Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "fozzy702003" <paul@f...> wrote:
> How/were,    do I get backing music to play along with, with the 
> drum parts muted or missing apart from whats built into the 
> machine.  Are there midi files or  other formats out there ,if 
there 
> is how do I get it.

For CDs, you can try the Turn It Up series from Modern Drummer 
(http://www.moderndrummer.com/turn_it_up.html), which features 
various bass players laying down grooves for drummers to accompany, 
or the Music Minus One series, which I used as a kid but definitely 
aren't just for kids, which presents various musical settings for 
instrumentalists to accompany (run a Google on it). Another option is 
go to one of the numerous MIDI sites on the web. I don't do that so I 
don't have any addresses handy. If you're a greybeard like me, you 
might recall that many of the early stereo rock recordings from the 
1960s (including the Beatles) panned the drums hard left or hard 
right, allowing you to mute the stereo side with the drums and send 
the result into the aux input on the DTXpress for you to serve as the 
drummer. Just a thought.

Ed