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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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Here’s a link to some easy guitar songs for you to practice on:

“The 2000s have thus far been somewhat of a desolate decade for guitar music, at least within the “mainstream”. Pop bands like Britney Spears, and ‘N Sync, whose music is generally devoid of particularly interesting guitar parts, continue to dominate radio and television airplay.
Beginners who love pop music, and are seeking guitar tablature shouldn’t be disappointed, however. Some of this music is still possible to play on guitar, and much of it isn’t that difficult to play. Here are some of the easy guitar tabs from the early 2000s for you to play.
NOTE: A few of the following song transcriptions use tablature. If you are unfamiliar with this term, take a moment to learn how to read guitar tablature.”
The whole article is at http://guitar.about.com/library/bleasysongs00s.htm

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