Click In Your Ears or Not?

[SunnBass]

I don't use a click in my ears, or at all.


I do have a really loud, constant ringing in my ears, it doesn't help me keep time though.

 

[Clef_de_fa]

Yes, so why would you not follow the drummer?

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I don't follow him, we get all in sync.

Following someone else, you have to be behind to see where he is going ... same with music.

I know semantic but still, I think it is an important distinction

 

[megafiddle]

I don't follow him, we get all in sync.

Following someone else, you have to be behind to see where he is going ... same with music.

I know semantic but still, I think it is an important distinction

Possibly I still don't understand what you are saying. Maybe it is just semantics.

But I never have to see where the drummer is going. I know exactly where his next downbeat (kickdrum beat) is going to be. I only need to know the tempo.

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[bgmww]

i use a click track and i love it. I play for a tribute to Pink Floyd band and a lot of songs have a sequence or parts without drums that need to be in synch with sound effects or the video screen. It took some time to get used to it, but in the end i loved it. Every member of the band has it and it helps a lot. Some songs can´t be played slower or faster than the original, and the click track has helped us wiht that.
We even added a four-count (a voice) and the name of any member for some kind of indication or letting us all know when the song begins, ends or whatever it happens.

 

[TomB]

Yes, so why would you not follow the drummer?

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That's a good question - sometimes we do follow, and sometimes we need to lead them. What I've found with the click is that it's like having a third player that both you and the drummer can lean into. Having a "mediator" can dissolve the tension if you're playing with a weak drummer, and that can take some of the stress out of commercial studio work.

 

[seamonkey]

Ableton live you can use Invalid Link Removed
And do things like slow down or speed up if the music calls for it and still keep all the backing tracks in sync.
All this in ear, live, backing tracks get more amazing all the time.
Click tracks don't need to be just boring clicks, they can be drum tracks. Drummers don't seem to mind playing along with drums. And little fills into our out of a second can be helpful.
Recorded voices. I took one of those voice readers and had it read a bunch of numbers. Warped them up so they were staccato, which matters for "Seven", "Eleven", and when you get "Twenty". Then I mapped this to a sampler. Midi notes 1, 2, 3, 4 speak "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", just sequence them. And I can do up to 128 bars. 2 separate instruments will give 129 to 256, and so on.
Record "Chorus", "Bridge", and it's another midi instrument. Ableton can now be played and give the queues, A band member conducts it. Simple things like vamps or letting a hot soloist go around a few more times. Cool stuff.

 

[Wadge]

I LOVE playing with a click. I play with two bands, a 4 piece rock outfit and a fully fledged big band. All the members in the rock band and all the rhythm section have the click in our in ears.

 

[Jeff Bonny]

After years of practicing all sorts of ways with a metronome my internal time is intense and fluid. I'm completely indifferent to click in the cans.