How Digital Audio Recorders Help You Learn to Play Music

May 8
09:32

2011

Stephen Ayer

Stephen Ayer

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As musicians struggle to learn sections of a song from a recording, they could discover problems with the pitch of their instrument not matching that of the recording. This article explains the convenience of a digital audio recorder and how it takes care of that problem.

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Digital audio recorders are excellent for recording something while you are on the go. You can use them to produce comments to yourself,How Digital Audio Recorders Help You Learn to Play Music Articles record lectures, capture concert events or anything else that evokes you to make a recording of the sound. Perhaps among the most well-liked way to use them is for learning music. They are truly the musician's buddy.

One reason that they do so well for anyone who is attempting to learn to play an instrument is that the best ones use a feature that enables them to slow down the music and not modify the pitch. This means that anyone trying to learn a passage of music does not have to change the tuning of his musical instrument to meet the tuning of the song -- even when the verse is slowed down considerably.

Picture a guitarist fighting to understand a quick electric guitar section. It is usually hard to catch all notes during the solo as they are going by so rapidly. But a digital audio recorder gets rid of that problem. The guitarist merely employs the feature in the device to slow down the passage, and then he can adjust the pitch to equal the tuning of his instrument. This allows him to have time to search out every note on his musical instrument and master the solo.

Formerly before the appearance of these digital gadgets, a guitar player would need to use a bulky machine that used either reel-to-reel or cassette tape. And prior to that, he would need to strive to master passages of music from a vinyl album. The album played at 33-1/3 RPM, and it could be slowed to 16 RPM on some turntables. That helped a good deal but it would still be too fast, and setting the tuning of the instrument with the LP was dreadful. You have to hand it to the committed musicians who learned to play that way.

However, that is definitely not the only advantage a digital audio recorder can provide an artist: These gizmos are very handy at practices. They can store up an adequate amount of audio for the complete gang to master a song list, and they are able to record the practice for the members to review at some other time. Gone are the days of handing out cassette tapes and giving out CDs that may not be returned.

The more you spend for the a portable audio recorder, the more features and pluses you can have. In conditions described in this article, putting out a little more is well worth it. Less expensive devices do not always contain a pitch modulation feature. Furthermore, they probably won't have enough storage space to hold the amount of songs needed. Spend a tad more, so you will get much more.