Tele Tuesday: Looping the Detectives

It has been a while since I did anything for #TeleTuesday. A while back I heard this song on the radio and I thought I could do something with it. I have not really done much with looping in songs, but I have seen so many people doing cool stuff, including a good friend of mine. I could hear this riff running through the song that could work as a loop.

I have had my Zoom G3X effects unit for years. It has a basic drum machine and you can do loops of up to 40s. The clever bit is that you can synchronise the loop to the drums by setting how many beats it should record for. This was only a couple of bars.

You will see me reaching down as I have to press a tiny button to start and stop the drums. Then I have to switch modes to the looper and make sure I hit the right buttons with my foot. I performed this at our local open mic, but had some issues as my big shoes were pressing the wrong buttons. I need to read the lyrics too as there are a lot of them.

This was a first take of the video and not too bad. I had a few timing issues, but I am fairly happy with it. I hope you enjoy it. I need to experiment more with this technology. I actually have three different loopers and one can do really long loops.

Rock on!

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