music editing?

Question

ok i have a song that i want to learn on my guitar. i have the tabs i'm learning it blah blah blah but i though it would be cool if i could listen to the song with the guitar only and none of the other instuments or vocals. my problem is this: i have downloaded some music editing sofware but i don't know how to take out everything but the guitar. how do i do it? or can you reccomend a editing program that makes thigs like this easy?

Answer 1

you can't take out anything. by phase reversal and panning you can deaden those tracks which are panned center, but you can't eliminate anything from the original recording unless you have the original masters where the tracks are still seperated.

Answer 2

Those programs don't usually do a very good job deleting parts from a song. They tend to delete frequency ranges to accomplish this, and the result is often muddy and unusable.

In the best of all possible worlds, you would take a copy of the original multi-trak recording and dub off the guitar part. Not very practical though.

I would try alternate recordings of the song, like karaoke versions. See if you can find it at one of these sites:

http://www.cavsusa.com/cinet_home/index.htm

http://www.karaoke.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Karaoke.woa/wa/Karaoke/default

Answer 3

hmm.
interesting question. Well what In do know is that when music is recorded its recorded on differant tracks, one for each instrument, then all put together on one track after being mixed. I do not think iit is possible to seperate these tracks straight from an mp3 file or so. What you probably have to find is that song in the kind of format your music editing program uses so that when you open it the tracks are already seperated.
sorry for the vague answer.

Answer 4

you won't have the ability to beat the cost of Audacity or WavePad - their thoroughly unfastened! in case you like some thing a sprint greater stepped forward inspect Adobe Audition, Fruity Loops or Sony Acid music Studio. in case you have a MAC - GarageBand is rather cool utility. Audacity is unfastened, open source utility for recording and modifying sounds. that's obtainable for Mac OS X, Microsoft abode windows, GNU/Linux, and different working systems.

Answer 5

There is no way to do this unless you had access to the original studios recordings (which I highly doubt). Sorry man. You could do a search on youtube or videos.google.com to see if anyone has recorded themselves playing the same song though, worth a shot.

Answer 6

Download a copy of CoolEditPro or Sony Soundforge...

I believe both of those softwares have a feature that will pick up on vocals and essentially delete them.

Answer 7

try Adobe Audition.

Answer 8

they hav some dvds @ fry's electronic store my friend got some

Answer 9

ya i have software that can edit music

Answer 10

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/