![]() Since Black Holes & Revelations, the band hired Morgan Nicholls to help with additional instrumentation on most of the songs, cutting the need for more backing tracks, while also making the songs performed live sound a lot closer to their studio versions.īecause backing tracks are in a set tempo, the band have to keep time with them. For the Origin of Symmetry era and (especially) the Absolution era, the band had to rely solely on backing tracks for additional instrumentation. The tracks are usually played through an off-stage computer, together with a click-track. This includes, for example, the orchestral strings in songs like Butterflies & Hurricanes and Unsustainable, the synthesizer arpeggios in Bliss and Starlight, the "I Want It Now" backing vocals in " Hysteria" and the speech in Psycho. ![]() A "backing track" is a recorded track that the band play along to, in order to add extra layers to their music, which cannot be played by only three people. Muse make increasing use of backing tracks when performing live.
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