Learning guitar from videos and MP3’s

Good news for everybody who slaves over sound files trying to learn to play guitar music from the original artist’s records. Quicktime has a speed control which lets you slow down the music without altering the pitch. Once you have a file playing, click on Window>Show A/V Controls and you’ll find a slider for controlling the speed. Here’s the Quicktime download link. Learning HOW a guitar player moves certainly adds a dimension to seeing and hearing WHAT he plays. If you are trying to learn from videos, quite often the action is just a bit too quick - especially a tricky little intricate bit. So here’s what you do. Start by downloading a video of your favorite virtuoso guitar player picking at the speed of light. YouTube Robot downloads videos from the net. It’s not free but you can get a trial version. Your videos will be saved to your computer as FLV files. Realplayer plays these videos but doesn’t change the speed. What you need now is one of the free programs that converts FLV’s to AVI, MPEG, WMV video files. smallvideosoft.com will do the trick. Slo-Mo Director will slow down your videos so you can see and hear what you want to learn. You can get a trial version or wait till someone puts one out for free. It’s only a matter of time.

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