Loops are great, but the same one over and over with nothing else changing will drive you crazy. And it will probably drive your audience away even faster. So how can you create variation with just one loop? Yes, it can be done ;)
Most of the time, especially for beginners, loops tend to be short: 1-8 bars in length. Here’s an example of some options and pitfalls of working with longer loops that span the entire structure of a song.
This is video number three (or four, depending on how you count!) in my LoopItUp live-looping instructional series. Two more to come soon!
One of the coolest tricks I ever learned about live looping was from my friend Mal Webb who taught me about The Loop of Silence! Here I get into that, why it’s useful, and some other things that you can do with a microphone and a looper that are surprisingly impressive while being dead simple.
This is the half-video addendum to my last video about Live Looping. The terminology of this stuff often gets confused, so I hope this clears it up a bit and gives you some great creative ideas!