Comping is an abbreviation of accompanying. The term is used in jazz music to describe the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ) or guitar players use to support a jazz musician’s improvised solo or melody lines. In simple words…one musician or vocalist takes the lead, and other musicians provide a suitable background and provide the right feel, energy and melody to go where the soloist wants to go…
Comping in Cubase
Another meaning of Comping is to record several takes of a vocalist/soloist performing the same part of a song, then take the best parts of all those takes and mend them together again as one single part. I am not a trained vocalist and record 6-8 vocal takes containing the same material, select the best sung and pronounced parts, and “glue” them into one final take…
