1 · The tune
These are the dots your takes are marked against. Paste ABC, pick a tune you've saved in the Backing Group, or open an .abc file.
Count-in, then play from the top with the repeats.
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2 · Play it a few times
Record three or four takes, each from the top with the repeats, in time with the click. Each take is listened to and marked bar by bar against the dots.
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No takes yet.
3 · Your best version
Bar used in your best version
Bar you chose yourself
A slip in this bar
Numbers are marks out of 100. Click a bar number to look closer.
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Bar 1
Click a take to use its version of this bar. Keys: ← → change bar, 1–9 choose that take, 0 lets it choose, space plays each version in turn.
Getting a good result
- Keep the click on. It keeps the takes at one tempo, so the joins sit naturally.
- Wear headphones if you can, so the click isn't recorded with you.
- Same instrument, same place in the room, same distance from the mic for every take. Then the joins don't change the sound.
- Start each take from the top and play the repeats as written.
- Every join falls just as the first note of a bar is struck, with a short crossfade. The note before it fades out under the new attack, so no note is chopped off mid-sound.
- Turn Joins down to keep longer runs from a single take. Turn it up to pick the best of every bar, even if that means more joins.
- Try half bars when a slip comes at the end of an otherwise good bar.
- The marks listen for the right note, in tune, in time, and held for its full length. They can't tell a lovely bit of phrasing from a wrong one, so listen and choose for yourself where it matters.