Hi and Merry Christmas,
Just got my new hard drive in tonight. Upgrade from 2013. Amazing, delivery on Christmas eve!

I plan to use this for creating backing tracks for live settings. My question - is there a preferred method to do this?

Right now I get the chords from a tab website. Not knowing the time or tempo, I am guessing at where the chords go. Not knowing is it swing or even, 4/4 or 6/8, is the tempo best set at 70 or 140, etc. One chord for measure, two, four? I guess it's easy to see I am not a music scholar. I mainly fingerpick and play chords. I read tab and chord charts and never had any music classes. Is there hope or or did I just make a mistake in my purchase?

I mostly want to create stuff for church. Some of the Christmas songs seem to be the hardest.

Would using the auto chord recognition help to determine some of these parameters? Is there an easy way? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Marty