Urs Liska <li...@openlilylib.org> writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2020, 11:33 +0200 schrieb Christian Masser: >> Hi! >> I think whether it's easier with only click or with click+MIDI purely >> depends on the player's own stability in terms of intonation and >> rhythm. (And in terms of MIDI accompaniment you have to pay special >> attention to the tuning of the MIDI instrument.) >> >> Having done a few of this recordings myself I found that for chorales >> or hymn tunes it's easier having a MIDI track because of the many >> small corrections you have to make in tuning depending on the harmony >> you're in while on the other hand it's mostly easier for rhythmically >> difficult pieces to just play along the click. >> >> But this is all probably very subjective to my own musical approach. > > One issue is that in 99% of classical music (with the exception of many > contemporary music ensemble pieces and maybe the Bolero) musicians do > *not* go along with a strict click track. Therefore usually a video of > a conductor will musically be more adequate. Of course having many > musicians perform against that video without hearing others will > usually not result in really synchronized playing. > One possibility might be having one instrument play along with the > conductor video, then have the next musician play along that video > while listening to the first recording and so on. That might work out > to produce a decent recording (with unreasonable amounts of technical > trickery), but I have to second Ralf in saying this is not really > playing together. "Making music together" (but not at the same time) > might capture the idea better ...
You can reiterate. Start with people just seeing the conductor, then give everyone a mix without their own track and rerecord. After a few iterations, it's becoming pretty close to playing together. -- David Kastrup
