Music Tracks?

Allan Jirik · From: Wichita Falls TX

At the risk of sounding like I just crawled out of a swamp Confused

, how are backing music tracks generated? Example: YouTube video of a steeler playing alone in his studio, with back up music. Band-in-a-Box? Other computer programs? Can a digital piano be used?

Years ago when I last played steel I had rythmn tracks on cassette from Jeffran. Seems like music tracks would be a great learning tool. Are they easy to make? Can you purchase them? Am I asking too many questions???
As always, thank you for your insight.

Allan Thompson · From: Scotland.

Allan,
Yes you can use a digital keyboard, you would need a midi interface to connect to your computer. If you have a program like Sonar or Cubase or something similar, that would help. You can find a few free midi files on the web. Do a search.

Tony Prior · From: Charlotte NC

I can't say how others do it but for me I start with a drum programmer, build a drum track for the arrangement of the song, then record it onto a 16 tracker or PC Cakewalk Sonar.

From there I add tracks by playing Bass, Acoustics, Electrics etc..to complete the track..

many do the same thing and others use BIAB which can do the entire track from software.

Lots of choices

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Jim Kennedy · From: Brentwood California, USA

Just do a google search for midi files. This will give you lot's of places to look. You can also type in the name of a specififc song and add midi file. I have found files ranging from absolutely fantastic to horrible, so be ready to listen to a few and pick out what you like. Any windows machine will play midi files. IF you search for midi players there are several free ones available. I use Van Basco's free midi player. It allows for editing, changing keys, and turning tracks on and off in a sequence. This allows you to eliminate the melody from a song and still have rhythm track. I ahve been ding this for fifteen years. I figure why reinvent the wheel. building your own tracks from scratch can be quite rewarding. Band in a box is the premiere software, but there are other programs available.
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John H. McGlothlin · From: Raton, New Mexico

I use the BIAB Power Tracks Pro to edit an ordinary midi file of a song, it also allows me to edit out the melody instrument and change the key and the tempo of the song then I just use my software recorder to record the finished product and make it into an MP3 rhythm track.
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Steve Alcott · From: New York, New York, USA

Shameless plug alert:
For my "Texas Dance Hall Classics" series, I laid down a scratch track of sampled piano to establish the form of each song. I then added the rest of the instruments (bass, guitars, drums) and vocals.

Alan Brookes · From: Brummy living in Southern California

I have a bunch of percussion tracks which I've built up over the years by typing them note by note into MidiSoft. I record that onto one channel of a reel-to-reel recorder or an 8-channel MiniDisc recorder, while singing and playing the guitar on another two channels. Then I add the instruments one at a time, playing them live into a microphone or plugged straight into the board. Finally I replace the percussion with live percussion, or, in the case of many country numbers that don't need drums, I turn the volume of the percussion track down to zero when I mixdown.

I usually mixdown onto CD or DAT. I used to mixdown onto tape to avoid digital encoding, but since it's going to end up on CD anyway I've long ago swallowed my analogue prejudices. Embarassed

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