Simon_F
Super Moderator
My band has decided to learn Zep's "Rock And Roll". Unbelievably, in over 30 years of playing I have never covered this tune before!
I was working on it last night and having some trouble with the solo. Parts of it were slightly too fast for me to pitch the notes by ear (at my age....) and I couldn't find a decent tab.
Then I remembered that my old Boss ME-30 had a "phrase trainer" built in, basically a sampler that allows you to record up to 12 seconds of music and play it back as a loop whilst reducing the speed. And I'd never used it!
So I went and dug out the ME-30, hooked it up, sampled the relevant part of the solo and slowed it down to 50%. Not the greatest sound quality, but easily good enough to work out the notes I needed. Half an hour later I had it nailed and back up to full speed! :bigok:
I will be using it again!
Reminds me of reading about how the old 60s blues boomers learnt guitar by playing their LP records at 16 rpm.
I was working on it last night and having some trouble with the solo. Parts of it were slightly too fast for me to pitch the notes by ear (at my age....) and I couldn't find a decent tab.
Then I remembered that my old Boss ME-30 had a "phrase trainer" built in, basically a sampler that allows you to record up to 12 seconds of music and play it back as a loop whilst reducing the speed. And I'd never used it!
So I went and dug out the ME-30, hooked it up, sampled the relevant part of the solo and slowed it down to 50%. Not the greatest sound quality, but easily good enough to work out the notes I needed. Half an hour later I had it nailed and back up to full speed! :bigok:
I will be using it again!
Reminds me of reading about how the old 60s blues boomers learnt guitar by playing their LP records at 16 rpm.
