How to record a VCAM take into a Shot Sequence

So, my main sequence is the Scene, and some stuff animates in it. I want to record a few Shot sub-sequences with the stuff that is happening in the Scene main sequence, visible and playing while i record.
The only way I can figure out how to do that is by putting all that action/content in its own sub-sequence and having that in both the Scene main sequence and the Shot subsequences.
Is that correct?