There's all sorts of RnR drummers double pumping the kicker. So, that's just fine.
You should learn to play with a click track. It sucks, but you should start that right away. Know your timing and play to a click. Drummers are the ones who protest this the most, but they're also the ones who need it the most.
I play along with the programmed drum tracks in my casio keyboard a lot, that's kind of the same, its just a beat instead of just a click.
Yup. Playing to GOOD backing tracks also helps. Timing is really important - and timing gets harder with the more people you add.
Timing is easy with one person. It's much harder with a dozen people. It's even harder if you have a hundred people.
You don't have a conductor keeping time for you, so practicing with a click track is a good idea. If you have IEMs, that's also a good way to use click tracks while performing.
With BDE, sound can cue up a click track through the IEMs - but we only use it for the first measure. So, they cue up the right click, it clicks for a measure, and we come in on time. It can be pretty confusing if you're running directly from one song into another, but you adapt quickly.
See? LOL If you start a band, I'll have all sorts of help for you! I know ALL the things! (Not really. The list of shit I don't know could fill a book. Hell, it probably does fill a book, I just haven't read it yet!)
LoL Well we will see how things go tomorrow. I was all drunk and just playing whatever I felt like would sound good to what those two guys were playing. They had some original songs that they were working on themselves that they were playing and I was just winging it along with them trying to stay in the right key and hit the chord changes. They really like what ever it was that I was doing. So that's cool. The drummer seemed to keep good time, but like I said I was really drunk.
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