![]() ![]() I've used Audacity for editing audio clips, but for playing along with CD's and/or slowing down, changing key, etc, as well as creating sections that you can loop and increase the speed on each go-round, I have found Transcribe! much simpler and more convenient. I've tried the SlowDowner and it does indeed work just fine. Huge thanks Nora! Valuable information! Thanks!!! Jen Monday, Febru10:16:00 AM It only saves as a wav file, so you have to convert those, but no big deal if you are transferring to your phone or other devices. Pitch changes are in half step increments, speed in terms of percentage, and the quality is excellent for all types of music, even bands and orchestra. It is not free though, a bit pricey for some perhaps, but I love it and I use it daily to practice pieces and sections. It has sliders for pitch and speed, looping buttons for certain sections, and you can save playlists and all your altered versions of mp3's or cd tracks. You've helped my flute playing and inspired me many times. Jen Monday, Febru8:28:00 AMĪnytune Pro is a paid app that works very well on my IPhone the user can easily adjust pitch and tempo as well as set marks within the piece or automatic repeats. Sorry it took a minute or two for your comment to appear I have it set to "approval", so it takes a minute to show up here. ![]() Hi Kate, Thanks! I'll go try Speedshifter out. Works very well in my teaching here in the UK ![]() What we love and loathe about young conductors (listen to audio) I particularly enjoyed these two episodes:Īudition Advice for my younger self (listen to audio) These two violinists are members of the LA Phil. I've been listening to a great new classical music podcast: NEW Classical behind-the-scenes audio podcast: There are Tango Flute and Guitar MMO books/cds, as well as piano accomp CDs that work this way.Īnd, once you're using Audacity, if you ever need to change the pitch of any kind of a recording (to make it A-440 so you can play right over top of the recording) see my previous post: Altering the pitch of a flute playalong.Įnjoy your newly fashioned backing tracks and please do comment with other free/easy MODERN methods of slowing tempo that work for more tech-savvy dudes, among whom I do not often number. You can burn a whole new CD of your backing tracks saved as mp3s, with all your own tempos for the fast movements to perform with for "at home" concerts with CD. I used the above method for several Music-Minus-One and Paul Edmund-Davies playalong Bach Sonatas (books 1- 2- 3) and Audacity is a fantastic tool. More Lame encoder info You use it to change a sound file from wav to mp3Īnd finally to change tempo of any sound file, here's how: Videoģ. Otherwise if you're thinking "who knows where the Lame goes?" find it here once you've downloaded it:ĭefault location for Lame in Windows is c:\program files\LAME For Audacity\įor MAC OS the plugin is found in /usr/local/lib/audacity/ You will remember, you will point to it with your mouse, and you will never have to deal with it ever again c'est fini! You will find it useful if remember which folder you saved the Lame Encoder plug-in into, so that later, when you're inside Audacity, about to save a file as an mp3, you know where to look when Audacity asks you: "Where did you put the Lame Encoder?". Important note: This whole Lame thing only takes a minute, and you only have to do it once and it is a safe thing to download, like Audacity. Here is the information from Audacity on the Lame Encoder along with the download if you need to read about it. wav files, and are sendable as attachments. Download the "Lame Encoder plug in" (only separate because of copyright) that you will need in order to make mp3s which take up less file space than. Download Audacity (free recording manipulating program for Mac or Windows)Ģ. The sound quality of the new slower tempo backing track will be pretty excellent providing the recording is originally a plucked instrument: a guitar, a harp or a harpsichord (sometimes piano) only.Īny other instruments, full orchestra, string quartet, flutes, or any other wind/brass/string with vibrato simply sounds too weird when slowed down. (BURP!*** ooops, sorry.Ate a pterodactyl egg and it didn't go down right.) ![]() I promised them that I'd write a blog post showing them how I change the tempo using a free program called Audacity, and in the way that a dinosaur born in the 1960s does it (that would be me! ) :>)Ĭlick on the comment button at the end of this post if you can help bring us all into the 21st century, for example, if you know of apps/free programs that will also slow down tempo on an mp3. Recently I've been slowing down accompaniment CD tracks for my flute students, so that they don't have to take such blistering prestos and allegros until they're comfortable doing so. ![]()
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