This is a perfect 10, written when Jimi was in Monterey CA about a wonderful girl he met at Lover's Point in the summer of 1967(?) ... where I use to live and take my children to play...while teaching at the US Naval Postgraduate School.
Yes , the guitar is out of tune i think flat..but IF you have Linix like Ubuntu and use Audacity to rip it and then reset the play back rate to + 25 to +50 cents to sharpen playback 1/4 to 1/2 tone., or conversely if it was original recorded sharp, use Audacity to change the playback rate -25 to -50 cents to flatten the guitar tuning 1.4 to 1/2 tone. Problem gone. Season to taste... Enjoy!
This also works for the Jefferson Airplane Coming Back to Me which I found was impossible to play along with by ear. Until...duh ... I realized the obvious. Grace Slick used a Baroque recorder in this song. Baroque recorders were tuned to A415, not A 440, so the band rtuned to Grace and her recorder. Now since 440/415 = 1.06024... and 2^(1/12) = 1.059463094 or 6% Coming back to me requires sharpening by 6% or one whole tone. A 100 cent sharpening of the playback rate in Audacity will shift " Coming back to Me" perfectly into perfect A440 tuning on a guitar without having to use a kapousing a kapo.
vola....problem gone.
Works like a charm. Now anyone can play along with chords by ear without a kapo in the key of A440. :-) You can use many other shifts for a G or B tuning whatever ... Season to taste but watch out for auto-tune effects if the shift is substantial.
Your assignment for tomorrow, try and verify. But you will likely need a real operating system like Ubuntu (20.04 alpha, or soon the beta version), RedHat, Debian, Arch Linux to find Audacity in the repositories, easily.
Any decent recording engineer should agree with the above discussion since that is their "cup of tea" and we aren't even using auto-tune. ... We are simply rolling our own.
Don W W9DKI Prof Physics, US Naval Postgraduate School (ret)
This is an excellent evolved version of Like a Hurricane by Neil and reminds me of the masterpiece by Peter Gabriel, Melanie Gabriel, Tony Levin on the 5 string bass with his low B's and the Blind Boys of Alabama... Sky Blue live at Milan ... almost a religious experience ... it brings tears. (or the non lyric, instrumental version Cloudless)
All should be heard with good earphones such as the, Sennheiser HD100 , HD400/660 or similar as well as the new Apple Ear Pod Pro's or a pair of vintage AR-3 / AR-1W's with a 1kw amp.
"Is Coldplay - Clocks in a weird timesignature. It sounds almost like 3+3+2/8. It does fit into standard 4/4 time, however 3+3+2/8 just seems to fit nicer. I think I read somewhere that it is actually in that timesignature. Some classical composers have used this timesignature also. I do enjoy listening to music in unusual timesignatures. 3+ 3 +2/8 is a bizarre time. "
Yup a solid 10 just for having and successfully creating a song wiht a, Dave Brubeck like , "F" word bizarre time signature.
Small correction to announcer. The old, 10-inch, 78 rpm discs were made of shellac, which was rather hard substance for recording, and consequently rather noisy after a few uses, since it would stress fracture, with little resilience to the stylus impact
From Wikipedia: "...Columbia Records introduced the LP in June 1948. But the 12-inch, 33 1/3 rpm record made its first debut September 17, 1931—nearly 17 years earlier—by RCA Victor."
A 10 from me... What key and mode(s) are used in this wonderful song... I find myself constantly shifting between aeolian, dorian, mixilodian,... as I slide up and down the fret board, Jaco like , between the different scales and modes on the fretless bass or 6 string Alverez w9dki :-)
Yes , the guitar is out of tune i think flat..but IF you have Linix like Ubuntu and use Audacity to rip it and then reset the play back rate to + 25 to +50 cents to sharpen playback 1/4 to 1/2 tone., or conversely if it was original recorded sharp, use Audacity to change the playback rate -25 to -50 cents to flatten the guitar tuning 1.4 to 1/2 tone. Problem gone. Season to taste... Enjoy!
This also works for the Jefferson Airplane Coming Back to Me which I found was impossible to play along with by ear. Until...duh ... I realized the obvious. Grace Slick used a Baroque recorder in this song. Baroque recorders were tuned to A415, not A 440, so the band rtuned to Grace and her recorder. Now since 440/415 = 1.06024... and 2^(1/12) = 1.059463094 or 6% Coming back to me requires sharpening by 6% or one whole tone. A 100 cent sharpening of the playback rate in Audacity will shift " Coming back to Me" perfectly into perfect A440 tuning on a guitar without having to use a kapousing a kapo.
vola....problem gone.
Works like a charm. Now anyone can play along with chords by ear without a kapo in the key of A440. :-)
You can use many other shifts for a G or B tuning whatever ... Season to taste but watch out for auto-tune effects if the shift is substantial.
Your assignment for tomorrow, try and verify. But you will likely need a real operating system like Ubuntu (20.04 alpha, or soon the beta version), RedHat, Debian, Arch Linux to find Audacity in the repositories, easily.
Any decent recording engineer should agree with the above discussion since that is their "cup of tea" and we aren't even using auto-tune. ... We are simply rolling our own.
Don W
W9DKI
Prof Physics, US Naval Postgraduate School (ret)
All should be heard with good earphones such as the, Sennheiser HD100 , HD400/660 or similar as well as the new Apple Ear Pod Pro's or a pair of vintage AR-3 / AR-1W's with a 1kw amp.
w9dki /23 Mar2020
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"Is Coldplay - Clocks in a weird time signature. It sounds almost like 3+3+2/8. It does fit into standard 4/4 time, however 3+3+2/8 just seems to fit nicer. I think I read somewhere that it is actually in that time signature. Some classical composers have used this time signature also. I do enjoy listening to music in unusual time signatures.
3+ 3 +2/8 is a bizarre time. "
Yup a solid 10 just for having and successfully creating a song wiht a, Dave Brubeck like , "F" word bizarre time signature.
w9dki , Great Bend, KS
From Wikipedia: "...Columbia Records introduced the LP in June 1948. But the 12-inch, 33 1/3 rpm record made its first debut September 17, 1931—nearly 17 years earlier—by RCA Victor."
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