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This has been posted today on some news aggregators, but for those of

you who may have not seen it, here it is:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/02/in-search-of-the-click-track/
Quote:

Sometime in the last 10 or 20 years,  rock drumming has changed.  Many

drummers will now don headphones in the studio (and sometimes even for

live performances)  and synchronize their playing to an electronic

metronome - the click track.   This allows for easier digital editing of

the recording.  Since all of the measures are of equal duration, it is

easy to move measures or phrases around without worry that the timing

may be off.  The click track has a down side - some say that songs

recorded against a click track sound sterile,  that the missing tempo

deviations added life to a song.

I’ve always been curious about which drummers use a click track and

which don’t, so I thought it might be fun to try to build a click track

detector using the Echo Nest remix SDK ( remix is a Python library that

allows you to  analyze and manipulate music).
--

Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/

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