Question:
I need to download coldplay's scientist. Without the piano in the background.?
2009-05-14 14:22:17 UTC
im only 14 years old and I have to play a song on piano for school. So I learned scientist by coldplay. But Im gona record my self playen the song and I need the vocals in the background. How can I do this. Is there a way I can take the piano out of the song lol??? I will give best answer for the first person who can help me out. Also it would be nice if some1 could provide me a link to where I can download the song, Remember I need the song without the piano playen
Six answers:
Glen B
2009-05-14 17:24:44 UTC
It's rare that you can get a version that takes out _one_ instrument of a song, without it being drastically remixed (i.e. sounds quite different overall). But, if you're skilled with software on your PC to handle audio files, there's one trick used to remove an instrument which is "centered" in a mix (i.e. plays out at equal volume from both the left and right channels/speakers). The only drawback is that lead vocals are usually equally loud in both speakers. Hopefully, in this case, they are not.



1) Open your track in a audio program (I use Wavelab, but that costs money... any software that allows you to treat each channel separately will do just fine... How do you know if it treats each channel separately? It will usually show two waveforms for a stereo mix, one for the left channel, one for the right).



2) Select an entire channel (left or right). This can usually be done by bringing your cursor on the wavefile, but away from the center (i.e. in the middle of the two channels). Usually, the far top of the window for the soundfile is the left channel, the far bottom is the right channel.



(The following goes for most software run on Windows computers:)

3) Once that entire channel is selected, go to your "Help" menu, and choose "Help Topics". In the Help window that appears, click on the "Search" tab near the upper left of that window, then type in "invert audio" and press the Enter button. You should get a menu item that ressembles "invert audio". (NOTE: "Inverting" and "Reversing" are not the same when it comes to audio. You want to _invert_ the audio, a process for which description would be way too technical for this answer right now.)



4) Follow the instructions on how to invert that selected channel. (NOTE: Only invert _one_ channel or the trick won't work.)



5) Repeat Step 3 and 4, except this time search for "convert to mono" and follow the directions that appear.



You will now have a mono track that no longer plays all sounds that are equal between speakers. You have "inverted" one channel (in short, every time your speaker would "push" air out, it is now "pulling" air in), and combined it with the other channel. If one stereo channel "pushed" a sound equally while the other "pulled" it, the mono mix combines the two and you end up with that sound completely disappeared.
2016-04-11 03:22:42 UTC
Some of them..... Barclay James Harvest - Poor Man's Moody Blues Elvis Presley - Are you Lonesome Tonight Gary Moore - Parissiene Walkways Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues Guns N' Roses - November Rain Hammerfall - The fallen one MSG - Nightmare Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow Scorpions - I wanted to cry Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust Santana - Samba pa ti Alice Cooper - Hell is Living Without You and my personal favorite R.E.M. - Losing my Religion As for happy... There are two songs that make me smile. I dedicate them to everyone cause everyone need some encouragement now and then. And thats what these lyrics do! Bon Jovi - Bounce Bon Jovi - Someday I'll be Saturday Night
Mamianka
2009-05-14 16:44:12 UTC
I have answered this several times - once a recoding is mixed and released, you CANNOT remove certain tracks. Singers ask me for karaoke versions - instrumentalists ask me about removing THEIR part. Can't be done - anymore. They primitive way music was mixed decades ago - yes. Now? leaves a big ugly hole - and in MONO, yet. Nasty. Anyone who says it Can be done is lying - or trying to SELL you something - that will not work. It is my business to KNOW - and I have bought and returned a LOT of stuff, just to try it out. Nope. No way. Not gonna happen. Somebody will write in about Audacity. Not only do I use this a lot, my adult son (MM in Digital Music) teachers courses on Audacity - it will NOT remove tracks, the way you wish. Nope. No way.

You are out of luck. Sorry.
2016-02-16 00:56:27 UTC
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2009-05-14 14:35:34 UTC
You can download the song from Youtube with the help of software such as "Free Youtube Downloader" (just google it and download it for free).



Can't help with the other issue, sorry.
deborah
2017-02-17 18:48:14 UTC
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