Playing along to mp3s at a slower pace

cool never tried that one yet but will, If you can figure out the notes of the song what I usually do is use guitarpro, then once you put the music into it with the timing you can use the speed trainer.

If you havent used guitarpro its basically a program you can write out a song in with the proper timing and everything and it will play it back in midi for you. Then you can set the speed trainer part of it to play back at a slower speed and increase the speed a certain amount everytime it loops through.

Turns out its mac only but if you need a pc one “amazing slow downer” seems to work great.

[quote]Guitarpro sounds interesting too. I’ve never learned notes, but I’d really like to! Feel like an illiterate sometimes.
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Guitarpro is a decent tool to start with, the problem is that you are always stuck with the tab. I wish there was a way to hide the tab. Learning to read music is an essential discipline to learn in order to be a good musician. See if you can get your mitts on at least a beginning bass book by Mel Bay to learn the notes.

[b]Slugtrail wrote:[/b]
[quote]Guitarpro sounds interesting too. I’ve never learned notes, but I’d really like to! Feel like an illiterate sometimes. :blush:

My cousin Kenneth (great drummer) once asked Trevor Dunn (Fantômas, Mr. Bungle etc.) what the most advanced bass line he’d ever played was. He started giggling, grabbed a napkin, and started writing down the notes. My cousin, a little embarrassed, had to admit he had no clue what it said, whereby Mr. Dunn replied: “Hah! Hummers! They just hum the melodies and somebody else has to write it down for them”. :P[/quote]

I never did until recently either, its way easier than I thought it was to get started.

http://www.studybass.com is a really good site I find to learn from. Depending what you do for work if you have downtime and nothing to do on occasion I would find sheet music of something (I have been using the simandl book as well as Building walking basslines by ed friedland) and writing out the music into tab on a sheet of paper. After a while I could start to just look at a sheet and be like thats a B on the G string, thats a C on the A string, etc.

Took a while though and im still slow at it but its getting faster.

[quote]Click on the ‘View’ menu, click ‘Hide Tablature’. Done. [/quote]

You, sir, are a gentleman & a scholar. Thank you. :cheer:

I am going to enjoy the charts I made much more now, thanks again.