How-to guide
How to remove drums for bass practice
Bass players practicing to recordings often want the drums out of the way so they can hear the bass line clearly and lock into their own groove. DrumSplit removes the entire drum kit while preserving the bass perfectly.
Older drum-removal tools used high-pass filtering that accidentally stripped out the bass guitar along with the kick drum. DrumSplit's neural model separates by instrument identity, not frequency — so the bass stays fully intact in the drumless track.
Step-by-step
- Pick a song to practice. Choose a track with a bass line you want to learn or jam along with. Source the highest quality version available.
- Upload to DrumSplit.io. Any format up to 100 MB. WAV and FLAC give the best results.
- Use Natural mode. For most recorded music with acoustic or programmed drums on top of a real bass line.
- Wait 2-3 minutes. DrumSplit returns 6 stems. The drumless music track is your practice backing track.
- Play along. Import the drumless track into your practice app or DAW. The bass line, vocals and all other instruments are preserved.
Tips for better results
- Slow the drumless track down in a practice app to learn complex bass lines at a comfortable tempo.
- Use the isolated kick stem alongside the drumless track to keep a reference for where beat one falls.
- For funk and R&B, the drumless track reveals the bass line's interaction with the chords more clearly than the full mix.
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Upload a song and get 5 individual drum stems plus a drumless music track. From $0.99 per split. No subscription. Credits never expire.
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