Week 9 – Shotgun

When I was finding the new songs last week I also stumbled on this recording of Shotgun, originaly by George Ezra but this version was done by Luke James Shaffer

I thought this version sounded pretty cool and the concept of trying to make my own loops was intriguing so I thought I would try to recreate his cover of shotgun. I don’t have a looper so I recorded each ‘loop’ in audacity with a metronome going then coppied and pasted in on repeat. I also wanted to practice playing individual lines, which isn’t part of the assesment but sounds cool on guitar and I thought this would be a good way to do it.

I started learning this with a free program called ‘Ambiloop’ and it was working a charm. I made a great loop version. Then it came to recording it with audacity and artificially making loops and it all went out the window. It turns out that when each loop is a fraction of a second off it doesn’t matter with an actual looper because it always starts together, but when it comes to copying and pasting over the length of a couple of minutes these inconsistencies become really obvious. My solution to this was just to record a normal cover of shotgun for this blog and to know that the loop cover I did worked pretty well for fun. I definitely want to buy a looper after this and see what I can do with it for my actual compositions because this week showed me there is heaps of potential to looping if done well.