Hello Jay, I would be interrested in your mp3 guitar lessons.
I am basically a piano and keyboard player.
I just retired after 31 years doing piano-bar work
from the Hideaway lounge here in St. Louis Mo.
I do play guitar mostly rhythm.
Now, that I have a little more time on my hands, I thought I would give it a go.
Below, is my email address:
jmkeybd1@xxxxxxxxxxx
You can also visit my website at:
http://www.markdew.com
I have hundreds of songs up there I recorded live at the Hideaway Lounge or in
my home studio.
I have been an member of this list for years, at least 12.
I believe you stated you are from Columbia Mo.
Do you know Gary Wunder who lives up there?
Looking forward in connecting up with you.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 12:11 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Troubled Times and Opportunities
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
