50 GMT
I can barely cope with the record function on my electric piano, and I haven't figured out yet how to plug the one in the UK in (being Victorian, maybe I need to install steam!).
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