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Rock’n’roll singer solos, slowed tempo

08 May Rock’n’roll singer solos, slowed tempo

Posted at 20:38h in User Videos by rjofig 12 Comments
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf52DdgMXZk

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Renato Figueiredo
rjofig@gmail.com

Renato @ Florida; I bought and started learning to play guitar about two years ago, a bit late in life (I am 39). Still a beginner, but motivated and inspired by Fil and other 'bedroom rockers'. I've been posting a few videos here and sound bites on soundcloud, as sort of a logbook with snippets of how my playing (hopefully) evolves, and it may help inspire others who love music to take an instrument, practice, play, and have fun. To contact me by email, my gmail.com username is the same as my username here.

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    rpatzelt
    Posted at 10:24h, 12 May

    Btw, there’s a software out there called Transcribe. It can slow down movies too with audio but keeping the pitch right.

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    rpatzelt
    Posted at 10:21h, 12 May

    Hi Renato. This is a damn good way to learn things. Also, if your camera angle will face perpendicular the guitar should be a nice tutorial. The solo is spot on and flawless, I just love the beggining solo from R’n’R Singer 🙂 I also do the slowing down trick but there are solos that even if you slow them down by 35% you can’t pick the right note 🙁

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      rjofig
      Posted at 13:14h, 12 May

      Thanks for the comments!
      Yes, a better camera angle would help make it more tutorialish – I have to get the hang of it 🙂
      Long ago Before I got GR4 I had purchased another slow-down software called riffmaster; it slows down further than GR4, at times it is useful too.
      I did not know about transcribe – thanks for the hint!
      Cheers, Renato

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    SCgrad98
    Posted at 01:20h, 10 May

    Very well done! Thanks for sharing!

    I was wondering, how are you connecting your guitar to your computer? Do you notice any lag?

    Cheers, Jim

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      rjofig
      Posted at 01:52h, 10 May

      Thanks, Jim!

      I have the entry-level guitar rig “mobile” device – it’s a pre-amp the size of a cigarette box that takes your guitar cable jack and connects via USB to the computer. The kit with the guitar rig 4 software and this pre-amp goes for about US$100-150. There’s not much lag at all; I have a fairly old laptop (3 yrs old or so) and it’s enough to keep up.

      Cheers,
      Renato

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    rugster
    Posted at 18:58h, 09 May

    Nice Renato. I also find it good to slow things down and break it into smaller chunks, usually just a few notes at a time. Very time consuming but worth it. GR is good for this with the loop function. There will usually be some notes that you just can’t get no matter what. Sometimes better to leave it for a few days & come back to it with fresh ears. 🙂

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      rjofig
      Posted at 01:47h, 10 May

      Thank you, sir 🙂
      Yup, that’s what I usually use, slow down and loop. Gotta tip my hat to the Guitar Rig designers, their software is excellent.
      Cheers,
      Renato

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    frankjoss
    Posted at 13:04h, 09 May

    Hi Renato, Good God man I didn’t ask as much, just a bit of advice and then you pop up with this. Great idea, thanks, soooooo much better than tab ‘cos I can sort of find the notes myself by ear but have a hell of a job on positions and fingerings so this is gonna go down a treat. Thanks so much for your time and work
    Now all you need to do is the other 150 or so songs 😉
    Frank

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      rjofig
      Posted at 14:14h, 09 May

      My pleasure, Frank. Honestly, I’m flattered that this is helpful to anyone 🙂
      About tabs, I agree, more and more I find them to be useful only to the extent that they give you hints that are to be taken with a grain of salt.
      And to me it’s become fun to transcribe a song from scratch – a hint I took from Justin Sandercoe (justinguitar.com). You learn a lot in the process, and the more you do it, the more notes, licks, fingering begin to make sense and fall into place. And at my skill level, slowing songs down is *very useful* to do this.
      Cheers,
      Renato

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    banane
    Posted at 07:33h, 09 May

    That’s nice, Renato. Slowed down tutorials helps a lot when learning a new song. And I have to try out that quarter step down tuning.
    And you have a nice T-Shirt there 🙂

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      rjofig
      Posted at 14:05h, 09 May

      The t-shirt is very nice indeed, sir 🙂 fits well, looks good and is comfortable. I’m glad I downgraded mine to medium, perfect size.
      This is about as slow a tempo as I can get with GR4. There’s other software out there that can slow down even further, for some really fast licks it might be useful, but I’m nowhere close to being able to play those yet, so I stick to learning songs that I can get close to being able to play. Slowing it down helps me transcribe and practice, as I improve I start speeding it up gradually. Cheers!

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    rjofig
    Posted at 20:43h, 08 May

    Frankjoss was asking about this song earlier in the week and I decided to try a video with slowed-down tempo. There’s a few notes I’m sure I got wrong, but this might be helpful to someone so I thought I’d share.
    (My camera had a hiccup in the beginning and the first few notes are out of sync – sorry!)
    The guitar is tuned a quarter step down (A is 427Hz, between A and Ab). I’m using Guitar Rig 4 with the “Let there be lead” setting.
    Cheers, Renato

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