johnny harp
Guest
Mar 23, 2008
4:10 AM
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Hey folks,
how do you do it to listen a song and than play on
the harmonika?
For example I use the amazing slow downer but how do you do
it!
best wishes from germany
-jonas-
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Jeff
27 posts
Mar 23, 2008
7:04 AM
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Typically, I pick the way most annoying to my wife (she really loves my Eb harp, lol).
I have a Mac. So I just play mp3's in Quicktime as it can slow songs down and change the pitch.
Last Edited by on Mar 23, 2008 7:26 AM
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howlin' madmart
10 posts
Mar 23, 2008
10:17 AM
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here's another question on this theme ........ when trying to copy a peice of amplified music, how do you transfer it to non-amplfied on the slow downer ?, as I dont have access to professional amps & mics.
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mr sog
6 posts
Mar 24, 2008
7:46 PM
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I tried a different way using software that came on a cd with my phone and basically took a song I wanted to learn, broke it into individual pieces and then transferred it onto a cd. This meant it was portable and I could play it on any stereo. Basically instead of having 40 songs on one cd I had one song spilt into 40 pieces and I could fast forward or rewind to the part I wanted to concentrate on and just hit the repeat one song button and that piece would play over and over again while I tried to learn.
Probably not the quickest way of doing it but it helped.
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Jeff
29 posts
Mar 24, 2008
8:20 PM
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That's a great technique.
With very difficult songs, I'll use one of my CD turntables with it's internal sampler. Like you, I'll just loop certain parts on the fly while slowing down the tempo so I can analyze what's going on. Sometimes it takes looping a 3 second riff for 5 minutes before I can figure out what the heck is going on, lol.
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