The extent of my AV experience consisted of trying to make mixed tapes back in the day, so watching someone doing live looping in a video seems like black magic and I’m intensely curious about how it works.
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The basic idea of looping is that popular music has repeating units. Instead of needing to play every drum beat, you can play 16 in a row, then repeat them forever. Now, you can record 4 guitar chords on top of that, one for every 4 beats, and repeat both.
The trick in timing is to tap the looper device at the right moment, but that’s easier than it sounds in that musicians are used to tapping a foot in time with the music. If you tap your foot 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4, and you start and stop the loop with a foot pedal on 1, you’ll get exactly one measure of 4/4 time looped.
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