Maybe we could generate a click track for that? If we tackle it in sections like you said, we could treat that as the start of a new section and generate a click for it until the full band comes in. Record bass for that first and then whoever does that guitar part comes in after.
Yes, that's exactly a target for a section break. Once full band enters, we should be fine. If
@Lego doesn't like automated clicks, then here's my recommendation:
Stick click into opening (rock) section. I can work on a keyboard intro for Yax to paste later. Stop at the break... (5:34 after the hihat hits)
Stick click all the way through freaky-time-sig section so the rest of us have a beat, then come in with your drums at full band entry. Go until the next tempo change. (7:44, after the hemiola, going into the fast part). Then, give Yax an overdub for cymbal work in the quiet section.
The fast riff that repeats 4 times before the guitar solo will need to be recorded as a separate section. The tempo changes going in and out of it come out of nowhere; we won't be able to nail them without being in the same room.
The guitar solo section is all one piece, including that last melody where it
seems to slow down. That's
not a tempo change, that's going to half-time. And this piece has to continue through the end of the song. Lego slows us down into the chorus, we have to follow his lead there.
Note that the final chorus has a further ritard at the end with only guitar and vocal. We'll need a guitar part laid down there and Brett will have to follow.
Final consideration: the opening and closing "seven saintly shrouded men" sections. No drums there at all, I'll make some click tracks.
That's a total of six sections for Yax to stitch together.
