What are Some of the Best Professional Live Looping Tips?

No matter how much time you spend jamming and practicing in the studios, there are several areas where things can go wrong when it finally comes out to looping in live performances. Fear of addressing huge audiences and pressure of delivering the best can always cause looping difficulties for even professional, most experienced artists.

Keeping that in mind, we discussed all these issues with experts and listed the following tips that will help you become a flawless performer:

How to Build the Energy?

One of the biggest and most effective secrets for staying bouncy in the midst of the audience is to continue mounting your energy. There is no doubt that looping while playing a track can be a bit challenging, but if you follow a rhythmic pattern, you will be able to do it quite effortlessly.

As the volume of the first loop drops, you need to trail it with another drum/guitar loop of the same intensity, making it almost impossible for the audience to contrast between the two. Moreover, the momentum can even be maintained with a significant drop or rise in the sound.     

How to Avoid Drops with Assist?

This might be a well known fact for professional band members who spend hours jamming together and are suitably aware of imperfections and attributes of each other. Even when performing live you can adjust the drum and Guitar loops while taking assistance from your band member. If you aren’t sure about the loop change and think that you can drop it down, don’t hesitate to ask your band members to play a little louder to cover the distortion up.                      

Why have an Exit Strategy?

The biggest concern that can bother professionals about live performances is the failure with overdub or wiping loop. As a suggestion, you need to have proper exit strategy in such cases.

You can get the purpose served with a kill switch, volume pedal or plug-ins.         

Check the Volume:

When looping, it is important that you have a proper check and control over the volume. The control becomes more a necessity than a technicality during the last layers where overdubbing is needed. Volume direction is also required when soloing over the guitar or drum loops, so that you maintain a proper volume level throughout the performance.       

Practicing Beforehand, is it Important?

Unlike the jamming sessions, live performances require a professional guitarist to maintain fine contact with the audience in order to keep everybody engaged with his guitar tracks. This is can be possible only when you are practicing regularly and are able to memorize the guitar/ drum loops or sequences in the rhythmic pattern. If you don’t have enough practice, you might end up twisting tempos and even merely gazing at the pedals during a live performance!     

Author Bio :-

I am Ryan Gruss loves to play with music. I am in this industry from many years. I am continuously serving my customers all over the world with the music loops. I create Drum Tracks and with different varieties and have gained very good fame and name of my organization Thelooploft. I love writing also and I write blogs and articles related to music.