you guys what up this is corbis i am so
stoked about this video this video
answers
the question that i've gotten the most
in the past 15 years of making videos on
youtube which is how i remove
the drums from songs some other
questions
that i get repeatedly is how do you do
your hair where is your accent from
what is a quirbus
i actually kind of like this one i
really get a kick out of this one oh
you're from africa
why are you white
i'm just kidding i don't get the wiry
white
question often
just sometimes so ever since i started
making videos people have always asked
how i remove the drums from the original
songs that i'm playing along to so after
15 years of doing this
here's the answer
i don't i don't remove the drums from
the songs so let me give you an example
of why this is impossible okay so let's
say you make your friend some coffee
your friend really likes lattes you know
like coffee with tons of milk in it so
you make him a latte and you give him
the latte and he takes a sip of the
latte and then he says man actually
uh
i'm kind of in the mood for just black
coffee today so could you just please
remove the milk
and and then and then you and then you
say
i i mean i can't you know that's that's
not how
how reality works i can make you a new
coffee
one without milk brand new coffee and he
goes no it's great this is fine i this
is a really good coffee i just want this
coffee
without the milk just could you just
remove
the milk from this coffee
the song is the coffee the drums are the
milk okay you can't remove the drums
from the song without
doing a brand new mix
making a brand new coffee but the title
of this video is how to remove the drums
from any song it's not you can't remove
the drums from songs stop flipping
asking me so this is where things change
a little bit because a few weeks ago i
got an email from this company called
moises and they have a website and an
app that claims to remove vocals and
instruments from any song i've gotten
tens if not hundreds of emails over the
years of companies claiming to remove
vocals and drums from the song and then
their solution is always
either really like over-inflated like it
just doesn't work as well as they say it
does or it's just
just really poop so when moises reached
out and they said we have this app we
have this website i did not have high
hopes at all straight up like i did not
anticipate it to be working at all but i
went on the website
and uh i downloaded the app on my phone
i tried it out
and
holy crap here's a song in the app
without vocals
without bass
without guitars
not without drums
it has the chords on screen it has a
live auto-generated metronome you can
change the speed you can change the key
all in the app
from a song that i uploaded this is
crazy full disclosure moises is
sponsoring this video and the reason why
is because when i tried out the app and
i saw how well it worked i immediately
sent him an email and i was like you
guys i've been asked about this for 15
years i really want to tell my followers
about this will you please sponsor the
video and support my channel and so they
are supporting my channel they are
sponsoring this video okay cool let me
show you guys how the app works i'm just
gonna open it up and then there's a few
different ways that you can add
uh music to it you can add it from any
kind of public publicly available url so
any direct link to an mp3 you can add it
from dropbox drive or your music library
on your phone so that's what i'm going
to do i'm just going to open up
my apple music library and i'm going to
add the song super heroes
from ventura lights ventura lights is a
is a it's a great band
so yeah they released one album
back in 2013.
venturalize is my band it's a project
that i did in 2013.
and the reason why i'm using one of my
own band songs is because i just want to
use a song that i own the copyright to
so i don't get sued and so that i can
monetize this video but i'm not using
any kind of special mix of the song this
is just the full band mix from apple
music just like any other song then you
can choose two track separation four
track separation or five track
separation i'm just gonna do four track
because i primarily just want to be able
to remove the dragons from the song so
let's do four track separation i'm gonna
do the high quality version just in case
i might end up
wanting to use the song in the cover
then you submit the track it uploads and
in a little bit i should get a
notification that tells me that the
file's done
uh at which point i'll be able to
download it back to my phone
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awesome it's done processing now you
download the processed version from
moises servers which means i should now
have access to
the separated sections of the song the
separated instruments so let's have a
look so if i open up
man it takes me back um so if i open up
the song in the app this is what it
looks like
uh you can see that it has separated the
vocals the drums the bass and other
others usually in this case it would be
keys
guitars and any other instruments in the
song um i want to start off with
something that might seem like it's not
a big deal but to drummers this is
insane uh it auto generates
a metronome
which doesn't it doesn't sound like a
big deal
but this is crazy like and this saves so
much time so if you play the song
let me play the song real quick
and i turn on the metronome
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and it's
on
point we i wrote this song with a band
and i tracked this those are my drums so
i know where the click was relative to
the snare i know that it was slightly
behind we wanted to kind of like lean
back into the click
and i'm not going to get into too much
detail about that but all i want to say
is that it's insane how well this app
auto generates a click immediately and
gives you access to just listening to a
click and onto the song and you can
change the playback speed so if you'd
like to practice the song at a slightly
slower tempo you can just move it down
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so this is really helpful if you want to
practice certain drum parts or certain
parts of the song
especially after you've isolated maybe
just the drums or if you just want to
turn any song into a pop song
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automatic metronome generation blew my
mind it's crazy okay so now let's get
into
controlling the individual instruments
separately which is kind of where the
real magic happens so if you want to
duck the vocals
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and then of course the drums
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this is crazy like as somebody
as somebody
who's been mixing drums and been like
working on production for 15 years it's
very difficult for me to explain to you
how similar this is to magic right now
like this blows my mind to be able to do
this on my phone
and remove the drums this effectively
without destroying the rest of the song
as you might have noticed another
functionality is that it shows the
chords of the song in real time at the
top of the screen as you're going
through the song so let's see where's
the chorus at i think it's around here
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and then you can also transpose the song
so you can bump it up a little bit bump
it
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down and when you do that the chords at
the top of the screen get transposed in
real time as well so they still keep
scrolling along with the song as you're
listening to it flip this is ridiculous
i can't believe this is where we're at
in the world right now with technology
so what you can use this app for is
obviously to isolate instruments if you
want to learn so if you just want to
isolate the drums
and you want to slow it down maybe
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if you want to learn a certain drum part
or hone in on a certain part of the song
obviously the way that i would use this
is to duck the drums for drum covers
which is that's why you guys have been
asking me this question for 15 years is
if you want to do your own drum covers
and you want to get rid of the so the
drums in a song how could you do that
and so this is by far the most effective
way
that i've ever seen that question
answered if i wanted to do this with a
song that i wanted to cover i would uh
duck the drums
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it's more than just your state of mind
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one of the biggest ways that i'm very
excited about using this is when you
when i want to play different drum parts
to the song that exists in the original
song which obviously like i'm all about
like i love changing the drum parts i
usually have to be pretty careful with
this because
uh if i deviate too much from the
original drum parts then you can hear
the original drums competing with mine
and it makes it sound really muddy and
really messy so let me show you guys if
i were to try and play something
totally different over like the second
verse
and i was kind of fighting with the
original drum parts then it would sound
kind of messy let's see what that sounds
like
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i can totally hear that original snare
on two and four
messing me up man like if i want to do
something different it doesn't sound
that great so if i were to do the same
thing
but docking the drums this time
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it makes so many very creative things
possible like i can't wait to see what
people do with this new technology being
able to remove the vocals being able to
remove the drums
keep just the drums and write a new song
along to it like i just feel like
there's so many possibilities here now
that we finally have access to this
technology so that's it if you guys want
to check out the app for free just go to
moises.app forward slash quivers or you
can click on the link in the description
below they also have a paid version of
the app
and that has some additional features
like unlimited uploads or very high
quality downloads of the mixed and
processed files that might be a good
option if you intend on using this for
your own videos or your own productions
but most of the features that i used in
this video are available in the free
version of the app if you go to
moises.app forward slash corbus or if
you click on the link in the description
below but this is crazy technology this
is insane you guys should go check it
out and see how well it works it blew my
mind the first time i used it it's
insane
thank you so much for watching this
video
as always thank you so much for your
attention check out my patreon page for
drum lessons and exclusive content if
you just want to support my channel if
you like my videos a big thank you to
moises for sponsoring this video and
supporting my channel i appreciate that
a ton thank you guys for watching uh
stay safe and stay healthy and take good
care of yourself and i'll see you guys
in the next video bye