Cool guitar related site

[mullyman]

Not sure if this has been posted here already or not but, here goes.

Great site for everyone. You can upload any mp3 from your computer and slow down or speed up the tempo without it losing the key. Great practice tool for beginners when they're trying to play along with a new riff and also great for more advanced players to jam along with their favorite track.....although you can do that with the CD. What the hell, here it is.
MULLY

http://www.slownotes.com/slow-down-music-player.html

 

[guitarlover]

I have also amazing guitar website which has what ever you need and want to know about guitar. :guitarplayer2:

 

[mullyman]

I have also amazing guitar website which has what ever you need and want to know about guitar. :guitarplayer2:

Link?

 

[Cagey]

That's interesting in that there's nothing to install. However, I'm leery of anything that wants me to upload music. The RIAA is quite aggressive about punishing people who copy/upload music files, which this program requires, and I worry about getting sued into insolvency.

But, you can accomplish the same thing and much more offline with a program called "Audacity" at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. It's F/OSS (Free/Open Source Software), so there's no cost involved, and it's a very fine piece of work. Among its many talents is the ability to change the playback speed of any recording without changing its pitch. It's cross-platform, so versions exist for Linux, OS/X, and even Windows. If nothing else, it's a great media player and editor that you owe it to yourself to check out.

 

[mullyman]

Cool, I have Audacity. Didn't know you could do that with it.

 

[Cagey]

Cool, I have Audacity. Didn't know you could do that with it.

Yeah, there's a slider to the very right of the top toolbar that sets playback speed. Smack it back a bit and things slow down, but maintain pitch. You can go in the other direction, but I've never found a reason to. I mean, who needs to hear Al Dimeola play faster? <grin>

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Lots of options when it comes to slowing down playback.

There is a WinAmp plugin.

And much more here:

http://www.seventhstring.com/resources/transcription.html

 

[shaggydawg]

Audacity works for me. My standard procedure for learning a more difficult solo is to chop out just the solo section, then create a 60% speed and a 100% speed version.

It seems like anything slower than 60% loses too much quality to be useful.