Remove a guitar track from a recording?

[StratMan04]

Does anyone know if it is possible (using Pro Tools 10) to remove a guitar track from a recorded song for the purposes of practice? I am a noob, so I apologize if this is a "simple-minded" question.

[deafguy]

Yeah we used to be able to do that with PT 3 then they took away the feature.
I think the record companies threw their weight around when this started to happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_M9zWORBuA

[Stig Eliassen]

Originally Posted by StratMan04

Does anyone know if it is possible (using Pro Tools 10) to remove a guitar track from a recorded song for the purposes of practice? I am a noob, so I apologize if this is a "simple-minded" question.

No, you can not. Virtually any mix nowadays is too "complicated & intertwined" to extract or remove anything without ruining the mix completely.

Analogy, you ask? Sure...

You buy a freshly baked bread. It tastes yummy. Now... remove the yeast...

[soybalm]

Put the two channels out of phase to cancel the middle if the solo is recorded in the middle. Mess around with stereo width, the Air plug in.
I used a Waves plug called center that did a fantastic job of wiping out the center like karaoke but it still sounded pretty full. This was a 90s recording too. If you really want to get geeky. There are a few spectral progams that will allow you to quiet down the guitar parts but like PT said, it will take other sounds out. I was able to kill the vocal to the Beatles Michelle without too much damage. It was only in one channel so I couldn't phase it out but because the vocal was mixed so loud, I was able to easily see it as a bright yellow spectral blob and remove it but it took a few hours because I had to learn it and get the job done that day.