Harmonicatunes
111 posts
Oct 05, 2015
4:18 PM
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Some time back I wrote an article on building repertoire for Harmonica World Magazine. You can see the article here.
Many players, myself included, go from one year to the next without learning anything new. The article describes how to change this, I'm actually taking my own advice this year.
So. Ask yourself this. What can I play now that I couldn't play 12 month ago? If you're scratching your head, then read my article.
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Tony Eyers
Australia
www.HarmonicaAcademy.com
everyone plays...
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Adam Pritchard
84 posts
Oct 05, 2015
11:25 PM
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Thanks Tony. You mention Audacity in your article. Did you know you can also use that to slow down tracks, or specific parts of tracks whilst retaining the original pitch. You can also use it change the pitch of a track, for example if you don't have a harp in the right key. It's a very useful free tool.
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Pistolcat
875 posts
Oct 05, 2015
11:29 PM
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Great tips here. It all takes a lot of discipline. I try to make a YouTube recording for new songs. It helps me focus my practising. Of course, if you're in a band you have a more natural motivation :).
One thing, though. Audacity can slow down your tracks for you so you don't really need the slow downer if you are comfortable with audacity.
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Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
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Harmonicatunes
112 posts
Oct 06, 2015
4:30 AM
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I've heard that Audacity can do that, but have never checked it out. I use Audacity for audio editing and processing, always works fine.
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Tony Eyers
Australia
www.HarmonicaAcademy.com
everyone plays...
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isaacullah
3083 posts
Oct 06, 2015
11:16 AM
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FYI, for Linux users, there's a really neat little program to slow down audio flies, and repeat little sections of a song called "Play It Slowly". It's in the Ubuntu repositories, but here's a link to it's homepage: http://29a.ch/playitslowly
Of course you can do the same thing in Audacity, but sometimes it's nice to have a little, easy-to-use tool that is purpose-specific. Play it Slowly has always worked really well for me when I'm trying to learn a section of music from an audio recording...
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