| Author |
 Topic  |
|
DennisC
Aloha
USA
27 Posts |
 Posted - 06/05/2012 : 07:29:56 AM
|
| A brief review from a slack key novice: An excellent book as collection of nicely transcribed slack key songs but not necessarily instructional for slack key technique. I liked the inclusion of notation and tabs for players who read music; its like having a compass. The CD includes the exercises and each tune; once played through slowly and a portion at performance tempo. My minor peeve is that the exercises on the CD are very short in real time and grouped several to a track. They'd be more convenient for practice if they were looped once or twice so they'd play longer, and each given a separate track, so a user could replay each easily with the "<<" button instead of scrolling through the the track and trying to find the beginning point. |
Edited by - DennisC on 06/30/2012 09:35:43 AM |
 |
|
|
Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
1581 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2012 : 06:28:07 AM
|
Dennis, with a tool like Audacity you could extract the exercises and create your own loops or burn a CD with individual tracks per exercise.
Fran |
E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key on YouTube
|
|
|
|
DennisC
Aloha
USA
27 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2012 : 11:12:41 AM
|
quote:
Originally posted by Fran Guidry
Dennis, with a tool like Audacity you could extract the exercises and create your own loops or burn a CD with individual tracks per exercise.
Fran
Thanks for the tip, Fran. I forgot about Audacity; I used it years ago to record webcast radio and never thought of it for CDs or mp3. |
|
|
|
TerryLiberty
Lokahi
USA
207 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2012 : 3:20:31 PM
|
| Fran's right. Audacity is an excellent tool and the price is right! So is Sony's Sound Forge audio studio (not free but not expensive). I use it to set markers at every bar line and then I can find a given passage and loop it. |
Terry
Olympia, WA
Forever a haumana |
|
|
|
Kapila Kane
Ha`aha`a
USA
1051 Posts |
Posted - 06/20/2019 : 05:51:48 AM
|
Just browsing some old posts and categories.
And will probably check on whether Audacity, and/or Sound Forge are still an option. Or perhaps updated or obsolete...This is a 7 year-old post!
Like being on Mars! Go ahead Taropatch, I'm listening! Warning, because of time delay, answers may take 7 years. |
|
|
|
Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
1581 Posts |
Posted - 06/20/2019 : 07:52:03 AM
|
Audacity is still available, still free, still getting improvements and support: https://forum.audacityteam.org/
I use REAPER https://www.reaper.fm/ for my practice tool. It's very reasonably priced ($60), comes in a demo form that is fully functional, and supports video. A bit more complicated than Audacity but vastly more powerful.
Fran |
E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key on YouTube
|
|
|
|
Topic |
|
Mark Hanson: Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key
