Hello Steemit!
Today I would like to share with you a rather fun and interesting project I did for my college, which consists of creating a "backing track". Sooner or later every musician (professional or amateur) will need a good backing track, to do karaoke, study, play alone in a performance or even give lessons.
-What is a backing track?
Well....how many times did you find yourself singing over a song, but would you like to be able to sing it without the original voice below? How many times did you find yourself playing guitar but the original guitars bother you or happen to be playing drums over a song but you wish you could play it without the drummer in the background? Well, the solution to all these problems is to make a good backing track.
A backing track consists of building a track by track (instrument by instrument) using audio programs known as "DAW" (digital audio workstation) like:
-Logic
-Ableton live
-Cubase
Protools and many others that allow us to use virtual instruments.
By doing this, you can build the song yourself and choose which instruments you want from the song and which you do not.
The program I like to use is the Logic pro x, this program is great for midi, audio, video and music editing. Unfortunately, Logic is a Mac-exclusive program, so if you have windows, you won't be able to use it. But don't be afraid! hahaha with any of the programs listed before and many others you will be able to do the same job without any problems.
In this case the song I chose is called "Everybody wants to rule the world" by "Tears for fears". (I love this song hahaha)
As a good track of the `80s it has many layers of instruments and many synthesizers, so it is quite tedious to listen to each instrument and find the exact sound (even though it is not a very complicated song). Its important to look to get as close as possible to the original in terms of sound, otherwise the final product will be a poor quality imitation.
This time I limited myself to just using the virtual instruments that come by default in the Logic, so if you pay attention you will notice that several of the audios achieved are not exactly the same; obviously, you could use any kind of virtual sound library and get much closer to the original.
Here's the backing track:
On this track i combine the virtual midi instruments with the beautiful real guitars of my great and beloved brother @pechichemena , which helps to give it a much more realistic feeling, but if you need it you could remove the guitar that plays the main melody, leaving the track ready for anyone who wants to play or sing the song.
One of the biggest advantages of using midi instruments is the ability to transpose the track to any key we want quickly, this is a marvel when we consider that otherwise, we would have to make the track again every time a singer asked for it in another key.......a real torture right? hahahaha.
Here's the original song:
Here a cool version of Mark Lettieri :
I hope you liked my work and that you enjoyed my post, keep in mind that backing tracks can be a source of money since there are many people who need them, so if you are thinking about how to earn some extra money you could start experimenting with your own tracks!
This track is available for anyone who wants it, just ask me for it and with all the love in the world I will give it to you!
Any questions, comments or opinions are welcome!
Yours truly: @piterman