Backing tracks for drummers,
drums already out.
Nearly 200 royalty-free tracks built for practice, spanning sixteen genres — rock, funk, jazz, gospel, Latin, metal and more — every one with the drums separated onto a fader, a click that follows its grid, and a speed control that keeps the pitch. Pick a genre, pick a tempo, sit in.
A library built for the practice room
The drums are a fader
Off for the drummer’s seat, a touch left in as a guide, full to hear the part. The band stays as recorded.
A click on every track
Each track carries its own beat grid, checked by hand. The click sits with the band, accents the 1, and nudges to your ear.
Half speed, same key
Learn a fast swing at 0.6× and bring it up. The pitch never moves.
Sorted by genre and tempo
Filter the list by genre, read the tempo and feel on every row, and find the track that matches the drill you just finished.
Loop the bars you need
Drop a track, or bars 9 to 16 of it, into a session beside your drills and it counts toward your practice.
Download for offline
Keep a track on your phone and it plays without a connection, fader and click included.
What is on the shelf
One track per style and tempo the practice paths teach, with a second or third take of the ones you will live on.
Slow rock at 72 up to indie at 129 — the first-song tempos and the ones you grow into.
Simple funk, sixteenth-note funk, funk-rock and a New Orleans second line, 96–129.
A brushes ballad at 61, medium swing, medium-up, and a fast swing past 200.
Church grooves, a gospel shuffle, a swung feel, and shed tracks around 155.
Bossa, samba, cha-cha, son, cumbia, forró, reggaeton and a salsa at 182.
Blues and Texas shuffles, Motown soul, neo-soul pocket at 96.
Metal mid-tempo to 168, punk past 150, drum and bass at 174.
Hip-hop from lo-fi to trap, disco, a pop ballad, reggae one drop, ska, country train beat.
The full list by genre, with tempos: drumless tracks by genre.
From the list to the kit
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Pick a track, or upload a song
Nearly 200 built-in backing tracks by genre and tempo, drums already out — or an MP3, M4A, WAV or FLAC up to 15 minutes: a rehearsal take, a demo, the track you’re learning. Files only, never a streaming link.
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DrumShed takes the drums out
The drums are separated from the band, the tempo and downbeats are found, and a grid is laid over the take bar by bar.
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Sit in
Play along with the band and no drums, solo the drums to learn the part, slow it to half speed at the same pitch, and loop the bars you need.
Why a library, and why these
Practice paths end their days on a song, because a groove you can hold against a band is the only kind that counts. So the library was built backwards from the paths: a slow rock for the first backbeat, a Motown track for accent work, a funk at 102 for sixteenths, a gospel shuffle for the hand-foot ladders, a fast swing for when the singles finally move.
They are royalty-free backing tracks made for DrumShed, so nobody is waiting on a takedown and nothing is tied to somebody else’s record. When the song has to be a particular one — the set for Friday, the audition piece — upload it and it gets the same fader, grid and click.
Play it your way
What you can upload, and who can hear it
- Audio files you have the rights to use for your own practice — your band’s recordings, demos, rehearsal takes, lesson material. MP3, M4A, WAV or FLAC, up to 15 minutes. We don’t accept links from streaming services.
- Private by construction. Uploads are never shared, listed, or searchable, and they’re deleted with your account.
- Three songs a month are free. All Access includes 150 song & sheet-music uploads a month (beta), and the separated stems stay for the life of the upload.
How we handle infringement notices is in our Copyright Policy.
Common questions
What are the built-in backing tracks?
Nearly 200 royalty-free instrumental tracks spanning sixteen genres, made for practice, one per style and tempo the practice paths use — from a 62 BPM jazz ballad to a fast swing past 200. Every one has the drums already separated onto its own fader and a click laid on its grid, so the first play is the drummer’s seat, not a download and a guess.
How is this different from a drumless track I download?
A downloaded track is one tempo, one mix, and no grid. Here the drums are a fader you set anywhere from off to full, the speed runs from half to full at the same pitch, a click follows the track bar by bar, and a bar range can loop inside a session next to your drills.
Can I use them offline?
Yes. Download a track from the Built-in list on iPhone or Android and it plays without a connection, drums fader and click included.
What if I want a particular song instead?
Upload a song. DrumShed separates the drums from the band and lays the same grid over it, so the track you need gets the same treatment as the built-in ones.
Do I need my own songs?
No. Songs › Built-in has nearly 200 royalty-free backing tracks spanning sixteen genres — rock, funk, jazz, gospel, Latin, metal and more — each with the drums already separated and a click on its grid. Filter by genre, pick a tempo, play. Uploading is for when it has to be a particular song.
Does it change the pitch when I slow a song down?
No. Speed runs from half speed to full at the same pitch, so a song at 0.6× still sits in its key — you are hearing the band slower, not lower.
How does the click know where the beats are?
When you upload, DrumShed finds the tempo and the downbeats of the take and lays a grid over it bar by bar. The click follows that grid — including tempo drift in a live recording — and you can nudge it earlier or later until it sits right to your ear.
Can I put a song inside a practice session?
Yes. Add a whole song or a bar range — say bars 9 to 16 — as a session item next to your drills, loop it, and it counts toward your practice time and streak like any drill.
Is it free?
Three songs a month are included on every account. All Access includes 150 song & sheet-music uploads a month (beta). The separation runs on our servers, which is why it is metered.
Every drummer needs
a home base.
Nearly 200 backing tracks, drums already out. Included with All Access.