Split any song into its separate parts
Upload a song and get it back in pieces — 4 parts for everyone, or 6 on the paid plans. Take one part away and you have something to play along to; keep one and you have something to learn from. The same pass also reads the chords, the key and the tempo.
Free · no signup · daily limit applies
Upload the song
MP3 or WAV, up to 15 MB (25 MB with a free account), straight from your library. Uploads made without an account stay tied to your browser session and are cleared within a day.
Pick 4 parts or 6
4 is the default and needs no account. 6 splits guitar and piano off into tracks of their own and is available on the Supporter and Pro plans.
Play with what is left
Preview each part in the browser, download it on its own, or tick a few and bounce them into one file to practise against.
Leave a hole where you go
- Every part arrives ticked, which is the whole song. Untick one and the download is the song without it.
- Drop the vocals and sing it. Drop the bass and play it. Drop the drums and count yourself in.
- Or take the single part on its own to hear exactly what that player is doing under the mix.
What comes out: 4 parts, or 6
Worth knowing before you upload, because it decides whether the instrument you came for gets a track of its own.
No account needed
- Vocals
- Drums
- Bass
- Everything else
Guitars, keys, strings and horns all share the “everything else” track here — they are separated from the voice, the kit and the bass, but not from each other.
The same four, plus
- Guitar
- Piano
Guitar and piano are lifted out of the “everything else” track and given their own. See the plans for what each tier includes.
Separate files are where most splitters stop.
Muting the guitar tells you when to come in. It does not tell you what to play. That is the gap between having the parts of a song and being able to play along with it, and it is the reason this is not only a splitter.
Send the same file through ChordSonic's analysis and you get the key, the tempo and every chord change on a timeline that scrolls with the music — so the backing track you just built comes with the chart for it. After a split you can also run chord detection on a single part, which often reads more clearly than the full mix does.
Other ways into the same separation
These pages all run the one engine on your file — they differ in which parts arrive ticked and in who the page is written for. The closest neighbour is the first: it is this tool called by its studio name.
The same split under the studio word for it, written for producers who already know what a stem is and just want the files.
If only one of the parts interests you and it is the singing, this skips the rest of the decision.
The vocal as raw material for a remix, with the tempo and key you need to put it over something new.
For a spoken voice over music — a voiceover, an interview, a podcast — rather than a song.
Song splitter FAQ
What does splitting a song actually give me?
Separate audio files, one per part, each the full length of the song and lined up with it. Play them together and you have the record back; mute one and you have a backing track with a hole where that instrument was. That hole is the point — it is what you play, sing or drum into.
How many parts does a song split into?
Four, for everyone and without an account: vocals, drums, bass, and one track holding everything else — keys, guitars, strings, horns, whatever the arrangement had. Six is available on the Supporter and Pro plans, and what it changes is that guitar and piano are lifted out of that last track and given tracks of their own. Pick the split above the button before you start.
Can I split a song into just vocals and instrumental?
Yes — that is a two-file case of the same split. Tick only vocals and download for the acapella, then untick vocals, tick everything else and download again for the instrumental. One separation, both files, no second upload.
Does splitting lose quality?
Separation is not a lossless operation — it is a decision about which sound belonged to which part, and near-misses show up as faint traces of one instrument in another's track, or a slightly hollow tail on a cymbal. On well-produced studio material it is clean enough for practice, transcription and most edits. Dense live recordings and heavy distortion are where any separation tool struggles, this one included.
How long does a song take to split?
A few minutes for a typical track, and you can leave the tab — the job carries on on the server. The 6-part split is heavier than the 4-part one, so it takes longer.
Is this the same thing as a stem splitter?
It is the same tool. "Stems" is the studio word for the separate parts, and we keep a page under that name too, written for people who arrive already speaking it. If you came here looking for stems, nothing is missing — the files are identical.
Do I need an account?
Not for one song a day — no signup, no card. A free account swaps that daily cap for a monthly credit balance, with the exact size on the pricing page, and keeps your splits in a library instead of letting them expire after 24 hours.
Create your own music
Generate unique new tracks of your own — built from the key, tempo and chords of any song you upload.
Get the chords for the song you just split
Key, tempo and every chord change on a play-along timeline — the chart that turns a set of parts into something you can practise.
Analyze a trackNew to this? Read how to split a song into stems to learn each part.