How to Program a Click Track for your Live Backing Tracks

[@guitarguru62]

this whole series has been so helpful to me and my band. thanks so much.

[@Zimmer2341]

Scott, this channel is amazing. I started following to watch your backing track tutorials. They are nothing short of stellar. You include detail that is necessary but most people don't include. Everything from hardware, to panning channels, to stereo/mono. I'm super grateful and am very impressed. Keep it up. This is gold.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

🤘 thanks man! 🤘

[@oisinmcmanus5827]

So much value in this series baffled it only has 5000 views. Keep up the great work!

[@c.t.h824]

"There's a dude who counts for ya" I lost it 🤣🤣🤣

[@ScottUhlMusic]

😎😎

[@scottbakernc]

This channel is an absolute gold mine! I play with backing tracks live with only another guitarist and a vocalist. I'd love to pick your brain on how to best leverage Logic live vs how I'm doing it. Thank you so much for this awesome content!!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks! Glad you find the content helpful!

[@kenethperez4741]

This video is awesome now I know how to program my click tracks exactly how I want them

[@ScottUhlMusic]

🤘🤘

[@michaelsiebenkas8014]

Great Video Scott! That solved my issue right away...tried to use the build in click in Studio One with a Backing Track....but could not find the right tempo... Looking forward digging through all your videos.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Great to hear!

[@andresgarib1945]

Thanks for this man!, i really appreciate it!

[@DeadbyDawn1208]

Great work man. Your tutorials are really well done.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thank you!

[@eddymercury5548]

I love your channel. It perfectly fits my project. Do I really à mac to use your tutorials, please?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks! And Logic Pro is only available on Mac but this can be done on other DAWs as well

[@AZ-pp5qs]

Thank you so much sir.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Glad to help 👍

[@mondo_burrito]

Two things i wish were mentioned…. Exporting time code for the lighting technician. You could preprogram the entire light show according to this click track’s tempo. Also, you could run a backtrack in this session that routes live to the audience. (Doubled vocals, epic choirs, 808s, reverse snares/cymbals, etc) Great tutorial for the basic click though.

[@alfonsocapone1492]

Thank you very much man, very helpful! A drummer from Italy. Cheers 🍻

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks! Glad to help. I had a stop in Milan on a Europe tour in 2019. Definitely can’t wait to come back some day! 🤘

[@MichelangeloBernardoni]

This question might be in the wrong video but I'd appreciate if you could shed a light on this. I completely forgot to set the frame rate of the Logic Project before starting to work on the session. The idea is to have a video projected along a 30 minute set, all synched, etc. The video project i edited in Premiere is in 23,976 and when I brought to Logic, it asked if I wanted to change the session (which was by default I guess 25fps) to match the video. I hit "no" because I didn't wanna risk mess an entire designed logic session. I didn't try on an alternative session either but in case of saying "yes", do you know how the Logic project would behave? As a workaround, I re-exported the video to 25. Sorry about the extended question and thank you so much for so many great tutorial videos!

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yeah man, that stuff always confuses me too. It can be a huge pain and your video can not sync up if you set it up wrong. I need to look into understanding it more

[@RoyceManwiller]

Great video. Btw, Klopfgeist is German for poltergeist or "rapping spirit", meaning "tapping" noise. Hence, it's their slang for METRONOME ! You're welcome.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

🤯🤯🤯 I had no idea!

[@michaelsiebenkas8014]

as a natice German ...I can confirm 🙂

[@JaredGabriel]

Things so much you are the man!

[@syncMixer]

I love your channel! Do you use a click track for songs that speed up and slow down or do you avoid songs like that?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks! And I do, yeah, you get used to it but it’s weird at first

[@syncMixer]

@@ScottUhlMusic Do you tempo map those songs before creating the click track?

[@chucksaeger7500]

Fantastic and detailed. Do you have anything using Garage Band?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Thanks! And no, I don’t really use GarageBand

[@chucksaeger7500]

Do you have the same setup (count in) when you do covers? Thanks

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yup 🤘

[@chucksaeger7500]

Sorry to bother you, but how long does it take to download the sound library? Thanks

[@ScottUhlMusic]

It’s been so long since I’ve done that, I honestly don’t remember.

[@raffdoc]

Amazing series. Thanks for sharing.

[@STOLACE]

What about audio routing? In the video you've got everything routing to stereo out, but I'm curious as to how you'd handle sending the click/cues to a different audio unit or channel.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

You keep watching the video series 😊 It’s answered in the chapter about using a laptop for tracks: How To Use a Laptop for Live Backing Tracks - Part 4b - Using a Laptop kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHfclKd8eL-WiZI

[@Jayvocals-w2w]

Great content, Scott! Finding these vids super helpful for setting up my backing tracks. I'm a little stuck, as when I test through my in-ears, for some reason I'm still hearing a very faint click in the right ear, although I panned hard left. Do I need to set the click & backing tracks to Mono?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Sometimes you can hear it super faintly, but as long as the audience doesn’t here it you should be fine. I’ve heard some people say that as well

[@Jayvocals-w2w]

@@ScottUhlMusic Thanks for the response man. I haven't actually tested via PA yet, only in ears. Hopefully the bleed doesn't come out of the PA! Guess I'll find out next week at a rehearsal. If it does, what would you suggest?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

@@Jayvocals-w2w If it's that loud, something is definitely wrong. Change the cable, check the routing, try a different audio interface, etc. Process of elimination!

[@StuffBudDuz]

It's not clear to me why you created your click from a MIDI track, rather than just using the built-in click from the software?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

To have more control over the click. Sometimes I like to pause the click, or change the tone, or go into double time, etc. if you don’t need that stuff, you can do it your way as well 👍 this guide doesn’t have to be followed exactly. Make it your own 🤘

[@dhannegan]

Good stuff! Did I miss it... When you create the track itself in your DAW.. Do you have to pan your click track to the left and all the other tracks to the right (or vice versa) in the actual track itself? When you bounce it down does the click need to be left and all other tracks right? Just need to know how to mix the backing track.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

That question is answered in the next videos 👍 basically if you export into an iPad/tablet, you need to pan. If you plan to use a computer/DAW then you don’t have to pan and just go out one of the outputs of an interface.

[@dhannegan]

@@ScottUhlMusic thank you. So if I bounce the file from the DAW to an MP3 to be played through a device, the click track needs to be panned first.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

If the “device” only has one output (the iPad headphone out for example), Correct 👍 If you are sending the signal from something that has multiple outputs (like an audio interface connected to you computer), you likely will not need to pan 👍

[@paulcavanagh1294]

Hi, can anyone help, I've got a Boss RC5 to play my own original guitar backing tracks, so guitar, bass and drums live with an added guitar track. With this set up how can I use a click track for the drummer to keep in time with the RC5 bits? Anyone know what's best to do? Cheers.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Midi clock sync would probably be your best option, but I’ve never used the Rc5

[@DennyDiamond]

Does garageband work as a daw for this?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yup 👍

[@shanebowers7624]

How do separate the audio for the Drummer and the backing track and route them their separate ways?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

You keep watching the rest of the videos in the series :) Especially once you get to this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2m6Y32jiL-qe6M

[@shanebowers7624]

@@ScottUhlMusic OK great thanks

[@pjdahmen]

Great

[@TribalHead]

Where is cue out?

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Cue out? That’s in ableton. I personally like to “draw” in my click and then route that out how I need to. It makes it easier IMO

[@madavis60]

Yeah good tutorial ... I have been playing music a long time and I have never heard a backward count in ( 4 . 3 2 1 ) different strokes I guess

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Yeah that’s what I’ve gotten used to, but it is a little weird in hindsight

[@playdrumz9534]

What's the name of the software your using??

[@ScottUhlMusic]

Logic Pro X

[@KephaBandMusic]

What if your computer lags while playing?? 😂

[@ScottUhlMusic]

What if you amp shorts out or a cable goes bad? You fix it and go on with the show. That’s live music for you

[@stonesmyth]

this video wont play, it just keeps loading

[@ScottUhlMusic]

That sounds like a KZbin issue

[@stonesmyth]

@@ScottUhlMusic could be, does it work on your end when your not logged in, all your other vids seem to work, just not that one

[@stonesmyth]

@@ScottUhlMusic I'm facing doing an show by myself on stage , me and a backing track, its been a journey just to get a library of 16 songs, I'm in rehearsal now. Your videos are really useful, Ive only watched 2 so far but plan to watch more.

[@ScottUhlMusic]

It does load for me 👍