: Recording rhythm pauses that throw off the count I'm quite new to recording and best practices. At the moment I'm enjoying learning through recording existing songs I'm playing myself. One song is in 8/4 (in my opinion)

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Recording rhythm pauses that throw off the count
I'm quite new to recording and best practices. At the moment I'm enjoying learning through recording existing songs I'm playing myself.

One song is in 8/4 (in my opinion) but has an extra (loose) half beat at the very end of the bar that's just silence, like a quick breath. This only occurs for the first few bars when it's just a single acoustic guitar and vocals.

When I play this song on guitar without recording, it feels easy to incorporate this into playing. It's just a natural timing choice that adds feeling to the song. But I've no idea how to approach this with recording? I'm learning to play along with the metronome in headphones and I miss this pause when I stick to a strict bar count. It feels like I'm rushing into the next bar. But, as I said, it's loosely done and not a case of adding an exact count into my DAW. In the original recording, after a few bars it disappears and sticks strictly to 8/4 when a full band comes in.

What is the best way of approaching this? I'm wondering if this type of recording usually forgoes a metronome as it's too unpredictable, even though the majority of the bar is on count.

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