Of course one should be precise to the point. Of course the latest developements have brought an emphasisis on playing like a metronome (petrucci etc)... but hey.. we are still humans! not machines!
A little story:
I once visited a friend of mine in studio while he was mixing some stuff. He said to me: "hey - i gotta show you something REALY cool".
He showed me some recordings. FIrst - a bass-track...
I was like "oh well.. good sound... but very unprecise..if i was the producer i would tell him to play that again."
He said: "do you know who that is? It´s Tony Levin!"
I was like HUH?? THAT beeing Tony Levin?? naaaah - to unprecise.
He said: "and now listen to this".
He showed me a drum-track.
and again it was very uneevn and out of time.
"That is Terry Bozzio!"
"WHAT???? Where they drunk??"
Then he said: "and now listen to what it sounds like if we put these two tracks together!"
Suddenly that s*** started to groove like hell!! It was amazing!
He then told me that this was a recording which they did without click.
....
and the message?
It does NOT mean that you have to be as precise as a clockwork! it sounds much more netural and groovy if the whole band sticks together - even if the y are not precise to the point!
See what i mean?
-=[Azrael]=-
[Edited by Azrael on 02-10-2002 at 09:24 AM]
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