What can I do with 40 second Looper?

Hey, I got a Flashback delay for Christmas and was looking for suggestions. I play acoustic and am currently the only musician at my church. We only play tradtional southern gospel hymns and I am looking for ways I can use my looper to accompany me.

I thought about creating drum sounds like KT Tungstall does. I also have been playing rhythm to "Our God Is An Awesome God" and playing the melody back over the loop. Any more suggestions or short progressions I might use?

I meant to post in the worship section if someone could move. :oops:

I'm thinking p&w would lend itself to looping pretty well... Aren't a lot of the songs extremely repetitive

I'm thinking p&w would lend itself to looping pretty well... Aren't a lot of the songs extremely repetitive

Yes, but the repetiveness that sets worship songs apart from other genres is in the lyrics - I doubt he's recording lyrics in his looper.

But luckily, all mainstream music styles are very musically repetitive. That's what makes them pleasing to listen to.

Anyway, an idea would be to play one of the choruses in, say, E, and record that, and then throw a capo on during playback, and play it is D with capo 2. More extreme would be G and then capo 5 and play in D. You get the idea. That sounds nice to mix capo voicings on acoustic, and with the looper, you can do it with one guitar.

You could play normal strumming, and then play over that some tacets or maybe string harmonics - or the other way around.

Also, you could play a lead over a recorded chorus or something. You'll have to be recording while singing - it would be awkward to stare at everyone while you record your strumming on a chorus, just so you can play it back.

Sounds fun - let us know how it goes for you.

I had the boss RC-20xl looper pedal for over a year. There alot of fun but they can be very difficult to with a whole band. Especially in a worship setting when there are mood changes in the song. But loopers are great for special music/offering stuff. Have fun and it might work with a whole band. Let us know how it works out.