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  • Best Tips to win a Loop Station Wildcard in 2023 by Kristóf – Sunday December, 18th 2022 at 3 PM

    Best Tips to win a Loop Station Wildcard in 2023 by Kristóf – Sunday December, 18th 2022 at 3 PM

    Are you lacking inspiration to complete your loop station tracks? Do you have some difficulties to structure your ideas? Do you want to know the best tips to maximise your chances to win a loop station wildcard ?

    Join a new exclusive loop station masterclass and unlock your creativity as a looper in no time!

    “I think that the loop community is amazingly passionate. But most of the loopers lack some musical background knowledge to keep this level of enthusiasm constant. If you don’t have this kind of knowledge it’s really likely that you are going up and down with the ideas. Sometimes you don’t know what to do, you judge yourself too much. I’ve been there and as soon as I learned music as a whole, it really opened up to me. I really do believe that if this could somehow be transferred to the beatbox community, they could be huge.”

    Kristóf 🇭🇺, Loop Station Kickback Battle 21 Winner.

    What is this masterclass about?

    Join an intensive online masterclass with our sensei Kristóf 🇭🇺  

    He will share his personal tips as a producer and an experienced judge for loop contests as well.

    Save time by not making common mistakes and finally build a full-rounded wildcard pleasant to listen!

    Topics approached:

    • Structure
    • Composition
    • Transitions
    • Sound Design
    • Single device
    • Multi-device
    • Producer

    Who is the class for?

    All levels.
    Especially for intermediate & confirmed loopers who want to level up in a short time and aspire to become top-level loopers. Also for people who want to be a producer.

    Kristóf 🇭🇺 – Professional Beatboxer & Teacher

    🥇 Champion of KBB ’21 Loop Station Category, 🌎🥉GBB online Loop Station 3rd place winner, Kristóf 7s is a multi instrumentalist musician (guitar, bass, synths, beatbox) looper and teacher.

    As a producer and sound designer, he is just into everything and anything related to music. Pushing the boundaries of live looping and creativity. Playing solo sets and playing with bands for over 10 years on all kinds of stages from huge festivals to smaller clubs.

    As a teacher, he taught beginners and high level artists over the past 3 years. He is really passionate about helping you to new heights and he is ready to share experience and knowledge with you to help you level up in no time!

    Summary for this masterclass

    Sunday December, 18th 2022 at 3 PM (CET).

    1. Masterclass with Kristóf (1 hour)
    2. Q&A sessions

    ⚠️ Places are limited.

    👅 Language: 🇬🇧 English

    📼 Masterclass will be on Zoom.

    ▶️ Unlimited access to replays will be granted.

    💰 Price for the masterclass: 20€


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  • Harmony fundamentals with a Loop Station – Masterclass by Robin on 1st of September 2022

    Harmony fundamentals with a Loop Station – Masterclass by Robin on 1st of September 2022

    Lacking inspiration to build new tracks with your loop station? Do you have difficulties finding the right notes and being on pitch? Do you want to learn how to build effective harmonies with vocals or with the Oscillator Bot effect of the RC-505 MKII?

    Join our exclusive online masterclass with Robin, French Beatbox Champion in 2017 & vice champ in Loop Station category of the KickBack Battle 21 – and unlock your creativity in no time!

    Summary of this summerclass

    Date: 1st of September 2022 at 6 PM (CET)

    1. Quick presentation
    2. Harmony fundamentals with a Loop Station
    3. Live composition of a music from scratch
    4. Q&A session

    📶 All levels
    👅 Language: 🇬🇧 English
    📼 Masterclass will be on Zoom
    ▶️ Unlimited access to the replay will be granted

    💰 Price for this masterclass:

    Early bird price: 10€
    Not so early bird price: 15€
    Late bird price: 20€

    ⚠️ Places are limited.

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    More infos

    What is this masterclass about ?

    During more than 1 hour, Robin 🇫🇷 is going to teach you “Harmony fundamentals with a Loop Station”.

    Learn his best tips to find the right musical notes, chords and how to get a balanced sound spectrum in order to compose effective tracks.

    You will also have the opportunity to compose a music track live with Robin while he will explain his process of selecting notes, how to use the Oscillator Bot effect and so much more.

    Finally, you will be able to ask any questions you want related to the topic.

    Who is the class for?

    All levels. Especially for loopers.

    Robin 🇫🇷 – French Beatbox Loop Station champion

    Robin Cavailles is a professional multi-instrumentalist musician, world-known beatboxer and looper.

    Already crowned French beatbox champion in the team category in 2011, he is a real pioneer of the French Beatbox Family and a true inspiration for the newcomers. Considered as one of the most musical loopers on planet earth, he distinguished himself in many important Loop Station competitions such as the World Championship (Top 8), KickBack Battle 21 (2nd), GBB World League 21 (Top 8), Multiverse Beatbox Battle 19 (Top 4) and French Championship 17 (1st).

    He has been a professional artist and music teacher since 2013, passionate about sharing his experience and knowledge to beatbox amators.

    Facebook: @Robin Cavailles

    Instagram: @robinbeatbox

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  • How to become a complete Loop Station Artist? by Kristof – Lyrebird Intensive Bootcamp 25th and 26th June

    How to become a complete Loop Station Artist? by Kristof – Lyrebird Intensive Bootcamp 25th and 26th June

    Are you lacking inspiration to create loop station tracks? Do you have some difficulties to master the loop station or simply to structure your ideas? Do you want to improve your music knowledge by learning top tier techniques and tricks for looping?

    For the first time in history, join the most intense looping boot camp ever created and unlock your creativity as a looper in no time!

    What is this masterclass about?

    During 2 days, join intensive online masterclasses and get coached by our senseï Kristóf 🇭🇺 on different topics designed to help you to become a complete loop station artist.

    Topics approached:

    • Music Theory 
    • Rhythms Theory
    • Sound Design 
    • How to create different musical genres
    • How to listen (actively) to learn music 
    • How to approach the looper as an instrument / How to overcome its limitation
    • All related back to the popular RC-loop stations : MK1, MK2…
    • How to get gigs
    • Street performing

    Who is the class for?

    All levels.
    Especially for intermediate & confirmed loopers who want to level up in a short time and aspire to become top-level loopers. Also for people who want to be a producer.

    Kristof 🇭🇺 – Professional Beatboxer & Teacher

    🥇 Champion of KBB ’21 Loop Station Category, 🌎🥉GBB online Loop Station 3rd place winner, Kristóf 7s is a multi instrumentalist musician (guitar, bass, synths, beatbox) looper and teacher.

    As a producer and sound designer, he is just into everything and anything related to music. Pushing the boundaries of live looping and creativity. Playing solo sets and playing with bands for over 10 years on all kinds of stages from huge festivals to smaller clubs. 

    As a teacher, he taught beginners and high level artists over the past 3 years. He is really passionate about helping you to new heights and he is ready to share experience and knowledge with you to help you level up in no time!

    Summary for these 2-days masterclasses

    2-days loop station masterclasses on the 25th and 26th of june 2022.

    1. 2 x 4 h masterclasses from 2 PM to 6 PM (CET)
    2. Q&A sessions right after the masterclasses (guaranted questions opportunities)
    3. Win the opportunity to restitute your work in live at the Lyrebird Online Show on the 29th of June 2022!

    ⚠️ Places are limited.

    👅 Language: 🇬🇧 English

    📼 Masterclass will be on Zoom.

    ▶️ Unlimited access to replays will be granted.

    💰 Price for these 2-days masterclasses : 

    Early bird price: 70€  SOLD OUT
    Not so early bird price: 85€
    Late bird price: 99€

    “I think that the loop community is amazingly passionate. But most of the loopers lack some musical background knowledge to keep this level of enthusiasm constant. If you don’t have this kind of knowledge it’s really likely that you are going up and down with the ideas. Sometimes you don’t know what to do, you judge yourself too much. I’ve been there and as soon as I learned music as a whole, it really opened up to me. I really do believe that if this could somehow be transferred to the beatbox community, they could be huge.”

    Kristóf 🇭🇺, Loop Station Kickback Battle 21 Winner.


    VERY IMPORTANT: We will email you the Zoom link for the event so PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER too if you don’t receive any message.
    You will also need a Zoom account to attend the masterclasses.

  • French Loopstation Beatbox Championship 2021 : Feedbacks and results

    French Loopstation Beatbox Championship 2021 : Feedbacks and results

    LYREBIRD had the chance to witness the 2021 French Loopstation Championship organised by Beatbox France from 3 points of view: the audience, the livestream moderation and as the timer.

    We will share this experience with you with enthusiasm 🙂 

    A BEATBOX EVENT WITH THE FRENCH TOUCH

    The competition took place on Friday November 19th at Le Ferrailleur in Nantes. 

    It was broadcasted live on Beatbox France’s YouTube channel thanks to a high-quality video stream which was very appreciated by online viewers around the world.

    It had been more than 2 years since this championship had taken place, suffice to say that the participants were eager to show their progress. 

    This edition began on a sad note, following severe events at the Grand Beatbox Battle 21, an awareness against harassment and sexual violence had to be addressed and was kindly received by the audience thanks to the intervention of Aliénor, president of the Toulouse beatbox association Underground Beatbox Battle.

    The event was sold out thanks to 300 spectators who came from all over France to support the participants:

    16 loopers, pre-qualified by video, had the opportunity to show their talents on stage for 3 minutes each, in front of a jury of professionals. 

    This one was composed of 2 world champions and future senseis of Lyrebird, Saro and Faya Braz, as well as Chris TheOdian (French Loopstation champion 2019).

    • Jury Chris TheOdian
    • Jury Fayabraz
    • Jury Saro

    The common goal of all the participants was simple: to impress the jury enough to be qualified in the TOP 8 in order to compete in the Battle phase (1 against 1) and thus claim the title of new French beatbox champion in the Loopstation category.

    SUCCESSION IS ASSURED

    French Loopstation Beatbox Championship 2021 – Battle bracket

    Top favourite of the competition, BreZ (French Loopstation champion 2018) remained faithful to the predictions by winning the competition after a final of anthology 100% Breton against Mike Fly.

    Congratulations to our two finalists who show us that experience and work always pay off 😉

    Here are some excerpts of their elimination rounds:

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    Furthermore, 9 out of 16 participants made their first live performance physically at a French championship and they were pleasantly surprised!

    Special mention goes to Ipso, who won this year’s Best Show title thanks to his musicality which could make Tom Thum blush.

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    We also congratulate Elash, only 13 years old, who for his first participation knew how to make the crowd dance as it should thanks to quality drops.

    The icing on the cake was the chance to witness exclusive showcases starting with Robin (2017 French Loopstation Champion) in complete control of the famous RC-505 MK2. Thank you, Commissioner!

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    Afterwards, we also enjoyed the unique showcases of our juries: Saro, Faya Braz and Chris TheOdian, lastly with our favourite duo of world champions: UniTeam composed of Alem & Alexinho.

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    BACK TO THE ROOTS OF LOOPSTATION

    Unlike the Grand Beatbox Battle 21, only one of the 16 participants chose to use a “second device” other than the loopstation RC-505 (a second device allowing the use of additional effects) and it was Vincent Vinel a.k.a. Double V using the Line 6 from Helix.

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    We saw a return to a more “classic” use of the loopstation, with the greatest happiness from the purists of the machine.

    But everyone is waiting impatiently to be able to use the promising new loopstation model the Boss RC 505 Mark 2 a.k.a. MK2 recently in pre-order which should also bring a breath of fresh air thanks to its new range of effects and features. 

    This means that this could be the last edition with only using the original model of the looper.

    THE DIFFICULTIES OF LIVE LOOPING

    The only downside of the event was that some loopers had to start their round again because of technical problems or lack of stage experience. 

    This reminds us of the importance of good preparation in advance but also on stage to avoid a maximum of bad surprises. 

    Although the current situation makes it difficult to earn his spurs live, it gives us ideas of course topics on the loopstation to overcome these difficulties 😉

    So, what would you like to learn on the loopstation ideally? Feel free to reply in the comments!

    Duj, beatbox addict for 15 years.