I agree with fred here, also, I pack nearly 500 sounds into my PAs and
although I have an idea of which sounds go best together, I try to avoid
arranging my PAs in any order.
ah. i disagree whole heartedly. i feel too many pa's do it this way, and
it begins to feel like "here's this sound, now i take this one away, now
here's another," and i get bored pretty easily without any kind of dynamics.
while i consider my live sets fluid, i still have lots of structure. I know
*exactly* how i want my songs to progress (and have the patterns set up as
such), but i am still able to stretch out any segment of the song as i see
fit and manipulate in new ways if i feel the crowd will like it. and while
my songs are "arranged," i am still able to play what tracks *when* i want
to. and if i feel saucy and want to drop new samples in, i will.
but i feel song structure if *very* important, and i honestly feel its a big
reason why a lot of live pa's just don't get popular. Patterns and
soundmaking are only half of it; creative arrangement is such a huge part
of this music that too many live artists ignore it for the sake of being
totally 'live.'
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