Playing with a click live

[b to g is yummy]

Is it a comman thing to play with a click live, or at rehearsal, even if you have no backup tracks?

I think it'd be a good idea for my band to try, as we tend to speed up through the upbeat songs, and...some band members have a poor sense of timing...

How do you pull it off? Does just the drummer get it or do you send it to everyone? I can imagine the beeps being heard by the audience..that'd sound amature...how goeth it??

Thanks

[LowBSix]

Originally Posted by b to g is yummy

Is it a comman thing to play with a click live, or at rehearsal, even if you have no backup tracks?

I think it'd be a good idea for my band to try, as we tend to speed up through the upbeat songs, and...some band members have a poor sense of timing...

How do you pull it off? Does just the drummer get it or do you send it to everyone? I can imagine the beeps being heard by the audience..that'd sound amature...how goeth it??

Thanks

Most definitely use it for rehearsal to get everyone used to "REAL TIME"... Your band members would find practicing to a click/drum machine something would help them.

I tell my students when they first use one that it will get used to where they tend to speed up and slow down.

As far as live goes, if using InEarMonitors, it's easy... Otherwise, you can feed in to just the drummer and everyone must cooperate with his time. That's why using for rehearsals a few times is important!!!

[ryco]

My wife's band's drummer was hooked up to a click track. They were a T-40 cover band trio (gtr-drm-keys/ryth gtr -- all voc) and were hooked up to an Apple and an Ensonique EPS to fill out background vocals and supplemental keyboard parts. Worked well.

DERAIL: I was in an original hard rock band at the time and if I wasn't giggin, I would go sit in with them. They ran sequenced bass thru a Peavey 115 combo. I would plug in and play 90's dance hits. Was great! Madonna, Abdul, Samantha Fox, etc = crappy music with outrageously fun bass lines! :SLIGHT RETURN

[b to g is yummy]

at this point (we're just kinda gettin re-started) we dont have our own sound guy or anything so how does it work when a band plays live with a click? Does the sound guy have to run it...changing the bpm etc or does the drummer have a personal device?

What is a cheap metronome you'd recommend for the drummer?

[Hoover]

I misread the thread title and thought this was gonna be about Playing With A Chick Live !

[MakiSupaStar]

I play with a DJ. He's our click.

[ganga]

I can't really see any need for it. You have to focus on the music and don't care too much if it
s a perfect 120bpm all the way through. Changes in tempo isn't too bad as long as you're not completely off, but a click wont fix this.

You could practice with it in rehearsals. But live is for playing music, not being static and focused on perfectionism. It's where you have to feel the music and let the music be in control.

[Steve Clark]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

I play with a DJ. He's our click.

Always wanted to do that.

[Lazylion]

The drummer in my country band uses a click. He's got a drum machine and a little mixer. He sets his own levels of click and monitor feed in his headphones. I play to him, and the rest of the band plays to us. This works better than the last drummer, who rushed a bit.

I'd kind of like to hear him do a gig without his click, just to see if he can!