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I finally dug it out. After living more than 8 months in my new apartment, I have finally extricated my looper from the recesses of my storage cabinets.

And whilst some of my more opinionated friends see using the looper as only a form of “musical masturbation”, it certainly makes it simple to transform a single piano chord progression or guitar lick into something with slightly more depth, more tonality, and to the potential chagrin of my new upstairs neighbor, more volume.

At least I don’t own a drum set anymore (my keyboard synth will just have to do).