Practice tracks for any instrument

Take your part out and play it yourself, or solo it and learn exactly what was played.

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

Practising with recordings is old advice. What changed is that you no longer have to practise against the recording as it was released — you can remove your own instrument from it and take that role yourself.

That single change turns any record in your library into two exercises: a listening one, where you solo the part and work out what was actually played, and a playing one, where you fill the gap it leaves.

The two-pass method

Most people play along with records and never quite learn them, because the original player is always there covering the gaps. Separating the track fixes that by splitting the work into two distinct passes.

First, solo the part. Without the rest of the band on top, the details that the mix hides become obvious — ghost notes, the exact placement behind or ahead of the beat, the ornament you had been approximating for years. Then remove that part and play it yourself, where nothing is covering for you and your timing is fully exposed.

Doing both is the point. Either one alone is much less useful than the pair.

Choosing Everything gives you both passes at once

Eight files means every instrument has both a solo version and a minus-one version.

Drums / Song without drums — for drummers
Bass / Song without bass — for bass players
Vocals / Song without vocals — for singers
Other / Song without the rest — for guitar and keys — bearing in mind these share one stem

Making the practice actually work

Pick songs slightly beyond what you can already play. A track you have mastered teaches nothing once the original player is removed.
Loop the hard four bars rather than running the whole song repeatedly. Separation gives you the material; how you drill it is still down to you.
Record yourself over the minus-one mix and listen back. The gap between how it felt and how it sounds is where the actual learning is.
Guitar and keys players should know in advance that these arrive together in one file — see the note below.

Questions

›Does this work for guitar?

Partly, and it is worth knowing the limitation before you rely on it. Guitar is not a separate stem — it shares the 'other' file with keys, synths and strings. On a track where guitar is the only harmonic instrument, that file is effectively an isolated guitar. In a dense arrangement it is not.

›How many can I do per day?

Five per device, which is a cost limit rather than a sales tactic. Most practice sessions use one or two songs.

›Can I slow the tracks down?

Not in this tool. Download the files and slow them in any practice app — and separated stems time-stretch considerably better than a full mix, because there are fewer competing sounds to smear.

Where it struggles

For guitarists and keyboard players this is a partial solution rather than a complete one, because their instruments are not separated from each other. Drummers, bass players and singers get a genuinely clean version of both passes; everyone else is working with a shared stem and needs to pick songs where that is good enough.