Hi,

Since I just bought Sibelius (which by the way I am in love with) i'm looking at the possibility of creating accompaniments to play along with for practice. I've been inspired by this guy that I came across on youtube playing along with an orchestral track he created for Bach's Harpsichord Concerto No.1 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mre_oaIWam0&fmt=18

I know it could never replace playing with real live musicians, but it could be an interesting home project in which I would learn alot about intrumentation as well as playing.

Anyway, a Bach concerto is way too hard for me at the moment - does anyone have any suggestions of where to start with something a bit easier? Maybe scored for a string quartet plus piano, or similar. I play to Grade 7 standard, but an easier piece would be good to start with, and it would be great it the other parts were quite straightforward too.

Has anyone does this themselves? I would imagine that you can buy accompaniments on CD too. Anyone tried that before?

Thanks,
Dave.

Look up "Music minus one". Lots on Amazon, apparently. For jazz, Jamie Abercrombie.

That is awesome... I aspire to be able to play that sort of stuff one day