I can make the scratch track as soon as we have our final roster of pickers. So far we have a mandolin solo, a guitar solo and two banjo solos.
Anybody down for another young picker collaboration?
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I don’t know if I can play an actual solo, at 155 BPM I might not even be able to get out the melody. 
I can see what I can come up with in a little bit, unless someone else would like to take the mandolin solo.
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Is 155 BPM actually 310 or is it still 155?
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You can set a metronome to either and play the same tempo, yep. Most musicians would just opt to call it 155.
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That makes sense. I had set my metronome to 152 and thought that it seemed way to slow. I then doubled the speed and the song felt better (overwhelming ).
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I’d be happy to join this, and I can play any instrument you like.
@Michael_Mark just text me when I need to check this topic again to get all the info.
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Hey Gunnar is here!! 
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Yeah, She’s really cute
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@Dragonslayer Gunnar. I take it the baby get’s her cuteness from her mom. Best wishes to you all.
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When was she born?
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What’s her name?
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UnicornSlayer
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May 20
Rejoice Adiella Salyer
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Hey, y’all! I was referred to this group by @JohnM, and I’m so glad I was, because I feel like y’all can answer some questions I have. I will potentially be entering a music composition competition in the spring. I’d like to do banjo, guitar, mandolin, and vocals, but here’s where I start having problems. Because of the nature of the competition, I’ll have to record all the parts myself. What would be the best way to go about that? I’d probably record the banjo first, since it does the most to carry the melody of the song, but during the guitar solo, the banjo vamps in tempo with the mandolin, and I can’t do that on the banjo alone without having something to help me. I’m terrible at playing with a metronome, so I’m not exactly for sure how to go about this. Any ideas? Of course, if I have to perform the arrangement live for judges, this is out of the question, because I can’t play three instrument and sing at the same time!
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I would suggest you lay down a guitar rhythm track setting the tempo and work from there.
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Hey Christopher!
Record a bass track first if possible (if you don’t have a bass, virtual basses in GarageBand or Logic typically actually sound pretty good.) You’ll absolutely need a metronome/click track for this unless you have rock solid timing; otherwise things will get out of sync very easily. I typically opt to record bass, mandolin chop, guitar rhythm, and then banjo in that order, but some folks like to do guitar first. Vocals are typically last.
Another thing you can do first is record a simple scratch track of you playing guitar rhythm and singing the song with a click, leaving spaces for the solos so you can have a “map” of the song.
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Sounds great! So with the information I’ve gathered, my plan for order of recording is to do rhythm guitar with the metronome, then the mandolin chop and possibly filling a verse or chorus, banjo, then vocals. Any further advice or changes to my “schedule”?
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That sounds like it should work great!
It shouldn’t be that hard.
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