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That said, if you can't perform your fingerstyle piece all the way through without making a mistake, maybe you've written it too hard. I've written myself into many corners in the past. If that's not the issue, try to make your recording experience as comfortable as possible. Good headphones, maybe some reverb and delay to make it sound sweeter, comfortable chair, etc. Now recreate that situation for all of your practicing time too, so the recording sessions don't feel foreign. Just some thoughts here.
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The beauty of being willing to edit is that it frees you up to take chances and risks when recording, potentially getting a really magical performance. You can take that one that felt great, that had the right groove, but where you totally screwed up in a small spot and fix it, keeping the magic. And sometimes just knowing that you can edit makes you relax and play better, so that you actually might get that elusive perfect take!
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That's the way it was done back in the day.
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Yes indeed razor blades and then technology came along and the electric democratized it. And now anybody, can shave anywhere in the house. No need to learn about a sink, a valve , hot water and stropping is a lost art.
And these young wiper snappers now with this 2 day stubble thats all the rage, have just ruined shaving it'll never be the same
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regarding chet
i do wonder why chet did that. i've watched a few clips of chet playing live and he played just fine. so why splice stuff together? was it early in his career, was studio time limited or expensive, was chet's patience limited, is it really that hard for someone like chet to get a 'good enough' take?
the idea of stopping and backing up a couple of seconds, then continuing on seems like a tough way to go, and would mess up the flow of the music. if someone was good (great?) enough to get right back into the flow and timing after stopping and restarting, they proabably could get a pretty good single take in a few tries. finally, i can't really accept the, 'if it's good enough for chet' argument. chet may not have preferred this recording arrangement, it may have been forced on him by circumstance. also, he may not have had the same approach throughout his recording career. plus i suspect there are other fine guitarists who prefer a more 'single take' approach. just some thoughts... |
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When I operated an acoustic studio, different musicians responded quite differently, and that showed up in their workflow. We usually recorded subsequent tracks to an original scratch track recorded by the performer in the tempo and style of the song as perfect as they could make it - till we had enough parts to turn it off. Some people who came in to add tracks went all the way through then went back and made corrections, whereas others once a mistake was made needed to stop and fix it then or they would flub-up more. I was flexible enough to go with what helped them be most musical. Equally competent musicians really can be very different from each other. |
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i get your point. i can think that my hurdles\obstacles\issues are universal, rather than common. tell me about the guy who could get a reasonably good single take and leave it at that... i still wonder if that has any merit. |
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Sure that would be ideal. My experience is the better players are more prone to want another take just to see if anything can be perfected, and are far more critical about their work than I'd be. I really have done very few recording sessions where we nailed it on the first take and didn't do at least a backup track...at the request of the artist. And the longer the track (in minutes and seconds) the less chance that single-take-and-we're-done is actually going to happen. I have recorded a handful of players who can do simple straight forward recordings in only two or three takes. And these are people who perform a lot, and are comfortable in front of people or in front of recording gear. |