On Looping: Creating "Clouds"
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- This week I’m going to show you a looping approach I call “Clouds”. These are inspiring textures work beautifully underneath band arrangements or as the springboard for solo performance. This is a simple, but extremely versatile and expressive technique.
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Dan, I find myself watching many of your videos again every years or so. I love your ideas and they’ve helped me on my journey as a creative guitarist.
thank you Dan ! you are great inspiration for me
clouds: things in focus and out of focus. i like the way you explained it! Cheers
if you're looking for randomisation from your loop, interrupt your record process in the most uncomfortable, actively wrong way; if you do this enough, you'll develop a kind of "near control" over the technique(s).
e.g.: if you're recording beautiful harmonics, play them while randomly cutting in-and-out of the record states: cut-off notes. cut into and out-of notes you're already playing. play a beautiful phrase, but only record tiny segments of it --- not on beats of any kind --- so that the phrase itself is destroyed..... albeit, destroyed for the sake of the beginnings of new beauty.
recording a blank loop is a mind blowing and stupid simple idea all at the same time! Thank You Dan!
This was something I’d noticed but never been able to put my finger on. Thanks Dan!
Dan thank you so much for sharing this. You're on to something there at 11:33. Nice. though I think and feel with Les Paul dark and fat tones (being also a woodwind player), your looping demonstration shows impressive range of ... emotions??... coming from your Ronin. I think Hendrix would have smiled listening to this.
I used this technique with some staccato harmonic stuff to create a sound of rats running thru dripping sewer pipes. Sweet stuff, love to see it
Good old DL4. Will you make a Chase Bliss Mood video? ;)
Good. As always
Absolutely beautiful!
that was really eye opening thank you. trying it out now.
thanks Dan！
You're putting out some real helpful content thank you!
More vids like these please
Beautiful and inspiring!
Thank you!
Good stuff 👌👽👌
Great sounds, thanks!😃
it's my feeling/perception that every loop is, somehow, rhythmic.
You mean in this video or all loops universally ?
@@Folkstone57 - universally, even when they're "open" loops.
@@spltrcl I 100% agree with this - I think the brain latches on to repeating events, even if they are largely and non-rhythmically spaced out, and starts to hear it as a long arc, or a hella slow rhythm.
Great video! Could you make one showing loops playing with different lenght? Like Ableton loops video but with a pedal. Thanks!
Do you mean loops that are in sync, or asynchronous like a Brian Eno kind of thing?
The Brian Eno thing 😄
I think most loop pedals don’t give you the possibility to create loops with different lengths.
@@dutchbassscapes2185 - use 2 or more unsync'ed looping device; that's my everyday state, though i don't work nor sound like mr. eno.
Hi Dan, great content as always! Could you do a video on how to develop such loops within a solo performance? Best regards
Ligeti divided music in two kinds, clocks and clouds.
Damned cool.