Isolate drums from a song to practice

Hear the kit on its own, slow the fill down, then flip to a drumless mix and play it. Free, in your browser, with no sign-up and no upload.

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How to isolate drums from a song to practice

  1. 1

    Drop the song

    Drums are soloed: kick, snare, hats and cymbals. The vocal and the bass sit in their own stems, muted.

  2. 2

    Learn the groove slowly

    Open slow down audio in keep-pitch mode. Half speed is for the fill. Do not leave it there for the whole song.

  3. 3

    Switch to the play-along

    Mute drums and unmute everything else. That is the drumless track. Play the groove you just heard.

  4. 4

    Download whichever file you need

    The button follows the mute. Soloed drums download the kit. Drumless downloads the band without you.

Practice is two files from one split

The drum extractor page is for pulling a break to sample. This page is for learning the part. You want the kit alone long enough to see the sticking, then the song without the kit so your own playing is the only drums in the room.

Both are the same four stems. Solo drums to listen. Mute drums to play along. You do not run a second upload, because nothing was uploaded.

What counts as the kit

If a sound is a drum, it should be in the stem. A few things that feel rhythmic are not.

SoundStemWhile you practice
Kick, snare, hatsDrumsThis is the part
Cymbals and crashesDrums, with some leakThe HD pass keeps more of them
Claps and snapsUsually drumsTreat them as part of the groove
Percussive guitarOtherDo not try to play it on the snare
808 subBassLeave it in the play-along

Slow, then back to tempo

A chorus hat pattern at full speed is a blur. Drop to 0.75× in keep-pitch, learn four bars, then step back toward 1.00×. Varispeed, the tape mode, also drops the pitch, which makes a snare feel like a different drum. Leave that off for practice.

Loop the section in the player. The download can be the slow version if you set the speed before you export. What you hear is what the mix download saves. The soloed drum stem itself is the original tempo, which is the file to drop into a DAW.

A phone is fine for a song, not for a whole live set

Keep the screen on until the stems are saved. A phone that locks mid-split often comes back with nothing, which feels like the tool failed. It was the tab being frozen.

There is no account and no watermark. If you film a play-along, the rights in the song are still the song's.

Questions

How do I practice drums to a real song?

Drop it here, learn the soloed drum stem, then mute drums and play along to the rest of the mix.

Can I slow the beat down without changing the pitch?

Yes. Use slow down audio in keep-pitch mode. Tape mode would drop the pitch as well, which you do not want for practice.

What is the difference between this and the drum extractor?

The extractor is aimed at sampling a break. This page is the practice loop: isolate, slow down, then play to the drumless mix.

Will hi-hats be in the drum stem?

Most of them. A few transients leak into the vocal stem on dense mixes. The HD pass is the one to trust.

Can I download just the drumless version?

Yes. Mute the drum stem and unmute the others. The download button follows that mix.

Does it work on iPhone?

Yes, in Safari. Leave the tab open until the file has downloaded. Long live recordings are happier on a laptop.