Drummy Tip #25-Practicing With Headphones

If you can, try running all your audio through a speaker instead of headphones. When your click or play-along track is blaring through headphones, it is very difficult to listen to yourself playing. Alternatively, you could mic your drums and run that along with your audio to your headphones. If you are used to practicing with an ultra-clear, loud bass track, you may be unprepared for real world gigging, where your mix is vastly different from room to room. Years back, I experienced this with my teacher. I went in to play with a play along track, and I could not hear the bass player no matter how high he turned up the track, because he was running through a speaker, not headphones.

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