You might also have more success if you use 8th notes as a click track for a drummer...or using two different sounds, one on the downbeat and one on the backbeat...

Also, if the drummer has never played with a click, its going to be really really hard for him....

Also, the real drums, are not "perfect" in time....which Is personally what I like about them....some feels are pushed some are laid back....just the way it should be....this may also cause a problem for your drummer...

have some sympathy for him....8)...poor bloke....8).

He is trying to play to a click track, against two instruments overdubbed against a drum part that has "timing personality" all over it...8)...and he may have no experience playing with a click.


To be honest, if you are going to use real drums, and go to the trouble of micing them and mixing them...I suggest, humbly, that the best way to go is to use Real Drums and BIAB as a writing and rehearsal tool, then cut the song live with the drummer...just use a metronome before starting each take, let the drummer hear it for a few bars then turn it off, then hit record and go, so each take at least is approximately in the ball park.....(everyone gets a bit faster and faster as the day goes on...8)....).

You will get a better song this way....


cheers and good luck

Wiz