chugster Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Hi, New bass player here. I've had a look round but haven't found what I'm looking for so apologies if it is already on here somewhere! Can anyone tell me if there is such thing as a website where I can get MP3s of actual songs with all instrument parts and vocals except for the bass so I can play along to them? I've found sites with tracks to jam to but I would prefer to play to actual songs that I know. Any help appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandro Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 [quote name='chugster' post='1086406' date='Jan 12 2011, 08:58 AM']Hi, New bass player here. I've had a look round but haven't found what I'm looking for so apologies if it is already on here somewhere! Can anyone tell me if there is such thing as a website where I can get MP3s of actual songs with all instrument parts and vocals except for the bass so I can play along to them? I've found sites with tracks to jam to but I would prefer to play to actual songs that I know. Any help appreciated![/quote] Can't help you with a website, but maybe you can try and strip out the bass part yourself. There are most probably tons of programs, and maybe they are much easier to use than what I will suggest but I've only ever used Audacity (and on Linux with wav files and not mp3, but a friend of mine used it with Windows with no real issues). See the following: [url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url] Its free! I don't know the ins and outs of it too much and it can look overwhelming cause it can do ALOT, but I use it to strip out the bass and even slow down a song without changing the pitch...so you can make your own slow versions of the actual songs and play along with your bass . If you want to spend money on hardware, I also have a Korg Pandora PX5 which can take out a mp3 player as input and take out the bass on the fly. Maybe someone has easier or cheaper options. HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chugster Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 [quote name='Tandro' post='1086657' date='Jan 12 2011, 01:31 PM']Can't help you with a website, but maybe you can try and strip out the bass part yourself. There are most probably tons of programs, and maybe they are much easier to use than what I will suggest but I've only ever used Audacity (and on Linux with wav files and not mp3, but a friend of mine used it with Windows with no real issues). See the following: [url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url] Its free! I don't know the ins and outs of it too much and it can look overwhelming cause it can do ALOT, but I use it to strip out the bass and even slow down a song without changing the pitch...so you can make your own slow versions of the actual songs and play along with your bass . If you want to spend money on hardware, I also have a Korg Pandora PX5 which can take out a mp3 player as input and take out the bass on the fly. Maybe someone has easier or cheaper options. HTH.[/quote] Thanks I've downloaded Audacity. Can you point me in the direction of any instructions to use it to remove the bass from tracks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandro Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 (edited) [quote name='chugster' post='1087749' date='Jan 13 2011, 11:22 AM']Thanks I've downloaded Audacity. Can you point me in the direction of any instructions to use it to remove the bass from tracks?[/quote] First thing of course is to import a song. File -> Open , and then navigate and pick your song. My version does not have mp3 support built in, but I should really see about that. Anyways, so now you should be able to play it, edit etc. In my version of Audacity, to cut the low frequencies I go to Effect -> Plugins 1 to 9 -> High Pass Filter. There you can pick your cutoff frequency and Rolloff. Click OK, and it does its thing. Play with the values in High Pass Filter and see how the song sounds. Now this is not going to remove exactly the bass for any song, it just allows you to 'lessen' it to your liking. Not a perfect solution, but good enough for practice IMO. Now if you want to slow down the song cause that riff you want to learn is a bit too fast for you to play along with (or transcribe), then go to Effect -> Change Tempo. Slow it down on the slider as you need to. The nice thing with this, is that sometimes if I want to try and figure a section but I just can't seem to 'hear' it good enough, I might copy and paste the tricky section (or just highlight it) into a new audacity project (File -> New) and use the Low pass filter or something to attenuate the higher frequencies. You can really dial in the start and end of a section you want to lift out or repeat play over and over because you can set the start time (and end time of course) down to the millisecond (this sure beats back in the day when I had my songs on cassette tape...anybody remember that...and had to constantly rewind and play to try and figure out some bass part). Anyway, I hope this all makes sense and helps out in some way. Edited January 14, 2011 by Tandro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juzgoez Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 (edited) [b]If you want to spend money on hardware, I also have a Korg Pandora PX5 which can take out a mp3 player as input and take out the bass on the fly. Maybe someone has easier or cheaper options. HTH. [/b] I'm wondering how anything can isolate and remove a single instrument when all the instruments on that track are mixed down to 2 channels (stereo) I've seen websites claiming that they have stuff that can remove vocal tracks for karaoke purposes. Edited March 17, 2011 by Jobo Pooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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