Drumless tracks from any song

Take the kit out of a record and play the part yourself, with the rest of the band still there.

Drop your song here

or click to choose · mp3, wav, flac, m4a · up to 50 MB

What do you want?

VocalsTake the singing out, or keep only the singing.You get 2 files:VocalsSong without vocalsDrumsGet the drums alone, or play along without them.You get 2 files:DrumsSong without drumsBassGet the bassline alone, or play along without it.You get 2 files:BassSong without bassEverythingEvery part on its own, and the song minus each part.You get 8 files:VocalsDrumsBassOther (guitars, keys, synths)Song without vocalsSong without drumsSong without bassSong without the rest

Drumless play-alongs are one of the most effective ways to practise, and historically the supply was the problem. You could buy packs of them, or find a few dozen on YouTube, but the song you were actually trying to learn was rarely among them.

Separating the record solves that directly: any song becomes a play-along. The bass, guitars, keys and vocals stay exactly where they were, and the space where the drums used to be is yours.

Why playing to a drumless mix is different

Playing along with a full record is mostly imitation — the original drummer is carrying the time, and you are riding on top of it. Take the kit out and that support disappears. You become responsible for the tempo, and any tendency to rush a fill or drag a groove is suddenly obvious rather than hidden underneath someone else's playing.

That exposure is the whole training value. It is also why a drumless track is a genuinely harder practice tool than a metronome for anything involving feel, because the band is reacting to a groove you have to supply.

The file you want

Song without drums — the play-along — this is the one to load into your practice setup
Drums — the original drummer's part, isolated, for working out what they actually played

Getting more out of it

Learn the part from the isolated drum file first, then switch to the drumless version to play it. Most people skip the first step and end up approximating.
Start with something sparse. A tight, dry pop production makes a cleaner play-along than a live album where crowd noise and bleed are baked in.
If you are working on time rather than repertoire, pick a song with a long steady groove rather than one full of stops and fills.
The count-in disappears with the drums. Listen ahead a bar or two, or add your own click for the intro.

Questions

›Will I hear traces of the original drums?

Sometimes, usually on cymbals. A crash that rings under a chord can leave a faint wash behind. Kick and snare come out cleanly in almost all cases.

›Is there a limit on how many I can make?

Five a day per device. That is a cost control, not an upsell — there is no paid plan that raises it.

›Can I use these in lessons I teach?

The separation is free to use for teaching. The recording itself still belongs to whoever owns it, so treat a drumless track exactly as you would treat playing the original record in a lesson.

Where it struggles

Live albums are the weak spot. Crowd noise, room ambience and drum bleed into every other microphone mean the kit is smeared across the whole recording rather than sitting in one place, and no amount of separation fully removes it. Studio recordings are dramatically cleaner.