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Listening to Slow Blues at 2x Speed

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Wed, 11/20/2013 - 09:50
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It can be challenging to track within the form of a slow blues due to the slow tempo and the amount of activity, or lack of activity, that happens within all of the space provided in a slow blues. Using practice software (like the Amazing Slow Downer) to increase a song's tempo to two times its original speed can help to make form elements much more apparent. Listening to a song a couple of times in this way can really help give you a better road map of what's happening. When slowing a song back to its original tempo after doing this helps you to track better and have a better sense of where the song is going.

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