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September 15, 2021 7:55 PM   Subscribe

 
That was quite lovely, actually.
posted by ashbury at 8:03 PM on September 15, 2021 [1 favorite]


That was unexpected, but fun.

I've enjoyed quite a few musicians who do looping performances, often building up instrumental loops and backing vocals into a box right before the audience before unleashing the whole performance. It's a wonderful way to do a "one person band" kind of concept, and it takes a talent all its own.
posted by hippybear at 8:11 PM on September 15, 2021


These things and things like the Wellerman that was popular a little while ago are such fun!

I really like playing with a loop pedal and whatever instrument I can manage to plug in to it. Someone clued me in to the idea of a clip on mic for acoustic things, and that has been fun! (I don't know how to record any of it, nor would I really want to)

I don't know how these things are done, though. Is it an app? Do you have to have actually good timing? Or is it all recorded and mixed separately? I feel like with how popular it is, there must be a very simple way to do it. If so, is it just on tiktok? I'd like to do this in a way that doesn't make me post things publicly.

I also really enjoyed the gag that turned the 'parts' into 'stages of grief'
posted by Acari at 8:23 PM on September 15, 2021 [1 favorite]


There's at least one app that lets you do this kind of looping - it's something that Jimmy Fallon busted out for when Billy Joel was on his show some years back. It's a delightful clip - you can tell that it's this kind of musical fooling around that got Billy into music long ago at the beginning, and he digs it.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:32 PM on September 15, 2021 [7 favorites]


Yeah, I have an amp and pedal that can do looping, but it's very hard to get the rhythm/timing of stomping the pedal. playing the riff, stomping again, and hoping it loops it right. Cool stuff though...
posted by Windopaene at 9:35 PM on September 15, 2021




Apparently that link doesn't work outside of the UK. It was KT Tunstall doing a live version of Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, if you want to google it.
posted by Eleven at 3:52 AM on September 16, 2021


Regarding looping, I saw Imogen Heap do this well too.
posted by ben30 at 4:35 AM on September 16, 2021 [5 favorites]


TikTok specifically caters for this in the way it works - you can take someone else's video and then layer your own performance over the top of it.

That said, I'm pretty sure this is a produced recording; the vocals are autotuned, and I'm fairly sure they're just miming the performance over a pre-recorded, pre-produced backing.
posted by parm at 6:58 AM on September 16, 2021 [1 favorite]


Yeah, it's news to me that Will Farrell is a counter-tenor.
posted by tspae at 8:12 AM on September 16, 2021


I love choral music, and this is a lovely introduction to how it works. Absolutely charming, thanks for posting and for the links. The Imogen Heap video, holy wow!
posted by theora55 at 10:15 AM on September 16, 2021


Eleven, is this it?
posted by star gentle uterus at 10:30 AM on September 16, 2021 [3 favorites]


Oh, Ryan Reynolds, cool. Oh, Will Ferrell, nah.
posted by Splunge at 10:35 AM on September 16, 2021 [1 favorite]


I don’t know what this is, but it definitely ran through my head all day today.
posted by gauche at 2:27 PM on September 16, 2021


I looked up the original music vid and didn’t find it anything like as catchy, gauche. Good Parts Version here.
posted by clew at 2:51 PM on September 16, 2021 [1 favorite]


I've enjoyed quite a few musicians who do looping performances,

Strongly recommend checking out Sudan Archives in concert.
posted by solotoro at 6:22 PM on September 16, 2021


I don't have TikTok, so I only catch a TT video if someone tweets it. When I first saw the video on Monday, I assumed that the song was from some random Grace Kelly film I'd somehow missed. I was pretty sure she'd only been in one musical (High Society), but Doris Day sang Che Serà Serà in The Man Who Knew Too Much, so it could have been a random song in an obscure film. Only today, after having watched this video dozens of times, did I realize that Grace Kelly is the name of a song. I suddenly feel quite old.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 9:32 PM on September 16, 2021 [2 favorites]


I feel bad for being meaner than a song deserves. I would rather have said that you’d probably have heard about it already if it were the sort of thing you often liked, gauche, because it’s already pretty famous in its sphere.
posted by clew at 10:39 PM on September 16, 2021


here's a great clip of an acapella group doing it, playing musical chairs to see who'll get stuck having to do the high part
posted by Clowder of bats at 1:06 PM on September 17, 2021 [1 favorite]


I like!
posted by a humble nudibranch at 3:47 AM on September 20, 2021


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