Hey Folks,
First, I teach guitar at Palen Music store here in Columbia Missouri. Due
to the whole corona ordeal, we aren't doing lessons at the store for a
while, so all of us teachers are having to do lessons online, or temporarily
suspend student accounts until this thing calms down, which means we lose
money.
I have all these audio guitar lessons that I got from a third party about 15
years ago. The company that produced them mostly doesn't do anything now
but video. In fact, all these lessons I have on CD and downloaded to my
hard drive aren't even being sold anymore, they are not even supported by
that third party company at all.
The cool thing is that I can send the MP3 files to my students, and each
MP3 has an accompanying PDF that goes with them.
I have hundreds of these things, A different library for blues, rock, jazz,
country, and acoustic finger style, slide lessons, the works! Everything
from Joe Pass to Jimi Hendrix to Merle Travis!
The PDF files help with my teaching in that I can provide visual material to
my students.
I'm not selling these things, not at all, but I would be happy to share them
with any of you that are interested.
Second, when Bill mentioned the amazing slowdowner ap, it made me think of
Transcribe. Are any of you familiar with Transcribe? For those that don't
know what it is, Transcribe is a product that runs on your computer and
allows you to pull in MP3 and wav files and slow them down in playback so
you can learn the music. It is amazing! I can mark a section, even if its
only one note I want to isolate, and then loop it over and over at extremely
slow speeds without pitch change.
And to date, I have never found Transcribe to have any accessibility
problems, it is wonderful! It does more than what I've described though.
So, what I can do is take any of these MP3 lesson files, and load them into
Transcribe, and slow them down and learn licks exactly as performed.
I don't think Transcribe will allow Apple formats, but with Sonar, I can
just record a song direct off my iPhone, then save it as an MP3 and then
import it into Transcribe.
I don't know how much Transcribe costs now days, but I think I paid around
40 bucks or so about 6 years ago.
Let me know if any of you are interested in the guitar lesson files, no
charge.
Living love, loving life,
Jay Pilkington
