I don't see an audio interface in your signature so like mettelus say's it depends on your audio interface output count. If you have 4 outs then it's easy. Just send the metronome to 3/4. If you only have 2 then you'd have to split to left /right. ( edit: I see we posted same time )
I play as a solo act and also we have an acoustic duo.
I've always used a stereo backing track with Drums, Bass and sometimes a little keyboard.
But our acoustic duo we didn't want anything but the Bass player to be heard by the audience so I used a left /right split.
The drum track we put to a powered floor wedge and the Bass track I sent to a small Bass amp. It worked amazingly well. Because the Bass amp was behind us it really kept us on track. The drum track in the floor monitor was kept at a low level. We could hear the count in but once we started the drums were pretty subdued. The audience never heard them apparently. Friends were coming up afterwards and asked how the heck we had the bass happening. It was not obvious to most. We are looking for a real bass player but this is working so well we have stopped worrying about looking.
This is my live set up
http://www.cactusmusic.ca/johns_rig.htm