Take the drums out and play them yourself
Drop in a song and get it back with the kit muted. Bass, vocals and everything else stay exactly where they were, so the empty seat behind the drums is yours.
Free · 1 separation per day · no signup
Pick a song you want to play
Drag in an MP3 or WAV up to 50 MB. Nothing is shared — an upload made without an account belongs to your browser session and is deleted within a day.
The kit comes off the mix
ChordSonic's pipeline lifts the drums onto a stem of their own and leaves bass, vocals, guitar and keys untouched at their original levels.
Count in and go
Download the drumless bounce as an MP3, put it through your headphones or the practice-room PA, and the groove is entirely on you.
Rebuild the track around whatever you are practising
- Drums start unticked — that is the drumless track you came for.
- Untick bass as well and you are rehearsing against guitars and vocals only; tick the drums back on and the song is whole again.
- Whatever combination is ticked gets bounced to one MP3 when you press download.
A backing track that leaves the seat empty.
Drumless play-alongs used to mean whatever a publisher had recorded — a handful of standards, in one arrangement, at one tempo. Muting the kit in a recording you already own turns any song into a play-along, including the one your band is rehearsing on Thursday.
It is also an honest mirror. With the original drummer gone there is nothing propping up your time, so rushed fills and a hi-hat that drifts ahead of the bass are impossible to miss. If you want to check the tempo before you count in, the BPM finder will read it off the same file.
Drum remover FAQ
How do I remove the drums from a song?
Upload the track, leave the drums box unticked in the result panel, then hit the download button. ChordSonic's pipeline pulls the kit onto its own stem and bounces everything else back down to one file, so what you get is the song exactly as it was minus the drumming.
Why would a drummer want a drumless track?
Because playing along to a recording that already has drums on it hides your mistakes — the original kit covers your timing errors and your fills. Strip it out and suddenly you are the only thing holding the groove together, which is the fastest way to find out whether your time is actually solid.
Does it take out shakers, congas and other percussion too?
Usually yes. Percussion tends to travel with the kit onto the same stem, so tambourines, shakers and hand drums normally disappear alongside the snare and kick. Tuned percussion such as marimba or timpani is more likely to stay in the mix, since it behaves more like a melodic instrument.
Can I get the drums on their own instead?
Yes — flip the selection. Tick only drums and download, and you have an isolated kit to study a groove bar by bar, lift a fill, or drop into a sampler. The separation is the same either way; you are just choosing which side of it to keep.
How long does it take and what does it cost?
Most songs come back in around two minutes, and you can do one separation a day without signing up or entering a card. Creating a free account raises that daily allowance if you are working through a whole setlist.
Which files can I drop in?
Anything in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, FLAC or AIFF up to 50 MB. Uploads made without an account are tied to your browser session and deleted within a day.
Backing & jam tracks
Soon you'll be able to turn any song's detected key, tempo and chords into a practice backing track to play along to.
Learn the arrangement, not just the groove
Run the same upload through ChordSonic and you get the tempo, the key and every chord change on a timeline — so you know exactly where the section turns before you set up the fill.
Analyze a trackWant every part on its own file instead? Try the stem splitter.