I've been using Nero, with the Wave Editor tool you can record what is going through your sound card. You can also transpose it, and I think slow it down. I purchased it, I don't know if there is a free demo version.
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How Do You Learn Stuff?
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I've been using Nero, with the Wave Editor tool you can record what is going through your sound card. You can also transpose it, and I think slow it down. I purchased it, I don't know if there is a free demo version.
I have really increased my ear training by playing with tv commercials lol. I will just sit down with the bass and whenever I see a commercial I begin to play along with the music. Then in fifteen twenty seconds i am on to the new song, new commercial. I look at this like one piece of music with varying degrees of difficulty, chord changes, and tempo changes. AND now I am able to listen to a new song and be able to hear and play the notes in the chord. Its almost like magic how my hands find the right notes as my brain is listening.
what else are you going to do during a commercial for someone's feminine itch?
what else are you going to do during a commercial for someone's feminine itch?
I use a web page to do it (thus I pay zero). Yes, I have to endure pop-ups and it isn't way fast, but it does the job.
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There are several - and they seem to fail every so often. I keep changing as they fail.
The audio quality will very wildly, but you're not snatching this audio to listen to - it's for charting. If there's a song I really dig I don't have, I'll to on Itunes and buy it (recent purchase to learn: Sneakin' through the Alley with Sally - great tune).
I just listen to a song on itunes and learn it note by note and try to figure out the general structure of the song and add some tasteful fills if they fit in somewhere to make the song more fun. If a riff is too fast or complicated I just use amplitube and slow the song down till I nail it. Same thing for practicing my stamina, I speed some songs up. I don't rely on tabs, most of them are dead wrong unless its a really easy song that you wouldn't need a tab for anyway.
I see a great future for you in the TV jingle genre!
Now get crackin' on that deodorant tune..
None; just get albums off of mediafire.
Simply type, in Google, the band/artist name as well as the album name followed by "site: mediafire", and you're set!
i seem to be able to pick a bass line out by ear after a few minutes playing along to it,turn it off im stuffed!!! or put bass lines to things that dont have them....like soft cell or kraftwerk!!
I play by ear....if it gets too hard I go to bewb tewb and watch someone more talented than I...sometimes the bass lines get so clustered with effects that I have to see what is going on..
Some great responses. I still think that being forced to listen by ear in the days preceding our current technology has given me more of a sense of structure and purpose than if I were starting out today and had all the above mentioned aids to learning.
I love my ipod! I've got crates and crates of albums in an ipod the size of a pack of smokes, and they sound better. I thought I was in heaven with a cd player.
Remember when you had to steal music in real time? Making cassettes for four or five guys who would promptly lose them or not listen to their parts? Getting most of an album on a cassette but never the last song? What a pain. Wearing out albums.
My kid was stunned and amazed the first time he saw me pull out an album. "Dad, what's that?"
"It's a record son, we'll listen to one side, then, I'll turn it over to hear the other side.!"
"Why?"
We have a new drummer, no cell phone, no ipod. Talk about a living in the past. He really needs an iphone. Even burning a disc for him seems to take to long.
But for learning, yeah, pretty much by ear, then we dial the arrangement, which might be very different. I get a blank page on my clip board and a pencil and sketch the chart, add details as I get it more dialed, pretty it up and put parts of the lyrics to remind me just what tune this is.
The title, key and first lines of the first verse lyrics go on the set lists. Sometimes I look at a title, and totally blank on the song. The first line will get me back.
For jazz tunes, that's just not going to work, too many swerves in the road, so the real book or some other source for the sheet music, coupled with several versions on the ipod. I'm not a good sight reader, so it's more of a memorization job. I start slow with the metronome and work it up to speed.
A new twist is the Jamman. I can grab a part of a song with it, loop it endlessly, and slow it down without changing the pitch. I've tried a number of loopers. I should have just bought a Jamman in the first place.
Remember when you had to steal music in real time? Making cassettes for four or five guys who would promptly lose them or not listen to their parts? Getting most of an album on a cassette but never the last song? What a pain. Wearing out albums.
My kid was stunned and amazed the first time he saw me pull out an album. "Dad, what's that?"
"It's a record son, we'll listen to one side, then, I'll turn it over to hear the other side.!"
"Why?"
We have a new drummer, no cell phone, no ipod. Talk about a living in the past. He really needs an iphone. Even burning a disc for him seems to take to long.
But for learning, yeah, pretty much by ear, then we dial the arrangement, which might be very different. I get a blank page on my clip board and a pencil and sketch the chart, add details as I get it more dialed, pretty it up and put parts of the lyrics to remind me just what tune this is.
The title, key and first lines of the first verse lyrics go on the set lists. Sometimes I look at a title, and totally blank on the song. The first line will get me back.
For jazz tunes, that's just not going to work, too many swerves in the road, so the real book or some other source for the sheet music, coupled with several versions on the ipod. I'm not a good sight reader, so it's more of a memorization job. I start slow with the metronome and work it up to speed.
A new twist is the Jamman. I can grab a part of a song with it, loop it endlessly, and slow it down without changing the pitch. I've tried a number of loopers. I should have just bought a Jamman in the first place.
Well, as a total music/Band geek, i took all kinds of Music Theory and composition classes, and I listen to a favorite song and play by ear until i can figure out some of the main notes of the song, and I can see if these notes fit any of the scales and keys that i know. Once this is accomplished, I have an almost foolproof structure of the song and I can tell what the rest of the notes in a riff or song will be. 
another big help when it comes to Jazz and Blues is knowing how to read charts. i listen to a recording and the chart shows me what key/scale that particular bar is in, and i can transpose the bass lines that i hear, or I can spit out my own. hope this helps.
another big help when it comes to Jazz and Blues is knowing how to read charts. i listen to a recording and the chart shows me what key/scale that particular bar is in, and i can transpose the bass lines that i hear, or I can spit out my own. hope this helps.
