Looping: November 2025 (part 1)
26 Dec 2025Here are the loop jams I captured from the first half of the month of November.
Loop 1
I watched a video on “shell chords” and then wanted to go make some stuff up with a bunch of sevenths and a jazzy feel. I don’t bring my tiny organ keyboard out enough, but it felt like the right tone for this.
Loop 2
I was supposed to learn “Lifeboy,” a song with a finger picking style. I started with learning the chords, but instead of learning the rest I took those chords abstractly out of context and built a loop on that. All acoustic, because that’s fun; gotta bring in the bouzouki! Although I didn’t keep that layer for the loop. It was taking up too much sonic space for the lead on top of it. This is a great example of where a many channel looper would be helpful so I could turn on and off many things independently.
Loop 3
Slow patient tremolo chords, the bass emphasizing a beat, all of this is a safe place for me at this point. I added some delay and crunchy for the top layer of noodles. I’m not sad about it.
Loop 4
This is such a loop. By which I mean it’s exactly the sort thing happens when you have an idea, you throw it in, and see if it all sticks. It’s kind of a goofy one. Hard to explain why I feel that. I do like when the lead layer gets a bit saucy towards the end.
Loop 5
It’s hard to make loops that involve delay and rhythm. You can get a delay repeat pace that you like, but syncing it up with the rhythm (even with tap tempo) doesn’t always retain the thing about the repeats that was working for you. But I’m working on it. There’s an emotion in this core loop that I really like. And it created a very pleasant groove to play over. It’s a slow burn to get there, but it’s a good pocket.
Loop 6
I remember being stuck in a loop on top of this loop, working out a melody that I liked over the base. That base is so moody and modulated, kind of floaty.
Loop 7
I was in a contemplative place and wanted to slap on the big atmospheric reverb and do something outside of rhythm. And just lean into imperfection.
Loop 8
I’ve been trying out something where I take a song and reenvision it into a loop with a different arrangement, rhythm, whatever. Not trying to do a cover, but use it as a seed and see where it takes me. In this case it was “Slow Burn” by Kacey Musgraves. Which features an acoustic guitar and a wispy strumming pattern. It’s all beautiful, really. I wanted different, so you get this warbletron electric version of the core chords. Instead of singing I wanted to bring in that excellent melodic hook into a guitar voice. The source of inspiration here is better of course, but this was fun.