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Isolated tracks for practicing

AndyPanda

AndyPanda

May 11, 2014
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I couldn't figure out which forum section to post this --- since I'm using my DAW to piece tracks together I might as well post it here :)

I was learning the bass line to Led Zep's Ramble On and having a blast playing along with the record. But then I noticed some youtube posts with various isolated tracks. I'm not sure where people get those raw tracks (I'd like to know - that would be easier than what I did).

Anyway ... I patched it so I could record each isolated track from YouTube onto it's own track in my DAW. Then I had to painstakingly line them up since the YouTube videos all start in random places.

I managed to piece together the original Drum/percussion track and the Electric Guitar track and two vocal tracks (and of course the bass - but I left that muted since the whole point is to give me everything but the bass so I can play along on bass).

I'm missing the acoustic guitar and that section after the second verse that sounds like bowed guitar --- so I spliced the first 2-3 bars of the record in at the beginning just to have enough intro guitar to be able to tell where the bass comes in. It's great fun to play along - especially since Plant's vocals are raw and unprocessed --- it's like having them right here in the living room :)

Curious if anyone else here does that sort of thing ... and where I might be able to find the acoustic guitar tracks.
 
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Well that was interesting. I posted an unlisted YouTube video in the OP (like an hour ago) --- unlisted means it wasn't visible to anyone except people here that read my OP ... and someone reported it already for copyright violation. Pretty strange as what I posted is made of individual tracks I assembled/mixed from other public YouTube videos.
 
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AndyPanda said:
Well that was interesting. I posted an unlisted YouTube video in the OP (like an hour ago) --- unlisted means it wasn't visible to anyone except people here that read my OP ... and someone reported it already for copyright violation. Pretty strange as what I posted is made of individual tracks I assembled/mixed from other public YouTube videos.
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It's automatic. For example my bass covers (me playing bass along an original track) all get listed with copyright claim the second I upload them. But it depends of the claimant what it means. This far I haven't had to take them down or anything, some of them cannot be played with mobile devices though.

This I got from my latest video: "Copyrighted content was found in your video. The claimant is allowing their content to be used in your YouTube video. However, ads might appear on it."
 
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Yeah ... I've started to realized it must have been automatic but still puzzled by it. I upload videos playing a cover now and then and in those cases I see exactly what you are describing (copyrighted material notice, claimant allows it but may play ads). But the notice I received thru email said:
Due to a copyright claim, your YouTube video has been blocked. This means that your video can no longer be played on YouTube.

Main reason I was surprised is that I made the video unlisted before it had even finished uploading - so at no point in time was it ever available for anyone to view or search without me posting the link (which I posted in my OP - but have since removed). So I'm baffled by how the copyright holder could have known it existed (unless they found it through my post here somehow) in order to make a claim within an hour of my uploading it. And baffled why it was blocked completely.
 
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Search for MrHITCHER65 on YouTube. He has a ton of backing tracks posted. I asked him how he makes them, and he said he finds the stems (isolated parts) and mixes them together himself.

Another source for backing tracks is karaoke-version.com, but in that case they're not the original tracks (it's cover bands) and they're not free (although very cheap). But they're pretty good and there's a large selection.
 
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There's some Karaoke, DJ apps that separate out vocals, drums, bass tracks.
There's an opensource project at: deezer/spleeter

If you're patient and have lots of money to spend spectral tools can help isolate out instruments.

I have that feeling that a lot of this stuff will get stalled out by the music industry.
If they had some way to do copy protection on separate tracks and license them then I'd hope for stems for all kinds of music. It's going to be a long time coming.
 

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