Question on finding ezdrummer or Superior drummer midi ready songs

[natedog411]

You know how “MetalHeads” or “Metal” midi has complete songs by Soilwork & meshuggah from Tomas Haake & Dirk Verbueren? Well, that’s seriously awesome and all but I wish there were songs available that were not so hard to play, or needing to be dropped Z to play along to.. Wouldn’t it be great to have complete midi ready songs for songs like “Disposable Hero” By Metallica or “Mouth for War” by Pantera? My question is, Do anyone of you know of a site that maybe offers or sells something like this? I SUCK at programming midi. if there is no such site, then someone could make a killing making one. Cuz, I would spend a lot of cash if there were one… I would even pay a forum user who might have the midi programming touch. Just set up a pay pal account and tell me where to download. Id pay up to $10 a song depending level of difficulty.. A song like “..and justice for all” would be deserving of $10 cuz thats a lot of drumming…

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[thesleeve]

I guess I’ll play devil’s advocate here and give the standard warning about copyright infringement.

In order to reproduce a song with a copyright (even if it’s just the chords and melody, entirely in MIDI), a license is needed. Otherwise, it’s copyright infringement. This is why a lot of times, companies or websites that offer jam tracks or minus-one tracks of a certain tune will change the chords and/or melody slightly in order to avoid legal issues. Even crappy MIDI karaoke tracks, if they reproduce the melody/lyrics of a song, are required to pay royalties to the copyright holders.

I buy Band In A Box midi arrangements of Beatles songs to jam along with (from a company called Norton Music), but the author made sure not to include melody or lyrics in the files, because those (along with the actual studio recording of the music) are the things that are protected by copyright law. Often, the author makes small chord substitutions as well just to be on the safe side.

That being said, if you can get a license, then you can copy the song outright!

There are several sites on the web that offer professional-quality backing tracks and have licensing agreements with the artists or copyright holders. One that comes to mind is Guitar Tricks. I know that they have a couple hundred backing tracks of popular songs, although I can’t vouch for the quality because I’m not a member.

[natedog411]

…OK… I feel stupid on a grand scale… That makes total seance. Last thing I want to do is use non-copyrighted materiel.. Thanks for the info man..

[gatorojo90]

I suggest get a Guitar Pro tab of a song and use Guitar Pro to export only the drum track to midi

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