Best Practice

At a recent session, a musician recommended a useful program for learning tunes by ear: 'The Amazing Slow Downer'. It takes CDs or files from them and slows down the music as much as necessary to learn even very fast tunes. I had heard about it some time before, but decided to go ahead and try it. When I found the website and installed the software, I discovered that it only plays the first couple of tracks on a CD until you pay their registration fee of $50.

Rather than spend that kind of money, I did a little googling and found another product mentioned on The Session which did the same thing at no charge. That program is called 'Best Practice'. I installed it and it works like a dream! In addition to changing the speed from 1% to 200%, it allows the user to change pitch and to loop portions (or the whole tune) indefinitely in order to facilitate learning and practice. This great software is available at:

http://www.free-codecs.com/BestPractice_download.htm

Highly recommended!