Workflow suggestions, please!

Hopefully someone can provide me with suggestions.
I'm making a music video. I have all the clips of the singer already synced up to the audio track (which I put as the primary storyline).
I want to be able to sort of do some trial and error to decide which clips I want to use at which times. It'd be nice if there was an easy way to sort of audition the clips as I go by enabling and reenabling the clips.
I tried to use Blade All to sort of assist me in this process, but I don't like how it sort of rearranges the tracks and makes it hard for me to remember what clips each clip was "bladed" from since it sort of lets them fall to the lowest position.
If anyone has used Logic Pro, I'm looking for something similar Audio Take Recording where there are like "take" tracks where you get to pick and choose sections, and they all compile into the "Compilation Track". Here's a video of what I'm talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyKPUx97S4
It'd be awesome if there was something similar, but with video, in FCPX.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Is there a way to build a multi-cam clip based on what you've selected to go into your timeline?
Basically, I've already made sure I've selected regions of clips I want to use, and I've synced those regions with the audio track that I've made into the main storyline.
If I make a new multicam clip from the clips browser (is that what that window next to the events list is called?), then it loses the syncing I did in the timeline.
Any ideas?

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