Musicians Who Do Use Looping to Their Advantage

With that characteristic repetitive pattern, musicians are trying to utilize the technique for their jamming sessions, recordings and even live performances.  That is why the looping technique has become an essential element of musical sessions and an advantage for the musicians who do use it. Here’s how:

Revolutionized Recording Techniques

Looping was basically set off as the musical background for video games, but in a short period of time, musicians recognized the possibilities they could generate with the help of loops and in next to no time adapted it. The technique developed into a recording advantage because now solo musicians could also make musical compositions as good as one’s who worked in groups.  

Like most emerging musical talents, Steve Lawson and Lobelia prefer to use looping techniques during their recording sessions.  In their words “recording with it (looping techniques) has eased the whole process with conveniences like repetitive guitar riffs, hooks or drum patterns.”

Unlike the classical style of musical composition, looping provides with different measures to improve and enhance a recording experience. Moreover, musical composition created over loops underlines the maturity of instrumental parts through manners like layering and helps in creating different sound effects.

Using of loops has certainly enhanced the way these musicians frittered extensive jamming sessions for something exclusive. Loops allow to work around a repetitive melody and work around it with various other rhythmic patterns.       

Most Useful During Live Performances

Apart from endless hours of jamming in recording studios, looping techniques provided out the most helpful hand to musicians during live performances.  Recording in studio with software is something totally different to what a live performance requires. While addressing a live audience you can’t just let the slightest of error ruin your performance. However, with looping, such errors can be covered up easily without much of a notice. 

Musicians like KT Tunstall, Michael Manring and Zoe Keating are on familiar terms with looping and use them during their live performances.  For instance, Zoe Keating, the popular cellist and composer uses looping software with various starts and stops during her live performances. Similarly, popular American bass guitarist Michael Manring loves to experiment with looping and is generally noticed using loops during his performances.  

Using looping especially during live performances allows musicians to maintain the flow of the music without breaking. Not only with musical instruments, looping is also being used o to replace electronic instruments. Moreover, using loops during performances allows musicians to combine musical effects with different live instruments and add effects of drums, guitar loop riffs and vocal samples together.