In episode 26 of the Guitar Music Theory podcast, I talk about how to make your song learning and practicing easier by using software to slow down music, change the pitch, and create loops.

But before we get started, let me ask you, what do you specifically need to do in order

to play guitar better?

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progressively play and sound better today in as little as 33 minutes. Go to guitar music theory.com. Well, Greetings guitar engineers, I'm Desi Cerna. Coming to you from just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, it's fall. And you know what fall in Nashville means?

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Anyway, today I want to talk to you about one of the most powerful things you can do

to make your guitar learning easier and you're practicing more productive.

I'm talking about slowing down music.

So one of the best ways to learn and practice music on guitar is playing along with

songs that have been slowed down. There are several apps and software programs you can use to slow down music.

I'll talk a little bit more about that later.

But these programs usually not only allow you to slow music down but you can create looped song

segments and you can change the pitch of the music as well and these are just really useful features. So being able to slow down music, create

loops and change the pitch has many benefits, including number one, you can hear what's happening in a song more clearly.

Number two, you can play along with a song and stay in time with the music more easily.

Number three, you can improve your technique by playing along with looped song segments.

And number four, you can change the pitch of songs that do not match your guitar tuning, so you can still play along.

So let's talk about these benefits in more detail, and I will give you some specific examples. So we'll

start with slowing down music so you can hear what's happening in a song better.

Sometimes a song goes by too quickly for you to understand what's happening,

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