removing words from music

leahlu · January 2010

I am in love with November Rain and want it played at our wedding ceremony, but our church requires our music either be religious or instrumental. How can I remove the words from the song? I've tried finding an instrumental version of the song on CD with no luck. Is there somewhere that can do this for me?

kelcloe · January 2010

I love that song too! Let me know if you find some way to remove the words. I'll ask my FI he's a muscian so he might know too.

LittleSweetie · January 2010

The only two ways I know of to remove the audio track is to either find an instrumental version, or get a sound file (raw from the studio) and take out the audio track. Imagine a song as layers of drums, guitars, bass, piano, vocals, tambourine - each of those has a track. The vocal track would have to be removed in the raw file - that's not something you can do with an MP3 file. So, you're best off finding an instrumental version or finding sheet music for an instrumental group to play live.

emilykathleen511 · January 2010

I think there must be a way to get music without the words, because we used to sing to the tapes in Choir in elementary school. I have no idea how expensive it is, but I think they must be out there in most cases. I'm sure there are probably all kinds of copyright stuff surrounding the issue, so it's probably expensive.

Bimbi284 · January 2010

I know that my stereo has a karaoke setting for the sound that "sorta" removes the vocal track, but not completely, so I'm sure there is a way.....there's GOTTA be an instrumental version out there somewhere!

Bimbi284 · January 2010

Perhaps this would work?

http://www.karaoke-version.com/mp3-backingtrack/guns-n-roses/november-rain.html

Bimbi284 · January 2010

PS: You would want the one w/o the backing vocals

LittleSweetie · January 2010

Lol, I'm not sure that would fly at a church that's requesting "instrumental or religious" songs!!

hkiesling · January 2010

What about hiring a musician to play it? We had a pianist play Truly Madly Deeply and Bubbly at our church. You can usually find youtube videos of people playing songs on piano.

cukimerrydoll · January 2010

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[QUOTE]What about hiring a musician to play it? We had a pianist play Truly Madly Deeply and Bubbly at our church. You can usually find youtube videos of people playing songs on piano.
Posted by hkiesling[/QUOTE]
And your church will probably know someone who can play at the wedding too.

You will probably need to buy the sheet music, but most of that can be found online or through local music stores. I've been getting my music needs cared for through Guitar Center for years (the one in Edina is most experienced here), and they might be able to help you track it down.

veijes · January 2010

I'm pretty sure there is some way that you can remove the words with a casette player, but I'm not sure if your church would have a casette player to use? Back in high school gymnastics, we could use any song we wanted for our floor routine and you just had to find it on a casette and our coach would remove the lyrics because you can't have lyrics in a floor routine. This probably doesn't help in ANY way haha, but I thought I'd try

Mrs.SongBird531 · January 2010

Here's a link to buy the Vitamin String Quartet version of it from Amazon for only 99 cents.
A little below the price is a place where you can listen to a sample of it.
Hope this helps.

http://www.amazon.com/November-Rain/dp/B000SHC6TS

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