I'll have to respectfully disagree. The click track is NOT a crutch. It will bring out all of your mistakes as it is the perfect reference. I guarantee you 100% that any musician who doesn't practice to a metronome can NOT play tight to a click track. I'm a session guitarist in Nashville and I found this out the hard way.
And uh....lots of live acts have prerecorded vocals, just ask Brittney or Ashlee;)
That's because the bands who play poorly live aren't the same band who plays on the album. You'd be amazed how many bands don't actually play on their own records. Session musicians have to be hired in.
(Just a little secret for ya from inside the music industry. And yes, I'm a session guitarist in Nashville.)
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I'll have to respectfully disagree. The click track is NOT a crutch. It will bring out all of your mistakes as it is the perfect reference. I guarantee you 100% that any musician who doesn't practice to a metronome can NOT play tight to a click track. I'm a session guitarist in Nashville and I found this out the hard way. And uh....lots of live acts have prerecorded vocals, just ask Brittney or Ashlee ;)
That's because the bands who play poorly live aren't the same band who plays on the album. You'd be amazed how many bands don't actually play on their own records. Session musicians have to be hired in. (Just a little secret for ya from inside the music industry. And yes, I'm a session guitarist in Nashville.)