Another in our series of tips on how to best get your band ready to make a television appearance.

Performing to pre-recorded tracks: If you're not sure you can pull of a great live performance under less than optimal conditions, bring a CD of your songs. Generally there will be a CD player in the house that can be cued by the FOH engineer. Make sure you can lip-sync (See WFTD) effectively to the CD. Don't expect that having a CD will bail you out of a bad live performance, however. Even if you're able to play in exactly the same time as the song (highly doubtful without a click track), syncing the CD to your performance in post will still be a problem. Remember those audience ambience mics? You stage sound will have bled into them, which means that it will conflict with your CD track.