I've been working with different groups of aspiring musicians he past few weeks and the realization of how A LOT of newbies don't know how to stay in tempo or play to a click track is mind boggling.
I had to remind and even re-train most of them on how to do so and how it will really help them in the long run especially if they want to record their songs -- imagine trying to master a song with tracks that have different speeds in different parts of the song!! 😵 I even joked that I should've charged them more for the free lessons I gave them just to get through with it and it's obviously more than half meant.
Believe me, knowing how to play to a click track will save you. We don't just use click tracks on recordings. We also use them in live performances via in-ear monitoring and it's a must to a lot of the professional gigs I've been to.
It'll be hard and distracting at first but it's a discipline worth learning. 👌
Yes, trying to master individually recorded tracks of different instruments that didn't use clicks is a horror show
Reminder to new musicians: please learn how to play to a click 🙏
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