To remove drums from a song, upload it to an AI drum remover and download the version without drums. Our Drum Remover gives you two files: Without the drums and Drums only. In our test, a 3 minute 22 second song took 88 seconds.
Drummers use the drumless file as a practice track: the band plays, and you fill the empty drum chair. Here is how to make one and get the most out of it.
Playing along with the full song is fun, but you can't hear yourself well. The record's drummer covers every hit. You don't notice if you rush a fill or drop a beat.
With the drums gone, every mistake is clear. You lock in with the bass and guitar, the way you would with a real band.
The splitting runs in the cloud. There is nothing to install.
Having both files is what makes this useful. Try this routine:
Load the files into a DAW or a player with a speed control. Many can slow down without changing pitch. Practice slow, then bring it up to speed.
Some grooves are busy. The hi-hat pattern hides under the snare, and the kick does something tricky.
The Drum Kit Splitter breaks the drums into kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, ride and crash, each on its own row. Solo the kick to hear the foot pattern. Solo the hi-hat to count the subdivisions.
You may hear a faint snare or cymbal in the drumless file at loud moments. There are a few reasons:
For practice it rarely matters. Your own playing covers small traces. Clean studio songs give the cleanest results.
If you want to break the whole song into parts, drums included, use the stem splitter. It gives six parts: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and the rest.
Practice and lessons with any song are fine. Posting a cover with the original band audio may need permission, depending on the platform and the song.
The Drum Remover costs 1 credit per minute of song. After the 5 free credits, credit packs start at $2.99 for 30 credits, and a 4-minute song is about $0.30 on the $7.49 pack of 100. Credits never expire. If a job fails, the credits come back.
A few small changes make practice much better:
Drummers who record themselves over a drumless track often notice that they speed up in fills. Hearing the band without the original drums makes this obvious, and it is easy to fix once you hear it.
Upload it to the Drum Remover, press Remove the drums, and download the Without the drums file.
Yes. You get two files: Without the drums and Drums only.
Cymbals share frequencies with other instruments, and room echo spreads everywhere. A faint trace can stay on loud songs or live recordings.
MP3 at 320 kbps.
New accounts get 5 free credits with Google sign-in, enough for 5 minutes. After that it costs 1 credit per minute.