Lead and Rhythm Guitar Splitter

How to separate lead and rhythm guitar

1. Upload the song. MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC, up to 10 minutes. Sign in with Google the first time.
2. Press Split lead and rhythm guitar. The price shows on the button first: 1 credit per minute of the song. New accounts get 5 credits.
3. Play and download. Four reels appear: Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, All guitars and Without guitars. Click one to hear only that file. Each downloads on its own as an MP3 at 320 kbps.

If a job fails, the credits come back.

What lead and rhythm mean here

Rhythm guitar plays the chords and the groove underneath: strumming, power chords, chopped patterns. Lead guitar plays the line on top: the melody, a solo, a fill, a riff that people hum. The split follows that role, not the person holding the guitar. If one player does both, you may hear them move between the two files.

The four files cover what you are likely to want:

• Lead guitar. The solo or melody line, for learning licks.
• Rhythm guitar. The chord part, for working out the progression and strumming.
• All guitars. Both together, in one file.
• Without guitars. The rest of the band, for playing along.

Who uses it

Guitarists learning a solo and wanting it without the chords crashing around it. Players in two-guitar bands who need to know which part is theirs. Teachers making examples. Producers who want to turn the lead down or swap it for a new take.

What can go wrong

Twin guitars playing the same line in harmony are hard to tell apart, since both are lead. A single guitar with a big solo over its own chords is the clearest case. Layered rhythm parts with heavy distortion bleed into the lead file, and the other way round. Songs with a keyboard playing a lead line can also confuse it.

For all guitars versus none, use the Guitar Remover. For a particular tone, use the Electric Guitar Extractor or the Acoustic Guitar Extractor. To get the lead line as notes, take Lead guitar to Audio to MIDI.