Re: [Harp-L] Slow-dow music

[Bill Hines <billhines4@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Amazing Slow-Downer claims to retain the pitch. There are other free 
programs (or paid) that claim to do this, but they are missing important 
features (see below).

For example, when I am learning a song, I'll load it into amazing 
slowdowner and set bookmarks at certain intervals (usually the harp 
solos or sections of them). then I can easily find the parts *within* a 
particular song that I am working on by pressing one key. There are 
different types of "slow down" settings you can choose from, and you can 
set a karaoke mode that will attempt to suppress the vocals even. It 
will let you repeat/loop the passages so I can have it play over and 
over while I attempt to play over and over the same thing. eventually it 
all comes together with persistence.

Anyway, I set my bookmarks and use amazing slowdowner along with 
bend-o-meter to decipher the solo note by note graphically as best 
possible. Sometimes, with very fast stuff like Blues Traveler 
Run-Around, even with this arsenal it's tough (Winslow has tabbed it out 
in his book from this album if you can find a copy).  But it's *way* 
better than doing it without tools!

Now that I'm getting to a certain level of familiarity, I rely less on 
bend-o-meter and more on my ear and knowing where certain notes are, and 
I think these tools have helped me to get there.

Bill Hines

On 9/27/2010 2:48 PM, Degregorio, Jeffery wrote:
> Does slowing down the music lower the pitch (software by Roni Music)?
> It's interesting to find software that slows the song, yet keep the same
> key or note pitches, if any can even do that.  Thoughts?
>
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>    I tried a few and I think it's the Amazing Slow-downer by Roni Music
> (I have no affiliation). They charge for it but well worth the money.
> You can download a trial version. Their support is pretty good too.
> Invaluable tool for learning songs, I think.
>
> Bill Hines
>
> On 9/27/2010 2:39 PM, Richard Vale wrote:
> > What is the best all-round software to slow down music tracks?