Boy, Chance, you've gotten some great advice here. I've never been comfortable with click tracks but that just me. It's an inner ear thing or something, but when I'm following a click track I feel like I do when I tried to dance....and that ain't good! I've come up with a substitute which is to program the chord changes into my Yamaha Keyboard. It does the same thing as a click but seems to "breathe" a bit. It doesn't really 'cause time is time.....but it 'feels' better to me.

One bit of advice I might throw your way is don't do a final mix until you've lived with it for a few days. Things that seem horrible while you're in the recording process are much less noticeable after a bit of a break...and if you start trying to fix every little dynamic (I don't mean actual mistakes) you'll never stop!

Good luck

Rick