Moondog Wily
Experienced
I would say it is only cheating if you represent it to be a full live take! My personal preference is to ensure that I get a great take beginning to end. I did a song in 2021 where I wanted to do slide guitar. I had never played slide guitar before, so it was up hill in a blizzard on black ice from the get go! After I got down the basics of slide playing, I spent many many hours (718 takes) to get my solo for that song. I could have EASILY built a good solo from the first 10 takes, but I feel like, if I can't play it well from beginning to end, maybe I should not be recording it! I also could have eventually produced a better solo I am sure, but 718 is where I gave up ;~)) This is not for everyone, and using other methods are certainly not wrong, but that is my hang up, and I am sticking to it!!