Organized Gibberish

I’m incredibly excited to go see one of my favorite musicians tonight – Andrew Bird.  If you didn’t already know Andrew Bird is a singer/songwriter/musican-extradonaire.  He can play pretty much any stringed instrument, his forte being the violin.  Not only does play a whole bunch of stringed instruments, and sings but he also is a professional whistler and will whistle over most of his musical interludes.   My favorite part of his performances is his live looping abilities.

Live looping is no easy task.  I’ve seen multiple people fail at it and it can really bring a song down.  What Andrew will do is start a song on violin, play 8 or 16 bars and then loop over it again.  He’ll do it multiple times to build up the piece and then start live playing guitar over it.  Later on he might add more to the loops to enhance the song through the bridge.  Watch this youtube clip from one of his live performances.  You should also note that the drummer he’s playing with is the very talented, Minneapolis native Martin Dosh.  Dosh also loops his drums live and will play keys to add more. How he does it without getting too much stage bleed is beyond me.
Live at Bonnaroo:

Have a good night everyone!

-Adam