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Plenty of bands without full time keys players will trigger synth etc.
The big question to ask is are you reliably tight enough to all play to a click for all the samples to line up correctly.
It also sounds massive out front with the tracks.
The drummer is the only one that hears the click and we all play to him, although all members of the band get a mix of the backing track (minus click) in their IEM’s. So your drummer really is the most important person in this kind of setup. He has to be confident and tight playing to a click, and he has to know the tracks inside and out, as does everyone else.
In the digital age it's hard to resist.
I was having this very discussion with a young friend of mine who plays violin and piano in a theatre orchestra, and he says it's fast getting to the stage where they might end up being slimmed down with backing tracks making up the missing instruments, cost being a significant factor.
Each to their own though...
Trading feedback here
At what point do you phase out every instrument until it's karaoke? Or finally phase out the voice until you just have a DJ?
My argument is that if the audience don't care if you cheat, then they won't care if you don't.
Have a little pride.
Is that any different? It still takes a good amount if effort and practice to get what you want to be
My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youIve played in conventional 4 and 5 piece bands for about 20 years now and have to say I enjoy playing with tracks as much, if not more. The feedback we have received has always been positive.
Cheating is when you pretend to be singing or playing when the music is coming from a recorded source, ie miming. There have been accusations of certain singers doing just this, or using sound reinforcement to help them out with the high notes.
Guilty as charged Only for a few songs though, such as Wonderful Tonight, which have some single-string lead that is an essential part of the song. Sometimes at open mikes I can dragoon a friend into playing rhythm on an acoustic guitar and forego the backing track. I much prefer that to be honest but people have lives, family and work commitments and aren't always able to come out the play.
I know exactly how much work and effort is involved in putting your own backing together, I did a lot of it for other people in my studio years ago.
I also like watching acts using loopers live, constructing arrangements in front of your eyes.
But singing/playing over downloaded tracks is a living death to me, I'd rather do overtime in my day job and I won't pay to see anyone else do it.
However, if I go to see live music I do go to see live music. One of my great disappointments was going to see Queen and the vocal section of BoRap was a backing tape. To be fair they weren’t pretending it was anything other than pre recorded and four people couldn’t really reproduce it either. For me they should have knocked it on the head and done it in a different way, although maybe I’d have been very much in a minority.
Actual full on backing and playing along with a click to me is like jamming along with a record, it has to be the exact tempo, it has to be the same exact structure all the time, you can't add in another chorus when it's going down a storm etc
The real answer really is to get a keyboard player, it then just opens up everything song choice wise. Easier said than done though I know