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Topic: Analyzing Fast Licks |
Dave White
From:
Fullerton, California USA
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Posted 12 Dec 2005 11:57 am |
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| I saw somewhere on this forum a while back a post about how to analyze fast, complicated licks by slowing down recordings. I've come up with a different way of doing it, but you need a newer computer. Get the Sonic Foundry Acid Pro 4.0 program. This allows you to download music from a CD or tape, then loop it on a timeline. From there you can digitally slow the tempo without affecting the pitch, as a tape recorder would.(Although you can change the pitch as well, if you want to.) This program is primarily for sound editing and "beat matching/mapping," but it's great for this purpose as well. I use this program quite a bit in my job as a video editor, and it's very reliable. From there you can take the re-edited, slowed-down loop and burn a "study CD" to play along with, or just play along with the loop on the computer. |
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 12 Dec 2005 12:10 pm
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Once you get the track extracted and converted to a .wav file you can also use "Slowblast" (from the BIAB folks at PGMusic I believe) or Transkriber (available from a number of sources, do a web search on "Transkriber"). There's also "The Amazing SlowDowner" I've heard of but don't know where it is from, and a Yahoo search kinda indicates it is for the Mac only.
Nice to have several alternatives.[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 12 December 2005 at 12:19 PM.] |
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 12 Dec 2005 12:17 pm
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| I use Slow Gold and it has always worked well for me. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 12 Dec 2005 12:29 pm
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My teenage son found some free shareware that does that. I'm not sure where he found it. Sometimes, with a 17 year old son, it's best not to ask questions.
Lee, from South Texas |
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Billy Woo
From:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Posted 12 Dec 2005 1:54 pm
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There is also a product called the "Tascam CD-GT1 which is usually red in color and you can slow down the pitch without detuning your guitar/pedal steel guitar to figure out licks, Guitar Center carries this product and it goes for around $100 bucks also Tascam makes one for bassist and vocalist.
Bronco Billy
Zumsteel U-12 |
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Dave Little
From:
Atlanta
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Michael Haselman
From:
St. Paul
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Posted 12 Dec 2005 4:06 pm
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www.renegademinds.com
Try this one. It's great. Not only slows down, but raises and lowers pitch for when you have to learn that tune that's a half-step off, or when the lead singer decides to lower the key.
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Marrs D-10, Webb 6-14E
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Jon Moen
From:
Canada
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Dec 2005 6:45 pm
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Audacity is a free program that will do it very well, and it will remove noise from bad tracks, it will compress or convert files,allow editing and adding effects, a versital program.
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Howard, 'Les Paul Recording, Zum SD12U, Carter D10 8/8, Vegas 400, Boss ME-5, Boss DM-3, DD-3, Fender Steel King, Understanding wife. http://www.Charmedmusic.com
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 14 Dec 2005 1:53 pm
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I use the Reed Kottler TR1000 quite a bit. I also downloaded the amazing slowdowner. I think the software based approach sounds better at low speeds, but the TR 1000 is simply an incredible tool that has other useful transcriber functions. It has a channel isolation function which really works well to isolate steel parts. It tends to get a bit muddy at super slow speeds but it is still my first choice for day to day use.
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God Bless,
Steve Stallings
D10 9x7 Rains (On order)
D10 8x10 Emmons (Black Beauty)
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David Wren
From:
Placerville, California, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2005 4:07 pm
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16 1/2 RPMs.
Got me through "Tom Cattin'". :-)
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Dave Wren
'95Carter S12-E9/B6,7X7; Session500; Hilton Pedal
www.ameechapman.com
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