Talk:Comping (jazz)

Assembling a vocal track
This article seems reasonable to me, but wouldn't it be nice to have a Wikipedia entry covering "comping" in the sense of assembling a vocal (or other solo) track from a collection of different takes? This use of the term is probably more widespread amongst contemporary popular musicians.


 * Counsell, as for assembling a recording's track, I think that comping is just a contraction of compositing. --How M 04:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I have added an entry to the disambiguation page Comp noting this sense of the term. --Lph 16:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

That enter is no longer present in the disambiguation page. Also, the disambiguation page isn't referenced in the article here. Lucas gonze (talk) 23:52, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Guitar and rock
Zamoja, I think that your editing of this page has distorted the relative importance of the guitar in comping. In the section starting "in combos with a guitar player..." of the page, you make it sound as though guitar is the main comping instrument in jazz, and piano, if present, plays a secondary role. This is just not true in practice. In practice, most jazz combos feature a piano as the sole chordal instrument. Very seldom do they feature both piano and guitar as comping instruments. And if both are to comp at the same time, the pianist usually takes the dominant role. Mark Levine's "The Jazz Piano Book" attests to this, if you need a source. Perhaps it would be better to refer to a "chordal instrument" in general discussions about comping, and to specific chordal instruments in specific sections.

Also, I'm not sure that the rock comping section is necessary, as I'm not aware that rock musicians use the term "comping". In the rare case that they did, I would imagine that it would be in music of sufficient improvisational character as to fall under some type of jazz classification.

In general, I think this page needs to be reorganized. I might do it soon if I have time. Adumbratus 11:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Entering competitions

 * To me, 'comping' means the hobby of entering competitions. The first result in a Google search for "comping" where I am (UK) is www.winspiration.co.uk/topten.htm, bearing this out. Possible split for this article?


 * I have added an entry to the disambiguation page Comp noting this sense of the term. --Lph 16:45, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

ANOTHER MEANING OF COMPING
It is used as an abbreviation of "competition entering" and people who enter competitions are called compers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.109.94 (talk) 10:18, 22 February 2013 (UTC)