# Drummers, Can Y'all Help With This, Please?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drummers-can-yall-help-with-this-please/610382 "2012-01-23T08:12:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drummers-can-yall-help-with-this-please/610382/1 "2012-01-23T08:12:32Z")

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In May, I’ve been asked to sit in on drums with a band that plays classic rock. We’ll be at an all-day festival, and I’d sure like to play there, if I can.

Today I’ll be getting the suggested playlist, which I’ll be asked to check and indicate the songs I’ll be most comfortable playing.

I need to practice, of course, and I have some “Play Along” cd’s, but unfortunately, they’re mostly funk/jazz bass runs, which I CAN follow, but it makes no sense to use them, since they won’t be the original tunes.

Can any of you recommend a service that will record a cd w/o a drum track, and who would put the selections I order on a cd for me?

I go to Jared Falk’s site and have Mike Michalkow’s Drumming System, but again:

1. Jared’s on the computer

2. Mike doesn’t have the tunes I need to learn.

I can, of course, dig the originals (I’m sure I’ll have most of them) out of my collection and use those with the drum track on them, but I’d rather practice with them removed, if I can.

Thanks!

Q

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**Author:** ![mikews99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@mikews99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikews99)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drummers-can-yall-help-with-this-please/610382/2 "2012-01-26T08:08:27Z")

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Not custom made, but play-along, drumless rock track CDs:

> **[Drum Play-Along Series Hal Leonard Online](https://www.halleonard.com/search/search.action?seriesfeature=DRMPLA)**
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> Play your favorite songs quickly and easily with the Drum Play-Along Series. Just follow the drum notation, listen to the audio to hear how the drums should sound, then play along using the separate backing tracks. The lyrics are also included for...

[http://www.resource4drums.com/page/drums-music.html](http://www.resource4drums.com/page/drums-music.html)

And single, downloadable MP3s:

[http://minusdrums.com/joomla/index.php](http://minusdrums.com/joomla/index.php)

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drummers-can-yall-help-with-this-please/610382/3 "2012-01-26T10:35:39Z")

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Hey **mikews99**!

Thanks a bunch for those links! The Leonard ones are great, but somewhat limiting, but the last ones seem to be what I need.

I _really_ appreciate your efforts to help me with this!

Quasi