I am a one man guitar, bass, drums vocals and (occasional) keyboard operation.
I usually start off by loading a drum loop in a track and settle on a tempo. (FYI - I uses drum loops from Betamonkey). I settle on a tempo and stretch the loop out as long as I think the song will go. I will edit/replace/compile the drum loop as the recording progresses. At this point is strictly there in place of a click track (I have a very hard time playing to a click).
Next I will record a scratch guitar rhythm track. This is usually just to get the basic song structure down.
Then the serious recording begins. I either add a "keeper" guitar track or a bass track.
At this point I start adding, revising, editing parts. The sequence of what I do depends on the specific song and where I amin the composing process. If I have complete lyric I will add a vocal track fairly early on. I usually complete my lyrics somewhere down the line and add the vocals near the end. My recording order changes form song to song once I have a basic rhythm track recorded.
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