You are a very knowledgeable and intelligent person. An excellent teacher as well. No BS, just good advice and instruction. You don't play too bad either!
I have been following your channel for quite a while now. Just wanted to say thank's for your generosity, you put a lot of effort on these videos. Great guy! Greetings from Argentina!
Ah-ha! I thought my brain was messing with me!!! I just picked up a Digi-Tech Jamman SoloXT and started messing around with it and thought I'd need to make a longer backing track but I needed some good advice. Thank you for such a short, very well explained video!
I realize this video is almost five years old, but I just want to mention I got the new Ditto + which is a lot more capable than the original Ditto looper, and it has ‘Extended Loop’ which means you can record lines that are longer than the base loop you first recorded. I’ve barely started with mine, but I love it. --- Follow up, now I’ve been playing guitar for two years. What you said about not torturing yourself is probably the most essential bit here. I was playing a rhythm track into the looper along with my chords to make a backup track, but I could never get the drum track to perfectly line up with itself-in other words, start the rhythm track, start playing and recording on one, and when I ended the loop the drums would be slightly out of line between the loop and the drum machine by a fraction of a beat. The answer to that was to stop recording the rhythm track into the loop. Especially when your loop is only two to four bars long, it’s not like you’re going to speed up or slow down significantly in that short time, so it doesn’t need to be computer level precise, because there’s no point to that musically or even technically.
Phillip, I was given a Boss Looper in 2013, just days before the stroke that hit me hard! Until I saw this video, I'd been afraid to try it! Now I think I can do it! Thanks.
Very helpful and informative (as always). Thanks! Just received looper yesterday but haven't tried it out yet. Some of your tips covered things that hadn't occurred to me.
Thanks Phillip on that great instructional video on Loopers, I'm getting one soon and this was very helpful in how I should started out learning how to play on my first Looper pedal. As Always your videos are very informative and interesting to watch. Thank you again!!!
Total beginner of about four months. Getting comfortable with 8 basic chords and changes. To keep my sanity, I want to learn to solo a bit. I’ll try your method out with my new Ditto. Thanks!
Great video, very helpful. I just picked up a Donner mini looper which is basically a ditto clone and this video was very helpful for me to figure out how to get started looping. Thanks.
I agree that it will make you a better musician it helps with timing and creativity great practice tool as well that can teach you to play with other musicians I use one often and a metronome
Bought two loopers over the last year or so and couldnt really find a use for either and sold them on, now thinking of buying another....why do we do this? Great video.
Good job. I don't own a looper, but I could see me trying something multi layered and complicated right out of the box. I'm guessing that Mr. McKnight went overboard the first time as well. Great tip start simple and build up, make the mistakes on small projects first. Also the comment about working on timing was strong as well. The worst part about playing alone is no timing of other band members or drums, unless you're using a metronome or drum track. Now I want a looper. Good video.
Thanks phil i know this video is old but the information isnt! :) i bought my first looper (boss rc-1) and gonna give it a go! thanks for breaking stuff down
Hey Phillip, just found your channel and like it very much. Been thinking about trying looping and this vid gives me a starting point. BTW your comments about the Grove exit from RU-vid reflecta my feelings exactly. "Illegitimis non Carborundum" Gryphon
Great video! Just ran across your channel a few mins ago. Love your videos- informative and to the point with helpful tips and examples. I've been looking at loopers but not sure which to get yet- boss or jam man.Look forward to getting one soon.
Good video. Can you explain how not to get a gap between the end of the loop and when the loop starts over. I have a Ditto and a JamMan. I've gotten better but not perfect. I think I'm doing something wrong.
+Jake Baynes start playing the beat BEFORE you Puch the button When you are in the groove stop it on the first beat and continue , then push the nitton on one again to stop. It gröps to have the foot stoppning to the floor all the time, just beside the looper
is looping a chord progression hard? I just want to know if it's Incredibly hard. I expect it is simple once you get the timing down but it could also bite you in the ass when playing a gig and messing up what's supposed to be a perfect loop. I'm a pretty good guitarist but I don't dive too deep into the technicalities so I'm just looking for some advice
Hi Phil, I'm considering buying a looper pedal. I can get the boss rc1 that is a best seller, OR i could go wilde and buy a Harley Benton mini looper. The HB is half the price of the RC 1 but seems to be a lot more than half the quality. I like that idea a lot. I was wondering if you had any insight about this. D'you know of any hidden issue that would make me regret buying an HB mini looper ?
Whenever I use my loop pedal the backing track I looped gets muffled out when I'm playing the lead. It's very frustrating because I'll be playing and the thing I just recorded just gets muffled out
thanx , but could You tell me how I could download a recorded track into my PC ? I got a Donner Looper , I plugged it in and nothing happened ... help !!!!!!! thanx
haha, hey Phil...Thanks for hitting a bad note. I'm sure you did it on purpose but it doesn't matter... Hitting the wrong note makes us not so great players feel better. Thanks for keeping it simple...
I'm using an older amplifier, a loop pedal, and a blues driver. my amplifier has two channels clean and dirty. my problem is whenever I record rhythm and step on my overdrive or my dirty channel for lead guitar the rhythm loop gets changed to that as well so now it's two guitars, same tone arguing with each other. any help? I want grit with my leads, but not with rhythm
My Problem is the following: I would love to pick up a looper pedal, but my shitty amp (Vox vt40+) doesn not have an FX loop. I would love to use the different styles of built- In Ampmodels and FX, but Without an FX loop this is not possible. I've seen a mod online, in which you can add an FX loop, but I still have waranty, and I don't wanna void it. Any suggestions?
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