Playing To A Click

[stewblack]

7 hours ago, Muzz said:

I'm not sure I understand the 'extra instrumentation which we had in our ears but the audience didn't hear' thing, tho: what was it?

The click track was punctuated with verbal cues and had keys and such on it as well.

[Muzz]

Oh my...that sounds...unusual.. 😐

[asingardenof]

11 hours ago, stewblack said:

The click track was punctuated with verbal cues and had keys and such on it as well.

That sounds distracting to say the least

[stewblack]

The verbal cues were useful when I could hear them - I'd annotated my scores and chord charts to match them. If I work with the band again I'll be sure to learn the app and get my mix how I want it.

[Elfrasho]

On 06/06/2023 at 13:18, Dood said:

 

All the criticisms I've ever seen about playing to click tends to come from people who have pre-conceived ideas about what that "does" to a band and usually have no real experience with working with a click professionally.

 

 

 

 

Was going to post this very same observation!

 

 

 

[scalpy]

7 hours ago, asingardenof said:

That sounds distracting to say the least

This is what we do with ours and it’s not that bad. I’ll put instrumentation on the guide for instance when there’s a tricky tempo change, particularly if it leaves a single player exposed, such as keys or drums intro. They fall right in and adds some security to tricky sections. As said above, with deps it’s really helpful.