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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:	GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:	Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:	KDX200::COOPER

Created:	Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3280
Total number of notes:	61432

1637.0. ""Click Tracks" or other Tempo Practice Methods?" by WACHU2::HERTZBERG (My poor Krell) Mon Jan 15 1990 13:39

    I heard someone recently discussing "click tracks" and cassettes
    with "click tracks" on them which bands members can practice to
    and which supposedly can help a band become tighter and maintain
    tempo. I guess these tapes have some sort of metronome or similar 
    timing information on them?
    
    Does anybody know anything about this type of thing?  Or else, any
    other suggestions along the lines of ways to improve tempo control
    in a band would be greatly appreciated.  Methods of use to both
    guitarists and drummer would be useful.
    
    								Marc

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1637.1		WEFXEM::COTE	My kingdom for a pizza...	`Mon Jan 15 1990 13:57`	3
	Howzabout setting up a drum machine? Edd
1637.2		JAWS::PELKEY	Loco Boy Makes good	`Mon Jan 15 1990 13:58`	9
	one of the pratcies that click tracks are most common is for sequnecing,,, the drummer takes a 'click' off the sequencer via headphones, and this, (in theory) stays in sync with the sequencer....... I personally, dunno of any other forms for live playing....
1637.3	Start alone...	WEFXEM::COTE	My kingdom for a pizza...	`Mon Jan 15 1990 14:17`	17
	I think a good way to practice this type of thing would be alone. In a band setting, it's not unlikely for the drummer to drift. Since everyone's using him as their metrognome they quite properly should drift with him/her. This means a constant game of catch up... Once everyone is used to practicing individually to a click, the next step would be to feed it to just the drummer and let him pass the tempo on to the rest of the band. It might be beneficial to have a couple of things sequenced to be played at just the proper time. This would highlight if you're drifting, as they would appear to happen at the "wrong" time. (Actually, they'd happen at the right time, but if everyone else is at the same wrong place....) Playing to a click is fairly easy, but takes a little practice... Edd
1637.4	keys w/drums	PUGGS::DESROCHERS	SAVVY Good Band * Music * Time	`Mon Jan 15 1990 15:00`	14
	I take my cheap Yamaha keyboard, plug it into my stereo, choose a drum pattern and chord, and riff away. If I want to play over a progression, I just record it on tape and play to the tape. Mostly, I just pick say a G7 and practice the mixolydian mode over a swing beat and maybe increase the speed. Or maybe a salsa beat over Dm7, etc.. You'd be surprised how good those cheap keys sound thru a good stereo!!! Tom
1637.5		LARVAE::BRIGGS	They use computers don't they?	`Tue Jan 16 1990 04:29`	15
	Likewise..... I got a Yamaha DD10 drum machine for Xmas. This was �99 in the UK so that must make it a budget drum machine. I have now layed down tape tracks with drums and rhythm guitar to practice lead on and I really believe my playing has improved immeasurably since Dec 25th! This machine has bass and hi-hat foot pedals. This combined with the 'synchro-break' feature means you can add variation to the basic rhythm in the way of bass drum/cymbal only bars or total pauses. If only the fill facility was on foot pedal as well. Richard Basingstoke, UK