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The guitar break on Blue Highway's Pikeville Flood is a great example of one I used this approach on recently. You can also select just a short section, say the guitar break on a particular song, and play just that part over and over while you play along too so you are not having to play the whole song if you are just learning a particular part. Of course once you know the notes you can combine the above pitch control with the speed control to start out at say 75% of the actual speed and then gradually bring the speed up as your practice pays off and you get better at playing the tougher parts. It really does help my muscle memory when I can practice in the correct fretboard position for some of the faster parts and I get lots of practice between group rehearsals playing along with the original recording. I can still practice the leads and the song in general in A, which allows me to play in the normal fretboard position where I play it, while playing along with the original recording but using Slow Downer to bring the song down from B to Bb or A. Usually it's the tenor part that restricts this.

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Many times my voice is not as high as the professional bluegrass recording so I've taken a bluegrass number in the key of B and am playing it in Bb or A. Here's a creative way to use it if you like to practice by playing along with original recordings that are in a different key to what you play them in. Being able to pick up on the slides and pull offs often helps me get to the best position on the fretboard and the most practical way to play a particular part.Īnother different but maybe useful application for this product is the pitch control. As everyone knows there are many ways to play a particular lead, break, lick, whatever you are tackling. On my iPhone/iPad I use the mobile version of ASD, also does the job quite nicely.A good point in your video about hearing slides and pull offs. wav format, but no big deal, I just export to.

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The only feature I wish they would add on the Windows version is direct export of.

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I'm sure there are other programs that would meet my requirements, but for desktop Mac and Windows systems, Transcribe! does all these things very well. Transcribe! is also able to slow down/pitch shift videos.Ī couple of demo videos I did showing the program in action doing these common tasks:

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I've been a user of Transcribe! for as long as they've been selling it, haven't found any reason to change to something else.ġ) Opening most common audio file formatsĢ) Ability to independently adjust pitch and speedģ) Ability to drop markers while the audio is playingĤ) Keyboard shortcuts to move between markers and select between markersĦ) External device control via MIDI (so I can use my Tranzport control surface) so I can run the app remotely from my practice chair instead of sitting at my computer deskħ) Ability to export both full files and selection regions with pitch and/or speed adjustments It doesn't help with the melody but if you are writing charts for a group to play it can be a time saver.īoth ASD and Transcribe! are useful for learning tunes. Band In A Box now has a feature which allows you to import audio and it very accurately maps the chord structure of the piece.

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There is another type of software that can be useful. One thing I like about TwelveKeys is that it has a treshold filter for polyphonic recordings which helps to isolate the lead instrument(s) playing the melody. Another package with similar features is TwelveKeys. It's grown up a bit since I last updated it but it works just fine for me. I'm using a rather old version of Transcribe. That's really helpful in doing transcriptions (doh!). It shows graphically what notes are being played at any particular moment in a recording and weighs each note played by how dominant it is in the mix. Transcribe is a different beast in my mind. I do find tempo and pitch shifting functions helpful in learning tunes by ear if the tuning is a bit off or the tempo is just too quick for me to pick up necessary details.

If ASD has grown into something more since I used it, then please correct my aging view of things. I also used Slow Gold from Worls Wide Woodshed for a few years. Similar functions are built into popular media players like Windows Media Player and available as add-ons to Winamp, etc. I do not use it presently because there are so many other add-ons that do the same job. The Amazing Slow Downer is one of hundreds of programs that can allow you to change tempo and pitch. It's not clear to me exactly what you need to accomplish with this software but here's my view.