| | | Hey Friend,
Isn't the Internet great?
Billions of websites, tons of information, all sorts of places to find really cool guitar and music lessons.
You can find your favorite guitar player giving pointers and insight into their songs. There's full college courses for every aspect of music imaginable. You even have guys like me trying to help as many guitar players (and wannabees) get a handle on this awesome instrument. It's all out there.
And a lot of it is completely accessible to you. You just have to find it.
But once you do, can you customize it to suit your needs?
For example, you find a bitchin' video on Youtube that shows you how to do a cool sweep-picking lick from one of your favorite songs.
If you're like me, once you've seen it a couple times, you get the idea of how it's done.
But that doesn't make me a master of the technique or riff. I need to practice it.
And practice it.
And practice it...
I like using my copy of Song Surgeon to grab a recording of the audio from the lesson. That way I don't have to keep replaying the video over and over.
I isolate the thing I want to work on and get to it. In essence, I build a practice routine from the recorded material that works for me.
Actually, it's not really recording the data from the video. It's doing what they call "sniffing".
When it's open, Song Surgeon can detect playing audio or video. That's the sniffing part.
It then then grabs the temporary downloaded (or "buffered") data out of your computer memory and uses it to create the recording.
That, btw, is a complimentary lesson in how computers work. Anything you have actively running on your screen is working in memory, not on your hard drive. The hard drive is there to store stuff, not to run programs. You're welcome.
Anyway, want to record an online speech? Use Song Surgeon to capture it.
Or maybe the latest "Bad Lip Reading" Star Wars parody...
Makes it real easy to capture what you need and then slow it down, speed it up, chop it, loop it. Create your own practice routines for quick, targeted sessions.
The demo of Song Surgeon is here. Go get your copy.
Peace~
Dave |
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