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Old 03-29-2007, 12:18 PM
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Where can I get backing tracks of song without the bass?

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I'm doing a performance for my GCSE(english school exam thing) course, and I was planning on playing bass for this one. The thing is, if you want to play along to a song, the recording cannot have your part in.

Ive got guitar pro, so I guess I could always use that, but it doesn't sound very good.

Are there any places where I can download non-midi backing tracks for free?
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Old 03-29-2007, 12:25 PM
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Jamey Aebersold books/recordings are always pretty good for that. They have versions without the bass in them. Of course those are all jazz cuts and I'm not sure what style you want to do.
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Old 03-29-2007, 01:49 PM
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If you have Guitar Pro, then you can use GP files and turn the Bass track down or even right off... Just because it's called Guitar Pro doesn't mean it's only for Guitar noodlers...

if you haven't got Guitar Pro then use TuxGuitar instead... it's cross platform, open source, completely free, and opens/saves guitar pro files, so you can open a .gp5 file, edit the bass volume right down and then save it off ready for loading back up.

You can also export out as a midi file with the new volumes and use a midi player with good instruments to play it with and capture the output as an mp3 file.

Unfortunately, a heck of a lot of Guitar Pro files are, to put it mildly, cr@p. You have to look hard to find good ones or else create your own.

If you can track down some good midi files, then TuxGuitar can import them for you so you can edit the Bass track out or down.

TuxGuitar can be found here:

http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/

ps, you can also use it to print out the Bass part in normal sheet, tab or combined sheet/tab form. And you get a funky fretbvoard mode which lets you see the notes as they're being played or input your own for creating your own music.

here's a midi to mp3 converter that's freeware... most of the others are payware/shareware

http://www.brothersoft.com/mp3_audio...eow_42945.html

don't know how well it works as I don't use windows, I use Timidity on Linux to play my midi files piped through oggenc to make ogg files.
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