Play Along to Any Song — Not Just the Ones With a Backing Track Made For You

If you play guitar, piano, or anything else and want to play along to a song, an actual play-along or backing track usually only exists for the most popular songs — and even then it might be the wrong arrangement. If you've got a video of the song you want to learn, that's enough: OraKara pulls a clean backing track out of it, with the vocal removed instead of just turned down.

Isolate the vocal to learn the line, then play over the rest

If what you're actually trying to learn is the melody — to play it on your instrument, not sing it — solo the vocal track first and work the line out by ear, phrase by phrase. Then mute it and play along to the backing track underneath, at whatever tempo the recording actually is.

A backing track that doesn't sag where the vocal used to be

Because OraKara repairs the ducking that studio mixes bake in, the backing track you're playing along to stays evenly loud throughout — no mysterious dip in volume every time the original vocal came in, which is exactly what happens if you just mute a vocal track without correcting for it.

One video in, and you've got both the reference to learn the part from and a proper backing track to play it against — for whatever song you actually wanted to practice, not whichever one already had a backing track made.