Banjo Extractor

How to extract the banjo from a song

1. Upload the song. MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC, up to 10 minutes. The first time, you sign in with Google.
2. Press Extract the banjo. The price is shown on the button: 1 credit per minute of music. New accounts get 5 credits. Expect 1 to 3 minutes.
3. Listen and download. You get Banjo and Without the banjo. Click a reel to hear only that file. Each downloads as an MP3 at 320 kbps.

If a job fails, the credits come back.

The banjo in a song

The banjo has a drum-like head, which gives it a sharp, twangy, quickly fading note. It is the engine of bluegrass, where a rolling pattern runs through the whole song. It also appears in old-time and folk music, country, Dixieland jazz and the pop and rock songs that add a folk or country feel.

Who wants the banjo alone

• Banjo players learning a roll or a break from a record, so they can slow it down and loop it.
• Bluegrass bands that want a track without a banjo to practice over.
• Producers who want to bring forward a banjo that sits behind a vocal.
• Sample makers who need a dry picked pattern.

Without the banjo gives you the rest of the song to play along with.

What the banjo gets confused with

In a mix the banjo can overlap with other bright plucked instruments. The mandolin has a similar brightness but a thinner sound; see the Mandolin Extractor. A picked acoustic guitar also shares the attack; see the Acoustic Guitar Extractor. Fast rolls with several instruments playing at once are the hardest case. If you want every plucked instrument in one file, use the Plucked Strings Extractor. The Dobro Extractor is a good next stop for a bluegrass band track.