Metronome? Backing Track?

[juniorspecial]

What percentage of the time do you practice with a metronome or backing track?

[Totally bored]

Lately At home I practice maybe 70% to backing tracks. Lets me sing and play along to a song. Never to a metronome.

I use these http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/

There is some good stuff there if you look hard enough. Robin Trower "Day of the Eagle" and Jeff Beck "Cause we ended as lovers " are a couple goodies. Don't like the fake Midi generated ones.

I have about 250 tracks on my PC and my I-Pod. Many times I will plug my I-Pod into 1 input of my champ 600 and my guitar in a tube screamer into the other input. Any 2 input amp will do. Good for backyard or front porch jamming. Beer also helps.

[Don]

I practice with a G-DEC about 33% of the time. I'd use it more often if it had better tone.

[New Orleans Poser]

I was playing with neither almost exclusively. But the last few weeks I've played with either a drum machine or backing track and I've improved much more quickly.

Quality practice time is a lot better than noodling.

[Totally bored]

I practice with a G-DEC about 33% of the time. I'd use it more often if it had better tone.

I spent 6 Months on a G-Dec and all my sperm died. Thats why I went to the backing tracks into a tube amp. Little dudes are alive and well now.

[thegeezer]

Thanks for the link TB!

[Totally bored]

word

[Don]

I spent 6 Months on a G-Dec and all my sperm died. Thats why I went to the backing tracks into a tube amp. Little dudes are alive and well now.

It keeps my vasectomy functioning properly.

[KYChucky]

I practice about 1/2 the time with Garage Band drum tracks looping. It gives me a 'flavor' but freedom to improvise. If I want some structure I will build it with Garage Band too. Pump it out over the stereo or into headphones with POD for early morning or late night practice.

KYC

[pc]

Backing tracks 40 percent of the time, metronome 60 percent of the time.

[boobtube21]

0% for me. I feel like I played enough in bands and along with records that I don't need to with either.

That last couple of times I played with a live drummer it felt kinda weird like I didn't know how to keep time with real musicians anymore but it came back after half a song or so. I need to play out more.

[refin]

When I jam to a backing track,90% of the time the drummer is probably gaffed to a click track------which means I'm tied to a metronome,even if second generation.

[MMP]

Alesis drum machine, no metronome