Re: OT guitar backup

Geff Crawford wrote:
> Is guitar backup just the slightest bit behind the beat in a dance tune 
> with a fiddle lead?  Here's why I ask: A few times I've overdubbed over 
> my own fiddle part with a guitar backup on a multi-track recorder.  It 
> feels sort of artificial, compared with playing simultaneously with 
> another live person in a jam, or when recording live with someone else. 
>  My perception is that I've noticed that if the guitar isn't just 
> slightly behind the fiddle, it makes the fiddle sound uncertain, or not 
> swingy, or somehow out of sync.  It's all very slight, so it could just 
> be my ear or sense of rhythm.  I'd be curious if anyone else has this 
> same perception.
> 
> Geff

When I am playing fiddle with the right guitar player I am surfing on 
the edge of boomchuck.It is riding a wave of rhythm,you want to be the 
wave. tonyg