There’s a trend emerging that I find very interesting. It started with people posting complicated guitar pieces, slowing things down a bit so you really get a handle on the complexity. For example, here’s a link to Frank Zappa’s Rat Tomago, slowed by 20%.
Today, I came across this post, slowing down the Dolly Parton song, Jolene, by 17%. I love the new guitar sound, but I was really taken by the change in vocal. What else you got for me internet?
Dude, 20%? 17%?
I’m trying to learn how to play Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell”, I have to slow it down by 75%! Admittedly I suck, but still.
What I don’t understand is why wouldn’t these people use a program like “Capo”, where you can slow it down from 100% to 25%, but it maintains the same pitch.
Slowing down of The Chipmunks: http://panic.com/extras/audionstory/popup-chipmunks.html
Via this great story on the Panic website:
http://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
Basically, you may be too young. But playing a 45 rpm 7″ at 33.3 rpm (Album speeds).
Speeding Bruce Springsteen up produces Dolly Parton.
http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2013/08/19/bruce-springsteen-sped-up-sounds-like-dolly-parton/
The Dolly Parton piece sounds surprisingly good.
I’m loving http://www.jammit.com. This is a website ( they also have iOS apps) that features isolated tracks they got from licensing the master recordings, with accurate transcriptions and the ability to slow them down. It gets a tad pricy, but being able to hear the isolated tracks from the master is amazing.
I also like the Transcribe! application (www.slowdownmusic.org <- an affiliate link) for slowing down music. To me, it has the best sound of any of these types of applications when the tracks have been slowed down a lot. It’s a vey full featured app if you like to do some of your own transcribing.
Doug
My favorite iOS slow down app so far is AudioStretch – Nice clean interface.
Ultra Slow Wuthering Heights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXhtJ9BTJA&noredirect=1
Very helpful, I will definitely look into that.