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    Well, as the title says " how do i play live with a click??"

    I already play with a click. I'm just looking for a better or the best way to play live with one.

    So how do you guy's do it?
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    I don't understand the question. If you already play with a click, then is it really a big deal? Isn't it the same?
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    The best way to play live with a click is to leave it home, clicking away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rickthedrummer View Post
    the best way to play live with a click is to leave it home, clicking away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lukedverlennich View Post
    Well, as the title says " how do i play live with a click??"

    I already play with a click. I'm just looking for a better or the best way to play live with one.

    So how do you guy's do it?
    You play it live the same way you play it anywhere else.
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    How do you play with it now ? I use in ear monitors and a 4 channel little mixing board that way I choose mix and plug in what I want

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    I use a in ear monitor with muffs and a seprit pare of plugs for my clock under my muffs.
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    My throw off position is usually kneeling down in front of the toilet bowl... but not always, it depends how much time I've got before it eventually come out.

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    I practice to a click but never play a click at a gig. I rely on 'feel' and visual and audio cues.

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    Your in ear monitors should have 2 ins just plug your click in one of them and the music mix in the other. If you can't do that you can get a small 4 channel mixing board and run through that and be able to have a click and music go through there. What in ear monitors so you use ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rickthedrummer View Post
    The best way to play live with a click is to leave it home, clicking away.
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    +1
    Quote Originally Posted by late8 View Post
    I practice to a click but never play a click at a gig. I rely on 'feel' and visual and audio cues.
    I imagine that if OP wants to play with a click live, then he probably plays electronic music or music with a lot of samples, in which case a click is absolutely necessary unless OP has a superhuman sense of time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drmpunk View Post
    Your in ear monitors should have 2 ins just plug your click in one of them and the music mix in the other. If you can't do that you can get a small 4 channel mixing board and run through that and be able to have a click and music go through there. What in ear monitors so you use ?
    I'm using shure se150 and the monitor I don't know. I play at a cuple churches and everyone is a bit different!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brain The Minter View Post
    My throw off position is usually kneeling down in front of the toilet bowl... but not always, it depends how much time I've got before it eventually come out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rickthedrummer View Post
    The best way to play live with a click is to leave it home, clicking away.
    meh, i disagree. Ive played loads of gigs with clicks. there to help the other musicians and singers as well as me. Because drummers do make mistakes, and live isn't the time you when you wanna make them. Plus on some songs i don't come in right away on the drums so it helps everyone get started.
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    I've played with a click live, run it through my own sub mix and keep it out of the AUX sends - I also do it live (on my own) now and then just to keep my "playing to a click" skills sharpened. Guys in the band don't even know I'm doing it.

    In my case...I think the most difficult part is other members of the band who aren't playing to the click along with you. Especially if you have a guitar player that pushes tempos.

    I can set my click to 100bpm......give the guitar player a 6 beat intro (2 halves and 4 quarters) and he still doesn't nail it and is usually off.

    If I start the song on my own...there's no issues - but a song that has a guitar intro or an intro without drums can get off beat right out of the gate then I have to kill the click.
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    PRACTICE! if you do it at practice you can do it live... just make sure you've got control of it. If the click is in your ears, you have to be in the driver's seat. that's all. its the same at home as it is live.

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    Tested my playing to click from Tempo app on my iPod at practice. Simple to do: select the song's tempo from the list (I figured out earlier), hit play. I use generic iPod ear buds in one ear, hearing protection ear plug in the other ear. Worked fine. I could still hear the guitars and singer and myself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by groovearteest View Post
    meh, i disagree. Ive played loads of gigs with clicks. there to help the other musicians and singers as well as me. Because drummers do make mistakes, and live isn't the time you when you wanna make them. Plus on some songs i don't come in right away on the drums so it helps everyone get started.


    It's this simple. If you feel that you (and I don't mean you in particular) need a click, by all means, use it.

    My 1st band was 1960-61. I don't think any of the guys would have known what a click was. Nobody used them live back then and that way of playing progressed on through the '70's, '80's,'90's, in to the 2000's for a lot of older players.

    It's like taking lessons. I've never had a lesson in my life, but I would never tell someone not to take lessons. I have said that you can teach yourself if you choose to go that way. I did, and it worked out pretty good for me.

    Each person does whatever is best for them.

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    Here's a poll.

    Drummers that can play to a click live probably DON'T need to use a click live.

    Drummers that can't play to a click live probably should play to a click live.


    Hmmmm......just a thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EddieV View Post
    Here's a poll.

    Drummers that can play to a click live probably DON'T need to use a click live.

    Drummers that can't play to a click live probably should play to a click live.


    Hmmmm......just a thought.

    To be honest, I've never even heard a click track, but, being I did OK for 45+ years, I guess I didn't need 1.

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