Finish December looping post

Author: chrisglein

_drafts/2025-12-31-Looping-December-2025.md

@@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ Here are the loop jams I captured from month of December.
 
 ### Loop 1
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-I think I was looking back at some old loops and wanted something with a slow groove. With a modulated held chord. I remember playing around with the bass line for a while on this one. Well, mission accomplished. This is slow AF.
+I think I was looking back at some old loops and wanted something with a slow groove. With a modulated held chord. I remember playing around for a while before I landed on a bass line that I liked. Well, mission accomplished, because this jam is slow AF.
 
 ### Loop 2
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-Phaser distorted percussive funky chords. So much chicken scratch. Not always clear what to do once that's in place. 
+Let's do phaser distorted percussive funky chords and a bunch of chicken scratch. What next? Well, I'm not exactly clear on that. I'm just making all of this up as I go.
 
 ### Loop 3
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-Whenever I go to lay down a new loop I have to clear a memory slot, because the 100 available on the looper pedal have all been used. I'll generally give what was in there one playback before deleting it. This was an example where I liked something that was there and decided to do it differently. Inevitably they become unrecognizable from what was there before. The chord progression here is two parts, once descending and one descending, both with a chorus effect on. The lead line is some fuzz doing what felt right, which is another layer of stair step motion.
+Whenever I go to lay down a new loop I have to clear a memory slot, because the 100 available on the looper pedal have all been used. I'll generally give what was in there one playback before deleting it. This was an example where I liked something that was there and decided to do it differently. Inevitably the new becomes unrecognizable from what was there before. The chord progression here is two parts, once descending and one ascending, both with a chorus effect on. The lead line is some fuzz doing what felt right, which is another layer of stair step motion.
 
 ### Loop 4 
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@@ -36,12 +36,20 @@ It's unrecognizable now, but again I was aiming to cover a sea shanty, this time
 
 ### Loop 6
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-Keeping the theme of wanting to cover and reinterpret songs, I was listening to "Glory Box" by Portishead and had the idea to take the string section and do it with guitar. But of course that string section is doing a bunch of different harmonies and that all came out very different with the guitar layers. Loud, really. That didn't leave any room sonically to put more guitar on top (which is usually how I finish a loop). Plus I didn't entirely stick to the original string bit. So this was… an experiment. A fun one.
+Keeping the theme of wanting to cover and reinterpret songs, I was listening to "Glory Box" by Portishead and had the idea to take the string section and do it with guitar. But of course that string part has many sources doing a bunch of different harmonies and that all came out very different with the guitar layers. Loud, really. That didn't leave any room sonically to put more guitar on top (which is usually how I finish a loop). Plus I didn't entirely stick to the original string bit. So this was… an experiment. A fun one.
 
 ### Loop 7
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-TODO
+Not exactly a complicated riff to start, but what I was looking for was a bit of a "pedal tone," where the motion came from the second layer of chords on top. Which came out great, in my opinion. Very emotive.
 
 ### Loop 8
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-TODO
+I remember really struggling to figure out the final chord on this one to go with the tiny little riff. It feels a bit like a question mark. Continuing a trend for this year, this really came into its own once the bass line came together and gave it grounding and momentum. What felt awkward earlier on became cohesive.
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+### Loop 9
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+Not a lot of complexity in the base loop here. I pretty much raced through to get to the point of adding a fuzzy lead line on top. I like when that traces over the base riff.
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+### Loop 10
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+Enough electric tomfoolery, it's time for raw funky acoustic guitar. Which… I immediately felt needed a muted electric rhythm on top of that. There was so much going on with the rhythm that I wasn't exactly sure how to accompany. I'm trying to decide if that's a problem or not. In some ways, if a thing is ever to be a song it probably needs vocals and those need a melody. And that could be traced out with guitar. But not always. I'm not technically songwriting here, so it's fine. I think.