This is a live looping cover of John Mayer's new single "New Light."
Loops are triggered automatically in Ableton Live.
This song contains a lot of repetition, which made it a great song for a live looping performance. However, part of what makes this song so fun to listen to is that there are breaks from that repetition throughout the arrangement. This presented some challenges for live looping. The most obvious challenge is when the song goes to the bridge (at 2:15) and the chord progression changes. This required me to make a very fast change from playing guitar to playing bass!
Maybe it's because I haven't been playing much jazz lately, but in this cover, I felt like sticking some classic jazz language into the guitar solo. Jazz lovers may recognize that my solo at 3:01 - 3:16 is actually a quote from Charlie "Bird" Parker's iconic song "Kim." (Here's a video of Grant Stinnett, Jim Stinnett and me playing that a few years ago: https://youtu.be/53MFfqWbziI ).
Arranged, recorded, produced, performed, directed, shot and edited by me.
Gear:
1982 Fender Fullerton Reissue Jazz Bass
1997 Gibson L-5 Studio (guitar solo at 2:30)
Novation Nocturn 49 Keyboard
Countryman E6 Earset Microphone
Shure SE215 IEM
Shot on a Sony a7S II with a Canon 24-70 f/2.8 lens.
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