Finding Beats for Specific Song Backing Tracks

[Greg.Midi]

Sometimes this is fairly easy but other times it’s a real pain. Jack and Diane was easy because Kenny Aronoff does the American Rock midi pack but I’m really stuck trying to get something useable for Neil Young Cinnamon Girl.

Anyone else having difficulty finding beats for cover type projects?

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[Scott Hopkins]

You can often find the midi for well known songs online.  Use your DAW to pull out and separate the drum track from the rest of the midi.  Even if you have just a snippet of the drum midi, you can drop that midi into EZDrummer to find similar grooves in your ToonTrack library. Good luck!

http://www.sortmusic.com/_n/neil-young-midi-file,tiCinnamon%20girl,len.html

 

[Greg.Midi]

Searching for the midi files can sometimes be a good solution. It’s too bad, I’m sure copyrights don’t allow for toontrack to create more specific beats for songs. I found another good source call Groove Monkee also.

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