![]() But it’s not an entirely happy story: Fitzgerald, it turns out, was most herself when she was on a stage. Now playing: Tina Fabrique stars in this telling of the life and legend of Ella Fitzgerald, using the power and passion of her own music. The intermission-less drama is well worth seeing - for the first time or on a repeat visit. She positively lit up the stage when the Jungle originally produced this one-woman tour-de-force last year. ![]() ![]() To that, I can only respond with two words: Sarah Agnew. If you have a keyboard going through the looping pedal, it can create a very rich foundation if you loop a bass part with your left hand and simple chords with your right.Now playing: I know, I know … it’s August, and the last thing you want to be thinking about is a serious-minded play like Patricia Gien’s largely autobiographical tale of growing up at the tail end of South Africa’s period of apartheid. If you’ve got a friend jamming along you can trade off leads and chords. While there’s definitely no wrong way to go about it, a very intuitive way to build your jam is to start with a beat, add and loop a bass line, and then switch to a more melodic instrument (piano or guitar) that you can play chords and leads on. Because you can connect your drum machine to external instruments via MIDI, it is wise, to buy a looping pedal with a MIDI input These looping pedals are a little more pricey (above $200), but you can do a lot more with them and lock your musical loop to the beat coming from the drum machine. However, digital products such as Roland’s TR-8 – which combines the legendary sound of its vintage 808 and 909 – allow for a more interactive, tactile experience that is easier to control in the heat of a jam session. Again, if you are working in a recording suite like logic, there will be beat making programs where you can fill in your patterns on a square grid – a more intuitive process than you might think. Another inspiring musician who uses the same technique is an Australian named Xavier Rudd, who blends didgeridoo into mixes for a unique sound.Īside from a looping pedal, which you can find a wide variety of at Long &McQuade music stores in Canada, you will also probably want a drum machine. While Williams is self-taught, he has mastered many different instruments which he integrates into a big, exciting, danceable sound that blends elements of jazz, bluegrass, funk, rock and folk. He is often referred to as a one-man jam-band Williams is able to create such a rich wall of sound due to his mastery of Boss’ RC-300 Loop Station. Possibly the most notable is the Virginia born musician Keller Williams. ![]() While for some, creating loops and making up songs or grooves in their practice space is purely a matter of exploration and fun, there are those who have made entire careers of this practice. If you’re just trying to put something fun and spontaneous together in your basement, there are better ways to go about it if you have a decent budget. Serious musicians who are familiar with recording suites such as Ableton or Logic are surely capable of stacking tracks on top of tracks to build a fully produced song, but there is something a bit clinical about this process that does not lend itself well to live energy. While this terms would conjure, for most, the image of a person holding a guitar with a drum on their back – like the character Bert in Mary Poppins – moving spastically to get it all going in harmony, these days, there are much easier methods of achieving multi-instrumental bliss. At this stage in the evolution of music gear, it is not such an incredible feat to put together the equipment that can make you into a one-man band.
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