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Does anyone have sessions I can practice on?

Thaspian	Date: March 15, 2007 @ 3:42 PM I've been mixing certain things everyplace but home for the past year. I want to get experience where there's no time limit, where I can mess with things endlessly, on my stereo. I was wondering if anyone(preferably a full drummer/bassist/guitar/vocal kind of band, but almost anything'll do) wouldn't mind sending me the plain audio recorded AIFF/WAV files so I could mess around and get some practice with audacity + some basic VST plugins I have. I know a lot of people would(if they even read this far) assume I'm doing it to steal their music and take credit for it, or put it into my own. I am not an artist, nor have I ever been much of scam artist in my history here. If anyone would like to provide me with some stuff to have fun/practice with, I'm all ears.
Alstroph	Date: March 16, 2007 @ 9:05 AM Do you want just a drum track or a while band playing?
Thaspian	Date: March 16, 2007 @ 3:36 PM Whole band preferably. I just got two sessions(not from DM), that I am practicing with now.
Thaspian	Date: March 22, 2007 @ 1:53 PM I ran out of stuff, if anyone has something and wouldn't mind doing this please send me a note.
Distilled1	Date: March 22, 2007 @ 4:48 PM thasp are you wanting the seperate tracks of each I think right? let me poke a round I may have some wav loose tracks , but the drums and bass or keys and ball may be the same track
LegoBreaks	Date: March 22, 2007 @ 4:57 PM Hmm Iv got some recording from my high school band somewhere that never really got mixed up properly but they were recorded in a decent studio, could probably russel up a couple of songs (bout a cds worth of data per song i think) Ill have a look tonight
Thaspian	Date: April 26, 2007 @ 1:43 PM That would be great. Anything would be. If two instruments are on the same track, if you use a limiter with a few dB of reduction and adjust the attack time, you can favor one or the other without using EQ. I'd like to mess with that, so two things on the same track is fine by me.
celtaidd	Date: April 26, 2007 @ 2:11 PM You can have a muck about with my track "weak blues" if you so like lot of white noise
LegoBreaks	Date: April 26, 2007 @ 7:28 PM woops forgot about this i should really look for them, + plus all instuments are on there own track (so long as you count drums as just one instrument) so you can completly remix and remaster them, heres a link to one of the tracks http://www.garageband.com/song?\|pe1\|S8LTM0LdsaSuZlWyZQ
Orion	Date: April 27, 2007 @ 9:10 AM Holy shit! you guys were good! nice heavy sound, cool songs! and about the mixing thing i don't know if i have anything.
NickSawyer	Date: April 27, 2007 @ 10:04 PM On 26th Apr 2008, Thaspian said: That would be great. Anything would be. If two instruments are on the same track, if you use a limiter with a few dB of reduction and adjust the attack time, you can favor one or the other without using EQ. I'd like to mess with that, so two things on the same track is fine by me. huh.. thats interesting
Thaspian	Date: November 18, 2007 @ 3:57 AM Try it. I use it when kick and snare are put down on a single track. It kicks ass.
Thaspian	Date: November 18, 2007 @ 3:58 AM You'd be amazed what you can do with stereo drum tracks and compression, too. Changing things in time instead of just boosting treble. Parallel compression is even more fun.
leedsquietman	Date: November 18, 2007 @ 4:27 AM you can also often use a slicer such as Fruity Slicer, Recycle, Phatmatik Pro or the one in the upcoming Ableton Live 7 to slice a stereo loop and derive kicks, snare, hats or whatever, depending on the loops (the less busy, the better for cutting up one shots) - the new Drum Rack feature in the Live 7 (beta) is pretty awesome !
NosmoKing	Date: November 19, 2007 @ 10:29 AM I dont know if your still looking but google guitar backtracks or BT. You will find forums filled with music that will allow you to do exactly what you want. Whole bands, usually without a guitar / solo instrument so you can practice your heart out!
Thaspian	Date: December 30, 2007 @ 5:44 AM Thanks for the offers but I started recording a bunch of different people for money over the past few months, since I have a cheap live room and separate control room I get to use in Manhattan. I have more than I want in terrible musicianship to work on.