Originally Posted by: KasperowYes, they teach students to play covers of songs exactly as on the recording, but everyone else is doing that. I'd rather show off what I have come up with by myself, not just play a cover of something (for some reason, though, I always have trouble coming playing when I try to record it. I'm consistently roughly a 16th note behind the drums and bass, but when I play for myself, with a backing track, without recording it, there's no such problem. Hell, I can play in front of others, and not be nervous, but once I have a camera or recorder going, the performance fright cripples my playing... It's weird, to say the least...

I can appreciate that. For the thing I did, it was totally open ended. Even the instructor suggested changes to the song structure to make it more interesting. I was left totally to my own to come up with chords, chord voicings, solos, etc. It was really fun to be creative in that way. Some songs lend themselves to that more than others, but when it does, it's really fun to branch out.

How are you recording? It seems strange that you would have that problem. It could be a technical issue. You could be dealing with latency in your recording gear.