26 Sep
2014
26 Sep
'14
2:13 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:06:57 -0400
Rob Kudla <lau(a)kudla.org> wrote:
On 09/23/2014 02:21 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
Thanks a lot Rob.
I finally came around to try this method and it sounds indeed better
than the on-the-fly methods in VLC and so on.
I find it funny that, according to Wikipedia, George Michael himself
doesn't particularly like the song (at least the lyrics). I'm not a
George Michael fan nor do I particularly like easy listening music,
quite on the contrary, but it's a nice enough song and I figured it's
not too hard to learn. Once I know how to play it I'll play
with it and interpret it anyway. Let's see how that will turn out :)
Regards,
Philipp
I encountered a nice piano learning video
including hands and
animated keys, but since it is playing at original speed it is way
to fast for me to learn that song. In case anyone is interested,
it's this video and I think it's rather nicely done (don't hate me
for the music :P): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6MF5KjuOc
While it sounds like you may have found something that gets the job
done, I got better quality (to my ears) than mplayer or VLC like this:
$ ffmpeg -i careless-whisper-piano-orig.mp4 -an -b:v 1022k -vf
"setpts=(1/0.25)*PTS" careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.mp4
$ ffmpeg -i careless-whisper-piano-orig.mp4
careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.wav
$ rubberband -t4 careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.wav
careless-whisper-piano-tutorial-stretched.wav
$ ffmpeg -i careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.mp4 -i
careless-whisper-piano-tutorial-stretched.wav -c:v copy
careless-whisper-piano-tutorial-stretched.mp4
It took a while (probably 20 minutes on my underpowered laptop) but I
think this is the method I'll be using the next time I want to learn
a part. Not really a fan of this particular song, but stretched out
4:1 it sounds kind of mellow and what artifacts I hear just make it a
little bit trippy, while making any Richard-Clayderman-esque
parallel-6th abuse and other easy-listening cliches in this
arrangement less noticeable. So, that's an improvement.
Rob