Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Is your Backing Track good enough?


You can spend hours upon hours preparing for that 3 minutes of fame. In rehearsal you sounded great, singing along to the original track, that's right you were perfect, no pitching, just perfect in every way.
Brings tears to your eye. You sound that good.

You put the work in. But did you ensure your music had as much work put into it as it needed.
Most backing tracks are put together quickly with a few instruments to make them sound somewhat like the original to the untrained ear, close enough is good enough as they say; but leaving it missing something. Maybe that is good enough for you. IS IT?

Little effort is taken to produce it, with "no thought" if it will enhance your performance or leave it lacking.

Thats what a backing track should do. Not just to fill in the background with sound but enhance and enrich your performance. Its that X factor you could be missing out on.

This is personal.!


FOLLOW UP: YOU WANT THE ORIGINAL TRACK?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please if by anyway possible could you please tell me where I can find original backing track which the original artist used in his or her recording. Please help me ! This would be HIGHLY APPRECIATED.

my email: collinrule@musician.org

Ann Non said...

Hi
From what I know. the original backing is sometimes put out with the original song when it is released. but this is rare.
The other way is to apply to the copyright owner and request permission to use the track.
We try and make our tracks as close to the originals as possible.
Please let us know what track you are after, and what you are using it for.
The other way is to hire musicians and reproduce it yourself. This of course is costly.
Hope I have helped.