Many always hear the end product and never fully understand what happens behind the scenes to create such beautiful music. One simple trick (as already suggested above) to get close to perfection is ... record at slower speeds to make sure all notes fall in the right place - then speed it up :-)
I do not think that records (which are supposed to be "perfect", in contrast to live concerts) are recorded in slow-motion and played back faster.
Actually records are recorded in many takes, with each player/singer alone (listening for feedback to a tentative mix of the recordings of the others components of the band).
Often a single riff is a collage of many different takes, which are only "perfect" for a few measures (and NOT for the whole verse/chorus/song, no matter how hard you try again and again).
The complete final record is assembled in the mixer (= DAW nowadays), where many effects are added as well. What you hear NEVER happened altogether at the same time in the same place. It is only an illusion that is necessary to have the perfection humans cannot produce on their own.
If the music is electronic, then it is likely that NOBODY ever played a single note. It has been simply sequenced in the DAW (with a mouse, or possibly edited after playing a few notes on the keyboard, even by very bad players that could never play live in an acceptable way).
Playing in slow motion rarely will produce the right feeling that makes a piece of music sound good and authentic.
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