Where to get backing tracks?

dabluesman

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I'm wondering if there is a device out there that can cut the guitar and vocals out a song. Or a cd that contains only the drumms & bass of various songs. I'm looking to get a backing track for voodoo chile (and maybe some other good blues rock songs) with out having to try to recreate it on my drum machine. I came close to finding what I'm looking for, one of those cd's that come with a tab book. It has the guitar on the right channel and the drums and bass on the left. I just copied the left channel to the right to have the drums in stereo. The only problem is that the track is only two and a half minutes long so I'm missing the rest of the song. Anyone know where I could find one of these "backing track" cd's or have any other ideas?
 
It seems to me there were ads in Guitar Player mag about "music minus one" songs you could purchase (basically backing tracks for a guitar player). However, this was a while back.

Currently you can purchase (or download for free) MIDI files of hundreds (if not thousands) of songs. Look in the back of a Keyboard mag or in a catalog from someplace like Interstate or Musicans Friend.

Obviously the problem with MIDI files is you need the other gear to play them.
 
check out the ads in the back of Guitar Player, Electronic Musician, etc...there are products out there, but, I wouldn't expect much from them...It seems, also, that there is a device available which is supposed to cut out various "parts" of a song, but again, don't expect much from it...it may work "ok" on a few songs...the best way to get backing tracks is to simply "pay" a few studio musicians to put them down...this way, you are in control and you don't have to "accept" or work around the limitations of cheap gimmicks.
 
go to FreeFind.com...you can download various midi-files for free...open them with a software program such as CuBase and you can mute whatever tracks sound really cheap, or, you can convert the files to wavefiles and enhance them from there.
 
We produce high-end backing tracks. We don't re-sell to other companies, and all tracks are produced in-house. We specialise in Musical Theatre, Big Band, Classical, Easy Listening and other non-pop genres. You can find us at LondonArrangements.
 
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