What is Click Track?
Also called: metronome, click
A click track is a steady metronome sound played to musicians, usually in headphones, so they record or perform in time with a fixed tempo. It typically accents the first beat of each bar.
Recording to a click keeps the tempo constant, which makes editing, adding loops, using tempo synced effects and lining up separate takes much easier. Live, it keeps the band locked to backing tracks and lighting cues.
Clicks can be set to quarter notes, eighth notes or other subdivisions, and many players prefer a count in of one or two bars before the song starts.
Some music benefits from a natural tempo that speeds up and slows down with the feel; a click is a tool, not a rule.
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