Gentle on my mind

eddiez152 · #1 January 18th, 2007

Backing track for - Gentle on my mind.
I wish I knew how to make backing tracks better so there is more room for the guitar work. Problem is that I can play the whole darn tune. Gonna try to improve. May I need to look for samples of tunes so I can develop the style. But here it goes. Hope someone can add to this.

eddiez152

allthumbs · #2 January 18th, 2007

You need to remove the melody so there is room for the guitar. There are no holes to play in the way it is now.

eddiez152 · #3 January 18th, 2007

Thanks allthuumbs,
I need to find examples on the net and listen, or try to play the music backround only.
I'll keep working at it. By the way did you ever open the first one ?

eddiez152

allthumbs · #4 January 18th, 2007

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Originally Posted by eddiez152

Thanks allthuumbs,
I need to find examples on the net and listen, or try to play the music backround only.
I'll keep working at it. By the way did you ever open the first one ?

eddiez152

Nope. My pc has decided to default to soundblaster and can't find my real soundboard. I am going to have to down load drivers and see if that fixes it. I can't play midi at all.

cshude · #5 January 19th, 2007

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Originally Posted by eddiez152

I wish I knew how to make backing tracks better so there is more room for the guitar work. eddiez152

There are quite a few software programs that will allow you to open the MIDI file so that you have the separate tracks. In this case, you would be able to simply mute or erase the melody track, then render the file to an MP3. I know that I have the ability to do this with PowerTracks ProAudio, the program that I use. I assume you can do the same with most programs that have MIDI support.

eddiez152 · #6 January 21st, 2007

cshude,

Can you grab the file and change it? I have Kristal, but I don't know how to seperate the files.

eddiez152

cshude · #7 January 21st, 2007

Sure, post the link to the original midi file. Only take me a few minutes to do.

eddiez152 · #8 January 22nd, 2007

cshude,
Chris, I converted to a wave file. I don't have a midi converter program yet.
Hope I did this ok.----------nope. Gotta try something else.

eddiez152

eddiez152 · #9 February 1st, 2007

cshude,

Chris, tell me what I need to do to take my mp3 saved track so I can send you the file.
I have audacity, band in the box, krystal. It was recorded on a 3.5 floppy on my keyboard.

eddiez152

JackWilson · #10 February 2nd, 2007

I made room

cshude · #11 February 2nd, 2007

In order to strip out the melody line, you use the .mid file, not the mp3. I assume you got the song from a website that you could post the link to. From there, I can use software to mute the melody line and render it to an mp3 from the midi file.

eddiez152 · #12 February 2nd, 2007

cshude.
Chris, the song is done by me on the keyboard. Yamaha PSR730. It has a 3.5" floppy drive that I record to. Then I put it in my PC and open it with my Ipod software.
Then I can open it in Krystal,or Band in the Box.

eddiez152

eddiez152 · #13 February 2nd, 2007

JackWison,
Now thats, what I've been waiting for.
You did a great job, now what did you do to pull this version off.

eddiez152

eddiez152 · #14 February 2nd, 2007

Jack and cshude,
Perhaps I can do better backing tracks in the future so others can add their guitar work or mine to them. The only thing I don't play is rock though I wish I could. Unfortunatly,
My accordian

lessons were polkas,tangos,waltz"s But I play a lot of easy listening stuff on the keyboard.
I'd love to get in some jams or collabs, if I could do something on the keyboard add some guitar and let others join in.
Jack, try out "Last date" one for the old timers.

eddiez152

cshude · #15 February 2nd, 2007

Oh, now I understand, eddiez! Sorry about that. Thought it was a MIDI track.

Anyhoo, I'm sure that there will be plenty of takers for your keyboard work around here. I'm lucky in that I can do my own (been tickling the keys twice as long as strumming).

Cheers!