I LOVE Chord Looper because it frees my left hand to more easily comp rootless chords in my left hand while soloing in my right; play counter melodies in my left hand without screwing up the style’s harmony, and other techniques that those of us who come from an acoustic piano background as a soloist or a member of a band with a bass player use. With Chord Looper I no longer have to voice chords in a certain way just to feed the computer the info it needs. Yes, there are other ways to achieve that, but I find chord looper to be very quick and accessible, given my ability and interest level in learning the technology needed to use those other ways. I don’t mind adding my drum fills with an assigned pedal or pressing a button for a different voice/variation. We all gotta press a few buttons. When you program a chord progression of a song in sections, you can easily move around to different sections when you decide, in the moment, to keep the song or improvisation going. So yeah, I love that chord looper lets me play like a pianist in a band at any hour of the day for as long as I want and without it complaining or drinking too much…my whole reason for buying a Genos.
We each bring own unique musical background, skill levels and goals to our Genos. Does that make any of us wrong in how we approach expressing our musicality through the different Genos’ functions and features? No, I don’t think so. What works for one, doesn’t work for another and vice versa. Genos has many features that I will never use, but that if I took the time to figure out, would be very helpful to me. I don’t use some of those features, but I don’t think they are useless — just beyond my technical interest/skill, at least for the moment. Some of its features require more musical knowledge to make them useful.
Given that music knowledge and skill is infinite, we all have our strengths and weaknesses as musicians. There’s always more music theory and skill to be gained. And yet we can still musically communicate and express in our incompleteness as musicians. When any one of us can’t see how a Genos feature could be useful or is less than perfect, others find it perfect for them. Viva la difference, and isn’t it great that the Genos (though not quite perfect) for the most part, allows us each to find our way of expressing our own musical uniqueness? How lovely.
Guess I just wanted to send Chord Looper some of the love 💕 💕 I think it deserves. 😀 😃 😃 Jana