How do I eliminate the guitar tracks from a song to make a backing track?

Question

All the guitar backing tracks that I see on the Internet have the vocal tracks eliminated as well. The thing is, I want the vocals to remain and only the guitar track to be eliminated. What software can I use (please dont suggest Cakewalk, it's such a headache)? Or is there a site that offers these certain backing tracks? Thanks

Answer 1

You can't if the guitar was recorded in stereo, which they usually are. I would suggest using parts of the song without the track to make an instrumental without the guitar, if possible, but of course, that might cut out the vocals too.

Answer 2

I honestly don't know how you could separate that out unless you already had a song in the format of separate tracks for vocals, guitar, etc. That would allow you to take out that specific track. How could a program know exactly which sounds to separate out otherwise?

If there is a such a program I would love to know about it.

Answer 3

Alternate suggestion: play along WITH the existing tracks. The ability to play a complementary melody line along with another guitar player is something that makes BOTH guitar players look better. I jam along with internet radio blues-rock and play right over the singing if I feel like it - there's no audience, so why not? I'm not offending anybody. Otherwise you will probably have to get multi-tracked software... good luck with that!