at least it was only his car.... On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:13 PM, mistertaterbug <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Thanks for the "Bluegrass Boy" filter, Robin. I'm sure Bill would've > used one of those himself if he'd had access to one. <G>. Yes, the Mac > does learn all this by itself thanks to "plug and play". You don't > think I *really* know how to play any of this music, do you? Now if I > could just get it to put it all in notation it would save me about 500 > more entries. > > You know, our own Brian Ray might be responsible for this handy > feature. You know he worked at Apple and was in charge of tearing > things up. I think he used to have to go out and polish Steve Jobs' > Mercedes with his tongue on lunch break. :-D > > mistertaterbug > > On Mar 22, 11:01 am, Robin Gravina <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there > > I guess I may be behind the curve here, but this may help someone: I got > the > > Cam Studio thing that Steve suggested working, and it produces about 500 > mb > > of avi video for one Tater class. I've been fiddling around with this and > > you can then pretty much do whatever you want with it - all with Freeware > - > > so that you can relive every embarassing second of your lesson, or even > work > > on the difficult bits: > > > > There's a program called 'Handbrake' which will convert the avi file into > a > > file suitable for putting on your video compatible ipod, and there's a > > program called 'Switch' which can convert the avi file from the lesson > into > > a wav file. > > > > Once you have the wav file, you can use 'Audacity' to edit out the nasty > > bits where you are utterly failing to get the intro to Roanoke, or > talking > > about the dodgy behaviour of some Bluegrass Boys, and just keep the meat > > from the class. Once you have done that, and 'normalised' it to get the > > volume up a bit, you can use 'Switch' again to convert your edited wav > file > > to an Mp3, and get it onto your ipod, or use the Windows Media Player to > > slow it down. If you then add a backing track from a Hypnotherapy > > Practitioner you will be able to put the essence of Taterbuglesson on > > repetition all night and wake up knowing it all... > > > > I think all these programs are easy to find and use, but if anyone needs > a > > hand, please shout. Also this is all for Windows. Probably on a Mac you > just > > plug in your mandolin and it learns it for you.. > > > > Best > > Robin > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
