Looking Back and Moving Forward
Dec 23, 2008 Moving
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I’ve got a show coming up on Monday the 29th. My first solo show in two years.
The last time around, I had some trouble. I couldn’t figure out how to give the songs the groove they needed by myself, so I assumed the answer was more stuff. I brought in Ableton Live. I had a set of MIDI footpedals, programmed to do different things for each song. I layered keyboard tracks live, I looped harmony vocals, I wrote a nonsense song onstage… I even beatboxed. I had a binder on stage to help me keep track of all the details. It was a disaster. I spent far too much of the show hunched over the laptop, trying not to panic.
Here are some parts that worked.
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Tags: Arthur and the Geniuses, beatbox, live, Perfect Moment, rehearsal
