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Hi folks,

maybe you guys have a trick up your sleves.
I have a lot of original studio tracks from all kinds of bands which I use to practice my drumming with.
In order to align my (rather poor) drumming skills with the original song I have tempo-mapped the entire song by inserting tempo changes every bar.
Yes, it's tedious, but worth it.

Now here's the catch:
Although I can loop any part of the song now, some more complicated patterns (imagine the chorus of Toxicity) require me to slow down the song to a playable speed until I get the grasp of the pattern.

I know I can slow down a single tempo-change but is there a way to get this done for the entire song by... say... a percentage?

Example:
Song is around 172 BPM.
Slow down song by 30%

Any pointers are welcome.

Cheers
Mathias
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by mwright137 on Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:16 am
1. Set all files to stretch to tempo

2. Change to desired tempo
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by Lefaux on Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:18 am
Won't that mess up the groove itself?
Thing is that... say... Dinosaur Jr's Feel the Pain has a tempo change of about 10 BPM (Chorus -> Verse and back)

If I "hard-sync" the tempo all the way I could just hit the Quantize Button but then the flow of the song goes away.
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by mwright137 on Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:22 am
If you have tempo changes in the song it won't work, no.
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by matthewgorman on Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:30 am
Lefaux wroteWon't that mess up the groove itself?
Thing is that... say... Dinosaur Jr's Feel the Pain has a tempo change of about 10 BPM (Chorus -> Verse and back)

If I "hard-sync" the tempo all the way I could just hit the Quantize Button but then the flow of the song goes away.


Don't get many Dino Jr references around here. Thanks for that.
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by mikejantram on Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:02 am
if this is all just for practice, why not export whatever song you want to a stereo mix with the included rendered metronome, then import it back to S1 as a single stereo track, and adjust to tempo from there?
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by Lefaux on Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:03 am
Now THAT was helpful... Forrest for the woods principle...

Great thinking.... thank you :)
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by charlesmonteiro on Mon Jan 08, 2018 5:56 am
but what if what you are trying to do is transcribe a drum part and need to slow it down to do so, after the fact that you have already transcribed and have parts for other instruments i.e. recorded audio ?
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