tomhollywood
Member
Recently I have been playing absolutely everything to a click when we have band practice.
I feel like i don't even have to think about being tight. I just instantly am which then makes playing a lot more comfortable which in turn allows me to do more behind the kit!!
Just wondering how many others out there do and what are thoughts on it?!
Love them or hate them i think. It's like marmite.
I happen to love them, although i hate marmite!
If you can be bothered reading I have left a little anecdote about my first experience with one!!
If not, cheers for reading this far.
My first experience with a click was an unpleasant one. About 4 years ago we went to record an EP at a studio in Wales.
We got set up etc, ran through a few warm up's then had a go at tracking the first song. Played through it, i thought to myself "great, put down a decent track there"
Only to here to my shock and amazement down my earphones "that was f**kin terrible, your drummer is all over the show!"
Gutted i was. The producer, now legend in our eyes, Joe Gibb suggested using the click.
I thought, ok, i'm game to try new ideas.
So had a whirl with it and could not get used to it at all. I HATED it. It just sounded like someone hammering a snare drum down my ear!
In the end we didn't use but he threatened that when we record the album we would be doing!
Off i go and return a year later, like some jedi master of the click!!
I show up track 16 drum tracks in 2 days and Joe says he is amazed.
That was it for me. SOLD!!
Cheers, Tom.
Forever Stronger Than All.
I feel like i don't even have to think about being tight. I just instantly am which then makes playing a lot more comfortable which in turn allows me to do more behind the kit!!
Just wondering how many others out there do and what are thoughts on it?!
Love them or hate them i think. It's like marmite.
I happen to love them, although i hate marmite!
If you can be bothered reading I have left a little anecdote about my first experience with one!!
If not, cheers for reading this far.
My first experience with a click was an unpleasant one. About 4 years ago we went to record an EP at a studio in Wales.
We got set up etc, ran through a few warm up's then had a go at tracking the first song. Played through it, i thought to myself "great, put down a decent track there"
Only to here to my shock and amazement down my earphones "that was f**kin terrible, your drummer is all over the show!"
Gutted i was. The producer, now legend in our eyes, Joe Gibb suggested using the click.
I thought, ok, i'm game to try new ideas.
So had a whirl with it and could not get used to it at all. I HATED it. It just sounded like someone hammering a snare drum down my ear!
In the end we didn't use but he threatened that when we record the album we would be doing!
Off i go and return a year later, like some jedi master of the click!!
I show up track 16 drum tracks in 2 days and Joe says he is amazed.
That was it for me. SOLD!!
Cheers, Tom.
Forever Stronger Than All.