Editing Click track (section)

==Criticisms==
Use of a click track without a [[tempo map]] does not allow a natural shifting of tempo that would be vital for expressive [[phrasing (music)|phrasing]] and instances of [[fermata]], accelerando, ritardando, etc.

[[James Beament]], a scientist who studied acoustics, stated: 

{{quote|And many recent recordings of pop music demonstrate how music is killed by a [[metronome]] for they are as square as a [[T-square|draftsman's T]]. For the convenience of recording engineers, each player has to record their part on a separate track while listening to a click track – a metronome – and the clicks are then used to synchronize the tracks while the technicians adjust them to their taste and mix them. I know talented young musicians who can't do it; we can understand why. Nothing compares with a recording of a live performance in which the players provide each other with the time-framework. ... if you want to kill a musical performance, give the player a click track!|James Beament; ''How we hear music: the relationship between music and the hearing mechanism''<ref name="JamesB">Beament, James (2001) ''How we hear music: the relationship between music and the hearing mechanism''; p. 146.</ref>}}

[[Mark E. Smith]], vocalist and leader of the UK musical group [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]], was known to forbid use of click tracks in the recording studio.<ref name=atoz>[https://sites.google.com/site/reformationposttpm/fall-tracks/free-range  "Free Range", ''The Fall Tracks A-Z and The Fall Live'']. Retrieved 6 February 2018</ref> [[Simon Wolstencroft]], drummer for The Fall in the 1980s and '90s, stated "[Smith] hated it if the drums became too slick" by synchronizing with a click track.<ref>[https://wearecult.rocks/interview-simon-wolstencroft Interview: Simon Wolstencroft]</ref>