Heather, in case it’s handy to you or others some tools I’ve come across running with the play-with-recordings idea some and adapting it to learning/playing chamber music. I play piano. Problems I was trying to deal with included: pro’s play WAY too fast for me, many recordings, esp. those from Europe (A=414 or something like that) are tuned differently from where my Piano is today. If I want to work a section, hard to quickly jump-back/loop. I hear the piano player in the chamber recording too much and not what I’m really playing. <div>

Solutions I’ve found include:

Buy the music as an MP3 or use an app to convert a YouTube stream to an MP3 (which stopped working for me last year, maybe YouTube, started blocking that, esp. when you’re not paying for a YouTube subscription) and take out the piano part: Upload to a track-splitter web tool/AI like https://lalal.ai and have them take out the piano part. (not perfect, but plenty good enough for me, I’ve found an…

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