Midi drums?

[edgewise]

I'm hoping that someone here might know the answer to this. Keep in mind that I know next to nothing about midi...

I would like to be able to go out on the web and find a midi version of a popular song, say "Day Tripper" by the Beatles.

Then I envision that I would open it in some simple editor and deselect everything but the drums.

Then I would "load" this midi file into a drum machine and bang I have a drum track to a song I want to play.

Certainly I could just play-a-long with the original recording, but I thought it would cool to be able to jam with friends to a song (sans live drummer).

Is this possible? Worthwhile?

Thanks!

-EW

[musicelectronix]

Leave the drum machine out of the picture and the play the midi thru a laptop, it should be enough

[DocBop]

There are lots of midi loops out there on the inet, but I don't think your going to find complete songs. If you did it would probably be for some specific sequencing software. Might be worth your time to learn Garageband or something similar and how to assmeble loops into songs.

[lamxyz]

you probably need some software like cakewalk to strip out the other midi channels leaving just the drum channel.

[rfclef]

There are a lot of places on the web with complete songs... Sometimes when I want some dippy little tune for my pep band to play at school, I grab a MIDI file offa the net and it is fairly easy to open it in Finale, assign each track to an instrument and bobsyeruncle, you got a dippy little arrangement for the football game... but I digress... Here are a couple of the sites I frequent...:
http://rock.mididb.com/
http://midi4u.com/

You can google MIDI too...

[Kalyptic]

if you have guitar pro you could just get the guitar pro file and use the drums from that.
and if you do find midi files you can put them into guitar pro to stripp all but drums.

[osciphex]

Yes, you can isolate the drum track of the midi file and route it to electronic drums. You don't even need to buy a drum machine, you can use any midi capable music production software (which is nearly all of them). Ableton live works especially well for this stuff. Also Reason.. anything with built in drum machines / patches.