Track Assignment

I know there are many things that go into this decision...but if you were recording a 4 piece band, female lead vocal, 3 backup vocals, a guitar, bass and drums, would you go:

Track 1. Female lead
2. Backup 1
3.Backup 2
4. Backup 3
5. Guitar
6. Bass
7. Drums

I know it's personal preference, but I recently recorded a band like this, and assigned tracks randomly, and wish I didn't...visually it's confusing....

Then would you assign all of the backups to one buss...?

Dumb newbie questions, I know...sorry...

Thanks for any help.

Then set up track folders

1 - Drums
2 - Guitars
3 - Vocals

Etc.......

You might want to set up up separate folders for bass/electric/acoustic guitars
You might want to set up up separate folders for lead vox/Backing vox

very similar to skullsession's track organization ... but my snare is always track 1

at a minimum, the drums have a buss

For me, it seems easier to give the back-up vocalist their own buss ... each B/U vocalist's track may get eq., comp., etc and then the "B/U vocalist buss" gets reverb (I do it as a send to another buss) or what ever else I want to add to make them sound like they are singing together in the same place.  WRT placing them in the stereo field, I leave the stereo buss centered, but pan the mono tracks to one side or the other.  For example, B/U 1 is moved 60%L, B/U 2 is moved 55% L and B/U 3 is moved 45% L.  My thinking on this is that it carves out more room for the lead vocal which may be dead center ... and I can bring the B/U's up in the mix without turning the lead to mud.