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Originally Posted by Doug Young
I mostly do the same, again, solo fingerstyle guitar, but if needed, breaking it up works. Most easily done if using a click track.
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I meant to add that I arranged this piece with a slight rubato and different tempos for different passages. A click track wasn’t possible. So, for each segment, I tracked the solo voice, giving it the expression I heard in my head. I did usually go full-length on those eight bars. Once the lead was down, I applied each of the accompanying parts to it in turn. Then I moved on to the next passage, usually eight bars at a time. The lead voice would change from section to section, so, even if I could or wanted to track the whole song, there were several lead-instrument changes along the way. In this way, I shimmied through the piece.
Yesterday I nailed the most technically challenging few measures in one of the solos, and the remaining punch-ins are minor. So today it’s the eight-bar coda that’s been entirely untracked so far. All hands on deck.