Where could I find songs where the drums are muted (to play along on an electrical drum set)?

Question

I own an electrical drum set (a Roland TD-9K, as seen here) which has some pre-set songs in the computer to play along with. In these songs you can mute the drums if you want. You can also connect an MP3 player to the computer (or anything else, it has a standard jack input) and play along with your favorite songs.

The downside is that you can't mute the drums in existing MP3s. So I was wondering if there are websites where you can download songs (famous or not) where the drums are left out? That way, I could play along with other songs than the ones pre-set in the TD-9K drum computer.

I haven't really found any such sites yet.

Answer 1

Apparently, I must have searched with the wrong keywords in the past, because I found some sites now. The correct term is 'drumless tracks' and you can find them on these sites (among others):

• MinusDrums (free and paid)
• AwDrums (free rock songs)

Answer 2

You can try Jammit.

This is a website and a software that allows you to buy songs with the instruments channels separated. So you can mute virtually any instrument (vocals, guitars, drums...).

There are not so many songs in the store but it's quite new, so I guess there'll be more songs added. The downside is that you must buy them :).

You could also try tablature players like Guitar Pro (60$ software) or Songsterr (website, you can mute drums for free). But this is not the "real" song, just user tabs that are more or less realistically played.

Answer 3

You could try music minus one.