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Learning guitar solos by ear  is hard work.  I remember many years ago, a friend of mine managed to secure a copy of Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solo to Smoke On the  Water slowed down to half space.  Suddenly we could hear how clean his runs were and how many notes he was actually playing.

I still love playing that solo note for note because it was the first real guitar solo that I ever  learned and the great thing was that it taught me so much about phrasing, light and shade and what notes not to play.  And I have to say that without being able to listen to the guitar solo at half pace I would never have attempted to study it the way I did.

Fast forward a quarter of a century or so and learning guitar solos is still a challenging and time consuming process – but technology has zoomed way past whatever reel to reel tape system my friend accessed to get that solo slowed down.

A great piece of software on the market is the recently updated Riffmaster Pro.

Riffmaster Pro saves hours of time and frustration by instantly enabling you to

• Slow down music to a pace you can play Without changing the pitch
• slow down Mp3, slow down Wav,wma,Mp4 , Ogg Vorbis and AFF files directly from your computer
• play any Riff or phrase over and over
• Zoom right into the wave allowing  You to find the exact phrase you want to work on(down to the note)
•  Save your own user settings
• Slow down an entire song so you can play along at your pace.
• Change the key of a music file for convenience
• Rip audio directly off a cd and save as mp3 or wav.
• Save a slowed down loop for training purposes
• Transcribe music of any song (tab or transcribe what you hear)

The benefits of Riffmaster Pro are simply awesome.

• You can master ANY Guitar solo faster than ever before
• You can master Any Guitar Riff faster ever before
• You can master the Chords To Any Song faster than ever before
• You can build and maintain Amazing speed of Any solo or riff
• You can master difficult phrasing like never before
• You can master any guitar solo, lick or riff Note for Note.
• You can learn the lyrics to Any song quickly
• You will discover the Magic of “Playing By Ear”
• You will learn any song Fast
• You can transcribe music of any song FAST

Riffmaster Pro is the Perfect Speed & Ear Training tool for all musicians  -from raw beginners to advanced.  I have bought this for myself – simply as a teaching tool to help me quickly teach students their favorite riffs, solos and tunes.

This is the shortcut to playing good quality guitar solos – slow down guitar solos learn them and increase the speed to full tempo as you master the solo.

I highly recommend Riffmasterpro

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Watching great musicians jam is one of the most magical experiences that the ordinary mortal can have the pleasure of witnessing.  They seem to be able to follow each other through key changes, mood and tempo swings almost as if they’re reading each other’s mind.

The truth is that they’re not magical – gifted definitely, but in the large part the gift is a learned skill.  It’s the ability to recognise the tone and pitch of the note instantly with ears trained to do it.

So how do you learn to recognise pitch?

The first step is to make suer that you always play in tune – not just with yourself – AT CONCERT PITCH!

This may mean investing in a guitar tuner.  Take it from me it’s the best investment you will ever make.  

Once you’ve got your tuner, make sure that when you tune up make sure that you can hear those six notes as you tune them – you want to know what those six notes sound like.  It’s the first building block to successful ear training.

From there it’s a step by step process of recognising how different notes and chords sound.  Its a gradual process and the key is to concentrate on what you’re doing, by concentrate  I mean really listen to the chords and notes that you play.  I’ve even gone to the step of recording chord progressions  and playing them in the car over and over again, with a voice over saying “G chord” and playing several bars then Cm chord and playing several bars – its probably not as entertaining as your current music selection but it helps you learn to hear and that’s one of the key ingredients to really being able to play the guitar.

A great short cut to training your ears is this very affordable ear training power course only recently release, the course will help you train those ears to recognize melodies, chords and progressions and play them on your guitar right after hearing them. And it significantly reduces the amount of time necessary to figure out solos and songs.

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