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I actually have my song files on my phone these days, so I use this great little app called Music Speed Changer. For desktop, I have seen people talk about Transcribe! quite a few times on here.
I think it's fine to start with tabs, but don't get caught up in it too much or it will become a crutch. I have used my fair share of tabs, but it is becoming less frequent these days. I have a few methods for learning now:
1) Youtube videos -- pretty straightforward and maybe the next step to moving away from tabs. I find it really useful to have someone show me the technique on how to do something along with what to play.
2) By ear -- I use Music Speed Changer and go lick by lick to learn songs. This is what I use most frequently now. It allows me to slow a song down and loop through a few seconds at a time until I am competent and comfortable with a given lick. I find that my retention of the lick and/or song is much better.
3) Free form -- I also use another app (albeit less frequently than the music speed changer) called iReal Pro which is good for getting the general structure and chords of a song without learning absolutely everything. I will probably use this more as my chops get better.
I have used an Android one in the past called Music Speed Changer, which will slow your music down without changing the pitch.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed&hl=en_GB
Not bad. Try with music. Slow it down to fit your speed then gradually increase your speed. This app helped me out a lot with this.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
Haha, no problem. Just messing around but he was definitely on a roll in this podcast.
Oof, that sounds rough. I'm guessing you already checked the wiring and tried rebooting so I don't have any real advice... I use 2x speed for everything myself, can't imagine going back to normal. If you can't find a solution, there's a phone app that lets you play mp3s at variable speeds if you want.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah,
I've been through a lot of material to get a good audio or video just to memorize the names of Allah and here is the best I found. It is clear, without music, with stops to memorize per sets..
You can extract an mp3 from it and then play it with an app like this one (Android) to play with the speed, slow for pronunciation/memorizing and normal/fast after this step
Edit : I do not know if the "When to recite" is accurate or not, I really think that only the audio is relevant
I use a couple apps. One is called Music Speed Changer to practice on my own away from the band. With it, I can change the pitch without affecting the tempo (we play a half step down). You can also change the tempo without affecting pitch, but I haven't used that feature much. The other is Songsterr, which I use for tabs if I'm stuck on a part, and you can slow down and loop specific sections. Just load up your MP3 and go to town.
Hi there! Intermediate player checking in. I have suggested this many times here, but what I use is an app on my phone called Music Speed Changer (android app, but many of these types of apps exist on either android or IOS platforms). I find it extremely helpful to set a loop over a small section of a song, turn the speed way down and start locating notes and struggling through the song by myself. I think there is a lot of value to listening and struggling through the music yourself, with no YouTube video or tab helping you out.
Try this. First time I've ever tried to find this specifically so I'm not sure about it at all but it seems like what you're looking for
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
Used this before and it has worked well. Despite the name, it allows you to change pitch without changing speed but you can change speed as well.
Find yourself a way to pitch up a track an octave, and you'll never have to be unsure about low bass notes again.
(I use the app Music Speed Changer)
Besides learning through songs, the exercises in the book Bass Fitness are really good (for all players).
My teacher started using this book during the first lockdown. While the book states you should play in the first position, playing higher on the neck works just as well. Use a metronome and, according to my teacher, practice this 15 minutes per day. It helps train your rhythm and especially your fretting hand.
Also if you're an Android user, I recommend this app to change the speed of a song and to loop parts. I believe they're currently beta testing an iOS version as well.
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Not sure if you use apps, but music speed changer app does the same thing.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed&hl=en\_US&gl=US
I can change tempo and pitch of the song. The song needs to be on the phone to work. Wish there was such an option for Spotify!
Try mo 'tong app (disregard kung gamit mo na). Best app in the store haha, sobrang solid, does what it says, daming features. Tapos tweak mo lang 'yung EQ. Ayos 'to para ear training. Dito ko natapos 'yang Disco Ulysses haha.
Well you're going to need some way of playing the song back and figuring out how each notes sound. I've heard some people use Audacity, but personally the best free option I've used was this app called Music Speed Changer, it can slow down and change the pitch with out losing so much quality and can even loop certain sections. I know with this kind of genre it's hard to do a "direct" transcription since it may not sound the same, but if you're able to figure out a nice chord progression you could turn it into your interpretation.
In terms of actually writing the notes down, what I use is Musescore since it's free and works well, or you could do it the old fashion way and do it on paper.
if using PC then Winamp with the PaceMaker plugin is your best bet.
If on Android go with Music Speed Changer. It offers pitch and tempo control.
No experience w iOS or Mac
I would suggest that you use this app to slow the music down to the speed you want (which is what I always do)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
You can also go to the settings and let it show you the BPM of the song, but it isn't 100% accurate.
Other than listening for the bass note first and foremost when transcribing chords, there's this handy app that can be really useful for tricky stuff.
It's called Music Speed Changer, and allows you to raise pitch, lower tempo, and loop sections of audio files.
I humbly submit my all time favorite: Music Speed Changer. This has been very helpful in figuring out lines in songs. I'll simply turn the tempo down while I'm learning it and set a start and end point so that it keeps looping over a certain part of the song. This lets me play along at a speed I am comfortable while using my ears to pick out the notes.
In addition to getting into SRV, you should also check out some of the guys that SRV learned from. It really shows how they all fit together to influence his personal style. Other than that, just listen to some of his albums -- like over and over again :)
Try to get something like Music Speed Changer for Android or an equivalent one for iOS. I do this when learning songs. It helps to slow down some of those fast licks and really learn them one at a time at a speed you can play along with.
Check out any number of YouTube channels with SRV lick lessons (I'm looking at you Texas Blues Alley) or song lessons.
Most of all, just keep playing -- I think this can be the hardest part (I know it is for me). I will go through phases of obsessing about a tone or about my gear and forgetting to actually focus on the most important thing -- playing.
Good luck!!
I use Music Speed Changer on my android phone. I know iPhone has something like this as well (Amazing slow downer I think). Very useful for creating a loop of just a few seconds and slowing it way down, and it has the pitch changing as well.
That's the one I'd use as well. HERE on the play store.
Try this one.
I used to use one called Music Speed Changer. I don't use it now since I use Spotify but it worked wonders when I had it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
Try this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed&hl=en
Seems to have all the features of Anytune.
I use Music Speed Changer.
> I never said Ye invented stems, where are you pulling that from?
And I never said you did say it. You also didn't say it was new, or a good implementation. I am not attacking, just commenting.
I still think a phone app would be more accessible, as it is one less thing to carry, and the interface could be much more intuitive. I am guessing you haven't seen the control interface.
First, there are four lighted sliders. A middle button between them. A menu button, master volume rocker (+ -), and one more rocker (or two buttons like a volume rocker.
The center button is play/pause, and the four lighted sliders control volume of each track. Next/prev track is the second rocker button. That is easy so far. But add in looping, speed change, reverse, and effects and it gets more confusing. Add even more like Bluetooth pairing, locking and unlocking sliders, and looping. You are asking for controls to have double and triple functions. And it does more, like you can record, change the loop length, move the loop. There is probably more that I am missing.
And as far as I have seen, it is missing a shuffle button or option. And the effects you can only adjust the speed, not the wet dry mix, or any of the various options the effect will have, like frequency cut off, reverb fade time, etc.
My background is a hobbyist music producer. So I know my way around a professional mixer, which doesn't mean much since they are easy to learn. I have also spent years playing with popular songs. Everything from isolating the bass, the vocals, the high end, etc, to changing the speed without changing pitch (which this can't), to doing remixes by moving parts around or even changing the instruments (which this also can't do). So from a technology nothing here is new, except the odd interface.
I also wonder how much Stem songs will cost through his store. But, not to sound all negative, there is one neat thing about it. That is that you can upload any song and it will try to split it into four tracks. While other things can do this, this is an obviously easy and convenient way to do it, even for me. That is assuming it is accurate.
If you want a simple player that you can have fun messing with music, this is good https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
It can pull vocals, but to isolate other parts you need to use the equalizer, which is not as easy as the upload and play on the Stem player. But you do have more options, and more control. It does cost for some features, but you can find the full version for free on the internet.
Music Speed Changer is great.
Music speed changer. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
This is free for Android and works fine https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed&hl=en&gl=US
You can also start with a mix you like and adjust the tempo with an app like Music Speed Changer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed I mean there is this one
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed
A-B loop might be useful
I use Music Speed Changer. It does the job and is not AD heavy. Give it a try! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smp.musicspeed