Absolutely the one! Thanks for having a functioning memory.

I LOVE that one. And I don't smoke...um...anything.

I googled it and found this: bilafrah.blogspot.com/2007/09...977.html

Is that the one?

nb. mp3 download

Thanks everyone! I'll definatly check those out. I'm pretty much just trying to find something that I can play with (other than a metronome, although I totally get how invaluable those can be) that my roommates won't mind listening to for a decent period of time. As long as you can hear a definate rhythm in the song, I don't really care what other instruments are with it.

I can testify to the wonderfulness of the Itneen tracks for playing along to -- they make you really excited to be playing and there is room in there for you -- that seems to be key, there needs to be room in it, space, for your line, and the speed needs to be reasonable too -- when you try to play along to Hossam Ramzy and so many others, forget it, you can't even think, it's so fast and complex and full, you can't even hear yourself. When most people make a CD, they're going to really show off, and you're stuck with maintaining the most basic rhythm way in the background, which isn't going to expand your skills. The Rhythms of the Dance also good. A couple of the Beats Antique are stellar---and it can also be really helpful to listen to and play along with stuff that is not strictly Middle Eastern or belly dance, try to insert the ME rhythms you know in there by modifying them, truncating them, it's very interesting how the ear quickly accepts this and stops hearing what you're doing as "middle eastern" -- I do this all the time in my drum group where it's congas, dumbeks, djembes, whatever.