Here, we've given ourselves two bars of click before the backing track starts (Image credit: Future)Īs the drummer, you’re probably the only band member who will actually have the click track piped into your ears, but you’re certainly the one person who will need it. The point is, you need the musical elements before you can play them back. You can make it yourself or with your bandmates using a DAW, buy a commercial, customised backing track if it’s a cover, or if you’re using sounds that feature on a recording you’ve already made, speak to the person who recorded or mixed it/open the project yourself (if that’s you) and start muting the bits you don’t want on your track. It could be that you need some electronic loops that appear for a few bars every chorus, a complete keyboard part, sound effects that aren’t possible to recreate in a band setup or anything in between/beyond. The nature of what goes on the track is most likely already decided (given that you’re already considering it). In order to make everything work- regardless of the technology you’re using to play it back - you’re going to need two things: a track packed with the sounds you want the audience to hear and a corresponding click track for you to lock into. Arrange the musical elements of your backing track in your DAW (Image credit: Apple)Īssuming you’re now like a hand in a glove with your metronome, it’s time to look at the songs you’re going to play live to a click.
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